Friday, December 30, 2011

X'mas Wall Decor Step by Step: Rhombus Wall Decor inside St. Peter Cathedral

Hello again, this time we're going to talk about the wall decorations inside the church. This year we used a basic form made of dry twigs that formed a rhombus. This was going to be our task and Mrs. Diana as the coordinator. We also got help from Mrs. Lioe and Mrs. Trees. Thanks guys!!. And as usual, we had to make 5 floral arrangements just like this and 5 the reverse ones, so the total was 10 pieces. Two pieces will be hung on the column on the back (facing the altar), and 8 hung on the wall at the right and left side of the building. (4pieces for each side)

For this floral decor we'll need :
- 1 equilateral rhombus shape made of natural dry twigs as a base
- one third of oasis for dried floral
- some foliage such as evergreen or pines, ruscus and leather leaf (you can spray ruscus with gold paint)
- 5 artificial poinsettia flowers (1 big, 1 medium and 4 small size)
- 2 artificial pine cones (bigger and more shiny)
- 8 natural pine cones (dotted with white paint)
- some artificial red berries
- 3 shiny green decorative balls (2 tone color, dia. 5cm)
- a 10 cm golden wired ribbon
- some green floral wire


1: Put the basic rhombus shape twigs on an iron stand or something where you can work freely and easily.
2: Attach oasis on far left side by using wire
3: Arrange evergreen leaf by following left curves of the rhombus


4 : attach the largest poinsettia like shown (as a center point of view or as focus)
5 : attach 3 gold painted ruscus following the diamond curve
6 : attach 2 artificial pine cone between the ruscus in number 5
7 : attach medium sized poinsettia on top of poinsettia number 1
8-9-10 : attach 3 small size poinsettia following the bottom curve of the rhombus
11 : attach 2 gold painted ruscus following the bottom curve. Point of the farthest ruscus must exceed the poinsettia number 8


we're almost done now,

12 : Prepare 3 green christmas balls. Attach the end where there's hole with bamboo skewers, tied up with wire. Then attach the balls below poinsettia number 1
13 : make a big bow with gold net wired ribbon, attach it at the back left side of poinsettia number 1
14 : attach faux berries and a few pine-cones like shown, fill the remaining gaps with pine leaf.

Finished !!!!

This is how they look when attached to the church column, with one arrangement on the reverse side.


And this is the close up of the reverse arrangements. As you can see, everyone has their own touch, so no arrangement will look exactly alike....

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