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Summary: You could be using saws, clips, or trimmers to cut down tree branches, cut up two by fours if you want to use wood, jigsaw to cut out plywood. Learn what tools you need to make a silk flower wall hanging from a professional floral designer in this free video.
Jim Tomasits has been a floral designer for more than 20 years. He has distributed flower arrangements on both the national and international level and is considered an international...read more
"The next step is to come up with the tools that you're going to need to make your creation. You could use anything under the rainbow. Go to your garage, workshop, anything you want to get what you need. You could be using saws, clips, or trimmers to cut down tree branches, cut up two by fours if you want to use wood, jigsaw to cut out plywood. What I'm going to use is a styrofoam that you can buy in a hobby shop, and scissors, wire cutters, toothbrush, you could use colored floral exciting tape or wire different colors if you would like. I'm going to use pieces of bamboo. I chose to use the styrofoam as long as the, as well as the flowers of silks that are tropical and you could pick anything you would like, whether it be dried, fresh flowers also if you want to do something for a wedding or a one night event, that you're trying to create. Anything that you would like. We've done lattice on the backdrops of walls with fresh flowers into them. You could do canvas and just add the flowers into it, whatever. It's your call, anything you want to think about, stretch your imagination and don't think about it has to be a wreath, or only silks."
eHow Article: Silk Flower Wall Hanging: Tools