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Stack green lily stems to create an upright mechanic to keep shorter stems in place.

Most leaves and foliage can be slightly manipulated to curve or curl.

It's sometimes difficult to place a tiny crystal or bead exactly where you want it.

Stack snippets of grass on a wire frame to make a floating pyramid armature

Thread leaves through wire

Cut short bamboo lengths to keep your flower material upright in a shallow and narrow container

The trick to any freestanding design is to get your first three stems standing stable and secure in the water. Once you have that you can build the design around it.

Break the sturdy twig on the scribe line.

Wedge snipped twigs into a glass vase to act as a support for your flowers

Glue the twigs in a container to easily follow the round shape

Lily

oh yes, a light an airy design showing off those very first autumn leaves.

When life hands you dyed flowers you make... well creatively speaking it turned out to be not such a bad thing after all!

Stack and glue a Grass Pyramid Armature

Skewer and line up leaves to create an armature

Cut lengths of bamboo to place in a shallow container as a flower frog

Leaning floral stems to stand on their own in a shallow container

Knot small stems into decorative chain garlands

Wedge twigs into a vase to create a grid.

Glue a bunch of twigs inside a container to create a round stack

Perfect stems, perfect flowers. Needs nothing more.