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Mother’s Day Mini Flower Bouquet

Fresh flowers always sends a message of love! Giving a fresh flower bouquet to your mom, grandmother, mother in law or your favorite mom friend is pretty much mandatory for Mother’s Day. Of course they will be so happy to receive it! I know I would. Fresh flowers don’t have to be expensive. I always love to put together my own bouquet of flowers with either ones from my garden or the local flower market. But for this DIY Mother’s Day mini flower bouquet I turned to Blooms by Isabel to break down how she makes such beautiful mini hand-tied flower bouquets. They are always so gorgeous, and she has a great eye for floral colors, texture and flower combinations. She is sharing how she creates the perfect Mother’s Day Mini Flower Bouquet. She also tagged the bouquet with our FREE mother’s day gift tag printable, available at the end of the post.

Mother’s Day Mini Flower Bouquet

Flowers–choose a combination of large flowers, smaller flowers and fillers

Flower shears

Twine

Wrapping Paper

Ribbon

Mother’s Day gift tag labels (FREE printable below)

To begin making your Mother’s Day mini flower bouquet, head to your local floral shop. I usually have good luck with Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods or Costco. You’ll want to find a combination of large flowers, smaller flowers and filler greenery. For larger flowers, roses are usually the best or lilies work good too. Spray rose flowers, tulips or ranunculus are the perfect smaller flower options. For fillers, baby breaths, eucalyptus or ruscus work great.

To begin making your bouquet, start with greenery as your base, then add in your small flowers, then your larger flowers. If you have any leftover filler flowers, then place those in the bunch and move flowers around until you are happy with where the flowers are placed. I usually do with while holding all the flowers in my hand. Then I take twine and tie the flowers together. For mini bouquets, cut the stems shorter and all the same length. Wrap them up with wrapping paper. We used an iridescent wrapping paper over white paper then tied with velvet ribbon.

Before you send these beautiful Mother’s Day mini flower bouquets off, tie on our FREE Mother’s Day gift tag printable that you can easily download and print! Make a few of these easy-to-make Mother’s Day mini flower bouquets!

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Harvest Centerpiece Arrangement

My favorite colors of the late summer/fall season are in bloom right now with flowers and leaves popping up in deep purples, crimson magentas, burnt oranges, sunset yellows and dusty blues. The rich hues are easily incorporate in an autumn decor palette, and the best way to do that is with a harvest centerpiece arrangement filled with flowers, leaves, ornamental wheat and cabbage plants. The result is an arrangement to reflect the abundance of the end of a season and the beginning of a new one. This harvest centerpiece arrangement is perfectly imperfect with most of the foliage coming from my garden. But also it gets me excited to entertaining indoors with cooler evenings that are just around the corner.

To make a harvest centerpiece arrangement, gather your favorite array of flowers and foliage in the colors of fall. Get creative and use cabbage and artichoke plants, berry branches and even fruit. I love using an urn for a large centerpieces; although it does require quite a bit of flowers and fillers. So one of the things I do, is give the illusion that it is full while keeping the number of flowers down. So for the base of the urn, I use a wet foam flower brick and tiny pebble rocks to keep the foam in place. Make sure to soak the foam for about 20 minutes before putting the flowers and foliage in it. Once soak, place it in the middle of the urn and use the rocks to secure it in place.

To create a harvest centerpiece arrangement, the key is layering. I like to use draping leaf branches around the base. This is great for hiding the foam and the pebble rocks. Then I place the large flowers in the foam and then add the filler flowers and foliage. Add wheat branches and dyed berries branches. Get creative and around the urn, place ornamental grasses and your fruit down the center of the table. You really can’t go wrong. The Fall colors will look so pretty all together. Happy Harvesting!