Master class with photo will teach how to create New Year's compositions from live spruce with their own hands

February 11, 2018 handmadebase

Not everyone puts up a traditional Christmas tree these days –very often there is simply no room for it in small apartments. Therefore, if there are no children in the house, for whom a Christmas tree is a must-have attribute of the New Year, many try to make do with small-sized compositions, using live or artificial branches. An artificial spruce, of course, is more practical than a live one - it can be used many times and does not require special care. But a live one, of course, gives more pleasant emotions and sensations - it smells attractive, saturates the apartment with essential oils and is simply pleasing to the eye. Creating New Year's compositions from a live spruce is a little more difficult than from an artificial one, but the result will undoubtedly please you!For New Year's compositions from a living spruce tree you will need:

branches of live spruce;
floristic sponge for fresh flowers;
a small flowerpot and a basket;
gilded fir cones on wire - large and small;
artificial flowers.

Before the New Year I decided to make twoholiday compositions from a live spruce and went to a flower shop, where I bought a large branch of blue spruce. You can avoid spending money on a store-bought spruce and cut branches of a regular one in the nearest forest, but blue spruce is more beautiful and stays fresh much longer than the one growing in our forests. In the same store, you need to buy a green floral sponge, which is designed to prolong the life of live flowers and branches. In the process of preparation, I found cones collected in the forest, covered them with gold leaf and put them on a wire - the large ones on a thick and long one, the small ones - on a short and thin one. I also took 3 inflorescences of artificial flowers from the branches. I decided to create two compositions: one in a pot, the second - in a wicker basket. Since the branch of the purchased spruce turned out to be quite large, its top looked more like a small Christmas tree than a branch. I cut off this top for a composition in a flower pot. Then I put a film on the bottom of the pot so that water would not leak through the hole. I placed a floral foam on the film and carefully soaked it with water. The next step is to stick a branch into the floral foam vertically. It turns out to be a small Christmas tree in a pot, and so that the foam is not visible, I covered it with sisal. The final stage is to decorate the green composition. Since I decided not to decorate my tree too abundantly, I only stuck 5 large gilded cones on wire into the sponge. Such a cute composition is quite capable of replacing a Christmas tree - you can put gifts under it. Such a tree will stand for a long time - you just need to soak the sponge with water from time to time.I made the second New Year's composition inwicker basket. First, I cut off a rectangular, flat piece of sponge, put it in the basket on a layer of protective film and soaked it with water. The branches that I had left looked like the spruce branches that grow in the lower tier of the tree, so I stuck them into the sponge at an angle, almost horizontally. I placed 3 artificial flowers in the central part of the composition, and decorated the branches with small gilded cones, which I secured with wire. On New Year's Eve, I put a lit candle between the flowers - it turned out very beautiful.

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