Hi I'm Bill Lindeman with burton + BURTON® and today I want to show you how
to make an Easter centerpiece with a bowl, bunnies, and eggs. First off, I want
to show you: we're going to line this bowl
with foam. I need to make a template with some paper to figure out how
large my foam should be. So, what I'm doing is putting the paper over the top
of the bowl and creating a template by creasing the paper all the way around
the bowl. So now I know exactly how large my foam needs to be cut. So we'll put the
bowl to the side and we're going to put our
template on the foam. Now, what I need to do is just score where the foam
needs to be cut by using the template.
And now we have the shape of the bowl, the inside of the bowl, on our styrofoam
and we can start cutting the foam. To cut your foam, an easy thing to do is to take
a candle and run your knife through the candle wax. That makes the cut a lot faster and smoother.
And you can cut into the bottom because we're going to trim that down as well.
You want to trim this down even more on the sides, because you need to round the bottom out.
So once you get that taken care of, then you're going to just sand a little,
round it even more, by taking your scrap piece of foam, and running it along the styrofoam. And you want to round out your upper edge as well.
So now we have our foam made perfectly to fit inside of our bowl. And I strategically already placed and
figured out where I want to put my bunnies. You hot glue these bunnies in,
the low setting should work fine. We're going to place him.
Or you can use a UGlu adhesive strip. It's a great product, it's industrial-strength. You peel off one
side, you put it on the bottom of your product, flatten it out, pull the other side off,
and place it in there. And it's just as sturdy as hot glue. The next thing I want
to do is figure out, I'm going to put eggs in this design, so what I want to do
is create some holes for the eggs to be semi-recessed. Easy way to do that is to
use an ice cream scoop. Just go to the kitchen supply house or the kitchen supply
section of the store and get you a scoop. And you can see where it makes a nice,
almost melon ball scoop, so I can get my eggs to lay flatter to the surface and
some of them, I'm going to want on top of the surface. These are egg ornaments:
cut the twine, the loop, in half and just tie it into a bow. Either that or just cut it
all the way off. Once you start figuring out where you're going to place these eggs,
this one's going to go right in that hole.
This one can go right here. You can see, we're getting closer to the edge of the container, I'm going to
cover this with moss shortly, otherwise they would just be sitting right on top
of the foam. So I want some up, some down.
And this last one we'll just lay on top of the surface here.
Eggs are randomly placed into the design. We're going to add sheet moss to
cover the foam, to cover the mechanics. The best way to use sheet moss is to
moisten it with a mister for easier application. Your moss is more pliable,
it'll be less likely to shed, and it's just much easier to pin on.
Start adding your moss right to the foam, and you can see why I wanted some of them
recessed in, so that it looks like the grass is deep and lush.
Just take your greening pins to pin your moss into your design.
And the reason I'm mossing first, if you were doing a permanent arrangement,
a lot of times you wouldn't want to use as much moss, but this is all going to be
exposed, so it is my main mechanic. Mechanic and decorative purposes.
So now you see that we have our moss and our eggs and we're ready for the next phase.
Next phase, we're going to add our flowers to this. So, we're going to use
our spring garland. And the garlands are put together rather simply. There's just
a wire here, and it's a great value, because you can use it for a lot of things.
You can use as a garland or do as I'm doing, taking it apart. All you have to do
is unravel the wire and you're going to get little mini-bouquets, like this. So we'll take these apart.
Another tool of the trade is called a pick machine.
This makes it easy to insert. What I want to do is cut just a little bit of this, down here, off.
Just put a pick on it and we're just going to put this into our foam and
we're going to create a little garden. You want to make your insertion deep enough
that you do not see that metal pick. That also eliminates the need for any hot glue right there.
Just gather them together so that it looks like they're actually just coming straight out of the soil.
This garland is great because it has this little grass-like effect to it, as well,
which is perfect for Springtime.
Pull some of these to the front, over your edges. Our next step is to add reindeer moss.
We have this wonderful, soft reindeer moss here, just take your pins, take a piece of the reindeer moss,
I love that chartreuse green. Just a little greening pin right there, just finishes it off.
It pulls the yellow of that goldenrod in to the look and you
can see how that is all finished off now, all the way around. Now that is the
largest bowl, the bowl comes in a set of four. So you can take and merchandise
your showroom or shop with the other pieces, fill them with the eggs and
create another size. In a flower shop, this would be great because you're
giving your customer another option, you've got different price points by
which to sell your product and you'll be able to use your product more efficiently.
And that's our spring centerpiece.
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