Decorating amaryllis in a glass - idea for the Advent season
When it storms and snows outside, an amaryllis in the glass enchants with its winter flowers. Surrounded by adorable accessories, the blooming queen of winter invites you to dream. The following instructions explain how to skillfully implement the decorating idea:
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Material requirements
- 1 glass vase, e.g. B. Floor vase
- 1 knife
- 1 pair of scissors
- 1 rose scissors
- 1 wire cutters
- 1 hot glue gun
- 1 waxed amaryllis
- Christmas balls of your choice
- Ribbon
- artificial snow
- glass ice cubes
- Boullion wire
- Olive green
- beautifully shaped branches
- Light chain, battery operated
Step-by-step instructions
Once all the accessories are ready to hand on the table, the decorating fun can begin:
- Clean the glass vase
- Fill in artificial snow to cover the ground (optionally moss or similar soil material)
- Spread ice crystals on the artificial snow
- Twist olive green into the glass (alternatively fir green or thuja twigs)
- Position the amaryllis in the middle of the glass
- Wrap the battery compartment of the light chain with ribbon and secure with Boullion wire
- Artfully arrange the fairy lights
- Place the branch on the vase opening (fix with hot glue if necessary)
With the Christmas balls you give your amaryllis in the glass the finishing touch. Hang the balls on the branch so that they dangle elegantly over the knight's onion and outside the vase.
Decorate amaryllis for Christmas - idea with instructions
Are you in the mood for a festive, elegant decoration with amaryllis? Then serve the majestic flower on a silver platter. With matching accessories, you can put an amaryllis in a wax coat in the limelight. The following instructions explain how the decoration idea works:
Material requirements
- Amaryllis bulb with clearly visible shoots
- Crystal gel or artificial snow
- Ice crystal splinters or reflex pearls
- Metal spatula or brush
- Pine cones, pinecone, Larch cones
- Branches
- Succulents
- Flat moss
- Upholstery moss
- Floral wire
- Hot glue gun
- Silver plate
- Light chain, battery operated
Step-by-step instructions
In the first step you dedicate yourself to the amaryllis as the main actress. Remove the soil from the onion. Place the flower bulbs on the plate moss. Use floral wire to attach the moss coat to the onion. It continues in these steps:
- Place the amaryllis onion in the middle of the silver plate
- Decorate the moss coat with reflective pearls
- Decorate branches with artificial snow, ice crystal splinters and cones
- Arrange upholstery moss in fluffy balls around the amaryllis
- Place the decorated branches on the moss balls
- Place succulents between the cushion moss (optional mini poinsettias)
- Use pine, fir and larch cones as gap fillers
- Spread out the fairy lights
With imaginative variations you can adapt this decoration idea to your living style. On a rustic wooden plate with hearty accessories, such as carved figures, an amaryllis fits harmoniously into the country house style. If the winter flowers shine on a glass plate, surrounded by white and glass decorative utensils, the arrangement harmonizes wonderfully with a modern living environment.
Tips
Artfully decorate hanging amaryllis with thuja twigs, which you wrap around the flower stem with colorful ribbons. Spice up the green decoration with shiny Christmas balls, funny pendants, glittering tinsel strips and a mini LED light chain. How to properly hang an amaryllis, you can here read up.