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Sarah Essex
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Withered Beauty

Deadly beauty can be found everywhere this time of the year as grasses and flowers – eerie, evocative, and not to be left behind – have started to tell us that fall is here. Gather up these sticks and twigs with withered, faded petals and paint the mood of the All Hallows’ Eve. A spooky bouquet of mortal beauty found amongst the living … Mmmmwwahhhhhahahahaha.

Materials:

  • Flower vases – an assortment of small ones, or a larger vase to create one arrangement

  • Dried flowers, branches, twigs, seed pods, etc

  • Fresh dark-colored roses

  • Black spray paint

Halloween flower glass bottles project
Halloween flower glass bottles project

Tools:

  • Garden scissors for trimming to size

  • Rubber gloves to protect from spray paint

Instructions:

Red roses black spray paint parchment paper craft
Red roses black spray paint parchment paper craft

  1. Take your fresh roses, one by one, in one (rubber-gloved) hand and spray it lightly with the black spray paint from the other hand.

  2. Start to arrange an assortment of the dried flowers, mixing and matching to create a good balance.

  3. Add in the now-dry black sprayed roses – that’s the creep factor.

Hint:

You can let the roses dry by standing them up in the vase while you are spraying the others.