Carmen Rose

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I have to make a large Carmen Rose for a bride soon. Am i better to buy the roses in earlier to get them open fully. And apart from a quick practise this week ( which went horribly wrong) i've never done the cardboard backed method ?? PLease help, any advise welcome???
 
Goodie i have only ever done one of these in college and we didnt use cardboard. I think we wired all the petals seperately and yeah i would definately get the roses in early especially while its cold. I think others may be better with the actual putting together.
 
Goodie -

Here's a link to a great instructional video by J Schwanke

http://www.ubloom.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=152

He's got a couple great tips for getting the petals to lay correctly. I fooled around an made a couple, and amazed myself at how beautiful they came out!

And they lasted well in the cooler- a few days just laying on the shelf, on display.

Valerie
 
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Tracy Park, (greatflowerlady) a fellow FCer, just did a bunch of composite roses for a wedding and they turned out spectacular! Here's a link to her gallery. She used some of J's techniques from his video plus a few of her own tricks.
 
wow just watched the ubloom link, great tips. Think i will do one of these for a bridal fayre on Thursday..
 
Thanks so much for the advise,the ubloom video is brilliant !! I have to do a bigger one, so guess that i just use a bigger card and more pipe cleaners to strenghten ? i can see where i went wrong with my test run! i didnt trim the bottom of each petal, so they were all sticking up :eek:face
 
I do Carmens totally differently to this, this gluing method on to the cardboard looks really long winded tbh. I start with a perfect rose for the centre and simply pin petals on with handmade hair pins. You can make really large ones like this if the stem of the central rose is strengthened with stub wires to support it. I learnt this method from Claire Cowling and it's explained in the back of their wedding book. What rose variety are you using Goodie?
 
Goodie i did one of them before on the cardboard. It took about 20 minutes from start to finish, it was in silk though for a practice so i suppose it would have been quicker than in fresh. I was happy with the results. Got some other good ideas what to do with them. Glad you brought this thread up, not done one since college. Show us pics when you do one.
 
Goodie ,I've had to make quite a few composite roses for weddings , I use the method in the video with pretty good results! Remember to work in a well ventilated room because the glue is very strong. You can make these quite large by increasing the size of the cardboard backing. The only thing that bothers me about the finished look is it is flat when viewed from the side. The wire and tape method had a more 3d quality . I'm curious about the hair pin method and hope to hear more about that.
Anyway, good luck and again...caution about the ventilation...you can get pretty high!
Anne
 
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