Deco Wire Arm Band

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I am working on a Purple Deco Wire Corsage for Friday. The little girl has the skinnest arm, I am using flower glue and purple mini carnations, and no ribbon. What do you think the best way to attach the flower will be, curl the wire and glue flower to that? I am just hitting a wall, and I need some help! Thanks...
 
we did one of these last year.. we curled the wire into little loops randomly as we shaped the arm band, and then wrapped smaller bullion wire on those little loops making a good base for a small ribbon base (so small you hardly see it) then glued little rose buds to that. someone on here was talking about using felt ... that sounds like it would work too.
 
Try using a piece of chenille stem, wrap around the deco wire and make a few extra little loops with it (depending how many flowers you want to put in) - the fuzzy texture will grab the glue better and allow you to add in small ivy leaves or other greens as a base for your design.
Post a pic when you get it done!
 
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We did one for our daughters prom,, we just looped the wire occasionally and that's where we glued the flowers. The problem was she could not wear it as it would not hold tight (the sprial around her arm). That was our problem,,, any suggestions?
 
It seems like when I've made them, I make it so the wire loops around the actual wrist part twice and then make the bends and little loops above and below that. Then I take bullion and wrap a lot of it around a couple of my fingers, cinch it up in the middle and then fan out the loops (JH Prom & Homecoming book I). These little bullion "flowers" get attached to the small loops where I want to place the focal flowers, then the flowers get glued and nestled into these. It seems like mini carns might be too tall to get to lay properly unless you cut all the green off and carefully glue all those little petals together onto the base. (Yeah, I know, petal disaster waiting to happen!) Mini carns are not my favorite wrist corsage flower--especially for an arm-wrap.
 
That's a really beautiful, graceful corsage, Jenny.
Great job!!!
 
I also have a girl that wants one to go over her shoulder, I remember reading some where on flowers chat about using the large clear bandaide to put on the shoulder, can't remember how they said to attach the wire to that. Was it using velcro? Any help please.
 
over the shoulder

J has a video on ubloom that demonstrates (as only he can!) how to make an over the shoulder design with a bandaid

Kynda
 
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