Need some help quick!

[Posh Weddings]

My grandfather passed away. He was a pilot for years and I was asked by my grandmother to make an airplane of flowers for tomorrow.....it's late and I am starting to panic! An ideas of where to start? I have ten bunches of white mini carns coming in tomorrow AM for the body. The mechanics are whats getting me.

Had to do a semi of flowers a month ago, but this shape is going to be really tough. It's my grandfather so I am really feelin the pressure here...any suggestions would be fabulous! Thanks!

 

[Aqua]

good" morning from here...feel with you...i
I would start to built the corpus for the plane, Do you have a Oasis corpus?
Think you don`t. So you can use a cross to built it. Maybe take much of Hedera and branches for the basis, and fill it up with the carns. For the wings? you could use long steel grass, put it into the Oasis , built the line of the wings and connect the ends of the grass at their ends. I would also use aluminium wire.

~best regards - Silvie ~

 

[Palms]

Good idea from Aqua. I was also going to say use an oasis design board and cut out the shape.

Do a search on google with images for floral airplane and it may bring up some ideas. If not, get a pic of an airplane and just cut out the basic shape. Fill in with white double chrysathemums, spray the windows black and use alumnium wire for outlines and wheels etc..

Make sure you take pics to show us and good luck.

 

[TGDragonfly]

Hi Brandi, sorry about your Grandpa, my condolences.

I'm not sure if I'm reading your post right, is the funeral today or tomorrow? And do you only have 10 bunches of mini carns?

If you only have 10 bunches of mini carns, then I suggest a centerpiece. We were hired to do centerpieces for a event in honor of Sir Richard Branson. We were asked to represent Southwest Airlines. I used a 11" loomey dish with a full Grande brick of Oasis. I covered the Oasis with billowing cotton batting and made it look cloud like. Instead of making a full airline, I cut out a section of styro sheet into the nose and cockpit that appeared to be rising out of the cloud. And then we fashioned one wing tip and had that stick out too. I covered the two pieces with flowers and picked them into the oasis. The plane appeared to be at an angle. The nice thing about this was that by creating a scene and by just making two pieces of the plane it appeared to be a large plane. The cotton batting I used layed out over table which made it appear larger too.

You may want to ask your grandma if you may borrow his Pilot Wings pendant and buy a small shadow box and mount it. Then you can center it into a standing spray, or wreath, and with the wreath you may even prop it up upon the casket spray, or if it is a open casket you can even prop it inside for the service.

Good luck, what ever you do, you will be fine.

 

[pnyflr]

I did one once and used a Oasis cross as my base...then used thin wire to make a line of where to build up the carns for the tail, cockpit, tapered wings, etc. It worked out great...just took a bit to get it done. Good luck!

 

[villageflowerlady]

I'd go to the store and get a styro model plane for the base especially if it is table top size(although they do have 3foot ones)

 

[flowergirl669]

So sorry about your grandfather and this post may be too late but...

I have an overhead projector (bought for $50 on Craigs List), Images from Google images, copied on transparency & projected on styro sheet (4'x8' sheet of styro insulation bought from Home Depot $13), drawn with sharpie, cut with hot wire wand ($24.95 local wholesaler), angled cushion pomps on toothpicks to get design depth & edges covered with sprengeri. On an airplane you could spray silver floral paint to achieve shadowing, use cello for windows, etc.

I find that young childrens coloring books are great images because they are such simple designs.

Once you get all the equipment together...you can do any design a customer might think of. Just know for retail pricing that all your design time has to be charged for in each design. If it's that special they will pay as soon as you say "We can do that for you!" We just received all the fire department badges for the city of Orlando. We design floral Sheriff's stars for Orange County fallen officers & family.

 

[BOSS]

How bout this one?

 

[Aqua]

or that one?