Holiday Bounty
TOOLS AND MATERIALS
Design Master Sprays - 24KT PURE GOLD, BRONZE, MESS MASTER - Hard Surfaced Container with a Relief Pattern, metal used here - 4 Artificial Spruce Sprays - 2 Silk Holly Sprays - 1 Silk Laurel Spray - Artifical Fruit Assortment of Yellow Pears, Oranges, Grape Clusters - Assorted Sizes Glass Ball Ornaments in Purple, Red, Burgundy, Bronze - Pine Cones - Stryrofoam - Wire Clippers - Wired Wood Picks - Hot Glue, Glue Gun - Latex Glove - Paper Towel
TECHNIQUE
- Protect surrounding work area from overspray with newspaper. Spray container with 2 coats of Bronze. Let dry.
- With the glove on your working hand, wrap paper towel around your index finger and spray Mess Master to saturate fingertip. Rub fingertip over relief pattern, wiping off paint to reveal the underlying color. Resaturate paper towel as needed to repeat process over the whole area.
- Insert foam into container and secure.
- Clip spruce sprays into smaller sections and insert into foam, designing the perimeters of your design all the way around. Attach a wired wooden pick to smaller spruce pieces to create stem length and insert where needed. Leave some smaller pieces for later to fill in holes.
- Insert wooden pick into fruits and arrange in foam. Arrange the fruit, some pine cones and larger ornaments in a mounded fashion. To fasten ornaments in design, attach wood pick into their opening and secure with hot glue. Let dry and insert.
- Guild holly leaves by closely spraying each leaf with 24KT Pure Gold then immediately, lightly wipe with paper towel while spray is still wet. This creates a streak of gold over the foliage. Trim holly sprays into desired sizes and insert into arrangement. Add wood picks to stems for additional length when needed or, attach smaller pieces with hot glue.
- Clip laurel spray into smaller sections and insert into design.
- Insert small red ornaments and more pine cones into design.
- Fill in any small spaces with small greenery pieces.
