Creative with Flowers - # 36 - Colourful Spring Tulips

This week on 'Creative with Flowers' - I'm featuring a mixed lot of very colourful spring tulips.

What is it many of us crave at this time of year? Colour of course! 

This is a little "statement" that I add to the post - briefly explaining my thinking behind the posts:

"This series of blog posts - called 'Creative with Flowers' - are about using flowers in new and creative ways. It could be about how the flowers are combined - maybe in a little bit of an unusual way. It might be the choice of vase - maybe not a vase at all but a container that could be anything from jugs, bottles, jars, tins or teapots - vintage or new it doesn't matter. 

As always my arrangements will be quick and easy - and there will always be lots and lots of colour!"

It's early spring - but many places around the world are still covered with snow. We all long for some warmth and above all colour.

Well, flowers are a perfect distraction and they come in all sorts of different colours. Just pick what you love.

Before I carry on showing more images of the beautiful tulips and the props that I've used. I just wanted to show you a 'behind the scene' shot!

It's a stage that is easily forgotten about - probably because it's often not a very pretty stage - well just a bit messy......

Before I started I knew I wanted to use some colourful little glasses that I have. I also knew I had to cut the tulip stems very short. What struck me when looking at the pile of leaves and stems on the counter was that I discarded more of the flowers than what was left........well I did keep the pretty part of the flower at least!   

The props this time are - a bright pink watering can, a vintage very worn little lantern, a piece of yellow fabric with a circular pattern and a hessian sack from my grandfather's country store back in Sweden. It has the words "Triangelns Kaffe" printed on the side - the name of an old classic Swedish coffee brand.  

I bought three bunches of already mixed tulips - it had a mix of colours as well as a few different varieties of mostly double tulips. So overall a great mix already done for me.

There are six glasses in different colours - but I have only put flowers in three of them. I was able to put ten flowers, stems cut very short so that the flowerheads sit just above the edge of the glass. So maximum colour from both flowers and glasses - perfect for this time of year!

Enjoy your flower arranging and have a fabulous and floral Wednesday!

Thank you for visiting 'Of Spring and Summer' - I will be back on Friday with another 'A Bunch for the Weekend' all about how to make a lovely bunch of flowers to enjoy over the weekend. 

I'm looking forward to seeing you back here then.

Ingrid 

~ xoxo ~

[Styling, photography and text © Ingrid Henningsson/Of Spring and Summer.]
[Flowers: Mixed colourful spring tulips. They are all from my local flower stall in North London.]
[Vase/Container: Colourful small glasses in a carrier - bought from a local charity store.]
[Other props: From stylist own prop collection.]

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FLOWERS by ingrid and titti - It's Time for Flowers!

Here is another FLOWERS from Titti Malmberg and and the theme is 'It's Time for Flowers'. Well as far as I'm concerned it's always the right time for flowers. But spring is a particularly special time of year with an explosion of stunning flowers.

I'm featuring another variation of gorgeously scented stock and sweet peas. This time in beautiful pink colours.

The stems of the flowers were very long and like made for a large and generous arrangement. So this time I used an oversized vintage pickling jar and positioned each stem at a diagonal in the container. The flower went to one side leaning on the edge of the vase and the bottom of the stem to the other side at the bottom of the jar.

I started with the more sturdy stock flowers arranging them around the edge of the container followed by the sweet peas. It's quite easy to feed the narrow sweet pea stems through the stock flowers. You need to be a little bit careful as the stems are delicate and the flowers are fragile and just space them evenly throughout the arrangement. 

As always a few little props - this time a small vase in a matching colour and some books about the very interesting fashion designer Issey Miyake.

In the background is a bright pink watering can - I might add that is has never been used in the garden! I wonder why? Maybe because it would not look nice for very long.

Don't hesitate to use the same flowers over and over again. With a little bit of creating thinking and some variation in colour and size as well as using different vases and containers - you can make the arrangements look quite different. Also think about adding some interesting props that either matches or contrasts the flowers. 

If you go over to Titti's blog you can see her interpretation of this week's theme. Here is the link to her blog. 

Enjoy your flower arranging and have a lovely floral day!

Titti and I will be back in June with some more FLOWERS with new and interesting themes.

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