Fabulous Faux Florals: 50 Easy, Extraordinary Projects with Silk Flowers and Permanent Botanicals

Silk florals and other permanent botanicals have become very popular in home d¬cor. Amazingly realistic and beautiful, faux florals are a key product line in craft, floral, gift, and home stores, and many people are enjoying being creative and saving money by making their own arrangements. In Fabulous Faux Florals, a master floral designer and educator takes the craft to a new level.
Ardith Beveridge's 50 designs include centerpieces, table pieces, topiaries, branches, wreaths, swags, even faux fruits and vegetables. There are projects for every taste, season, and decorating style, including traditional, garden, contemporary, tropical, and holiday looks. Each is showcased in an inspiring, glowing color photograph. Step-by-step instructions, easy techniques, clever tips, and hundreds of how-to photographs ensure that even a beginner will have professional results and a lot of fun.
The range and number of projects, the originality and beauty of the designs, the simplicity of the techniques, and the abundant talent of Ardith Beveridge will make this the book on faux florals.

still the weather in iceland is cool..windy and rainy..no real summer yet..i thought i?d underline that with these fake flowers that looked yet so beautiful..and brightened up my day..

This is my mom's fake flower. Atleast it looks nice, right? It was kinda hard to capture it. I had to know the right angle.

Beautiful Silk Flowers
The nice thing about silk flowers is that the beauty is everlasting. You don’t have to worry about your poor plant not getting enough water and dying in the sun. Silk flowers will never die, and the color will also stay true.

Silk Flowers Are Perfect for Every Occasion
Silk flowers make the most beautiful flower arrangements and you need not worry about the flowers dying on you. They can add character to any dull room, and with the variety of different colors they can brighten up a table.

Silk Flower Designs
Artificial flowers have come a long way. From the days of hideous heavy petaled plastic daisies and roses that our grandmothers used to have in their homes to breathtaking silk orchids and forsythia, freesia and magnolias.

Silk Roses
You may also choose the color and if you ask nicely I am sure you could get a bouquet of silk roses mixing all your favorite colors! For weddings and occasions like that you could have your silk flowers in pretty little baskets.

Gold Silk Wedding Flowers
Silk flowers are used in many occasions, festive times and while observing special days. We can‘t imagine a celebration without flowers. Silk flowers or flowers on the whole have had secret meanings ever since Greek mythology.

Wedding Bouquets: Fresh Flower, or Silk?
Finally, with silk bouquets, you can actually try making the bouquet yourself! Although it's quite easy to make bouquets, it can be hard with real flowers, and it's much easier for beginners if they are using silk flowers instead.

Silk Or Real? Your Wedding Flower Questions Put To Rest -- At Last
The last point's important if you're preparing flowers yourself. By their nature, you have to arrange fresh flowers the day before the wedding at the earliest -- and usually the morning of. This doesn't leave you much time...

Silk Flower: Classical mesh
You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t like flowers. A flower can bring joie de vive, a beatific smile or a deep sense of wellbeing. It depends on the flower, and you. Flowers are almost an essential for the “occasions”.

Care Free Decor: Artificial Plants And Silk Flowers
Fortunately, there are alternatives to real plants if you want to add that extra splash of color to your home. Artificial plants and silk flowers are a perfect low maintenance addition to the home or office in terms of decor.

Hawaii Silk Floral Arrangements
Hawaii silk floral arrangements are used all over the world for their beauty and stunning arrangement. These flowers are seasonal and are not available at all times. To be able to get hawaii silk floral arrangements all year round...

How To Buy Silk Flowers In 2 Easy Steps
This is a great idea for people who have a little more time than money and are willing to use their hands to make beautiful silk flowers. Think of it like this: you are buying silk flowers, only at a substantial discount.

How To Clean Artificial Silk Flowers
It is not difficult at all to keep your artificial silk flowers clean. In fact, if you give them a light feather dusting once every week, your artificial silk flowers will look as beautiful and new as the first time you brought...

A Guide To Silk Palm Trees
The best way to create a truly magical, tropical, and exotic setting is by adding beautiful palm trees to it. Unique in their beauty, palm trees can transform any place, multiplying its beauty and exoticness within seconds.

Silk - Silk Production
They produce a filament that is usually between one and two kilometers long. The adult moths that are normally used for production are too fat to fly. The moths that can fly don't produce enough silk to be worth cultivating.

Silk - History And Facts
But it wasn't until 139 BC that the world's longest trade route was opened from China to The Mediterranean Sea. This route was named the Silk Road for obvious reasons. By 300 AD the production of silk had also reached India and Japan.

Beautiful Silk Flowers
The nice thing about silk flowers is that the beauty is everlasting. You don’t have to worry about your poor plant not getting enough water and dying in the sun. Silk flowers will never die, and the color will also stay true.

Silk Flowers Are Perfect for Every Occasion
Silk flowers make the most beautiful flower arrangements and you need not worry about the flowers dying on you. They can add character to any dull room, and with the variety of different colors they can brighten up a table.

Silk Flower Designs
Artificial flowers have come a long way. From the days of hideous heavy petaled plastic daisies and roses that our grandmothers used to have in their homes to breathtaking silk orchids and forsythia, freesia and magnolias.

Silk Roses
You may also choose the color and if you ask nicely I am sure you could get a bouquet of silk roses mixing all your favorite colors! For weddings and occasions like that you could have your silk flowers in pretty little baskets.

Gold Silk Wedding Flowers
Silk flowers are used in many occasions, festive times and while observing special days. We can‘t imagine a celebration without flowers. Silk flowers or flowers on the whole have had secret meanings ever since Greek mythology.

Wedding Bouquets: Fresh Flower, or Silk?
Finally, with silk bouquets, you can actually try making the bouquet yourself! Although it's quite easy to make bouquets, it can be hard with real flowers, and it's much easier for beginners if they are using silk flowers instead.

Silk Or Real? Your Wedding Flower Questions Put To Rest -- At Last
The last point's important if you're preparing flowers yourself. By their nature, you have to arrange fresh flowers the day before the wedding at the earliest -- and usually the morning of. This doesn't leave you much time...

Silk Flower: Classical mesh
You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t like flowers. A flower can bring joie de vive, a beatific smile or a deep sense of wellbeing. It depends on the flower, and you. Flowers are almost an essential for the “occasions”.

Care Free Decor: Artificial Plants And Silk Flowers
Fortunately, there are alternatives to real plants if you want to add that extra splash of color to your home. Artificial plants and silk flowers are a perfect low maintenance addition to the home or office in terms of decor.

Hawaii Silk Floral Arrangements
Hawaii silk floral arrangements are used all over the world for their beauty and stunning arrangement. These flowers are seasonal and are not available at all times. To be able to get hawaii silk floral arrangements all year round...

How To Buy Silk Flowers In 2 Easy Steps
This is a great idea for people who have a little more time than money and are willing to use their hands to make beautiful silk flowers. Think of it like this: you are buying silk flowers, only at a substantial discount.

How To Clean Artificial Silk Flowers
It is not difficult at all to keep your artificial silk flowers clean. In fact, if you give them a light feather dusting once every week, your artificial silk flowers will look as beautiful and new as the first time you brought...

A Guide To Silk Palm Trees
The best way to create a truly magical, tropical, and exotic setting is by adding beautiful palm trees to it. Unique in their beauty, palm trees can transform any place, multiplying its beauty and exoticness within seconds.

Silk - Silk Production
They produce a filament that is usually between one and two kilometers long. The adult moths that are normally used for production are too fat to fly. The moths that can fly don't produce enough silk to be worth cultivating.

Silk - History And Facts
But it wasn't until 139 BC that the world's longest trade route was opened from China to The Mediterranean Sea. This route was named the Silk Road for obvious reasons. By 300 AD the production of silk had also reached India and Japan.