Amity Katharine Libby with Sam Taylor – #7DAYBOUQUET
Join paper artist Amity Katharine Libby as she gently guides you via “anytime” video learning. You will build confidence in your hands-on skills, deepen your understanding of botany and the plant world, and create a handmade paper flower bouquet!
Over seven lessons, you will hand color and hand craft a paper flower bouquet suitable for a wedding, elopement, hostess gift, centerpiece or other special occasion.
In this series you will complete three simple foliages and four flowers for a total of 21 stems, increasing in difficulty. You will spend time conserving your work before arranging.
While the title of this series is #7DAYBOUQUET (hashtag seven day bouquet) – you can take as long as you need between lessons. It is designed for beginners seeking a focused visual learning experience to create a finished paper flower bouquet.
This course includes:
Captioned process videos
Printable manuals
Short Skills videos
Course Curriculum
- About this series
- A complete list of supplies and vendors
- Introduction and how the lesson will work
- Examples from those who have taken the course
- Supplies for this lesson
- Skills in this lesson
- Printable Foliages Manual
- Size Estimates
- Eucalyptus Templates
- Seeded Eucalyptus Templates
- Solomon’s Seal Templates
- Preparing the wires
- Cutting the Solomon’s Seal foliage
- Gluing the Solomon’s Seal foliage
- Cutting and gluing the Eucalyptus leaves
- Cutting and gluing the Seeded Eucalyptus leaves
- Making the seeds for the Seeded Eucalyptus
- Cutting the remaining foliages
- Notes before assembly
- Process Video: Shaping and Assembling the Foliages
- Introduction and how the lesson will work
- Examples from those who have taken the course
- Supplies for this lesson
- Skills in this lesson
- Printable Zinnias Manual
- Cutting the ombré and green crepe
- Making doublette from the green paper
- Making doublette from the ombré paper
- Cutting, assembling, and shaping the centers
- Cutting and fluting the green petals
- Cutting the ombré paper and green paper
- Notes before assembly
- Process video: assembling and shaping the zinnias
- Challenge: alternative center
- Introduction and how the lecture will work
- Examples from those who have taken the course
- Supplies for this lesson
- Skills in this lesson
- Printable Lisianthus Manual
- Building the armatures
- Cutting the petals using a stapler
- Curling and gluing the petals into sets
- Making a closed bud and two just-opening buds
- Creating a nearly-bloomed bud
- Creating a fully bloomed flower
- Preparing the calyx and stems for assembly
- Creating the leaves for the lisianthus
- Notes before assembly
- Process video: assembling the lisianthus stem
- Introduction and how the lesson will work
- Examples from those who have taken the course
- Supplies for this lesson
- Skills in this lesson
- Printable Roses Manual
- Making the outer petal sets
- Making the inner petal sets
- Preparing the armatures and sepals
- Notes before assembly
- Process video: assembling the rose
- Introduction and how the lesson will work
- Examples from those who have taken the course
- Supplies for this lesson
- Skills in this lesson
- Printable Dahlia Manual
- Making the doublette for the petals
- Cutting the petals from the short strips
- Shaping the inner petals using bamboo skewers
- Creating the armature for the dahlia
- Assembling the center petals
- Preparing the taller crepe into doublette petals
- Process video: assembling the dahlia
- Process: Foliages Coloration and Conservation
- Process: Zinnias Conservation
- Process: Lisianthus Conservation
- Process: Roses Conservation
- Process: Dahlia Coloration and Conservation
- Examples from reviewers
- Process: Arranging a handheld bouquet
- Process Video: Creating a Wearable
Your Instructor
I am the owner of flower and jane, a creative design studio based in Maine. Sam is a visual artist who assists with digital templates.
Sale Page: https://www.flowerandjane.com/p/7day
Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/FMTM4
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