Christmas decoration with bamboo and flowers

Few bamboo canes are tied together with silk flowers for a refined adobe

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You'll need

• - 2 bamboo canes
• - 2 white silk roses
• - 1 little white silk hydrangea
• - Golden ribbon
• - Acrylic paint paired with silk flowers
• - Snow spray
• - Vynilic glue
• - Cutting nippers
• - Brush

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This Christmas decoration is very simple but you need a couple of days to do it because you have to let it dry very well. Besides it's a low-cost decoration.
You can place it on a piece of furniture in your home or shop-window if you've got a furrier's shop or a jewelry ... But you can use it as a centerpiece too for your table. In fact it is little, it doesn't scent and you can adapt it to very kinds of table (very cool on a wooden table!).
Besides you can decorate your home or shop for all winter: you have only to change its ribbon and substitute it with a white one.

How to make a Christmas decoration with bamboo and silk flowers

• - Cut bamboo canes into pieces of different lenght as you can see in the photo.
  You can use a little saw for making it.
• - Remove any remaining dust from every bamboo piece.
• - Brush acrylic paint on the half of each bamboo piece.
• - Let them dry perfectly and then color the other half.
• - Meanwhile cut flower stalks in order to leave a little piece that you have to insert among the bamboo canes.
• - Then sprinkle flower petals and leaves with artificial snow here and there.
• - Let flowers dry well.
• - At this point make the composition of bamboo canes as you can see in the photo using glue.
• - Insert rose and hydrangea stalks among canes using some drops of glue.
• - Let all dry very well.
• - Knot the ribbon and sprinkle bamboo canes with artificial snow here and there.
• - Wait some hours before placing it where you want
• - Your Christmas decoration is ready. It's easy to do, isn't it?