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Arranging Your Miniature Scale Roses

A Glass Vase Arrangement of Miniature Paper Roses for a Dolls House in 1:12 Scale

Six miniature paper roses made with a heart shaped paper punch for a 1:12 scale dolls house arrangement.

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Arranging Your Miniature Scale Roses

To Arrange Your Roses

You can arrange your roses in modeling clay inside containers which are not transparent. If you don't want to use resin and fix your roses permanently into a clear glass container, you can use fill the vase with clear micro beads and arrange your rose stems in place. Roses arranged in micro beads will need re arrangement if handled. Make sure your vase is secured to a work surface with museum wax before you begin your arrangement or you may tip your vase (and hundreds of micro beads or unset resin) before your arrangement is complete.

In general flower arrangements look best if you place the two rose for the sides of the arrangement first, then set the tallest rose in place either centered or off center, and use the remaining roses to fill in the arrangement. Six roses make a good one sided arrangement, if you want an arrangement which is round, you will need 9 to twelve roses. Most arrangements look best with an uneven number of flowers.

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