Using some Poly Fil fiber, hair spray, flat black spray paint, various dried floral material, and a special blend of ground foam material we built over 25 trees in just about 2 hours time.

Method 1 ~ Poly Fil, dry floral material, floral tape, flat black spray paint, hair spray, and ground foam material.

Coat some hair spray onto the armature and then stick the Poly Fil on

Then spray on some flat black spray paint

Then apply some hair spray and coat with some ground foam material

Method 2 ~ Dried floral material, hair spray, ground foam material.

Cut the specified dry floral material

Coat with some hair spray

Then roll in the ground foam mix

Shake excess and hang to dry

Some dry on the foam sheet too

And the forest starts to grow (needs more fertilizer)

Twenty-five down......five thousand to go!

SilverSpike wrote:

Started making some trees yesterday and got some assistance from my little buddy Ben!

SS:

Interesting.  While I'm sure the bare spots could have been covered with more adhesive and foam, or by using a stickier adhesive than hair spray, I want to point out that the whitish bare polyfill looks very much like 1:1 caterpillar tents.

What do you use for your armatures?

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Currently president of: Plywood Pacific with some bare plaster.

For that particular tree we used a portion of dried flower known as Candy Tuft Natural color. I bought 7 different dried flower bouquets at Michael's Crafts store and use these as my armatures.

Some of the other dried flowers that I use are Caspia Basil in two different colors, forest green and basil green, Mini gyp (also known as Baby's Breath) in a white and forest green color, and Tassel in natural color.

I have not purchased from them but the Flower Depot online has great images of various dried flowers, their URL is http://www.flowerdepotstore.com/flowers.html

Yankee, I have not made birch trees, as they are not in abundance in our area, but I do remember reading somewhere how to make them. I will search and report back soon.

Cheers,

Ryan

Spike

Thanks

That is a great site. I did check out Micheals but maybe I was in the wrong department.

Here is to blue skys and a warm.

TomCat, thanks for the "Forget-Me-Knots" tip. Going to have to add some to my spring flower planting mix this year.

Yankee, see your other post too on trees! I found some birch references for you and posted them there.