One in all my favourite reduce flowers is the arum lily. They at all times look beautiful on their very own or in a bunch. grouped collectively in an uncommon vase. We have now some stunning cultivars in our backyard ponds they usually flower profusely for many of the Summer season. Sadly, when Autumn rolls round my homegrown provide of contemporary arums dwindles to nothingness, which is why I made a decision to make myself these clay arum lilies.

Now I can use all of them 12 months spherical and IMHO that curly wire spadix offers the flower such an uncommon twist too.

Not solely are they simple to make, however every arum solely takes about 10 minutes to place collectively (excluding drying time).  Value each second in my humble opinion.

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What you want

• Airdry clay
• Jewellery wire 14 – 18 gauge relying on the scale of your flowers
• Galvanized wire
• Florist tape
• Wax paper
• An empty bottle or rolling pin
• Spherical tube. I used an effervescent pill bottle
• Toothpick
• Sharp pencil or skewer
• Clear matt varnish or Paint

Learn how to make clay arum lilies with wire spadix

Watch the action-packed video down under to see simply how simple it’s to make these beauties or scroll down for the step-by-step directions and pics 😉

Seize a handful of airdry clay and knead it. Kneading removes air bubbles and makes it extra pliable and simpler to form or be a part of.

Place the clay on the wax paper and canopy it with one other piece of wax paper. Roll it out so it’s about 1/2 cm (¼”) thick.

Use a pointy craft knife to chop a teardrop form within the clay. Take away the surplus bits and clean the reduce edges.

Use your fingers to flatten the edges of the teardrop type.

Fastidiously bend the underside edges collectively in order that they overlap a bit.

Gently press the underside edges collectively.

Use a toothpick to make a gap within the backside. We’ll be including the wire spadix right here as soon as the clay dries.

Bend and type the arum into form, smoothing the clay with a bit little bit of water as you go.

When you’re pleased with the form, drape the arum lily over an effervescent pill bottle to treatment in a single day or nonetheless lengthy it takes in your neck of the woods.

Seal the clay arum with one or two coats of clear matt varnish or craft paint.

Making the wire spadix and including a stem

If you happen to’ve seen the tattooed wall artwork I’ve shared, you’ll know the way a lot I take pleasure in combining wire and clay. The wire provides a unusual issue to the entire look, which I really like. The clay arums are additionally excellent for utilizing up any jewellery wire scraps you’ve saved. To make the spadix, reduce a size of wire about 30 cm (12″) lengthy. Wrap one finish of the wire round a skewer or pencil and curl it down and across the skewer till it’s the proper size.

Take away the curled wire from the skewer and pull it barely aside. Twist the underside of the wire spadix so it goes straight down.

You must find yourself with one thing like this.

Jewellery wire is admittedly gentle and received’t maintain the burden of the arums by itself, so we have to strengthen the stems with some galvanized wire.

Measure how lengthy you need the stem to be a reduce a chunk of galvanized wire. Insert the straight fringe of the wire spadix within the arum lily gap.

Place the galvanized wire subsequent to the spadix stalk and wrap the 2 wires along with florist tape.

Pop the clay arum lilies with wire spadix in a fairly vase.

Not dangerous for a couple of minutes of rolling clay and wire 😀

What do you assume?

Do you just like the addition of a wire spadix to the arum lily?

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