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Hello all
I was hoping for some advice about putting lettering into a closed heart.
I have been asked about writing BABY into a 12'' closed heart and BROTHER into a 16'' closed heart... no idea as yet whether they want them based or open but I was wondering what sort of flowers you have found useful in the past? .... for writing the lettering

I done it (ages ago now) with sp cars and it was a right kerfuffle

Got any tips for me?

Thank you!

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don't do it would be my advice! unless you use a ribbon to write the words on it will look a bit strange in my opinion especially on such small items. If you HAVE to do it charge extra for all the faffing and you will need a lot of open sp car heads

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Have done something similar in the past but it took me absolutely ages. It was for a specific design piece for college so not really something saleable as the time involved alone would have cost too much. I used individually wired bouvardia heads in white...It did look very effective.

A couple of ideas though I have just thought about is making either wire letters and binding on small bunches of gyp, sea lavender or another "filler" with small grouped flowers...

OR...

Do the dutch thing (cos they love their cardboard templates!) and cut the letters out of card (easiest to cut from an old anthurium box) and then cover them in either coloured webbing, sisal or even spray tac the letters and roll them in sea lavender/limonium flowers stripped from the stem which drys very well without losing definition...

Not sure how it will look though, but let me know if you try it

Have a look on the jet supplies web site ,they do small aluminium letters that you can mount on an aluminium strip. then back with ribbon to match tribute edging ,assuming you are using ribbon . www.jetsupplies.co.uk. product code gv8550 & gv8551 hope this helps.

Lettering with flowers???
Used to get asked for this all the time and in most cases it was near on impossible. Trying to do 'brother' on a 16" heart? Try a 30" heart (if you could get one!) You've only got to draw a 16" heart and then try and draw all the letters on at something like half inch width on each letter. Then think about the flowers you're going to use. Spray car? you might get 2 useable heads off each stem (they've all got to be the same size or it will look naff. Mark out all the flowers on your drawing with a 10p piece or something and see how many you'll need. You could try something like white stallion, but you wont be able to push them in so you'll have to wire each one..what a pain in the ass. I nearly always went for the silver ally letters. Do them in 5 minutes and cost peanuts. And how often do they say "i don't care what it costs"....until you tell them just how much.

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oh blimey,,you'll never get it on a 16" frame..I did a Cadbury's chocolate bar and used white stallion but like fly sez you'll have to wire every head,,ok if your'e quick and deft of thumb!! Can't you persuade them to have the silver letters on ribbon across it?

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They are quite keen up here on having there names on funeral pieces and have spent many an exasperated hour trying to get it right It is an absolute pain in the neck and can take as long doing the name as it does to base the piece. I find that using flower heads the same size, i.e. spray cars or wiring statice can help. Also try spray painting small heads of spray chryth and placing them in the based area. This also gives a 3D effect which can be seen more easily. I f you find that when it's all done it still doesn't sit straight I use roped twine and pins to "fence" it in, gives it more stability and definition.

you could feather spray car but this takes time or use stallion xant hope this helps

On such small items if they insist on names I too would advise the alloy letters. If you look at my pics the "nags head" has the alloy letters because the family wanted a small Dad on it. they are not too obtrusive.

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i remember doing sister it looked shit!!!!!! i hated it it tooks f*ing hours cause i hated it the customer hated it i will never never never never do this again!!!!! and ust to say i did good with what the order was i did as they said what more can you do apart from say get some other bugger to do it!!!!!