Decorating with Silk Tulips

The quintessential spring flower is arguable the tulip. They come in a variety of brilliant colors, are resilient, and look great inside your home as well as outside. You've probably seen scores of them made out of silk at your local craft store, but aren't sure what you can do with them that will make an impression in your home setting. Here are some suggestions that might help you make use of these fun flowers.

A Twist on an old favorite

The traditional bouquet is beautiful, but how about giving it a little help. The Easter pastels are all around us and you can add some lavender tissue paper to the base of a clear glass vase. Insert yellow silk tulips and pull up some corners of the tissue paper to cradle the flowers. This will hide the stems, and when using complementary colors you can't go wrong. You can also slide reflective foil in gold or a color of your choice instead of the tissue paper. Other add-ins to the base include different color ribbon scraps, spring designed fabric scraps, and small plastic Easter eggs. The wider the vase base the easier it is to be creative with this one.

Garland

You don't have to make a huge thing of tulip garland to get the effect of a garland. Take a few stems off of a silk tulip 'bush' and place them in wall mounts around a doorway. If you combine the tulips with a premade greenery garland by twisting the wire stems around the garland base, you can hang it over a window for some burst of color when the sunlight hits. You can use tulips in combination with white Easter lilies to provide contrast and interest to your walls.

Lamps, picture frames, mirrors

Tulips can even be inserted near or on lamps, picture frames, or mirrors. If you attach them to a lamp shade, be sure it is a little used lamp and you place them outside the lamp shade and not inside of it; this will avoid potential dangers. It's easy to give a picture of friends or family a cheery piece of Spring by placing a single miniature silk tulip at one corner. You can easily place these around Mirrors by inserting the stem behind the mirror backing or tacked to the wall nearby. Wrap them around baskets or make a wreath of them for your front door; the possibilities are limited to your time. You don't need a lot of tulips on any of these items, just one or two will do; but you will find that these small touches will bring your tulip theme together without too much effort.