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Florist Stories: Memories From Design Competitions

We are excited to share with you our very first Florist Story submitted by Lori Mudge of De’Vine Floral Design & Gifts in Granville, IL.

For the past 3 years, Lori and her team at De’Vine Floral Design & Gifts have taken the floral design contest at Bonnett’s Wholesale’s by storm.

Lori tells us all about it here:

“Floral supplier, Bonnett’s Wholesale in Milan, IL always has there annual open house in August. They host a big design contest for all of their mid-west customers, guest designers and floral professionals, which we enter every year.

Bonnett’s Design Contest has three design categories to enter:

  • Anything Goes (anything you want in fresh, silk or whatever, with a wholesale price of $50.00)
  • Corsage + Boutonniere
  • Surprise Box

Florists are able to enter all three categories. The winner of the competition is determined by votes from Bonnett’s staff, as well as florists and industry professionals from all across the mid-west. I feel it is more of an honor to win here because it is judged by florists from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa.”

Lori shared these photos with us of her winning entries for the past 3 years in a row:

The first year, Lori received two 1st place awards in the Anything Goes and Corsage + Boutonniere categories. Her out-of-the-box designs set her apart from her competition.

Bonnett's Flower Competition

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Vote For Your Favorite Design In Our Inspiration Challenge Round 2!

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Luna Moth InspirationThe entries are in and are lookin’ GOOD!
In case you missed it, Flower Shop Network asked our talented designers to create a fabulous floral design inspired by a subject we selected. For this one, we chose a beautiful Luna Moth metal sculpture by Kari von Wening and Jan Bush . It really piqued our florist’s interests and they delivered fantastic results! Find more about the Design Inspiration Challenge here.

Now it’s your turn to participate! Look at the painting carefully and choose a floral design you think best interprets this masterpiece. Look closely at all of the designs before picking a winner! There is a poll at the bottom of this post — Be sure to cast your vote!!

FSN wishes all of the florists who entered GOOD LUCK!! [Read more…]

Vote For Your Favorite Design In Our Inspiration Challenge Round 1!

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van-gogh-garden1The entries are in and are lookin’ GOOD!
In case you missed it, Flower Shop Network asked our talented designers to create a fabulous floral design inspired by a subject we selected. For this one, we chose Vincent van Gogh’s lesser-known work, Trees in the Asylum Garden. It really piqued our florist’s interests and they delivered fantastic results! Find more about the Design Inspiration Challenge here.

Now it’s your turn to participate! Look at the painting carefully and choose a floral design you think best interprets van Gogh’s masterpiece. Look closely at all of the designs before picking a winner! There is a poll at the bottom of this post — Be sure to cast your vote!!

FSN wishes all of the florists who entered GOOD LUCK!! [Read more…]

FSN’s Very First Design Inspiration Challenge!

Everyone on the FSN blogging staff is excited to bring to you the FIRST ever Design Inspiration Challenge! This is going to be a fun and exciting bi-weekly event to spice up your every day floral designing.

Here is how it works:

We provide the inspiration, whether it be an image, object, color, etc. and challenge you come up with a design inspired by what this week’s muse will be. Your design can be any type or style that you feel represents that week’s inspiration the best.  Think outside the box too! Here at FSN we understand florists are artists too and come up with some AMAZING designs. Now is your chance to show your creativity to the world!

THIS WEEK’S INSPIRATION CHALLENGE:

For this week’s challenge, we are going to take a look at van Gogh’s Trees in the Asylum Garden, created in 1889.
This is one of van Gogh’s lesser known paintings, but definitely a masterpiece nonetheless.

Study this painting carefully and use your imagination to interpret it into a floral design. This painting has SO much expression, color and vibrance that this should be an easy one!  Those blues are intense! Just have fun with it.This is your chance to show off your artistic and creative abilities!

We cannot wait to see what you come up with!

How to enter:

Entering is EASY! Simply:

  • Go to our Facebook Page
  • Post a photo of your design on our wall.
  • Be sure to include the name of your shop. (If your shop has a Facebook Page, link it by typing @ and your shop’s name)
  • Include a brief description of your design and how it was inspired by that week’s challenge (Optional)

Winners:

You have one week to create and enter your challenge arrangement. Our design team will then choose the top 5 contest entries and we will hold a vote for 1 week and announce the winner on Friday. So..

  • Contest Begins (Friday)
  • One week to design (Friday-Thursday)
  • One week to vote (Friday-Thursday)
  • Winner Announced/New Challenge Begins (Friday)

Winners will be picked based on creativity, style, and how well their design represents that week’s inspiration.

Each winner will receive a special feature on our blog with their arrangement and a link to their shop’s website. They will also be promoted on our Twitter and Facebook for one week. After 6 challenge winners (August) we will have a Tournament of Inspiration and our top winning designers will compete for a grand prize! (More on this later)

We are SO excited about this and can not wait to see what you come up with!!