Time For a Bit of Team Building

This week in the petal shed the team have been spending some time getting creative with confetti!

With harvest season almost at a close we’re looking forward to a few more events coming up on the calendar… Harvest Festivals, Halloween, Bonfire Night and Christmas are just some of the celebrations we have yet to come.

With this in mind we thought it would be fun to spend our Thursday catch-up meeting making confetti masterpieces against the clock! We focused on four upcoming holidays and had five minutes to make a confetti collage for each.

Ready…Set…Grab your petals!

We started with Harvest Festival! As we approach the end of the month people up and down the country will be celebrating the end of harvest. With our minds full of wheat sheaves, fruit ripe for the pick and autumnal shades of orange, green and brown we started the clocks.

With five minutes and a shelf full of confetti these are the pictures we created to do with harvest...

These are mine (Fran's) and Dawn's harvest collages. I went for all things wheat and a few cans of soup (remember the harvest festivals at school?) and Dawn went for something more minimalist with her harvest apple. 

Jess and Katie both went for wheat sheaves to signify the harvest festival, with Jess adding a few pieces of confetti fruit too!  

Not a bad start! Yes even you Dawn (who later admitted she'd been saving her creative energy for the next picture).

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With round one over we moved on to the next... Halloween! With our eyes all set on the dark and mysterious 'Black Tie' confetti we started the clocks.

I got resourceful and reused my mini wheat bunch from my harvest festival picture as the witches broom in my Halloween collage. Dawn also went for a witch theme, remembering the very important black cat of course!

Jess also created a scary confetti witch but Katie went for something a little different and used bright orange 'Ginger Snap' confetti to make this smiley pumpkin!

Two down and two to go...

By this point we'd honed our confetti sculpting skills and the competition was beginning to heat up in the Petal Shed! 

'Heat' being the operative word because next on the list was Bonfire Night!  

I got a shock when I realised I'd drawn all over my piece of paper and we weren't allowed to swap it for another. Luckily I thought of a way around this problem and decided on a confetti firework skyline! Dawn also went for fireworks focusing on two of the more well known ones - a Catherine wheel and a Roman Fountain! 

Jess opted for a traditional take and created a confetti Guy Fawkes escaping into a tunnel! Top marks for historical effort! Katie made something more personal and used confetti to design a log burner. As she told us later this is how she always spends Bonfire night, all snug and toasty in front of the fire watching the fireworks light the sky outside. 

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Last but not least we moved on to the final event coming up this year (and one of my favourites)... Christmas of course!

Again I had a skyline to include in my picture... So with a few smokey chimneys added I started work on my picture of Santa and his sledge. Dawn used confetti to create a cuddly teddy bear, Santa and his sack, a couple of Christmas presents and an angel for the top of the tree. 

Jess used a confetti cone to make this Christmas tree and Katie went for a 3D work of art with her confetti Christmas card!

Our time was up and it was time to drop our confetti and step away from the petals! We had a great afternoon discovering all the different ways our natural petal confetti can be used - it really doesn't stop at throwing!

Why not have a bit of spare confetti at your wedding that your guests can use to make personalised pictures of your special day. Leave a Polaroid camera next to your creation station so each guest can take a photo of their work of art. Use these photos as an alternative to a guest book!

Creating confetti pictures is a great thing to do with the kids as well! Take a tip from Katie and get your little ones to make Christmas cards using confetti this year!    

We hope we've inspired you with a few new ways to use your Shropshire Petals confetti! We sure had fun in the process!

Love as always SP