I don't know why but I have this thing for composite flowers. I adore flowers in general but something about a big old composite flower is just too much fun for me to resist.

Composite flowers are easy to make and on the bottom of cube vases they become a great, low centerpiece that your guests can see one another over.

Here is how I made them.

Take 3-4 flowers

and a cube vase that has been cleaned with soap and water or Windex. Cut a few of the flowers apart, so that you have individual petals, and save one of the centers complete with stamen to use in the center of your composite.

Glue (I used hot glue) a circle of flowers for the outline of the flower

and then just keep gluing them in the circle, overlapping as shown, round and round until you get all but the center of the flower filled in; then glue in the flower center that you set aside with stamen. 

There you have it! One giant rose from 3 or 4 individual roses.  This composite/cube combo would look great on a reception table with a battery operated tea light inside and you could group 3-5 of them together for more impact. They might also look nice on a buffet table among some of the serving trays.