Social media is a great place to start for charcuterie board ideas. Meat roses started from a TikTok trend during the pandemic. Now, with over 12.5M views, #meatrose has become a popular way to style your cured meats for your charcuterie board.
To create your own meat rose grab yourself a wine glass and a pack of round cured meat such as salami. First, place one slice of meat on the rim of the glass and fold and keep doing this around the rim of the glass allowing them to overlap but only just.
Then on your second layer you will do the same but bring the meat slices closer together, bringing them closer with each layer you add. How many slices of meat you use will depend on your glass. Once you’re done, place the glass against your board and pull away from the meat.

This creative way of dressing cheese works best on cheeses with a sturdy structure such as cheddar, gouda and manchego.
In fact, experimenting with cheeses is a great way to flesh out a vegetarian charcuterie board. Simply grab yourself a mixture of shape cutters and cut your favourite shapes into your cheese, whether that be stars, hearts of flowers. For best results, cut your cheese into 1 inch slices before you cut your shapes out, this way, you’ll have delicious bite size cheese shapes for your charcuterie board.

Styling your crackers can be tricky. Unlike cured meats and cheeses that have a bit of room to bend and shape, crackers need to remain intact. However, using your crackers to create a trail around your charcuterie can be a creative way of leading one's eye to the other things on offer such as meats and antipasti.
Lay your crackers on your charcuterie board and direct them in any direction depending on how you plan to style your board, allowing them to lay on top of one another like a fallen trail of dominoes.