A bouquet of sweets on February 14 became a traditional 2-in-1 gift - it is handed over instead of an armful of fresh flowers and a box of sweets. There are even design studios that specialize in creating food bouquets, although their services are expensive. It is much more profitable to make such a composition yourself - in addition, this will be another way to express feelings.
A simple and versatile bouquet of sweets in a mug
Such an unusual bouquet can be given to a loved one, regardless of gender and age. It will take about 15 minutes to make (not counting the time spent on the purchase of sweets and other “ingredients”).
Before you begin, prepare:
- A lot of sweets - big and small chocolate bars, heart-shaped candy, packing with dragees. You can use other sweet treats in individual packaging - marshmallows, halva, cookies, marmalade. The composition of the bouquet depends on the preferences of the person to whom the gift is intended.
- Beautiful valentine cards.
- Set of plastic sticks for cake pops.
- Glue gun and glue sticks.
- A beautiful cup (it is important that its walls are high, otherwise the contents will fall out).
- Silk ribbon and other decor.
Operating procedure
Making this bouquet of sweets with your own hands is nothing complicated:
- Preheat the gun and stick the sticks to the sweets and postcards. This must be done carefully without using a lot of glue. Be careful: the sticks should not be located on the front, but on the back and reach approximately the middle of the package to make the design stable.
- When everything is ready, collect the bouquet. Large packages are best placed in the background, and small ones in the foreground, then the composition will look beautiful. Between sweets stick stick cards and other decorations.
If the mug is not filled tightly, the sticks will begin to “drive” and the bouquet will immediately lose its original appearance. To avoid this, you can fill in the empty space with cut paper (the one that is put inside the parcels).
Instead of a mug, you can use a beautiful champagne glass or a small glass vase. To prevent the lower ends of the sticks from being visible, lay colored balls, serpentine or organza on the bottom.
Beautiful bouquet of flowers with sweets
A candy bouquet of flowers similar to poppies is suitable for a gift to a husband, beloved girl, colleague, friend or girlfriend.
Creating such a bouquet is impossible without:
- Ferrero sweets;
- long wooden skewers;
- tissue paper (pink and blue are used in the example, but you can choose colors as you wish);
- scotch tape;
- silk ribbon;
- scissors.
Step-by-step instruction
The work on this original bouquet is so simple that even a child can handle it. But the result is impressive:
- Remove the candies from the packaging and stick on skewers along with the backing. The skewer must go inside at least 1 cm, otherwise the flower will fall apart.
- Cut the tissue paper of the primary color (pink in this case) into squares. The length of the sides of each square depends on the desired flower size. It can be determined experimentally.
- Bend each square diagonally - as shown.
- Take a skewer with candy in one hand, and a paper blank in the other. Wrap paper around the candy. The protruding corners should be facing up (these are the petals), and the fold should go on the skewer so that it could then be wrapped with tape.
- Fix the edge of the paper with tape - this will make the flower dense and strong.
- Repeat all the manipulations, starting from step 2, but already using tissue paper in a complementary color (cyan).
- When all the flowers are ready, fasten the skewers together with tape.
- Cut two very large squares and bend them in the same way as the small ones in step 3.
- Wrap the flowers on skewers with prepared paper, cut a piece of ribbon and tie it with a bow on a bouquet.
Instead of tissue paper, you can use a floristic grid, and replace Ferrero sweets with others in the same candy wrappers. It is not forbidden to supplement the flower arrangement with anything else - a mix of fruits (grapes and strawberries strung on skewers) glued to skewers in the form of inshell pistachios is suitable for this.
Candy flower bouquet in a box
Bouquets in boxes have long been popular. And if you use edible instead of real flowers, the composition will only win. She will not fade after a few days, but will delight the owner (or the owner - such bouquets can be given to both a woman and a man) for several weeks - until she is eaten.
Everything you need for such a bouquet can be bought at any needlework store:
- heart shaped box;
- corrugated paper of different colors and shades;
- wire;
- Toothpicks
- scissors.
Of course, you can not do without the main component - sweets. They can be different, it all depends on the performer’s ideas and taste preferences of the person to whom the gift will be presented.
Process description
In this case, the work will take more time and require effort, but it is worth it.
Making flowers consists of several stages:
- Cut corrugated paper petals. What they will be, oblong or round, depends on what flower you want to get in the end. The main condition is to add 1.2–2 cm to the standard length of the petals. This stock is needed for further assembly.
- Shape the petals by slightly stretching the paper with your fingers.
- Take the candy, wrap it with wire to the toothpick. Put petals on top of the candy. It is advisable to avoid symmetry - so the product will look more natural.
- Fix the bottom of the petals on the toothpick with wire.
- Repeat the work until you create the required number of colors.
- Trim the excess length at the toothpicks.
- Fill the box with finished flowers.
The bouquet will look more original if one half of the box is filled with paper flowers with a candy center, and the second with macaroons or other sweets. You can add toys to the composition - a little teddy bear or a hare.
Beautiful and tasty bouquets are the best option for a gift for Valentine's Day. But it is not necessary to follow the instructions given. Feel free to experiment, add something from yourself, and then you will get a real masterpiece.