Tulips from sweets and corrugated paper. Tulips from sweets: a master-class

Sometimes holidays turn into a real headache. How difficult sometimes to choose a gift, so that it was beautiful, tasteful and unique!

Bouquets of sweets - a universal gift!

Our article offers you an ideal gift idea - tulips from corrugated paper with candy inside. This present perfectly combines sweetness and beauty. In addition, it is not difficult to do it yourself: you do not need a lot of money for this. Such a gift can be given to a woman, a man, and a child, and to any celebration this will be the case. The most pleasant thing about this idea is that this bouquet can last a long time. It does not need watering, it can not wither. Well, except that sometimes you need to brush off the dust. Such an original surprise will please the eye and soul for more than a day. As the desire comes - a bouquet can be "gutted", and a sweet component to be eaten with great pleasure. Such a gift is very original and can become a real surprise!

Necessary materials for creating a delicious bouquet

What do we need to make tulips out of sweets and corrugated paper? To create a sweet composition, you do not need to have a lot of materials. The most necessary and irreplaceable item will be corrugated paper, and everything else will be found in the house of almost every mistress.

• Wicker basket. It can be replaced with something else: a flower pot or a vase.
• Sweets in wrapper / foil.
• Corrugated floristic paper of yellow, white and green colors.
• Wooden long skewers.
• Styrofoam.
  If the capacity for a bouquet is an ordinary vase, the foam will not be needed.
• Double sided tape.
• Usual Scotch tape.
• Scissors.
• Semitransparent fabric of light green color (such as organza or mesh).
• Tape tape is floral. If it's not there, you'll need glue.
• Toothpicks.

Why Corrugated Paper is Required?

To create such bouquets it is desirable to take not some, namely corrugated paper. The fact is that it combines all those properties that are so well suited for creating such masterpieces. It is rough, it can be stretched and shaped to the desired shape. That is why tulips from sweets and corrugated paper will be as much as possible natural, and with the proper level of skill your bouquet will be amazed all around.

If there is such an opportunity, get a better not ordinary, but special floristic corrugated paper. It is denser than the first and perfectly holds the shape. You can find it in shops for florists. Corrugated paper is sold in all kinds of colors and shades (even gold and silver).

If you are a beginner master, you can buy only a few colors, for example, red for buds and green for legs and leaves. Advanced masters can be advised to experiment with shades: buy several rolls of paper of the same color, but different pigmentation, for example, from bright pink to pastel. With their help, you can create gradient bouquets of extraordinary beauty.

Tulips from sweets: a master-class

The first step is to create tulip buds. In our master class they will be yellow. Are you ready to create tulips from sweets and corrugated paper? Great, let's get started!

1. Cut the paper with scissors on the stripes. Please note: this must be done along the corrugation lines, as shown in the photo below. The sizes of rolls are different. The standard conventional roll can be divided into strips of 3 cm and then cut them into 3 parts. Then we get the size we need.
   
2. Now each such strip needs to find the middle and twist the paper in one turn. You need to do this, slightly shifting from the center of the strip.
3. Next, you need to fold the strip in half as shown in the photo. At the same time, you need to press the paper gently with your fingers, so that it slightly arches, forming a shape that looks like a petal. Make the necessary number of blanks and set them aside. One such element will later become one petal of the tulip. The number of them can be different, from three pieces and more. Depending on how many petals you make, different buds will be produced - from modest to very lush.
   

Working with a flower leg and assembling a tulip

Candy for tulips is best to take a small, oblong shape, in an amount equal to the number of future colors. With them, making a flower will be easier. But if you do not have others, you can try to make both with a round shape, and from a truffle. So, step number 2 of our master class is to create a flower leg. Shall we proceed?

1. The first thing is to attach the candy to a long wooden skewer. To do this, take a floral green tape tape and one edge of the candy wrapper very tightly wrap it with a skewer. If you do not have such a tape in your arsenal, then this can be done with the help of ordinary tape or a strong thread.
   
2. Now we make tulips from corrugated paper, or rather, we form buds from blanks of petals. To do this, take them in hand and distribute around the candy. Secure with tape or thread. If it is difficult to do this immediately with three or more blanks, then it will be more correct to thread each petal individually with a thread. So they will not go anywhere and it will be easier for you to control the process.
   
3. The bud is ready, we only need to wrap its base and the whole leg with a green floral tapestry tape. So the leg will look quite like real! Again, if you do not have a tape, replace it with a thin strip of green corrugated paper. At the edge of the skewers, drip glue or attach a small piece of double-sided adhesive tape. Then wrap the green strip around the base of the bud and down to the end of the stem. If it seems to you that the stem of the flower turned thin, simply wrap it with paper or tape tape in two layers, rather than one.
   
   Here are such beautiful tulips should be obtained from you.
   

Formation of a bouquet and its final decoration

So, you already have the right number of colors. How to fix them in the basket? It's very simple.

1. From the foam, cut out a shape suitable for the bottom of the basket.
   
   
2. Using double-sided tape, attach the foam to the bottom of the container.
   
   
3. Decorate the foam with anything from above: corrugated paper, a beautiful cloth. Suits almost everything, if only it was beautiful!
   
   
4. In the styrofoam we stick ready-made tulips from sweets and corrugated paper starting from the middle of the future bouquet.
   
5. To diversify the bouquet, you can add to it a few similar simple flowers.
   
6. You can make a decoration from ordinary fabric or mesh. Cut out the square from the selected material, wrap it nicely around the toothpick, secure with adhesive tape.
   
7. Create jewelry decorate between tulips. Do not allow the formation of voids. In addition, the flowers can be decorated with sequins, small figures-stickers of butterflies or ladybirds. It all depends on your imagination. Sweet bouquet is ready!

Now you can proudly present it to a person dear to you and you will surely hear in reply the words of delight and admiration. Tulips are quite simple in making flowers, they are perfect for training. We sincerely believe that our master class was your liking, in the near future you will be able to perform even more complex compositions, for example, English roses made of chocolates and corrugated paper.