Tulips made of sweets and corrugated paper. Tulips from sweets: master class

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

Bouquets of sweets - a universal gift!

Our article offers you the perfect gift idea - tulips from corrugated paper with candy inside.

This gift perfectly combines sweetness and beauty. In addition, it is not at all difficult to do on your own: you will not need a lot of money for this. Such a gift can be given to a woman, a man, and a child, and for any celebration it will be out of place. The best part about this idea is that such a bouquet can stand for a long time. It does not need to be watered; it cannot wither. Well, except that sometimes you will need to brush off the dust. Such an original surprise will delight the eye and soul for more than one day. When the desire comes, the bouquet can be “gutted”, and the sweet component can be eaten with great pleasure. Such a gift is very original and can be a real surprise!

The necessary materials to create a delicious bouquet

What do we need in order to make tulips from sweets and corrugated paper? To create a sweet composition does not need to have a lot of materials. Corrugated paper will be the most necessary and irreplaceable item, and almost every housewife will find the rest in the house.

• Wicker basket. It can be replaced with something else: a flower pot or vase.
• Sweets in candy wrappers / foil.
• Corrugated floral paper in yellow, white and green.
• Wooden long skewers.
• Styrofoam.
  If the capacity for the bouquet is an ordinary vase, then polystyrene is not needed.
• Double sided tape.
• Plain tape.
• Scissors.
• Translucent fabric of light green color (such as organza or mesh).
• Teip tape floral. If not, then glue is needed.
• Toothpicks.

Why corrugated paper is needed

To create such bouquets, it is advisable to take not just any, but corrugated paper. The fact is that it combines all the properties that are so well suited for creating such masterpieces. It is rough, you can stretch it, give it the desired shape. That is why tulips made of sweets and corrugated paper will look as natural as possible, and with the proper level of skill, your bouquet will be amazed by everything around.

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

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

Tulips from sweets: 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. Scissor paper into strips. Please note: this should be done along the corrugation lines, as shown in the photo below. Sizes of rolls are different. A standard ordinary roll can be divided into strips of 3 cm and then cut into 3 parts. Then we get the size we need.
   
   
2. Now, for each such strip, you need to find the middle and twist the paper in one revolution. You need to do this by 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 gently push the paper with your fingers so that it bends slightly, forming a shape similar to a petal. Make the required number of blanks and set them aside. One such element will become one tulip petal in the future. Their number can be different, from three pieces or more. Depending on how many petals you make, different buds will come out - from modest to very lush.
   
   

Work with a flower leg and tulip assembly

Candy for tulips is best to take a small, oblong shape, in an amount equal to the number of future flowers. With them, making a flower will be easier. But if you do not have others, then you can try to make with a round shape, and from truffle. So, step number 2 of our workshop is to create the flower legs. Let's get started?

1. The first step is to attach the candy to a long wooden skewer. To do this, take a floristic teip ribbon of green color and one edge of a candy wrapper very tightly wrap with a skewer. If you don’t have such a tape in your arsenal, then this can be done using 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, pick them up and spread them around the candy. Secure with tape or thread. If it is difficult to do this immediately with three or more blanks, it will be more correct to wrap each petal separately 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 just have to wrap its base and the entire leg with a green floral tape. So the leg will look just like real! Again, if you don’t have a tape, replace it with a thin strip of green corrugated paper. Put glue on the edge of the skewer or attach a small piece of double-sided tape. Then wrap a green strip around the base of the bud and down to the end of the stem. If it seems to you that the stalk of the flower turned out to be thin, just wrap it with paper or tape in two layers, and not in one.
   
   These are the beautiful tulips you should have.
   
   

The formation of the bouquet and its final decoration

So, you already have the right number of colors. How to fix them in a basket? It is 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 something on top: corrugated paper, a beautiful fabric. Almost everything will do, if only it was beautiful!
   
   
4. We stick ready-made tulips from candies and corrugated paper into the foam, starting from the middle of the future bouquet.
   
   
5. To diversify the bouquet, you can add several similar simple flowers to it.
   
   
6. You can make a decoration of ordinary fabric or mesh. Cut a square from the selected material, wrap it beautifully around the toothpicks, secure with tape.
   
   
7. Created jewelry stick between tulips. Do not allow voids to form. Additionally, flowers can be decorated with sparkles, small figures-stickers of butterflies or ladybugs. It all depends on your imagination. Sweet bouquet is ready!

Now you can proudly present it to your dear person and you will surely hear the words of delight and admiration in response. Tulips are pretty easy to make flowers, they are perfect for learning. We sincerely believe that you liked our master class, in the near future you will be able to perform more complex compositions, for example, English roses from sweets and corrugated paper.