Flowers from sweets by own hands

Now various bouquets and compositions from flowers from paper with sweets are very popular. You will pleasantly surprise your friends and acquaintances by presenting them with a beautiful and original basket of candy flowers. The technology for making them is very simple: flowers are made from corrugated paper, candies are placed in the middle, and everything else depends on your imagination only.

Flowers from sweets with their own hands: a master class

You will need:

• various sweets in wrappers;
• crepe-paper (corrugated) in different colors, foil, packing tape, etc .;
• floristic teip-tape;
• plain and double-sided scotch;
• sticks for barbecue or wire;
• Threads, scissors, glue gun.

Rosebud

1. Round candy is wrapped in gold foil and fixed with gold thread.
2. Fold two squares of pink paper, bend it in half and cut out the petal, as shown in the photo.
3. Straighten the petals, starting to stretch the paper from the middle.
4. We wrap the candy in the petals and fasten the thread.
5. From the green paper, we cut out the sepals, glued them to the base of the bud and gently cut off the excess.
6. We put the wire in the base of the flower, we rewind the base of the flower and the wire with green paper, from the top, gluing it. Rose bud is ready.

Tulips (crocuses, snowdrops)

1. Cut along the lines of corrugation strips measuring 4 x 18 cm for buds. Bud can be formed from 3-6 petals.
2. Strip twist in the middle 2 times, fold in half, and stretch the petal from the center to the edges to form a depression.
3. We fasten the candy to the wire.
4. We place around the stem with candy 3 petals and weave threads. If you have 6 petals, then on top of the staggered order we attach 3 more outer ones. If 4-5, then fasten them in one layer, slightly overlapping, in one direction.
5. Grasping the ends of the petals, pasted the stem, folded in half a strip of green paper, which is cut across the corrugation lines.
6. We make a leaf using the technology of petals. The tulip is ready.

For crocuses you need to take 6 strips of paper size 2.5 × 13 cm, wire length 7-8 cm, and inner petals make a couple of tones lighter than the outer ones.

Using these petals, you can also make snowdrops, only you need to attach to the small candy at first the salad center, and then 3 white petals from strips measuring 2х16 cm.

Lily

1. The candy is attached to a wooden stick.
2. Cut out of paper 6 petals 3-4 cm wide and 8-10 cm long.
3. Pull the edges of the petals and, winding them on a pencil, we bend them outwards.
4. The base of each petal is stretched in the shape of a cup, glued around the candy.
5. We decorate the stem with green paper and shape the flower.
6. On the finished flower paints draw specks. Our lily is ready.

Chrysanthemums

1. Small round candies are fastened with thread on the wire, from above wrapped in a golden foil and fixed with a thread.
2. Cut out a strip of 7x25 cm of lilac paper, fold it in half and cut the fringe from the side of the fold.
3. We wrap the candy on the wire in a fringe, pull the thread and straighten the flower.

Orchid

1. Cut off the wire length of 15-20 cm, on the one hand we bend the tip, wrap it in a wrapper of candy, from the top we fix with a thread.
2. From the rectangle of 5x7cm of cream paper we cut out the petal and along the edge of the petal we put a dot pattern with a watercolor paint of violet color.
3. The resulting petal is slightly stretched horizontally, with the help of a pencil the painted edges are stretched and turned outwards.
4. We put the candy in this core and fix it with a thread in the base. Fig. 46
5. Cut out two petals of a rounded shape and three petals of an elongated shape.
6. First, glue the pistol to the core round petals, and then - oblong.
7. The basis of the orchid is decorated with ribbons.
8. For the manufacture of buds of orchids we fasten three round candies to three wires of different lengths.
9. Then each candy is wrapped in olive paper and fixed with a thread.
10. While making a twig, we wrap the longest stalk with green paper, combining it along with the rest, also covered with paper.
11. Using orchids and chrysanthemums, you can create an excellent basket.

Knowing how to make different flowers from sweets, it will remain beautiful to make compositions or bouquets from these candy colors and the original gift is ready.

Also from candy you can create other gift compositions: pineapple , car or doll .