Tulips made of candies and corrugated paper. Candy tulips: master class

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

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

Candy bouquets are a universal gift

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

This present is the perfect combination of sweetness and beauty. In addition, it is not at all difficult to make 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 it will be in place for any celebration. The best thing about this idea is that such a bouquet can stand for a long time. It does not need to be watered, it will not be able to wither. Well, except that sometimes it will be necessary to brush off the dust. Such an original surprise will delight the eye and soul for more than one day. As the desire comes, the bouquet can be “gutted”, and the sweet component can be devoured with great pleasure. Such a gift is very original and can be a real surprise!

Necessary materials for creating a delicious bouquet

What do we need in order toto make tulips from candy and crepe paper? To create a sweet composition, you do not need to have a lot of materials. Corrugated paper will become the most necessary and indispensable item, and almost every housewife will find everything else in the house.

• Wicker basket. It can be replaced with something else: a flower pot or a vase.
• Candies in wrappers/foil.
• Corrugated floral paper in yellow, white and green.
• Wooden long skewers.
• Styrofoam. If the container for the bouquet is an ordinary vase, then the foam will not be needed.
• Double-sided tape.
• Regular tape.
• Scissors.
• Semi-transparent light green fabric (such as organza or mesh).
• Floral tape. If not, then you will need glue.
• 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 those properties that are so well suited for creating such masterpieces. It is rough, it can be stretched, 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, everyone around will be amazed at your bouquet. If possible, buy better not ordinary, but special floral corrugated paper. It is denser than the first and holds its shape perfectly. You can find her inflorist shops. Corrugated paper comes in all sorts of colors and shades (even gold and silver).

If you are a beginner, you can buy just a couple of colors, 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 different pigmentation, for example, from hot pink to pastel. With their help, you can create gradient bouquets of extraordinary beauty.

Candy tulips: master class

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

1. Cut the paper into strips with scissors. Please note: this must be done along the corrugation lines, as shown in the photo below. Roll sizes vary. 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 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 gently push the paper with your fingers so that it bends a little, forming a shape that looks like a petal. Do what needs to be donenumber of blanks and set them aside. One such element will later become one tulip petal. Their number can be different, from three pieces or more. Depending on how many petals you make, you will get different buds - from modest to very lush.

   

Working with the flower stem and assembling the tulip

Candies for tulips are best taken in small, oblong shapes, in an amount equal to the number of future flowers. It will be easier to make a flower with them. But if you don’t have others, then you can try to make both with a round shape and with a truffle. So, step number 2 of our master class is to create a flower stem. Shall we start?

1. The first step is to attach the candy to a long wooden skewer. To do this, take a green floral tape and wrap one edge of the candy wrapper very tightly 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 petal blanks. To do this, take them in your hands and distribute them around the candy. Secure with tape or thread. If it is difficult to do this with three or more blanks at once, then 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 need to wrap its base and the entire leg with green floral tape. So the leg will look just like the real one! Again, if you don't have tape, replace it with a thin strip of green crepe paper. Put glue on the edge of the skewer or attach a small piece of double-sided 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 out to be thin, just wrap it with paper or teip tape in two layers, and not in one. You should get such beautiful tulips too.

   

Formation of the bouquet and its final decoration

So you already have the right amount of colors. How do you put them in a basket? It's very simple.

2. Cut out the foam to fit the bottom of the basket.
4. Use double-sided tape to attach the Styrofoam to the bottom of the container.
5. Decorate the foam with something on top: crepe paper, pretty fabric. Almost everything will do, as long as it is beautiful!

6. We stick ready-made tulips from sweets and corrugated paper into the foam plastic, starting from the middle of the future bouquet.

   

7. To diversify the bouquet, you can add several similar simple flowers to it.

   

8. You can make jewelry from ordinary fabric or mesh. Cut out the squarefrom your chosen material, wrap it nicely around a toothpick, secure with tape.

   

9. Stick the created decorations between the tulips. Do not allow voids to form. Additionally, flowers can be decorated with sparkles, small stickers of butterflies or ladybugs. It all depends on your imagination. The sweet bouquet is ready!

Now you can proudly present it to your dear person and you will surely hear words of delight and admiration in response. Tulips are fairly easy flowers to make and are great 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.