How to Make a Gift Bouquet of Flowers

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Whether you're giving them to a friend, a hostess, or that mysterious blonde at the laundromat, a gift bouquet is easy to make and always appreciated.

To complete this How-To you will need:

The fresh flowers of your choice
The filler greens of your choice
A pair of gardening shears or scissors
A square sheet of clear plastic, craft paper, or gift wrap
One or two large squares of tissue paper
Two 8 to 12-inch lengths of ribbon
And a flat surface

Step 1: Hold flowers

Place the flowers one by one in your hand so their tops are more or less even. Hold them together.

Step 2: Tie together

Tie the bunch together at the stems with one of the ribbons.

Step 3: Cut stems

Cut the stems straight across the bottom with a pair of sharp garden shears to give them a uniform length.

Step 4: Place ribbon in plastic

Lay the other ribbon down horizontally on a flat surface. Place a square sheet of clear plastic over the ribbon with a corner of the plastic at the top and bottom (so it's in the shape of a diamond).

Tip: If you don't have clear plastic handy—and who does?—you can use a glossy gift wrap. Place the glossy side face up so it ends up against the flowers to keep their moisture from bleeding through.

Step 5: Place tissue paper

Place the square sheets of tissue paper over the plastic in the same manner.

Step 6: Lay flowers

Lay the flowers on top of the tissue paper with the stems at the bottom corner.

Step 7: Wrap tissue paper

Neatly wrap the tissue paper over the stems, overlapping the side corners, so that you've formed a cone shape around the bouquet.

Step 8: Wrap plastic

Wrap the plastic over the bouquet in the same manner, overlapping the side corners.

Step 9: Tie bow

Pull the ends of the second ribbon up around the bouquet and tie a decorative bow.

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[Natalia06Burgos]

That looks like crap!!

[123lovetreasure]

first

[sharksrock1000]

can you say old lady flowers?

[Kyuugirl]

-.o She fails so hard.

[alexithymiamassacre]

Whether your giving them to a friend, a hostess or that.. Wait, did she say HOSTESS?? LMAO!

[norahxjones]

horrible ! that's no floristic

[MsSeverusSnapexoxo]

Second -..-