Making a bouquet in a box with your own hands

The idea of ​​making a bouquet of fresh flowers in a hat box with your own hands is quite feasible even at home. However, many will prefer to get, for example, a meat or sweet composition for the holiday instead of the plant version. After studying the master class on self-assembly of New Year's bouquets, you can understand how to assemble them correctly and what should be taken into account when forming.

In order to assemble a beautiful festive composition in the gift box with your own hands, just follow the instructions. The easiest way to make flower bouquets is from roses. You can decorate them with splashes of gypsophila or greenery, satin ribbons toppers, feathers, lace or stickers.

This is what the basic kit looks like.

• Hat box. Ready-made ones can be found in supermarkets or specialty florist shops. You can also make a box yourself from thick cardboard. Products of a cylindrical shape look more impressive, but a square or rectangular box is also suitable.
• Filling. In this capacity, flowers, herbs, fruits, sweets, other objects or products can act.
• Floristic sponge. It is also called an oasis. You can replace this element with any low capacity - from a cut PET bottle to a light plastic vase.
• Plant food. You will need it when working with fresh flowers.
• Wire. It is better to take copper, which is not subject to oxidation.
• Stationery knife for cutting stems.
• Duct tape.
• Transparent polyethylene.
• Decorative items.

Ready-made boxes with partitions are designed for making complex compositions that combine flowers, fruits, and other elements.

It is better to start composing a bouquet of fresh flowers in a hat box on your own with the simplest composition. It is worth preparing roses of 1 or 2 shades, with the same stem length and bud density.

This is the order in which the composition is made.

1. Preparing the box. It is placed on a flat, flat base. The outside is wrapped with a sisal cloth of the desired color or a self-adhesive film - shiny or matte, in metallic shades, wood-like, with other types of decor.
2. Pruning a floral sponge. A piece is cut out of it, corresponding to the shape of the bottom of the box. The height of the layer should be such that it does not reach 3-4 cm to the top edge of the box.
3. Add the cut flower dressing to the settled water. Chrysal or similar formulations will do. Place a sponge in the resulting solution for 15-30 minutes.
4. Line the bottom of the box with plastic wrap. Place a floral sponge soaked in water inside. The top of the oasis should be completely open to accommodate the flower stems.
5. Arrange the roses on the table. Cut them with a knife, achieving the desired height - uniform for all plants. Enough 4-5 cm in length for each flower.
6. Start wrapping flowers from the edges to the center, moving in a spiral. In a cylindrical box, the stems are placed at an angle of about 30 degrees, in a square and rectangular box - straight. It is important that they go into the sponge, but do not rest against the bottom. The box must be rotated during operation.
7. Complete the assembly of the bouquet. You can complement it with decor. The cover is glued to the base with double-sided adhesive tape.

Re-plugging it will not work. The sponge is deformed from such treatment, and the plants will not have enough moisture if they are placed too close. In addition, the film inside the box should be secured with duct tape so that it does not get lost.

Any flower bouquet will benefit from adding some sweets to it. It is necessary to act depending on the content.

In this case, fragile sweets will reach their destination safe and sound.

When using candies, lollipops, caramel canes, gingerbread, sweets can be fixed on skewers and then set by analogy with flowers. Handicrafts look especially impressive. It is not worth releasing them from packaging, especially if a protective layer of polyethylene or mica is not provided on top.

White roses go well with silvery wrappers. Scarlet - with gold or snow-white. If colored roses (yellow, orange, burgundy) are chosen, it is better to choose contrasting inserts for them.

New Year is one of the main holidays that both adults and children are looking forward to. But the search for an interesting gift can significantly spoil the mood. The manufacture of original New Year's boxes will help to solve the problem. They are quite easy to assemble on your own, following the instructions step by step.

When making New Year's compositions, you can do without a large number of fresh flowers. The following elements will be relevant here:

• branches of fir Nobilis, thuja, cypress;
• roses Red Naomi, Grand Prix and others, with dense petals;
• chrysanthemums;
• gerberas;
• lilies;
• carnations;
• poinsettia, known as the "Christmas star";
• succulents;
• cones;
• dyed sisal;
• Christmas balls;
• bows and ribbons.

If a composition is made without fresh flowers, the easiest way is to divide the box into compartments, and then fill it with gifts.... Using sweets, balls, branches and coniferous cones, you can cover them with artificial snow for more effect. Compositions composed of spruce branches and citrus fruits look interesting. These options are very popular as a gift for children.

A simple New Year's composition is quite easy to make with your own hands from cones, cypress or thuja twigs pre-painted in white. Cotton seed pods, seashells, nuts, small acorns, large flowers from foamiran will look very impressive. Large silver balls or beads will also come in handy. Foam is used as a base in such a composition. All elements are attached to it with a conventional thermal gun.

Procedure.

• The necessary materials are laid out on the desktop.
• Preparing the box. It is pasted over from the outside with self-adhesive film imitating natural wood or themed New Year's prints. The sides are decorated with a plaid border - a rough checkered fabric. The foam is cut in the form of a hemisphere, the remains are crushed. The large part is attached to the bottom of the box, and small particles are poured around, colored sisal is placed on top, fixed with hot melt glue.
• Formation of the composition. Creating a wreath of thuja - for it, branches are laid out around the perimeter of the edge of the box. A large artificial flower is attached to the side, around it the cones are large, then smaller. The remaining gaps are filled with balls, shells, nuts, thuja twigs. On top of them, strokes of white paint are carefully applied.

The finished composition should be decorated with artificial snow.

It is quite possible to compose an original bouquet in a hat box without following too strictly established canons. For example, you can create a birthday themed composition, taking into account the tastes of the birthday person. Among the interesting ideas for creativity, several options are worth considering.

• Man's bouquet. It is collected in a square or rectangular box, divided into several compartments. In one of them, flowers are placed in a maroon shade (roses, gerberas), placing their stems in a floral sponge. In other compartments, you can put perfume products, a rolled-up tie or belt, bottles of elite alcohol. The choice of filling can be individual, taking into account the interests of the recipient of the gift.

• Composition with fruits. For these purposes, only those fruits that are easily planted on skewers are well suited - strawberries of medium ripeness, cherries, grapes, small apples, tangerines. Flowers are selected as large as possible, according to the season - peonies, sunflowers, roses with voluminous buds.

• Citrus bouquet with a bottle of olive oil or balsamic vinegar. For it, a wooden box is used as a base. Instead of a floral sponge, a polystyrene hemisphere is used. A glass bottle is placed in the center of the composition, tangerines, oranges, limes on skewers are attached around it - whole or in halves, framed by lemon leaves.

Gastronomic bouquets are a real fashion trend. Making a meat composition with your own hands is also quite easy, just choose the appropriate ingredients for it. Dry or semi-smoked sausages, meat delicacies in vacuum packaging or foil are suitable.And also the composition will be perfectly complemented by spices and cheeses, especially in the form of braids or small heads. Fresh baguette or pretzel, herbs and berries, nuts will diversify the composition.

Small details of the bouquet - hot pepper pods, heads of pickled garlic - are attached on skewers. The rest is wrapped in craft paper, tied with a linen rope or bow. It is better to place such a composition in a wooden chest or stand, box. You can use a basket or a floristic box, having previously lined it from the inside with cling film.

Here is a simple bouquet of meat products.

1. Prepare ingredients. Raw smoked sausage in sticks, red hot peppers in pods, hunting sausages, boiled quail eggs, olives and cheese in balls, ham and herbs. Large potato tuber, wooden skewers and craft or wrapping paper will also be useful.
2. Plant all products. They are pricked on skewers so that they are held firmly.
3. Stick the resulting blanks into the potato tuber. He will act as the foundation. Spreading skewers are fixed with adhesive tape.
4. Wrap the bouquet with craft paper. Place it in the box, filling in the voids on the sides.

You will learn how to correctly make a bouquet in a box with your own hands by watching the following video.