Making bouquets of Rafaello sweets

Candy is one of the most common gifts, and it can be presented both on a holiday or simply for no particular reason. To make this gift the most memorable, you should arrange it correctly. For example, collect an original basket or build an unusual bouquet. For these purposes, elegant sweets with the name "Rafaello" are most often chosen. You just have to choose the most original way to design them.

A bouquet of delicious Rafaello sweets will help you make an unexpected surprise for any woman or girl. At the same time, you can eat sweets, and the luxurious bouquet itself will serve as a decor for your home. First you need to purchase the sweets themselves. In addition, do not forget to stock up on predetermined materials and accessories - for each new bouquet you can choose different components, but you will always need:

• scissors;
• glue gun;
• transparent tape;
• foam base.

Most often, fluffy organza or floristic mesh, lavsan film or sisal, ready-made bag, craft or corrugated paper are used as a wrapping material. Additional materials can be ribbons and light fabric, beads and rhinestones, decorative or real berries, fresh flowers and miniature greeting cards, dried sprigs of plants or spikelets of cereals.

There is nothing special about making an ordinary sweet gift for any beginner.

• First, you need to fix all the available candies on the elongated skewers with transparent tape. You can use a special tape instead of adhesive tape, then the blank will look more like a delicate flower.
• Further, petals are attached to each candy. They can be completely different in color, size, texture.
• When the candy flowers are completely ready, they just need to be collected in a small bouquet. The skewers in the center are firmly rewound with tape, for the strength of the entire structure.
• Next, you can apply wrapping paper, colored cellophane, organza. The material will be much more beautiful and look more advantageous if you shift it in half, collect it in large waves and firmly attach it to the handle of a bouquet of sweets.
• In the center of the resulting structure beautifully decorated with a satin ribbon.

An unusual gift made of sweets like "Rafaello", assembled by your own hands on March 8, will allow you to please your beloved. And all you need to do is make a voluminous bouquet in the shape of the number "8" and decorate it with fresh flowers in an unusual way. Making "snow" sweets for the New Year is also an interesting option. You can safely include even not very large Christmas balls in such a bouquet arrangement. In order to prevent unnecessary variegation, you should pick up balls of the same color and size, but with different textures.

It is also quite possible to build a creative bouquet of sweets and real fruits, from small candies and berries with your own hands.

What must be present in the craft without fail:

• foam ball-base to form a "crown";
• a pin made of wood, an unnecessary spoon, or a metal rod (you can decorate them with ribbons, various shiny dusting, lush bows, colored rhinestones);
• any capacity, to play the role of a pot for a future tree (filled with live moss, stones of different sizes, bright coins, candies, large beads).

Step by step guide:

• the spherical base must be carefully pierced with the existing leg exactly to its middle;
• pour glue into this hole;
• put the leg in the ball, wait a little - let the glue dry well;
• we fill the pot with foam for installation or special gypsum;
• we install the stem-trunk in the pot, let the whole product dry;
• now you can decorate the crown to your liking, you can also decorate the pot additionally, and the tree is almost ready.

How to neatly decorate the crown with sweet candies? You can attach the existing candies with shortened toothpicks and hide their presence with rhinestones, or glue the candies with PVA glue. In order for the craft to look beautiful, even after almost all the candies have been removed from it, the base ball must be made in a color pleasing to the eyes so that it matches the entire composition.

A very pleasant surprise - a bouquet of delicate sweets, decorated with rustling and bright organza. You will need a lot of material for the construction of the craft - a piece 2 m long, or better immediately 3 m and a width of 1.5 m.Also useful:

• a sheet of cardboard (for the design of the frame) and a white sheet of paper (for creating petals);
• skewers (to create stems);
• sweets (from 15 to 20 pieces approximately);
• 2 types of adhesive tape (thinner and medium);
• beads and shiny ribbons for decoration;
• sharp scissors;
• PVA glue;
• a skein of thread.

Let's consider one of the simplest master classes on working on a luxurious wedding bouquet made of Rafaello sweets.

• First you need to create a solid base (from papier-mâché or foam) - it can turn out in any shape you need. One of the most popular is in the form of a hemisphere. Several shortened wooden skewers are stuck into it, fastened together with transparent tape - they will represent a handle for a flower bouquet. Carefully glue the base and its handle with a white sheet of paper and wrap it over the paper with an iridescent satin fabric. Next, we decorate the finished base with beads, rhinestones, sequins dusting.
• Now you can do the sweets themselves and start making flowers out of them.... Cut out petals from paper for delicate roses. For 1 rose, you will need to prepare: 2 wider leaves, 2 parts of 4 petals (they can be made from a rectangle by cutting out the leaves 2/3 of the width, the edges are rounded off) and 1 part of 5 large petals.
• Now is the time to create petals... The ones that are wider are stretched in the central part. In 4 petal elements, stretch to create wavy beautiful edges. And in elements with 5 petals, stretch more in the center and at the same time gently twist the edges.
• Now we begin to collect the flower itself. The Rafaello candy should be wrapped in 2 large petals - this is our bud. Blanks with 4 petals are wound around this bud, while the paper should be laid so that the petals necessarily overlap each other. We attach the detail with 5 petals so that the leaves lie one on top of the other at the beginning of the flower itself, while the edges of these petals should be carefully expanded.
• The finished product is screwed to a short toothpick with a thin wire. Now you can cut small leaves out of green paper and also attach them to a toothpick. In the same way, we create the rest of the roses, and you can collect our bouquet.
• All the resulting flowers should be carefully attached to the base, while evenly distributing them over its surface. The remaining gaps are filled with organza bows decorated with colored beads and gilded rhinestones. A wonderful surprise from delicate Rafaello sweets for a happy bride is completely ready.

Delicate crocuses made of corrugated paper are very easy to make even for a beginner and at home. Materials required for full-fledged work:

• round sweets;
• skewers;
• corrugated paper (you choose the tone depending on the colors of future crocuses);
• transparent tape;
• scissors;
• wire.

The process of creating a bouquet:

• First, you will need to cut strips from corrugated paper to create petals (length - 20 cm, width - 5 cm).
• We carefully twist each of the resulting strips in the middle and bend in half at the point of twisting.
• This is how a petal comes out, if we also clamp the paper at the bottom and straighten it inside.
• Next, the wrapped candy is fixed on a skewer, wrapped with wire.
• 4-5 ready-made petals are attached to the candy.
• The base of the flower and the skewer itself should be wrapped in green paper so that neither the wooden texture nor the skeins of wire are visible.
• We cut out small leaves from the same type of paper, glue them to the stem. Skewers with flowers are gathered together, fastened with tape and originally decorated with kraft paper.

Another common option for collecting a bouquet of sweets is this is decorating them in a decorated house (for example, made of cookies) or in an ordinary basket (or a beautiful box). How to create this craft:

• In order to create a bouquet, it will be necessary to purchase a certain amount of sweets, corrugated paper, skewers, transparent tape, thread, PVA glue. You can also pick up a wicker basket (or box) that is not too large in size and a foam base, which must be placed at the bottom.
• Cut rectangles from corrugated strips of paper, slightly larger in size than candies, and add another 3 cm. The blanks of the petals on each of the available sides will have to be rounded, slightly stretching them to the sides. You need to wrap the Rafaello sweets with petals to create a beautiful bud. Paper petals around the candy can be reinforced with PVA glue or fixed with a strong thread.
• Ready-made "flowers" with skewers are attached to the foam base laid on the bottom of the basket.

Another interesting idea is a pineapple-shaped bouquet of delicious Rafaello.

• You should take a bottle of delicious champagne and wrap it gently in shiny organza.
• You can start gluing Rafaello sweets from the bottom of the bottle, constantly moving in a spiral. Each subsequent row of candies will need to be glued, slightly moving the candies so that no gaps are formed between them.
• Candy must be glued to the very neck. On its upper part, you can fix sheets of dark green fabric or paper.
• After the candies run out, you can decorate the "pineapple" itself... You can use large beads, colored rhinestones, satin ribbons.

Making this kind of original present with your own hands is not so difficult. But they will remember him for a very long time, because this is far from a banal box of chocolates, but a whole craft. In addition, by choosing any of the design options above, you can also add real natural flowers to any bouquet - candies with roses, for example, a very good gift for your beloved woman or girl. Also today it has become very popular to decorate bouquets with small soft toys.

To learn how to make an airy bouquet of Rafaello sweets with your own hands, see the next video.