Valentine’s Day 2023: How to make floral arrangements or bouquets at home, easy to make and cheap

Flowers are a staple of the Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re gifting your significant other a beautiful bouquet of red roses or opting for a freshly picked bouquet from the garden, flowers are always on point on this date.

if you think that You are no longer in time to order an elegant bouquet for this Day of love and friendship for your beloved or beloved, do not worry. Multiple professional florists who display their work on social media agree that there are many ways that a simple bouquet of flowers bought at the supermarket at the last minute they can become a vibrant exhibition and above all worthy of sighs.

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Tips for putting together impressive bouquets of roses

• Choose the color first. A color theme will ensure that the flowers complement each other to create a beautiful and cohesive piece. Choose colors that are similar or monochromatic for a more subdued look, or try contrasting colors for a vibrant look.
• Organize your flowers into three categories. In the world of floral arrangements there are three types of flowers: those of charm or suspense (thriller), taller and are often used in the center of the design, such as roses, orchids, sunflowers; the fillers (fillers), is the green component of the bouquet, plants, leaves, add texture, such as daisies, baby’s breath, geraniums; and the shedders, as their name indicates, are the flowers that fall in a cascade or to the sides, such as begonia, ivy, vines.
• If you don’t want to complicate, just choose to work with the thrillers. Other impact flowers are lilies, bromeliads, carnations, chrysanthemums.
• Check what flowers are in season before you start shopping. With this you can support local flower merchants who source their flowers locally. A good place to start is with flowers that bloom year-round, like hydrangeas, and build your bouquet from there.

• Before preparing your bouquet or arrangement, remove the leaves and thorns from the flowers. Especially if you’re working with roses, be sure to cut off any sharp thorns. Use your hands or a pair of scissors to remove any remaining foliage from the stems of your plants.
• Have supplies other than flowers on hand, such as scissors (preferably new, so they are sharp), string, cellophane, paper tape, thick brown paper or cellophane. If you prefer to make an arrangement instead of a bouquet, you will need floral foam, partition or green foam brick, which must be previously hydrated (when the block changes color it is fully hydrated).

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Examples of easy-to-make bouquets and arrangements

In the long and wide world of pinterest, tutorials are the order of the day. We made a selection of bouquets and arrangements with the least number of materials and steps so that you can put together an easy and at the same time beautiful detail.

For this box of roses you need a set of roses, floral foam, cellophane paper, and a thick box with a lid, shaped to your liking.

You must cover the bottom and top of the box with cellophane. Secure with tape. The lid should fit under the box.

Next, cut the floral block with a knife, obtaining pieces that can be inserted completely covering the interior of the box.

Cut the stems of the roses so that they are the same size, slightly taller than the box. Finally, nail each thing in the green foam. There should not be any exposed holes.

You can complement this floral box with a decorative ribbon that wraps around the box and ends in a bow, like this video below.

• Flowers and sweets, a great combination

The boxes with roses level up if we add candies or chocolates. Like the previous tutorial, we are going to use the same materials, plus chocolates of your choice and straws that you will have cut at the height of the flower stems, so that they maintain the same heights. We follow the same steps, except that in this arrangement the green block will not be wet, but dry. Instead of filling the entire flower box, you’ll leave the inner center empty for the treats.

With a hot glue gun, glue the base of the sweets to the tip of the straws. Nail them in the center of the box, symmetrically, and they will be a pleasant surprise. Other arrangements also place the flowers on one side and the sweets on the other end. That already depends on your creativity and imagination.

Putting together a bouquet may seem like the most challenging activity. The wrap always looks neat and perfect. Let’s start with this mini-bouquet below just to understand the arrangement of the flowers and the paper. It can be brown office paper, or tissue paper of any color. If you use tissue paper, remember to use double sheets so that the bouquet is more resistant.

The paper that you are going to use must be cut into a rectangle much larger than your bouquet and place it on a table vertically, that is, from the narrowest part. Place the bouquet in one of the upper corners and wrap it around one side, then the other.

Finally, you raise the lower point towards the bouquet and secure it with adhesive tape. You can surround your bouquet with a decorative ribbon or rope, which also gives it more support while making it more striking.

Once you’ve mastered this mini-bouquet, do you dare to make a bigger bouquet? How about trying more than one sheet of paper? (AND)