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Flowers Make The Perfect Present – Literally!

I know from experience that flowers are a great gift to give to anyone. Flowers are usually unexpected and unfortunately not something that we usually buy for ourselves. Flowers also make people feel good.

The next time you run into an occasion where you need to give a gift, why not make it a real surprise and give a present that is made out of flowers. It’s simple, fun and will bring a smile to anyone’s face.

Fresh Flower Present

Step-by-Step Directions:

Fresh Flower Present

Glue a piece of floral foam to a plastic tray or liner and thoroughly soak the foam.

Fresh Flower Present

Stems of button poms have multiple blossoms on them. Cut the individual flowers from the main stem leaving about 2” of the stem on each bloom. Insert the button poms directly into the foam so that the flower is just touching the floral foam. Continue until you have covered the entire piece of foam creating the “present”.

Fresh Flower Present

Tape a piece of ribbon to the bottom of the plastic tray/liner. Make a bow with the same ribbon and attach to the center of the present using a pearl head straight pin.

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Comment from Gulden
Time Jan 07, 2009 at 11:13 am

Hi Julie,
I love your designs and I really appreciate that you share your designs with us in your blog. I have a blog about flowers too and I included the picture of this design to my post giving your link. I hope it’s OK. Please let me know if there is problem and I’ll remove the picture right away.
Here is the link:
http://everyday-flowers.blogspot.com/2009/01/biedermeier-design.html
Please continue to inspire us with your designs.
Thank you
Gulden

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