How often do we, spoiled by the abundance of goods,have to rack your brains over the choice of a gift. And more and more often we opt for a modest envelope, attached to a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. And although the rules of etiquette do not welcome such offerings, often an envelope with money becomes the only possible compromise. But it must be said that many people prefer to receive money as a gift, and then happily spend it at their own discretion. And if you are going to give someone a gift in the form of money, then do not rush to buy an envelope, but rather stock up on new crisp bills of different denominations, the amount of which should be equal to the amount of your cash gift. Because you and I will make a festive bouquet of money. And we will make the flowers for this bouquet with our own hands from banknotes. In a word, an original gift, made with your own hands, but at the same time universal. You can give a money bouquet for a wedding or an anniversary, and you can make it in rubles or foreign currency. So, let's stock up on the necessary materials and start making another handmade masterpiece with our own hands.
Materials
Roses are universal flowers.And thanks to their special structure and shape of petals, it is roses that needlewomen try to reproduce, creating artificial flowers with their own hands. Roses are made of fabric, plastic, paper. And we will make roses from banknotes. By the way, this method of making flowers from money with your own hands is considered the most gentle: the banknotes remain almost uncrumpled. For such a bouquet, we will need the following materials:
- money bills (the newer and denser, the better);
- cork (real cork) from wine bottles or foam;
- toothpick or thin needle;
- gum for money (bank gum);
- wire for stems or artificial flowers on stems;
- floristic tape or color paper for masking the wire;
- ribbons, braid and other decorations for decorating a bouquet.
It must be said that it is equally successful to doMoney flowers can be made from ruble bills or from the money of any other countries. By the way, to make a souvenir money tree, it is not necessary to use real banknotes: you can make color photocopies of them. And for a money gift, try not to use dirty and wrinkled bills; as a last resort, try to clean and iron them. Just remember that moisture deforms the paper, and such money will easily be “rejected” by an ATM.
Manufacturing
We will attach the flowers to the corks thatwill become their base. Therefore, on each cork we will cut out a couple of encircling steps (tiers), which will fix the rubber bands. And now we will start making the petals. Take a banknote and fold it in half (with the short sides facing each other). Now, using a toothpick or a thin knitting needle, twist all four corners of the banknote: put the toothpick on the corner and roll the paper wrapped around it with your hand. Note that the "curls" should look outward, in the opposite directions from the fold. Now take a rubber ring and thread the folded banknote through it, as if hanging a sheet on a rope. In this case, the money should lie with the fold on the rubber band. Then put the rubber band on the cork and twist it around the upper tier in several turns. Do the same with the second banknote, which we also place on the upper step. As a result, we will get a "bud" (the center of our future rose), the petals of which look with convex sides in opposite directions. Then we repeat the whole process with two more bills, which we screw with an elastic band to the second tier. These petals should partially cover the first ones and be located perpendicular to them. That is, like a real rose: each lower pair of petals in a checkerboard pattern overlaps the upper ones. The more tiers we make on the cork and the more paired petals we place on the rose, the more magnificent the flowers will be. But usually two or three pairs of petals are enough for one rose. Now we need to make a stem. To do this, tightly wrap the wire with floral tape or corrugated green paper and "plant" the flower head on it, sticking the wire into the cork. If desired, you can supplement the stem with leaves made of the same corrugated paper. And if we use ready-made artificial flowers, then we simply remove their heads and plant handmade roses from money in their place. Then all that remains is to assemble the bouquet and decorate it to your taste.
Making a bouquet
Here you have two options.Firstly, you can make a bouquet exclusively of money flowers. However, in this case, either your bouquet will be too thin, or the gift will be too generous. Therefore, compromise: make a mixed bouquet. This will be the second version of the bouquet. In such a bouquet, you can combine fresh and money flowers, or make it from money roses and candies packaged like flowers. That is, combine a sweet bouquet of candies and a bouquet of money into one whole. The second option is even preferable, because the moisture of fresh flowers can not only spoil the appearance of money roses, but also deform banknotes. To decorate the bouquet, use gift paper or foil, floral mesh, corrugated paper or lace. Ribbons, beads and other decorations for bouquets are suitable for these purposes. Actually, the design of the bouquet itself should follow the usual rules of floristry. And the fact that instead of fresh flowers there will be money roses is the main surprise. You can also put the flowers in a basket. In this case, it is supplemented with sweets in beautiful wrappers or a bottle of good wine (whiskey, cognac, liqueur) is put there. However, sweets and alcohol are not the only possible addition to the basket. Depending on the preferences of the recipient, the basket can be supplemented with: a box of tea, a can of coffee, a set of spices, a bath set, a soft toy and other pleasant little things. Go for it! And you will succeed. We recommend reading:
