If you are preparing for the holiday and do not know what to give the perpetrator of the celebration, one of the options - a bouquet of fresh strawberries made by their own hands, which can be appointed original. Your attention is offered a step-by-step instruction of creating beautiful and delicious compositions from berries, supplemented with flowers, candy and other sweets.
Idea with flowers
If you want to make a bouquet of strawberries yourself, instructions for beginners will help you. Solving the task is step by step. First of all, any flowers such as roses, chamomile or asters will be needed for work. And also need to be stocking with green twigs or decorative plants that fleerists are often used in their compositions. Prepare wrapping paper, stationery, tape and wooden spanks.
Choose solid and holistic berries, it is easier to work with them, besides, they are not so quickly spoiled. Wash the strawberry without removing the tails, and lay out on the fabric to dry.
To create a bouquet every berry, stripped on the ships, while do it carefully, without deepening. Make sure the strawberry is fixed, and shrinking with floral stems of the same length. Let the buds and berries in size be the same.
Next, you need to collect workpieces in the bundle and gently pull the rubber band.
Place the flowers along the radius, look around the bouquet of decorative greens, fixing the rubber band. At the final stage, it is enough to wrap everything with paper, and tie a ribbon. For a beautiful composition, there are enough about 15 beautiful large berries and the same color buds. The amount of greenery depends on personal wishes, as it refreshes the bouquet. If you chose roses as colors, then you should not use more than 5-7, because they are large. As for the greenery, you need to clarify in advance, whether it is not poisoned to not harm.
Plants can be replaced by a bunch of fresh mint, which is sold in any supermarket, besides, the fragrance will become the perfect addition.
If desired, the composition can be issued as a heart or in a different form. To do this, you will need a cardboard from which the box is cut. Bouquets for adults sometimes "start" the rum using a syringe with alcohol, which gives piquancy to berries, besides, the alcohol prolongs the shelf life.
Strawberry composition with candy
A strawberry bouquet will look richer if you add it to candy. To do this, you will need various sweets, mint twig, the same spanks and wrapping paper. It is necessary to plant berries and candies in the same way, while it is important to maintain the same length of the sticks. Choose not too juicy strawberries, as the juice makes it soft . The tips of the swipes are recommended to fix the usual tape. In the center of the composition you can put three candies, then alternate berries with sweets rows, or to fantasize to get the original result.
To refresh your creation, use mint leaves - the greens will add harmony and diversify it.
Of course, do not do without wrapping paper and beautiful tape.
Other options
There are many ways to create fruit bouquets that can become an excellent gift for both men and women. Yes, and children will also like this surprise. You can prevent them in different ways, it all depends on the fantasy and the desire to create with your own hands.In chocolate
You can arrange strawberries with the help of glaze, which not only allows you to make berries even more beautiful and tasty, but also will prolong the shelf life. Strawberry decorate sweet, black and white chocolate, and it looks very appetizing. Of course, you need to know the secret of cooking delicious glaze. It will take a tile of high-quality chocolate, which melts on a water bath. About 40 g of butter and slightly milk is added to the container. The first ingredient will make mastic glossy, and the second will increase the viscosity and reduce calorie, which, of course, is an advantage.
If you want a bouquet to look multicolored, take a white tile of chocolate for cooking sweets, melt it and burst into two containers. First enter the milk and add the food dye of the desired shade. Further, berries are planted on the skewers and alternately gently descend into the white chocolate glaze, and then into the glaze of another color.
Dessert can be wondering how to make a sprinkle that is easy to find in any confectionery store. So that chocolate froze, send strawberries in the freezer for a few minutes, after which you can take a bouquet collection.
In sugar glaze
This option may also come in handy if you want a variety. For the preparation of sweets you need 4 tablespoons of water and a glass of sugar powder. If viscosity is not enough, adjust it. The mixture must be warm up, while stirring constantly, follow the temperature (+40 degrees Celsius). Such a fudge can also be made color, choosing a dye, and add flavoring for taste.
If you want to fix the bouquet in the box, make the basis of the plastic salty test, where the skewers will easily stick together and is well fixed. Design is recommended to strengthen with wire.
You can decorate a sweet or chocolate with coconut chips, crushed nuts or pastry décor. It looks not just appetizing, but original and aesthetic. It is imperative to give a basis to frozen before collecting a full-fledged composition. To make the taste more piquant, sometimes berries keen in a brandy or Roma about 10 minutes, then sprinkled with a powder, and already after dipped into melted chocolate.
With Zephyrir
This is another stunning option that you like as a child and an adult, also looks like such a composition magically. Cooking a gift does not take much time, and the result will please anyone. For the composition there are about 15 large strawberries, skewers, marshmallows in the amount of how large you want to make a bouquet, floristic foam, wrapping paper and tools.
You can say with confidence that this is a vitamin gift. Take advantage of gloves so that sweets do not stick to fingers.
Strawberries are preparing according to the standard plan: Melt the chocolate on a water bath, put on the berry on the skewer and dip in it, then put in the refrigerator for a few minutes so that the fondant froze, and the fruit flower was kept tight. Marshmallows Squeeze on sticks, after which you can start forming a bouquet using a floristic foam by inserting skewers into it. In the center it is better to have sweets, they will look spectacularly, and already around the berries themselves. The foam is easily cut by a stationery knife, so you can remove unnecessary without difficulty.
At the finish stage, the bouquet turns into paper and fastened with a ribbon.
In the basket
The decorative basket will look amazing if it is filled with berries, flowers and candies. You can make such a workpiece yourself, it is enough to purchase the capacity of any shape, and then proceed to action. Cut the foam on the form of the bottom of the basket, then install it there and secure bilateral scotch.
After that, spend already described manipulations with flowers, sweets and berries themselves, then stick the stems are basically so tight so that the bottom is not visible.
Flowers from strawberries
Berries may not need to be integers, they can be used to create roses, it will not take a long time, but you need to act neatly. Squeeze on the skeleton and put in a tall glass, the green root is better left. Use a sharp knife to make three cuts around the edges, after that, inside the berries, make as many cuts so that the sections are formed.
The pulp must be carefully beaten and sprinkled with powder or sugar. If the berries are large, you can increase the number of sections.
Useful recommendations
In order for the result to justify the expectations, the beginners should do everything carefully, listening to the recommendations of the specialists.
Do not forget that berries should be dense and solid, do not choose too juicy strawberries, it sweeps much faster. If you are going to take a bouquet far, you need to make sure that it will endure the trip. You will help gelatin who need to cover each berry. In addition, this ingredient will not only retain strawberries, but also sues juice, give brightness, and also add gloss.
For this, gelatin is bred according to the instructions indicated on the package . After cooling the berries, you can either dip, or use a delicate bruster, so that it is gently apply a liquid. This option is especially relevant in cases where you are going to make a bouquet of sliced strawberries. It should be borne in mind that gelatin is not suitable for raw foods, vegans and vegetarians, so check in advance to find the desired ingredients. As a coating, you can use neutral glaze, which is called "Cold Glitter".
If you are going to make a bouquet of chocolate strawberries, leave ice water in the container, which will quickly cool the berries after warm soft chocolate. Only 20 seconds, and sweetness will freeze, the excessive moisture can be blocked with a napkin or a towel.
Experienced "florists" sometimes fasten the grape on a skeleton, and already pierced strawberries, so it is better fixed.
The berry bouquet will look more spectacular if you build a hat box, and build the ingredients to the hill to create a beautiful composition.
During the fastening of the swipes, it is important to find a bundle point to which the tape will be sweeping. Newbies do not always cope with the task of the first time, depending on the components of the composition, you need to take into account the width of the adhesive tape and the level of tension. For berry bouquets, it is better to use narrow tape for berries so that the berries do not get marked and fluttered from sticks. If you are going to make one big composition or somewhat immediately, we will need a lot of ribbon, it will take it a lot.
Design of a bouquet is a responsible task. Food florists are recommended to wrap in wrapping paper not immediately, but for a start to use a transparent film so that the juice does not spoil the packaging. There are many wrapping materials in stores that will enable the composition and make it original.
It should be noted that strawberries are beautifully combined with other berries, so you can use blackberry and blueberries that are easy to plant shockles. Similar bouquets are often presented with the ring on the engagement, and also suit for the birthday and simply as a pleasant surprise. Using this instruction at least once, you can create compositions from fruits, colors and candies yourself, showing all your fantasy. Successes!
How to make a bouquet of strawberries, look in the video.