In relations, attention is extremely important, especiallyfor girls. Therefore, they are so fond of gifts accidentally, albeit small, and completely trivial. And, of course, a much larger turn takes intrigue on holidays. Whether it's her birthday, Valentine's Day or Christmas, the girl always wants to feel special and stay in the spotlight. And no matter how beautiful the gifts from the shops, what was done by oneself, with your zeal and the feelings enclosed in it, is much more valuable. Therefore, in this article, you will be able to learn how to make a bunch of bears or any other small toys with your own hands.
Combination of colors and materials
To get started, you should review thematerials will be needed for such a surprise. Firstly, these are toys themselves. You can choose the same, a small size, or you can combine different with each other. However, it should be remembered that they should not stand out too much, that is, be neutral colors: white, beige, gray or pastel shades, perhaps with small color accents. For example, you can make a bouquet of white teddy bears with pink skirts. This is necessary, as we will decorate the bouquet with bright shiny paper, feathers, foil and other materials, which when combined with the same catchy toys will look stupid and tasteless. Therefore, it is better to either think ahead of a combination of colors in a bouquet, or stock up a large number and assortment of packaging paper and decor elements.
Other materials and subtleties of ideas
There is already a matter of your imagination, and therefore you can findand prepare for work artificial flowers, sweets such as "Truffle" or "Ferrero roscher", ribbons, organza or mesh, feathers, beads, etc. Also, to make bouquets of bears, you will need a metal wire (preferably floristic) for fastening toys and a common frame (more on this later). But from the tools for work we will need: a strong scissors, a stapler, an adhesive tape, an adhesive gun, a packet of dense polyethylene, wire cutters. To choose the general idea of a bouquet, you need to think whether it will be disassembled. For example, if your girlfriend's family has children, or she herself loves toys, then in the process of work you will need to try not to spoil them with wire or glue. If you know for sure that your bouquets of bears will not be dismantled, then you can work more sloppily inside and even put toys on wooden skewers.
We make the basis
For the frame, you can make two basic options. Firstly, it can be a basket filled with mounting foam (such bouquets of bears look very nice). And secondly, for the base, you can cut out a large cone from the foam and stick it with adhesive tape or attach it with a stapler to a tube length of 35-45 cm. It can be plastic or even cardboard, but you need to take care that it is rather stiff and withstood the weight of the future bouquet . If you do not have polystyrene or you can not attach it to the tube, an alternate option is suitable: with paper wrap the tube in the form of a cone and glue it from below and wrap it with adhesive tape, and fill the resulting cavity with a mounting foam.
Getting Started
As a first option, a bouquet was selected fromTeddy bears in the form of a basket. So, fill it with cavity mounting foam or cut out the shape of the foam, which coincides with the outline of the bottom. Now we prepare 11 bears: we cut out from pink and green packing felt, and also from the golden grid the same squares with a side of 10-15 cm. Now on the wooden sash we "plant" the toy in the area of the tail, and then 1 piece of mesh and 2 squares of felt one colors. We bend the wrapping paper and fix the shape with the stapler so that it wraps the bottom of the beak in the form of a cone with fluffy corners, this is called a "pound". Make it so that our bouquet of soft bears consisted of 6 on pink poundies and 5 on green, or vice versa, that is, we will alternate them.
We are preparing
Now we fix the toys to the bottom: Before piercing the skewer with foam, drip glue on it, and do not forget to place the teddy bears with muzzles to the outer edge of the basket. So it should hold about 11 pieces, first plant them around the periphery, and then fill the center. Now it only remains to fill empty spaces between toys and decorate the basket itself. The bouquets of bears are usually decorated with the same pretty decor elements, and so we make more pieces on the skewer of felt and mesh, only now empty, and also fix them with glue between toys. At the end of the process, attach the ribbon to the handle of the basket, or you can even pre-wrap it completely with an satin or gold ribbon and fasten it all with a stapler. And now our bouquet of Teddy bears in the basket is ready!
Sweet idea
To our gift was not only beautiful, but alsotasty, someone came up with decorating bouquets of bears wrapped in corrugated paper sweets to make them look like flowers. This is exactly what we are now realizing. So, we prepare the base: on the plastic tube we fix with foam tape a foam in the form of a cone, the top of which continues into a small cylinder, it needs to be inserted into the tube lumen for reliable fastening. You can also use hot glue. Now 7 identical beads are wrapped around the waist by wire, and its free ends are twisted together and directed downward. Thus, we can firmly "put" our toys on polystyrene foam. We prepare sweets: we will design them in the form of flowers, and they will need about 5 pieces.
Second phase
So, we cut the corrugated paper onsquares with a side of 15-20 cm, put candy in the center, wrap it with paper and tie it with a ribbon, the edges of which should be tucked for beauty. You can paste outside and paper petals, so they will look more like flowers. Now we turn to the formation of a common idea. Teddy bunches are very cute also with roses, which can be made from satin ribbons and used to decorate the gift. But if you do not know the technique of such creativity, you can do without them. To hide the wire on the back of the bears, we mask them with ribbons, tying them on the belly in the form of a bow. Now we pierce the foam with plastic, unfolding toys with muzzles to the outer edge of the basket and placing them in 2 rows. Between them we fasten sweets, and fill empty spaces with pound boxes of packing paper or rosettes of ribbons.
The final stage
Teddy Bear Bouquets made withlove, are very beautiful and original, so for their adornment, connect all your imagination. First, to disguise our gift from the outside, we wrap it with corrugated paper in two layers: firstly darker, and outside - lighter, around the periphery of the circumference, we fasten them together with clips, and fix it on the tube and foam with hot glue. In this case, to hide all the shortcomings of the bouquet, the paper should deviate from its edge by 8-10 cm, so you can turn it and form waves. Now similarly make out an organza or a floral net, and in the center of the tube we tie a ribbon in the form of a beautiful bow. Also on the periphery, you can lay a lace of organza in several layers or matching in color, feathers. And now our wonderful bouquet of soft tinsel is ready!
