MOM Tip: Instead of buying expensive Valentines gifts try making your own such as these Chocolate Kiss Roses.
Supplies Needed:
Red & Green Cellophane
Floral wire, 20 Gauge, 18 inch long
Floral Tape
Chocolate Candy Kisses
Instructions:
- First cut your red cellophane into 4x4inch squares.
- Fold your wire in half leaving a bit of a circle in the end.
- Put two chocolate kisses back to back.
- Place the tip of one of the kisses into the center of the red cellophane and wrap it around both kisses.
- Place the rounded end of the wire inside next to the kiss on the the bottom.
- Twist the red cellophane around the kisses and the wire. Use the floral tape to secure the cellophane to the wire, starting at the tip of the bottom Chocolate kiss.
- Wrap the floral tape all the way down the wire.
- Next, cut a 2×4 inch piece of green cellophane.
- Fold it in half horizontally first, then vertically.
- This is going to be the leaf.
- Place the open end of leaf about 1 1/2 inches below the rose. The folded end should be up by the rose.
- Use your floral tape to secure the leaf to the stem.
- Rip off tape about and inch below the leaf.
- Add a little character to your rose by curling the end of the stem around your finger.
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