You will need: -20 Stems of Natural or Silk flowers of choice -4 to 6 Stems of Natural or Artificial Ivy of choice -Scissors and 3 to 5 Rubber bands -Ribbon of choice, Bouquet Jewelry and Pearl headed pins Step #1 Handle The most important step is deciding how long you want your bouquet handle to be. I will be making mine at 5 inches or 12.8 cm, BUT will be cutting my flowers and ivy at about 6 inches just to be sure. Step #2 Ivy Start buy cutting off extra length on Ivy Steams. Arrange them in your hand so they make a dome shape. This will be the basic shape of the bouquet. Secure the Ivy bouquet with rubber bands and place it aside. Step #3 Flowers & Bouquet Jewelry -Cut the flowers steams of the same size of your Ivy Steams and brake or cut off any leaves that protrude under your hand. Hold your Ivy bouquet and takeout rubber bands and start introducing flowers in and around the ivy by keeping the dome shape to the bouquet. Double check the shape once ALL flowers are added, insert jewelry into bouquet. Once you have desired shape. Hold together with rubber bands, making sure not to lose the shape. Step #4 Ribbon -There are several ways to tie the ribbon and highlight your Bouquet handle. Today I will be showing you a simple way. Take out the rubber band and hold the bouquet firmly but gently, an extra set of hands may come in handy but solo is fine! I never cut my ribbon because I don’t know how much I will be using! Wrap the bundle of stems with the tip of the ribbon …

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