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First up is a sucker bouquet, made for a first grade teacher. The flowers were printed on the computer, laminated, and cut out. I cut out the faces from photos, using a circle cutter, and glued them to the flowers. Hiding behind each flower is a sucker. I used a recycled small coffee can for the base.

Second up is a candy bouquet that I made for my sons’ karate instructors. It was part of their birthday karate party when they were 7 years old. (That’s a whole ‘nother post full of birthday ideas… will get to that later). 

The base is a recycled can wrapped in white fabric and tied with a black felt belt. The candy consists of mini hershey bars wrapped in karate themed wrappers, as well as some suckers with karate clip art in front. Green cellophane is sprinkled in for color.

 Have you made any candy bouquets? Please feel free to share:)

(Reprinted with permission from http://ediblecraftsonline.com) Note: This craft project is only for your personal use. It is copyrighted. 

Materials used: a flowerpot, Dubble Bubble Gum, blue cellophane, polka dot cellophane, floral foam, blue plastic grass or blue shredded paper, stem wire (16 or 18 ga), yellow curling ribbon, scotch tape, glue dots, and tools (scissors, serrated knife, and wire cutters). 

Step 1. Take a flowerpot. It can be any flowerpot you like. I chose a yellow and blue ceramic flowerpot (5.5” in diameter), because it goes well with the yellow and blue wrappers of the bubble gum pieces.

Step 2. Cut the floral foam to the proper size so it will fit tightly in the flowerpot. Cut a piece of blue cellophane, and then put the piece of floral foam in the middle of this cellophane piece. Gather the cellophane up around the foam and insert it in the pot. The foam should be about 1” lower than the edge of the pot.
Step 3. Cover the foam with blue plastic decorative grass or shredded blue paper.
Step 4. Make several bubble gum flowers. a) Take stem wire (16 or 18 ga) or bamboo skeweres, Dubble Bubble gum pieces, floral tape, scissors, and wire cutters.
b) Join 3 bubble gum pieces to each stem using green floral tape. First join a piece of candy to the end of the wire/bamboo skewer. One or two inches down the wire or skewer attach the second piece of candy. Go down another one or two inches and attach the third piece of candy on the opposite end of the second one.If you use a bamboo skewer, wrap the rest of the skewer with floral tape so it is completely green. With green stem wire it is not necessary.I made 10 bubble gum flowers. Three of them are taller than the others; they will be placed at the back of the bouquet.
Step 5. Wrap the bubble gum flowers in cellophane.a) Cut a square piece of polka dot cellophane. In my case I used 7” x 7” pieces. b) Carefully poke the bubble gum stem through the center of a cellophane piece, or fold the cellophane square in half and fold it in half again across the first fold and cut the tip off the corner. You will end up with a small hole in the center of your unfolded cellophane piece. c) Pull the cellophane into a cone shape it should be just beneath the bubble gum pieces and tie it with a piece of yellow curling ribbon. Fluff the cellophane out. Decorate all of the bubble gum flowers this way.
Step 6. Insert the bubble gum flowers into the pot. The tallest flowers go in the back. Arrange the flowers in a way you find attractive.
Step 7. You may want to add additional pieces of blue cellophane into the arrangement (in the back, in the middle, etc.) to create a fuller bouquet using floral picks. Take cellophane and cut rectangular pieces. Take one of the rectangles and loosely fold it in half the short way and then in half the long way. Take a green floral pick, put about 1/2″ of the closed corner of the cello piece against the blunt end of the pick, and wrap the wire tightly around it. Fluff the cellophane out. Now the cello or tissue paper piece is ready to be inserted into the floral foam.

Your bubble gum bouquet is ready!

If you want to quickly and easily learn how to make candy bouquets either to start your own business or just to be able to make amazing memorable gifts for any occasion, check out my valuable “illustrated” step-by-step guide “How to make beautiful candy bouquets for fun and profit” or “Candy bouquet designs”.

Lana Glass
Founder of the Site “Incredible Edible Crafts”

And it is featured this month in Ty Pennington’s AT HOME magazine! Momma is proud. Click on the picture to read all about it. The article is about how to have a perfect picnic.

The first page shows an assortment of picnic items (including a plastic pitcher and tumblers) totalling $609. The second page shows a very similar assortment (including Bentley Drinkware Tumblers and Pitcher) that totals $181. And since the Bentley Boutique price of the pitcher and tumblers are even less than the magazine states, you can change that total to $172.

You’re missing out on a treat if you’ve never tried Bentley Drinkware. Of course I’m not biased. Colorful, durable, practical, with or without monograms or college logos. Check it out.

Maybe I should have a Bentley Drinkware giveaway??? What do you think?

It’s with sadness that I must say goodbye to Nathan’s jungle room and Joseph’s space room. My almost 14 year old boys have outgrown their cute little rooms, designed by mom.

I have really been putting this off… the thought of painting over my masterpieces is just too much! Or maybe it’s the thought of painting over their youth… maybe I’m thinking they won’t grow up if I ignore their rooms! Maybe I’m not ready for these teen years to be here!!! Maybe I just need to paint the rooms and shut-up!

But before I do, I present to you, in living color, their little boy rooms. Ta da!!!

Now for the secret…. I’m not an artist. But I can be crafty. You too, can have rooms like these if you cheat a little. Just find some clip art, a projector, and of course paint, and you’re good to go.

The main jungle room graphics were on a giftbag from our local zoo! I just projected it on the wall and traced. The other clipart came mostly from the web, I think. I freehanded the trees and leaves, and sponged the background.

For the space room, I started by drawing the landscape. Again, I just used various clip art and projected it on the wall. I painted the sky dark blue, and used various star shaped sponges to paint the stars. I used glow-in-the-dark paint for the stars, and for the alien’s eyes!

Notice that one of the astronauts has a rather human-looking face. That’s because I printed my son’s face on thin tracing paper (using a regular printer). Then I cut it out and decoupaged it to the wall. I’m gonna miss that little face!

So please join me in saying farewell to the little boy rooms, and hello to new teen rooms! I’ve sure many of you have gone through this as well. I think the aliens on the wall must have became real, stold my babies, and replaced them with teenagers!