Easy Chocolate Bouquet! :)

Everyone loves chocolates!! Lets make a bouquet of one today :)

You can either make just one chocolate flower or a complete bouquet!

Material:

• Assorted colors rice papers (recommended: White, green, yellow, pink). You can get either sheets or get ready cut squares of about 6 inch size. If you find it difficult to find rice paper, you can use kite paper or any paper translucent enough to give that "flowery" look :)
• Wrapping transparent plastic sheet
• Plain skewer stick - 12 inch , about 20 pieces
• Decorative satin ribbon
• Quilling paper strips, about 2 to 3 strips
  
• ... and of course, chocolate! Shown here is Ferrero Rocher Dark Chocolates.

Tools:

• Transparent sticking tape
• White PVA glue (not shown in the photo)
• Steel ruler
• Paper cutter*
• Scissors*

*Note: Please use sharp tools carefully. They can cause injury if not used properly!

This step is optional if you get ready made square rice papers.

Make as many squares, as many "flowers" you wish to have in your bouquet.

1. On your sheet of rice paper, mark off 6 inches (about 15 cm) squares using pencil and ruler.

2. Using the paper cutter (or scissors) carefully cut off the squares of rice papers. I personally prefer the ruler and cutter method because it gives straight cuts in relatively short time.

3. Repeat the procedure for each of the sheets.

Carefully pick up the chocolate and place it in the center of the transparent plastic wrapping paper

Using your fingers, wrap the transparent plastic wrapping paper around the chocolate.

Hold the skewer stick in the center and wrap the plastic sheet around it

Wrap a piece of sticking tape such that the plastic sheet and stick are held together.

Take the sheet of pink rice paper, and fold it about 3rd of its length as shown

Pick up the assembly of chocolate-on-a-stick and wrap the pink paper folded in the previous step. Do it such that it forms a sort of cone.

When you are satisfied, stick the paper so that it is secured.

Similarly, take the white paper and wrap it around the previous pink layer.

Once you stick, let the glue dry

Make another chocolate flower using same method :)

Pick up a bunch of the flowers and hold firmly in your hand

Bunch together the flowers so that they have varying colors.

Using transparent sticking tape, stick the bunch together. Apply sufficient tape so that it holds all the flowers together!

TIP: If you feel that too many flowers are difficult to handle at once, tape 2 or 3 of them together. Keep on adding more till all the flowers are taped together.

Once your bunch is ready, apply some more tape at the bottom to secure all the flowers together.

Take the pink wrapping paper and cut a square of about 30 inches from it

Roll the paper around into a cone as shown and stick any two adjacent edges

Once the glue is dry, the wrapping cone is ready!

Insert the bouquet in the wrap prepared and paste it.

Take the green rice paper square and fold it at about 3rds as shown

Fold the paper into thirds so as to make kite shaped leaves.

You dont have to be very careful here. Aim at making the tips of the leaves stick out.

Stick the leaves you made in the previous steps inside the wrapping paper cone.

You can stick the leaves to bouquet, but the leaves wrinkle if when inserting the bouquet into the cone.

Complete the circle of leaves.

Insert the bunch of flowers into the wrapping paper inlaid with leaves.

Take two pieces of quilling strips, each of about 10 inch long.

Wrap the quilling strip on a pen refill loosely

You can make a simple bow, shown in this instructable, to decorate the bouquet.

Paste the quilling strips festoons in between the flowers to complete the boquet

Gift it to your friend :)