Gift Wrapped Arrangement

It looks like a beautiful package with a bow, but it’s simply roses lined up in an acryic picture frame. This stunning arrangement would make a striking centerpiece, or a unique hostess gift for holiday parties. Sure beats fruitcake.

What you’ll need:

An acrylic box picture frame
Red metallic tissue paper
Floral foam
Ribbon
Roses

• You can buy an acrylic picture frame in many sizes. The one in this demonstration is 8 1/2 x 11, but even a 4 x 6 frame would make a nice arrangement, and you would need fewer roses.

• I recommend red metallic tissue paper because it will come in contact with wet floral foam. Regular wrapping paper will get soggy. This metallic tissue is waterproof. (It’s similar to cellophane paper, but opaque. You’ll find it in the same section of the party/stationery store, though). Of course, you don’t have to wrap the acrylic frame in paper, but if you don’t, you will see the green floral foam through the plastic.

Wrap the outside of the acrylic picture frame in the red paper.

Cut pieces of floral foam to fit inside the picture frame. Dunk the floral foam in water, and put the foam back into the picture frame.

Starting at one corner and working left to right, insert roses into the floral foam straight up and down. The depth of the picture frame is only about an inch, so you’ll have to cut your stems shorter than that.

When you’ve filled the frame with roses, carefully drain the box frame of excess water. Then tie a ribbon around the entire arrangement. For a perfect bow, click here. You’re done, and now you will put FTD out of business.