How to decorate a basket with your own hands?

A basket with fresh flowers is a great gift that can be supplemented with sweets and champagne. This is a win-win option, especially if you don’t know the birthday boy’s preferences. A magnificent Easter basket decorated with delicate flowers and ribbons will create a festive mood in adults and children. A beautiful wedding basket in which rose petals are held will pleasantly surprise the bride and will be remembered for a long time. Decorating baskets is a very exciting experience, and even a layman can do it. And the result will awaken in you the desire to create further. So, how to decorate the basket with your own hands?

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What do you need?

You can buy a basket in any store of household utensils. They come in many forms, but the most common are baskets made of plastic, bamboo or fiber. You can make the base yourself from improvised materials, for example, weave from newspaper tubes.

Flowers for decoration can be artificial or alive - it all depends on the purpose of the presentation. Of course, if you want to give a woman a basket of flowers, it is better to use live ones. Just do not take fragile flowers, otherwise - in the process of decoration they can break or crumble.

Important! Wildflowers will look beautiful, and the most win-win option is, of course, roses.

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How to decorate a basket?

There are several ways to decorate the basket with your own hands:

• decorate only the pen;
• decorate only the edges;
• decorate the rim;
• make a transition from the rim to the handle;
• decorate the basket completely.

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Decoration handle, headband

In order to decorate the pen, we need wire and flowers.

Important! It is better to pick up a wire in tone of a basket or flowers.

Presentation master-class:

1. We tie the end of the wire to one of the sides of the handle.
2. We spread the flowers, gradually wrapping their stalk.
3. You can decorate the handle completely, you can stop somewhere in the middle.

Important! The bezel is decorated according to the same principle, using wire.

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Decoration with fresh flowers

To decorate the basket with your own hands, you will need a floral sponge, cellophane and a selection of living plants to your taste.

This is done as follows:

1. Soak a sponge in water for a while.
2. Cover the bottom of the basket with cellophane and put a wet sponge there.
3. Insert the pre-selected plants into the sponge, try to do it evenly, then the basket will be stable.

Important! In the composition, you can add crafts made of wood, greens, clothespins or hearts. In general, give vent to your imagination.

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Decoration with a bouquet of sweets

A basket decorated with a bouquet of flowers made of sweets will look very beautiful and everyone will surely like it:

1. Corrugated paper is best for making flowers. Make flowers out of it, and instead of a core, put a candy.
2. Fill the middle of the basket with live or artificial plants.

Important! To brighten up your composition, grab an organza of different colors and sew a basket around it.

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Creating a Fruit Basket

Amaze your friends by giving them a fruit basket. It is always pleasant to receive such a gift - it is not only tasty, beautiful, but also useful. This decor does not require special skills and abilities:

1. Just place the fruit nicely in the basket.
2. Some fruits are best cut and planted on skewers.
3. Complete the composition with chocolate and sweets, and you and your friends are in a good mood.

Important! You can make a tasty and edible filling not only from fruits, but also from muffins, pastries. Such a gift is relevant for any holiday and even without it.

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DIY wedding basket

For a beautiful wedding basket you will need:

• wire;
• thick rope;
• the cloth;
• synthetic winterizer;
• satin ribbons;
• beads;
• artificial flowers;
• round box.

Master class on creating the foundation:

1. First you need to make a handle, for this we bend the wire and glue the rope to it.
2. All this is tightly wrapped in satin ribbon.
3. From each end we leave a piece of free wire.
4. The base box can be taken ready-made, or glued from cardboard.
5. We attach the finished handle to the base. To do this, make holes on the sides and insert the left wire.
6. Clamp so that the handle holds well.
7. We lay out the bottom and walls of the basket with synthetic winterizer, and we sew on top with a cloth.
8. The atlas is best suited for this, with it the basket will look more elegant.

The basket is ready, proceed to the decor of the basket with your own hands:

1. We wind a string of beads on the handle.
2. The edge of the basket can be decorated with lace.
3. You can sew on it or just stick beads, rhinestones, artificial stones or pearls.
4. At the base of the handle we attach a large bow made of satin ribbons or artificial flowers.
5. The color of ribbons or flowers can be matched to the tone of the bride's dress, if it is not white.

Important! If you don’t have lace at hand, you can sew pieces of tulle or artificial flowers.

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How to decorate a wicker basket with your own hands?

To decorate the basket you will need 15 minutes of your precious time and some materials, namely:

• in fact, the wicker basket itself;
• ribbon with or without pompons;
• satin wide ribbon;
• scissors;
• flowers for decor;
• glue gun.

So, how to decorate the basket with ribbons and flowers?

Wrap the handle of the basket with tape:

1. Take the ribbon and wrap the basket handle in a spiral.
2. The beginning and end of the ribbon must be fixed with a glue gun.
3. For better fixing, glue can be attached in several more places.

Important! Flowers, ribbon and ribbon need to be selected so that they fit together. It is best if they are in the same color scheme.

Make a bow

We make a large beautiful bow out of satin ribbon and fasten it to one side of the handle.

We form a wreath:

1. First we form a wreath on the table.
2. When the composition is ready and thought out, we begin to fix one element on the handle of the basket.
3. Apply glue to the base of the flower, firmly press the flower to the handle and hold until silicone glue completely hardens.

That's all, the basket is ready! In it you can put Easter eggs, cakes or just muffins, sweets and chocolate.

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Are you convinced that making a decorative basket easier? Now for any festive event you can prepare yourself by making an original, unique decor that will emphasize a particular atmosphere of the holiday.