A gift card bouquet is seriously so easy and perfect for pretty much any occasion including Mother’s Day, birthdays, coach gift, teacher gift, graduation and Christmas! Here’s everything you’ll need to make your own.

So, this gift card bouquet happened to be for our preschool teacher. It is her very last year of teaching so all of the parents pitched in to get her something nice. In total, we got $350! Here’s how I made it.

Buy the gift cards

Gift cards are great because the person you are buying for gets to splurge on something she wouldn’t normally buy herself. I tried to buy a variety of gift cards. Plus, you can order a lot of them on Amazon and save some time. I ended up buying gift cards to the following places:

• Amazon
• Cheesecake Factory (restaurant)
• Local day spa
• Movie theater
• Italian restaurant
• Smoothie restaurant
• Coldstone Creamery
• Book store
• Target

Make tissue paper flowers

Tissue paper flowers are so easy but they add so much color and pop to your gift card bouquet. I made nine flowers of different varieties. All you need is the following:

• Scissors
• Stapler
• Multi-colored tissue paper
• Bamboo skewers
• Hot glue gun

You can get pretty creative as you start making these flowers. Click here for a great tutorial on how to make tissue paper flowers. If you’re short on time and just don’t feel like making them, you can even buy them by clicking here.

Assemble your gift card bouquet

Once your flowers are done and the gift cards are purchased, you’ll need just a couple more things to throw it all together:

• Basket or metal tin
• Floral foam
• Ribbon

Place the floral foam into the basket or tin. Then, hot glue the gift cards to the non-pointy end of the skewers and then push them strategically into the floral foam. Add the gift card (hot glued to skewers) as the very last step.

The look on our preschool teacher’s face was priceless when we gave her the bouquet. She loved it so much she started crying. We could tell it meant so much to her, especially since it was her last year of teaching.

What ideas do you have to spice up your gift card bouquet? Leave your comments below.

Related link: Play the “Dinnertime Game” with these free printable placemats

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