Valentine's Day sales will bloom with this "Roses Are Red, My Love" bouquet of balloons featuring the new "Red Rose" Helium Shape from Qualatex®.

Ingredients 2 "Red Rose" Helium Shapes (36539 flat) 3 18 "Happy Valentine's Day - Floral Watercolor" (45018 flat; 45020 pkgd) 6 11" "I Love You - Floral & Ribbons" (Ruby Red 25374) 1 11" Diamond Clear Latex Heart (12192) 3 11" Ruby Red (12176) 6' Design Dish Floral Foam Large Water Tube Floral Tape Floral Picks Green Onion Crass Red and Silver Foil Squares Ribbon Cool Glue Duct Tape Pencil Small Weight

Preparation

1) For the base of the bouquet, tape or glue weight inside the design dish.

2) Glue floral foam inside design dish.

3) At the base of the bouquet, the Diamond Clear Heart has magically been stuffed with a Fantasy Rose made out of balloons. To make the Fantasy Rose, cut off the top half of the necks of three 11" Round Ruby Red balloons. Secure the first balloon to a floral pick with floral tape, rolling what was the neck end of the balloon. Then add one balloon at a time, covering the previous balloon, and tape in place. Once complete, cover the pick with floral tape.

4) Place the Fantasy Rose into an empty water tube and insert into the uninflated Diamond Clear Heart balloon. Inflate the Heart with air, then grasp the neck of the Heart, pull it down around the water tube, sealing the balloon, and secure with duct tape. Insert the water tube into floral foam.

5) Attach each balloon in the bouquet separately to a floral pick and insert into the side of floral foam at an an angle. (Note: Do not insert pick straight up and down into foam. The lift of the bouquet may cause pick to pull out.) Insert onion grass into floral foam.

6) Finally, "fill" floral foam with foil squares. To fill, fold a square over the eraser on a pencil and push into foam. You can also dip squares into glue, prior to insertion, for increased hold.