Money bouquet and money candy box

So did you ever have one of those occasions where you had NO IDEA what to give as a gift but didn't want to just throw money in a card?  I had one recently so I decided to try another thing I saw on pinterest-a money bouquet!  While looking for good pictures of how other people tackled this project, I also saw the money candy box idea.  So....of course.....I decided to do both!  The cool thing with this gift is you can make it worth as much as you want.  You can make a $10 bouquet or a $100 bouquet.  The cool thing is,  you could feasibly do this with all 1 dollar bills and it will look like a million bucks....no pun intended :)

For the bouquet (like I made), you will need:
~money...obviously.  (clean, crisp bills work best.)
~green wire to make stems, or regular wire and you can cover it with floral tape
~a few bunches of silk flowers to balance things out
~filler...i like the glittery, twirly things
~ribbon
~glue/hot glue to secure your ribbon.

For the candy box, you will need:
~money.....duh.
~small candy box (i stopped at the local candy store, she gave me a small 4x4 box for free) or reuse a candy box
~candy wrappers (like the kind fancy chocolate comes in) or small cupcake wrappers
~tape
~ribbon

For the money roses.....I spent wayyyyy too much time watching youtube videos on oragami.  These people are crazy about their paper folding!  After one video that had me lost in the first 10 seconds, they had you folding and rolling and curling.....eh not for me.  So I decided to just figure it out as I went.  Basically I folded two bills in half and secured a wire around it, twisted the wire and then just arraged the 4 "leaves" of money to look like a flower.  I kinda folded and curled and twisted.  It doesn't have to be perfect....people are going to look at it and take it apart most likely anyway.  I used silver wire I had on hand so I then covered the wire with my floral tape.  I made about 5 of them.  It took longer than I anticipated....but the end result was pretty cute.  I arranged the money roses amongst my filler and silk flowers.  Then I wrapped  my ribbon around the stems, secured with glue and tied a bow around that.

For the candy box, fold your money into little squares.  tape the money into the wrappers and tape the wrappers to the bottom of of the box so everything doesn't fall all over.  I don't have a picture of the inside of my candybox, but I think I had about 6-8 wrappers.  Fold the money in different ways so it all looks different.  It turned out pretty cute.  Then wrap a ribbon around the outside of the box and tie in a bow.