Make Money flowers on a money tree!

Sometimes money as a gift is thoughless and lame, but sometimes it isn't. This is one of those times that it totally wasn't. I'll leave the details of WHY I gave my husband money for his birthday out and leave you with HOW I gave my husband money for his birthday without it being...well, an envelope of money.
I give you the MONEY TREE!
Yep, it's a real life money tree in full bloom (and pajama clad toddler)

Here are the 'blossoms'

It's three bills, in this case, three fifties, I'll demonstrate the fifties because they're way prettier than the brown 100s. Wow I'm noticing now that that one in the middle is way longer than the rest, fail

This was the 'after' photo of when we were unfolding the moneys, I took the pictures backwards so you could see the fold marks.

First, fold the bill in half long wise, so you have a center line to follow. I'm canadian, I write center center, not centre.

Fold the left and right lengths of the bill inwards, about a half inch, it's good to do them all at the same time, as to make all the petal lengths the same, which I clearly did not do on that one flower

Next, fold the corners in to the middle line

Then fold again longwise

That's it, now do that with two more bills and lay them on top of each other.

Take some thin wire, I think this is a 36 gauge floral wire, and wrap it around the center. Then, fan out the petals, bend them and fiddle with them so they stay open to look nice.

There you have it, a money flower!