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How to Make Crepe Paper Flowers

How to Make Crepe Paper Flowers has been on my to do list for the last couple of years! With all my flower cherry blossoms posts you would think crepe paper flowers would have snuck into my studio. But, alas, here is my first post!

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This how to make crepe paper flowers post is a long post since I want to include a detailed tutorial, but please don’t get intimidated. I show every step that you’ll want to do to make these beautiful flowers. These flowers are realistic and are pretty in a vase or a wedding bouquet. My ultimate goal is to create a few flowers over here so that if you want a bouquet, you’ll have a wide variety of flowers made.

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So, the paper flower obsession has carried over to my friends! Today, I’m joined with my friends who also made some paper flowers so, and you can enjoy their posts as well. So before we start my tutorial on how to make crepe paper flowers, let’s take a look at what my friends are up to.

My Friend’s Paper Flower Posts

How to Make Paper Flowers.

Leslie | My 100 Year Old Home

Leslie shares the same passion for paper flower making as me. If we lived next to each other I think we would constantly be creating flowers and our houses would be filled with them! She also made these beautiful poppies in her latest post, How to Make Paper Flowers

Spring Paper Flower Wall Art.

Jen | Tater Tots and Jello

Jen created this beautiful Spring Paper Flower Wall Art My eyes are studying every flower she placed on her artwork. What a fun and unique piece that celebrates spring with flowers. I love how beautifully all the different types of crafting paper go together!

Christina | The DIY Mommy

Ok, Christina is a genius, she used crepe paper streamers to create her gorgeous paper flowers! They came out so beautiful! I’m sure her flowers didn’t take 16 steps to make like mine! Make sure to check out her post, Paper Roses from the Dollar Store Streamers

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Ok, now are you ready to find out how to make crepe paper flowers? I must admit that I have had this box of Lia Griffith crepe paper sitting around my studio for about a year and I’m finally getting around to using it. I mostly use tissue paper since it has a nice soft petal texture, but the extra fine crepe paper works nicely on these Icelandic poppies, I feel like they have a delicate and flower-like realness.

How to Make Crepe Paper Flowers

Crepe Paper Flower Supplies

Petal Templates – Inner and Outer Petals (To download the petal templates fill out the DOWNLOAD form below)

Extra fine yellow-orange crepe paper

Extra fine green tea crepe paper

White extra fine crepe paper

16-gauge green wire

Wire cutters

Light Green Floral tape

Brown colored pencil

Glue

Yellow and Green pastels

 

DOWNLOAD Petal Templates here:

 

Instructions on How to Make Crepe Paper Flowers

1. Print and cut out your two petals – inner and outer petals.

Use these as your templates.

2. Cut out three of each the inner petals and outer petals.

Take your white crepe paper and cut out three inner and also outer petals.

3. Take each petal and stretch from the middle to the outer.

The petal will look cupped like the photo above.

4. Next, fold each petal in half.

5. Then start twisting the petal.

First, twist it one way and then the other.

6. Unwind each petal and crumple up into a ball.

Then unravel them.

7. Take your wire and make a small loop at the top.

8. Next, take some extra crepe paper and make a ball around the loop.

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9. Wrap some floral tape around the pod.

10. Cut a square piece of green crepe paper.

Then make a cross with a brown colored pencil. Then place two more lines going through the middle like pictured in the above photo.

 

11. Next, take a square piece of green crepe paper and place over the pod and glue.

The brown design should show up on the top of the pod.

12. Make the center of the flower fringe.

Take your green and yellow rectangle papers (3″ x 1 1/2″) and place the yellow a tiny bit above the green one. Now glue them together. Once the glue is dry cut slits down as shown in the photo. Twist each piece of fringe.

13. Wrap the fringe around the pod and glue to its base.

Trim if the fringe is too long. I tried to curl the tips a tiny bit.

14. Glue the three inner petals to the center pod.

Make sure to overlap each petal by about 1/2 inch. Then take the outer three petals and create the outer row. Where the inner petals meet, place your out petal right in between them, staggering them and filling in the gap. Glue all the petals to the base.

15. Create pollen in the middle of your flower.

To make the pollen in the center and on the petals mark up a piece of paper with yellow and green pastels. Take your watercolor brush and pick up the pastel dust and place your brush in the middle of the flower. It is also a nice to touch to add a tiny bit to the outer petals.

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16. Once the glue is dry add floral tape to the bottom of the flower to keep it together.

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Tada, now that wasn’t too hard, right? Ok, you can now decorate your home with your beautiful Icelandic Poppies! I love how realistic they look, and best of all I love how they don’t wilt and die! I have bought real flowers, and they can be quite expensive and fragile. I feel that they look like they are made of paper!

Thanks so much for joining our little tour. I hope you enjoyed this fun tutorial on how to make paper flowers. I sincerely hope you can make these fun flowers.

Cheers,

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