Good thing it didn't take me as long to make the flowers as it did to blog about them!
I made two types of flowers for the rehearsal dinner. The solid yellow ones were super easy. I used two different yellow papers. One was plain and one had a texture in sort of a linen look with a slight shimmer. I thought this subtle difference would add a little depth.
start with a six inch square
draw a swirl and cut on the line
start rolling from the outer ring to the center
in the first section of the photo below
I am holding the rolled up flower fairly tightly
in #2 I have let go
in #3 I have bent the wire stem, bringing
the end up through the punched hole
that I punched earlier with a 1/16th paper punch
if you look closely at the first photo on this post
you will see the tiny punched hole
I used hot glue here to secure the stem to the flower
#4 shows a pile of flowers BEFORE I added the stems
you may or may not
want to add some dots of hot glue
here and there between the layers
of swirls.
I did because I wanted each flower
to look a little different.
the glue holds some layers closer together
while pulling some further apart.
SPECIAL NOTE
My niece Emma made her own version of these for her wedding in July. She painted sheet music and book pages with water color to create her own paper. I'm guessing that she drew more swirls than I did as she had many 'layers' to her flowers.
What a beautiful version.
her bouquet
real greenery
paper flower
genius!
even on the cake!
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