Thursday, April 5, 2012

DIY Crepe Paper Flowers



Its already that time of the year again for us, birthday party planning. 
Buggie is going to be 6, this month, 6 people.
She was just 3 when I started this blog, time is just slipping by.

So this year "we" could not decided on a theme, it went from Barbie to Spy Kids to Strawberry Shortcake with in a span of 15 minutes.  So to reign her in, I purposed that I just make it "super pretty". And she actually AGREED!

I had pinned these giant paper flowers, and knew I wanted to make them.  I adapted them to how I wanted to use them and make them.

Here is what I used:
- Crepe Paper {I bought this}
- A tear dropped shaped template, the one I made was 7 1/2 long and 4 1/2 at its widest point
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- A pencil 
- Floral tape


First thing I did was cut between 12 - 18 petals, I wanted the flowers to be different sizes {as noted in the tutorial I used to base my flowers off of, cut the paper on the vertical}
Then pulling slightly at the edges, bring the petals up like in a cupping movement.  Then take a pencil and curl the top out in the opposite direction you cupped it in.


Then to start roll on petal into itself and hot glue the bottom to create a center.


Then start layering. The biggest difference with what i did and the original tutorial was I did not use the heart shaped petals.  I found them to be too heavy and did not shape the way I wanted.


Just keep layering and gluing as you go to get the fullness of the flower.  Then to secure it a little floral tape around the bottom.


I would say you can get around three to four {depending how big you make the flowers} per roll of crepe paper.  I have BIG plans for the flowers once they are all made.  






Super excited to see it all come together.
Stay tuned for more!
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In other party related news, Bean's Paper Airplane First Birthday was featured in a local magazine!!! It was super cool for Playground to find it worthy and feature it!



And another fun little announcement! I was beyond honor to have a picture of Bug and Bean picked to be part of the Le Papire Studio's Spring Collection!  Check it out here.

3 comments:

  1. Wow you have allot of things going on :-)

    I can't believe she is going to be 6!!!
    Love the flowers and love that you both settled on it being a super pretty birthday :-)

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  2. You throw the most amazing parties! Looking forward to seeing the final product!

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  3. those flowers are beautiful! ive missed you in blogland. hope all is well. congrats on the features:)

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