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.