Simple Paper Flowers

This is a low cost solution to having beautiful flowers at hand for your home, grannies, postal service delivery persons, weddings, and so on. They are very easy to make and look amazing when completed!

Step 1: Everything you need...

To begin all you really need is some paper, glue, and scissors. The floral tape and stem wire are optional. You can make your own stems out of things around the house or by rolling paper. The floral tape will help in adding completed flowers together to make bunches.

Step 2: Cut out a petal and crumple.

Cut out a petal and crumple. Simple eh? The crumpling makes the paper more pliable. Then just shape the petal into the form of the center bloom.

Step 3: Add glue.

Just add a small dab of glue to the bottom of the petal to hold the shape you want.

Step 4: Continue adding petals.

Add petals to create a flower that is as big and open or as small and budded as desired. You can be as creative as you want. Experiment and have fun with it!

Step 5: Creating the outer petals.

Pinch a little fold at the bottom of the paper to create a curved petal. Add as many as you feel are sufficient.

Step 6: Insert stem.

Add a dab of glue to stem wire or what ever you want to use as the base and insert into the center bottom of bloom. And there you go! A beautiful flower!

Step 7: Creative things for finishing touches.

Use floral tape and colored scrapbook paper to add leaves and to make into bunches. You can also hand paint the stems to make the bunches look even more realistic.

Comments

[5ar]

Here is the one I did. Looks cool, huh?

[Vladislaus]

You should add a template for the petals :3

[amansell1]

im going to make some of these with music sheets...

[jennybotha]

These flowers are very realistic and so stunning looking.!!!!! absolutely love them. The crumpling really makes a huge difference. WOW !!!Am bookmarking this and will make them sometime. Thanks a ton for sharing, Sweetie--- appreciate it

[orlalou]

I really like the way u crumpled the leaves makes it look much prettier. I gave this one a shot & put it in an old jar with some seashells....i love seashells :)

[KlareanGirl]

Mine sucks. :(

[KlareanGirl]

I can't do it! How do you add petals to the center blossom, to make it big and open?

[LunaSweetBlood]

I cannot for the life of me do these flowers. Mine come out teeeny tiny even after using two sheets of standard printer paper. They're no bigger than my thumb actually. How big do you make your petals?

[grelllove01]

make them about twice the size of a quarter

[Gymgirl2]

I have lots of old sheet music laying around. Guess what it's gonna become?

[lakecountrygirl]

I use Aleen's Turbo Tacky Glue, it works fast so you can just keep adding your petals without stopping! And the coffee filters work great, I dip mine in water based paint thinned with water, tinted to whatever color I want to mix up! Also I buy the fake rose bunches at Walmart & remove the roses, replace them with mine & spray them with a favorite perfume! Thanks for this great Instructable! I've really enjoyed making & giving these roses. Here's 3 of the roses I've made.

[jmondor]

These are so beautiful! I have been trying to find something to do for a bouquet at my wedding (62 days to go!!!!!) and now I know!
Out of curiosity, how many petals did you find you used per flower?
I am going to try to make mine out of the pages of an old book. I may also paint a few. I'll let you know how it turns out!
This is an awesome instructable!

[kkellner]

I did 6 for my GF and she loved them :]

Didn't take a picture, but I'll try to get one :D

[Faust_Ali]

This is a great instructable! Very clear pictures, simple steps, and it uses things I already have around the house. Using your paper flower technique and a little personal creativity I made this awesome bouquet for my friend's birthday. Thanks for posting this project up :)

[destructopop]

That is SO gorgeous. Really plays up the best parts of this gorgeous instructable, with a flair of your creativity in it, too! How did you get those lovely gradients on the petals?

[Faust_Ali]

Thanks! After making the flowers, I brushed them very lightly with watercolors, so that they got an even balance of colored and white splashes.

[star_above_the_clouds]

So amazing and so easy! Love this!

I made one for my mom and painted it with nail polish. (:

[dchristine]

you just blew my mind.

[bayblade]

its amazing incredible no words to say

[tinaray]

tinaray says: I just signed in to this site. Your flower is beautiful! Where are you registered for the contest, under which section? Is this where we vote? Thanks

[lil larry]

WOW!!! This is awesome! 5*

[tibloveyou]

VERY COOL FLOWER!!

I love it!

[toka34]

Real flowers
Скорая доставка цветов москва. Делаем букеты.

[Colne Fawkes]

sorry i guess im just slow, but how do you get the petals to wrap around like that? mine all look really really stupid?


oh and fyi, your flowers look amazing!!!!!!

[Gnara]

im tryin it right now and i know exactly how you feel...and im crumpling the heck outa them

[pokerstud001]

Maybe your not crumpling them enough?

[juan sanchez]

Im gonna make a dozen for my girlfriend!

[mcbrownfield]

One of the best instructables ever. I am in the process of making a bouquet and I am so surprised on how real these flowers look.

[CraftBear]

Thank you for an amazing instructable!

[Buttermonkey63]

Reminds me of the dust tape rose...only not duct tape. I find the rose looks more real if you glue a thin roll of paper after every four-or-so petals, making the rose thicker at the stem, rather than a cone shape. Very nice!

[CraftBear]

That sounds like a great idea =)

[hohum]

YO,

you got a pic of what/where the extra roll of paper goes

thanks

[quccy]

Hello,
The paper flower is very beautiful.
But need the colors. Maybe the red, blue, yellow and so on.
I think if the flowers have colors, will be much more beautiful.

[Grey_Wolfe]

This is very pretty. About how long did it take you to make the bunch?

[Poe-tate-o]

It took about a day to make the bunch and then I painted the stem the following day. I had to put the project down quite a bit due to having a baby in the house, but I was able to get a flower done during each nap time.

[hohum]

you just created a new work term++++++==\\

PPN

Parts Per Nap

cool

as I am out of a job, I am making some for gifts, I can afford these, I have some rose oil here, I'll put a few drops on the center of each flower

thanks for sharing,\

happy holidays

[Grey_Wolfe]

Naps come in handy once in awhile. lol Even if you're not the one taking them. I know how that is. Thanks for the quick reply. And nice work, once again.

[chrisjhn]

im lovin it...

[Bonnie in SC]

really pretty

[WingsandFences]

Really nice job, these are lovely. :)