Paper Flowers …

Hi, it’s Andrea here taking over the blog for the day with my gluestick and my scissors

Today I want to share with you how to make these gorgeous paper roses that I made to decorate a special birthday card.

I used a 3 inch 6 petal flower punch to punch 3 flowers from printed papers. You could freehand draw the flowers and cut them out but the punch just makes life quick and easy. However you do it your flower needs 6 petals.

Fold each flower in half across each petal to find the centre

Take the first flower, cut along to the centre then spread glue over one petal, fold the adjoining petal over onto the glue and hold for a few seconds until it is fixed

Take the second flower and totally cut off one petal. Add glue and repeat the process to fold over the petals

Take the third flower and remove two petals, glue and fold to join the flower together

You now have 3 layers of a paper flower. Take each layer and gently smooth the edges over to curl each petal

Next take the pieces of flower that you cut off. Roll the piece with two petals around gently to make a funnel shape and glue to fix. Repeat with the single petal

Now you have all the elements to build your flower

Before glueing the layers together take each of the large layers in turn, place your thumb in the centre and gently squash the bottom of the flower to flatten it off

Take the smaller layers and cut off the pointy end, stack all the layers together and glue using a strong runny glue

Take some stamens (I buy mine from a cake decorating shop), twist them together add colour to the ends with a marker pen and glue into the centre of the flower

To hide the glue in the centre of the flower I sprinkled coordinating glitter onto the glue and then tipped it out when dry

Now all you have to do is chose what to do with your flower. I used mine to embellish a special card for a friend but you could add it to a gift bag, decorated box etc.

Supplies used

Papers – Happy Go Lucky by Zoe Pearn at Sweet Shoppe Designs

Paper punches – Woodware (flower) Martha Stewart (loopy border)

Dies – Dienamics by MFTStamps (scallops)

Ribbon, button and stamp – Papertrey

Stamens – cake decorating shop

Marker – Copics

Glitter – Doodlebug

Pins – Haberdashery department