18 Easy Ways How to Make Paper Flowers Step by Step with Pictures

how to make paper flowers step by step - Paper flowers are perfect for weddings, home decor, and party decorations.

There are lots of materials you might use, depending on what type of paper flowers you want to make.

• Tissue Paper Flowers
• Crepe Paper Flowers
• Paper/Cardstock Flowers
• Found Materials

illustration: step by step making paper flowers

What paper is used for paper flowers?

Don't know what type of paper to use for paper flowers?

Check out this handy list. Never be mystified by a crafting project again.

1. Crepe Paper

crepe paper

Crepe paper is often used for paper flower making with stunning results.

Crepe paper streamers are used as party decorations. Many kids crafts are also made out of crepe paper.

Make sure to use a higher grade of crepe paper, such as Italian crepe paper when making paper flowers.

Paper flowers made from Italian crepe paper are quite striking. They can be surprisingly realistic and quite

2. Kraft Paper

kraft paper

Kraft paper is a coarse brown paper that is used for wrapping packages.

Paper bags are also made from this type of material.

It can be bleached to various lighter shades varying from brown to white.

Kraft paper is available in sheets or paper rolls.

Kraft paper is used for cardmaking, scrapbooking and even paper flower making.

3. Tissue Paper

tissue paper

White tissue paper is used to wrap items in stores.

Colored tissue paper is used for gift bags, paper flowers, collage work and even painting.

Tissue paper also makes beautiful giant sized pom-poms which are used for party decorations.

18 Easy Steps How to Make Easy Tissue Paper Flowers

There are so many different ways to make easy paper flowers and here we show you the simple steps Tissue paper flower.

I do hope you enjoyed this flower tutorial. The method really is quite straight forward and so fun!

step 1

Pick some pretty tissue paper, you will want 2 yellow sheets for the centre and 4-6 sheet for the petals depending on how full you want your flower. Lay the sheets of tissue in a pile as neatly as possible.

step 2

Fold all the sheets over at the same time, you can play with the size of the fold so get different effects but 5-6cm is a good start.

step 3

Now repeat this fold back the other way.

step 4

Continue with this accordion style folding until you have folded all the paper. At this point I like to run something hard like a ruler along the folds to make sure they stay.

step5

Now you can unfold the tissue and separate the yellow pieces from the rest.

step 6

Fold the yellow tissue back up, it should go back together nice and easy thanks to that little ruler trick. Fold in half and trim to about half the size it was.

step7

Now take a pair of scissors and make lots of long cuts in the yellow tissue.

step 8

This will now be your flowers centre.

step 9

Now take the coloured tissue and fold it in half, cut the ends into whatever shape you would like your petals to be. The most important part here is to make sure you cut quite a long way down the sides as this will make it easier to form your flower.

step10

Now you have your petals and your flowers centre. If you notice any petals that are a little too joined together due to how the paper is folded now is a good time to fix them up.

step11

Unfold all your tissue paper again and lay the yellow tissue back in the centre.

step12

Re-fold the tissue, this can be a little tricky, just try to get it back together as best you can as it doesn’t matter if it is a little messy.

step 13

Fold all the tissue in half.

step14

Wrap a pipecleaner through the centre of the folded tissue paper and twist to secure.

step15

Now start with one side and pull up the tissue whilst fluffing it up, separating each layer to create the centre of the flower.

step16

Now do the same with the petal layers. You need to me very gentle so as not to rip the tissue paper.

step 17

Once you have finished once side its time to do the other side.

step18

Ta-da, your pretty spring flower.

How Do You Make A Paper Bouquet?

This lovely paper bouquet would make a great Mother’s Day gift or centerpiece to dress up a table.

Below you will find easy tutorial on how to make a lovely paper bouquet.

You need to Prepare:

• Scissors
• Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
• Floral Wire
• Floral Tape
• 2 Yards of Ribbon

Instruction (please watch the video below)

Which Fower is Known as Paper Flower?

Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes referred to as "paper flower" because the bracts are thin and papery. It's a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, or trees.

The actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts with the bright colours associated with the plant, including pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow.

How Do You Make a Paper Origami Flower?

Origami flowers can be really beautiful. They can also be really intricate.

They make great gifts for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays, etc.

The kusudama flowers can be glued to make a flower ball and they can be used as decoration or ornament pieces during the holiday season.