Craft Club Day 1 – Paper Flowers!



make one of these lovely flower bouquets!

Well it all started after some wreckless blog searching in relation to wedding crafts, when I stumbled upon this great “how to guide” for paper flowers from the brilliant project Wedding webiste. So an idea was hatched, my friend Nadia and I would be the inaugural members of “Craft Club” an underground organisation dedicated to making lovely things

If you want to take make a beautiful flower bouquet then you will need:


Scissors,
LOTS of paper – we used a mix of tissue paper, heavier craft paper with ACTUAL petals in (well it was in the sale in Hobby Craft!) and a spotty paper tablecloth (I’m a sucker for a polka dot).
Clear tape,
wooden skewers (the ones you put kebabs on for a bbq
– try for small ones if you can get them!)
and 1 ball of wool and a styrofoam ball (head to the big H-C)

So start by cutting out your circles – as many as you can manage – you will need about 6 per flower depending on how big you want it to be!

Flowers



Nadia cutting all the paper!



·        Start by wrapping a piece of paper around the top of the skewer and secure it with tape.

·        Then push your paper circles up onto the skewer



·        When you have them all on – scrunch them up starting with the one at the top and working your way round



·        Secure the last one with a piece of tape to the skewer

Pompom flowers



·        Take your wool  (about 6ft+) and wrap in around your middle three fingers




me - sticking my flowers on sticks!
Dont forget to have a cocktail or two!

 

·        Slide it off and secure in the middle with another piece of wool, by tying a tight knot.

·        Then snip through the loops to make a flower!

·        Secure on a skewer with tape – these wont be huge pompoms but they look good in amongst the flowers!



Nadia's Bouquet!



Now you can begin to arrange the flowers and pompoms by sticking them into the Styrofoam ball. You could also try using feathers and even old hat pins, broaches or fabrics to make it suit your style.