Tissue Paper Flowers. You'd think after making hundreds of these for my wedding, I'd be completely sick of them. But I can't help it, I love them so much! I'm a little sad that I didn't save a bouquet of paper flowers from my wedding, but I never thought I'd want to see them again. So I made some for home, only this time as a garland... ...And as bedroom decor... ...And maybe I couldn't resist making just a few little blossoms... Want to make some? Materials: Tissue paper Heavy-duty scissors Floral wire Make sure you use a pair of scissors that you don't mind ruining, because they're going to take a serious beating here. For a package of 20" x 25" tissue paper, 8 sheets: Large flowers (Peonies): 16 per pack Small flowers (Carnations): 32 per pack Mini pompoms (Garland): 8 per pack Small pompoms: 2 per pack Medium pompoms: 1 per pack* Large pompoms: 1 per pack *There will be enough paper leftover from a medium pompom to make flowers or mini pompoms The flowers are easiest, so lets start there.
And here's completed! Fabric Pom Poms. Dyed Coffee Filter Flowers. I adore decorating for holidays. Valentines is no exception. Most of the valentines decor I already had. (Or is stuff I temporarily borrowed from other rooms in the house). This year I added 2 things... The L.O.V.E. letters hung to an old door above the TV armoire.
But really I only added the letter V. And then I added all those fabulous pom pom flowers. They are super easy and darn cheap. When I went to pick up the filters they only had white. So looking at my son, I knew I was seconds away from disaster. Here is how I did it... I started with the pink. For the taupe I tried something different. Sooo super thrilled with the outcome. Then I made some out of news paper. While I was doing all this Ride and Scooter were creating there own masterpieces... Cool huh? Apparently Ride learned this in preschool. It looks like a giant carnation. Perfect. Now to make this... I simply tied a knot at the end of a string. a Added a dab of hot glue to it.
This year J and his brothers started a new company. Linen Flowers. Paper Medallion Wall Hanging. "If you really wanted to, we could go and purchase some of the furniture brand new, you know", said my husband, as he sees me pick up yet another project. It's true. My husband brings in over 90% of the household income, and we have learned how to make do with this arrangement. We've learned to save on somethings, and splurge on others. If we really wanted to, we could put aside money for furniture, home decorations and the "frivolous". I could annoy myself and everyone else, by saying that I'd rather spend that money on my kid's piano and martial arts lessons, but deep down I know that it's a LIE.
The truth is, that when I put time and effort into something that I make, the joy (and pride?) Makes me smile each time I look at it. I would have been happy to buy something like that. So, you know that High and Low comparisons that you sometimes see in magazines. I was browsing through images on google when I came across a picture of a beautiful bedroom with fur-like medallions on the wall.
Lunch bag flowers. Making flower decorations out of paper bags was a fun treat. The kids really had fun helping me. I first saw these on the Something Old, Something New wedding blog. From there I got the link to the pattern and instructions on the Martha Stewart website. I chose brown paper bags for a more neutral tone. They turned out so nice. I made a tutorial showing how to make this paper craft with your own paper.
I used book paper but newspaper, wrapping paper or scrapbook paper would all work great too. Click the image below to see the tutorial. Enjoy! Six paper flowers. It got into my head that I needed to make some paper flowers. I don’t know why. But I figured it wouldn’t be a big deal because the Internet is a veritable smörgåsbord of craft tutorials, and all I had to do was fire up Lappy 5000 and pick one out. About 300,000 search results later, I was no longer any more confident in my ability to make a paper flower than I was in my cat’s ability to retrieve his stupid mouse instead of staring at my hand after I throw it.
There were just too many choices and although I could compare the photos, they didn’t reflect (1) how good each tutorial was, (2) how closely my flower would resemble the picture, or (3) which flowers would look nice together. It was terribly overwhelming. Then again, I thought, if anyone is supposed to try every single one, it might as well be me. After some consideration, I decided that 300,000 might be a few too many to take on, so I narrowed it down to the six most promising and got to work. That’s all there is to it.