Paper Flowers

Working with ruffled crepe paper may seem like a bit of a challenge and admittedly it can be depending on the type of project you are working on. However, the decoration ideas I have in mind for you are not at all difficult and actually are very easy almost as if the creator of these decorations had this type of crepe paper in mind.

Let’s start with some holiday decorations that ruffled crepe paper works great with! We have several holidays to choose from and not enough space for every holiday so let’s look at the “big” ones. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentines Day.

Halloween

 Make a pumpkin using orange ruffled paper simply find a round container and cover it with the crepe paper. The ruffles will give it a very unique look. You can decorate the face with magic markers or different colored crepe paper. You can also make ghosts, goblins and skeletons all you need is a cardboard cut out in the shape you want and choose your color(s) and attach the paper using glue, tape or small staples. Then give it a face or decorate it any way you like. Don’t forget to put a hole in the top (with a hole puncher) and thread a piece of yarn through to hang it up.

Thanksgiving

Make a turkey using a brown colored paper you can use an oblong container for the body and make the head out of crepe paper. The best part of making a turkey is the ruffles in the paper will give it an authentic feathered “turkey” look. You can also make balloon turkeys too just be careful not to pop your turkey while you put the crepe paper on it!

Christmas

There are so many things you can make with crepe paper for Christmas. How about an angel tree topper or an angel to set on your mantel. All you need is a cone shaped piece of Styrofoam and a circle Styrofoam ball for the head and the crepe paper you can use any color you like. Just glue the head to the cone and attach the crepe paper. You can use an extra piece of paper to make the wings. Be sure to give your Angel a face and maybe some yarn hair. This is a quick and easy project to make with the kids! You may also want to pick up some plastic clear ornament bulbs and decorate them as well they look beautiful when the lights from the tree hit the crepe paper, if you add a little glitter to each one it gives it an added touch of beauty. 

Valentines Day

Make you own heart shaped candy filled gift for your loved one this year. You will need a heart shaped box and red or pink or any color ruffled crepe paper and their favorite candy. Just fill the box with the candy and attach the crepe paper with glue that dries clear. The ruffles give the box an almost 3-D look. It is very unique looking and of course being made by you for your special valentine will make it all the more special of a gift!

You can make so many beautiful and unique gifts using ruffled crepe paper. Don’t limit yourself to just the holidays above. The paper also makes a great Easter decorations and awesome looking Easter eggs! Experiment with the paper and have fun see what amazing things you can come up with on your own.

TIME TO START MAKING YOUR PAPER FLOWERS FOR THE LAST 3 BIG HOLIDAYS OF THE YEAR

Well, it’s that time of year again. Holidays are a coming and time to start thinking about making your paper flower decorations for the upcoming seasons, your home decorations, and for the different parties and other occasions that you are going to have.

1.   I guess the first one that comes to mind is Halloween you can make a costume that looks like a flower out of crepe paper and make a bouquet of paper flowers to carry or make your treat bag to look like a paper flower. To make the costume get a flower pattern in the costume patterns part of the pattern book in most fabric stores and make the stem out of green or brown crepe paper which would be the body part, and then make flower petals to frame around the face any color of flower that you want. You can paint or color the face the color that is the center of the flower.

You can make paper flowers to decorate your home in Halloween colors for a Halloween bash or just for the fall season. You can also use crepe paper for many of the other decorations for your party. What about making a paper jack-o-lantern only don’t use a real candle use the flameless flickering lights inside it.

2.   Then comes Thanksgiving, that’s when we all start thinking about food, but we also want our home to look nice for our guests and this is the time that everyone starts thinking of visiting family and friends. You can make all types of paper flowers for the fall to decorate your home there are asters, mums, hydrangeas, hyacinth, dahlias, cornflowers, lilies, anemones, and roses just to name some. There are several different books and articles on the Internet on how to make paper flowers.

How about taking a pretty bouquet of fall paper flowers to someone’s home for a nice centerpiece for the dinner table when invited to a holiday meal or as just a nice gift for someone special.

3.   Well, now comes Christmas and there are a lot of ways to use paper flowers for decorating your home or using them for decorating packages and even for gifts for family and friends.

You can make paper roses to decorate the Christmas tree and also make poinsettias for the tree or even a pot of them to set along side the fireplace or as a centerpiece for your table. A pretty bouquet of amaryllis will make a nice bouquet also.

Making paper flowers for a wintertime wedding is a great idea since this is the time of year that family and friends really enjoy getting together. It would be a nice time to gather a few of them together and make it a party to make paper flowers for your wedding day.

You can make about any type of flower that you want for your wedding since they are made of paper, but if you want to be traditional then you might want to use roses, poinsettias, or amaryllis since these are more common winter time flowers.

Decorating your Christmas packages with paper flowers is also a novel idea it is something you have made to add to the contents of the package for someone to keep to remind them of who gave them such a nice gift.

These paper flowers can be given as a gift for someone also; they can be made as a bouquet for a dining table, used to decorate the wine glasses, used as place setting cards, you can make garlands of flowers to decorate around the doorways, or as far as that goes for anything that you can come up with just let your imagination go, the ideas can be endless.

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