How To Make Paper Flowers

Hi Stampers .

It's me Diane Di from DD stamps dot com .

And I am going to do just a real short video on how to make a paper flower .

So , what you're going to need is you're going to need any punch .

I'm gonna use this punch and I actually punched out five of these and then I sponged the edges just going around the edge with a little melon Mambo and then I came in and I'm going to punch another hole in the middle of this flower and you could , you know , lay it down and find the exact middle of your flower , but that just isn't how I do things .

So I'm just going to guess and put it in there .

I think I'm close to the middle .

Pretty darn close .

So here are the five that I've done .

Um and I've already sponged them .

Got them already .

Oh , I forgot my scissors .

Ok .

So the next thing you're gonna do is you're gonna come through here , one of them , you're just gonna leave flat , one of them , you're just gonna snip right in the middle , one of them .

You're gonna cut out a pedal , one of them , you're gonna cut out two pedals , one of them , you're gonna cut in half and then you're going to cut it again .

Actually , you don't need to because you have two and one here .

So basically it's 654321 .

Um And once you've done that , then I take my bone folder and just curl my edges back .

I like to use the tip of my bone folder and I curl all my edges back on every one .

I probably should have done this before you were watching me .

But that's all right .

It'll show you how quick this flower goes together .

Like I said , you do it to every layer , even the one pal layer .

And then once you have them all done .

So once you have it , I like to use green glue for this .

So you leave your one layer flat , you're gonna add , take off the end , gonna add a little glue to that fold that over .

Add a little glue to that pedal fold that over , add a little glue to this pedal , fold it over .

And obviously you do this to every set of pedals gets a little harder as they get a little smaller .

And then the last two , you just fold and they kind of fold in on each other .

So I'm gonna add a little glue .

Let me bring it around and then the very last one you're just gonna totally roll around like that .

And if you want , you can just add a little touch of glue there just to hold it together .

Not really necessary , but that's how you do it .

Then you're going to come in and because you have those holes there , these flowers stack really nice and they lay flat and you just stack in each layer like this and to put that all together , I like to stack them and then bring in my hot glue matte .

Had a big blob of glue .

Take my stack of flowers , which aren't so nicely neat anymore , but just go ahead and rest , stack them right into that glue .

And really there's no rhyme or reason .

You just have to get him in there and when that dries you have a flower .

So I'm gonna let that sit for a minute .

I'll show you a flower I did with um earlier sponge in some of the new coastal cabana ink on it and I just think they turned out really cute .

Um And then I did one here using some new , some new um pattern paper and sponging and then added some washy tape onto a container that used to carry breads , made a cute little gift box .

So there you have it a pretty easy flower .

You could decorate all kinds of boxes , um cards , gifts , frames , wreaths anyway , you can do them in any color .

We have lots of them .

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Thank you and have a great day .