DIY Giant Paper Poppy Backdrop Stand Paper Flower

Hello , this is Sarah and welcome back to my channel in today's video .

I'll be showing you how to make a giant paper .

Icelandic poppy .

All the materials and template is linked below the video .

If you want to use a letter size eight by 11 paper or 12 by 12 card stock paper , you could use it on the cricket or silhouette .

If you don't have a machine or want to cut on a bigger paper like butcher paper , you could use my template to hand cut and scale it bigger or smaller .

First , we'll start with the center .

I'm balling up several sheets of plain white tissue paper .

You will need it to be about 4 to 5 inches in diameter .

Then glue this onto a coupler that matches your stem PV C pipe size .

Mine is a coupler for the 3/4 inch PV C pipe , then grab some masking tape and tape down a few times from coupler to tissue ball .

Next , we will get some yellow tissue paper and get a strip that is a little less than the top wi with the yellow tissue paper .

I'm bunching them up and twisting to make it look like a rope .

We are making four of them , then use the matte mod podge and put it over the rope like tissue paper and add another strip of yellow tissue paper and neatly wrap it up .

This is just to make sure it hides any imperfections .

Then mod podge the white tissue ball and add green tissue paper around it .

You want to mod podge the inside and outside , do one more last layer of green tissue paper to smooth out the top as best as you can and add the yellow pieces on top making it look like a star shape .

I cut the last two pieces in half to add into the plus sign .

Set this aside for it to dry .

It will take about an hour or two to fully dry .

Then you'll need to cut six orange pedals .

You could do other colors .

I use a white card stock paper and painted orange squash paint on top to get a color I liked , but they have a ready solid color card stock paper that could work .

Fan , fold the pedals and slightly crinkled to add texture to each pedal .

Open it up and cut six short floral wire about a third of the pedal shape and some scraps of paper from the leftover paper .

When you cut out the pedals , I am attaching a wire piece onto the scrap of paper and adding this to the back of each pedal .

This will help it hold its form , you want it to be somewhat discrete .

So make sure the last layered pedals have these wired pieces glued nicely trying to blend it in .

If you can , then you'll need to cut yellow fringes .

I used half a sheet of paper cut the long way , measuring about four inches by 11 inches .

Oh , welcome back to red A .

Today we have some easy paper flowers .

Yes , these are really easy .

They look great .

They're 3D and they pop out at you and they look fantastic now because I've done them in red and in white , and in these colours and patterns , I think they really look like point setti , which are perfect for Christmas .

So come on , let's take a look and see how they're made .

So to make these flowers , you will need a variety of papers and colours .

Now , today I'm gonna make this one .

But of course , you can just , er experiment with the different colours .

So this is a nice white one , which is lovely .

Or , um , you can put a little yellow centre on it and just glue on some leaves at the back .

So , really , it's up to you in terms of which , uh , flower , you feel like making , um and and of course , you can also add more layers if you want , but this is quite straightforward and a really nice , um , decoration .

So make sure you try to evenly divide going around the circle into threes , then attach the last three pedals in between the first layered pedals and filling in any gaps .

Make sure the wired part is facing down .

So you don't see them lastly attach some leaves to cover up any messes and cover up the rest of the coupler .

The next part will be how to build the stem and base for the giant flower stands , which is optional .

You could still make these flowers without the stem or coupler use as a backdrop to hang on the wall directly .

So what you'll need is two sheets of contrasting paper .

A little bit of the yellow for the detail .

Afterwards , you do need a stapler .

If you haven't got a staple of this craft , it's really difficult , Soss theres and maybe a little bit of glue just for the detail .

And the first thing you need to do is is fold your paper .

Now , as with our previous concertina or fans , this time again , we want to have really neat folds and we want them really evenly spaced .

So the way I'm folding it now just gives me the creases in the right place .

So the first crease , the second crease and the third crease .

Now , when you open it , you want to repeat this one here , and that's the first lot of creases and you do the same on this side .

Here we go .

So those are all the creases , and then you just container it some of the creases in reverse .

But it still helps you with the fold .

So that's your first bit .

Here we go .

Now you do repeat that for the second piece of paper .

So now we have our two concertina .

Make sure the creases are really tight .

It does make things easier later .

What you need to do is is you need to look at where they open .

So you see , this is the open bit .

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