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    Making Paper Flowers
    Making Paper Flowers
    Making Paper Flowers
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    Making Paper Flowers

    By Denise Brown

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    Create your own stunning flowers from paper with these 35 step-by-step projects.
    Decorate your home using techniques such as simple origami, layered découpage, papier mâché and quilling. Using everyday giftwrap, colourful pages torn from glossy magazines, paper napkins and tissue paper to handmade paper, parchment paper and crinkly crepe paper, Denise Brown guides you through the process of making perfect paper flowers. You can display the flowers in vases, create bouquets and posies to give as gifts, use them to decorate gift boxes and greetings cards, or create wall hangings and window displays. Whether your taste is rooted in Simple yet Stunning, where you will find Oriental Poppies and Frilly Fancies, or Bright and Beautiful, with projects such as Vibrant Dahlias and Waterlilies, or finally, Sophisticated Style, where you can make a Peony Wreath or Elegant Lilies, you will be sure to find the perfect project. Making Paper Flowers is a fantastic new edition of the previously published Paper Flowers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCICO Books
    Release dateMay 10, 2022
    ISBN9781800651494
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      Book preview

      Making Paper Flowers - Denise Brown

      INTRODUCTION

      I have wanted to do a book on paper flowers for a long time so was thrilled to work on this one. Despite my love of flowers I am no gardener—I use flowers for inspiration and don’t try to replicate them. You won’t find correct plant terminology in my projects—I refer to yellow frill or flower base, because I think it makes instructions easier to follow. I love playing with scale and there’s lots of scope for artistic license.

      The paper is important; it has to have the right sort of bend—not too stiff so it cracks or too weak so it flops. Look for paper with color on both sides, such as double-sided giftwrap or copier paper, which comes in many colors. And catalogs look amazing transformed into flowers. I recycle junk mail for practice pieces, cereal boxes are excellent for templates, and I experiment with paper serviettes, kitchen roll, coffee filter papers, envelopes... Rainbow color tissue paper is one of my favorite mediums, even though it doesn’t stretch. Crepe paper comes in various weights and stretchiness and with this you can mold petals, which I paint in watercolor for interesting effects. If you do paint or use chalks then fix the color—but try a test piece first to make sure the fixative doesn’t splatter and ruin your project. Ease crepe a little at a time because once it’s stretched you can never go back— and grain direction is important, so check the grain line on the templates.

      My favorite pieces of equipment are a scalpel, metal ruler, cutting mat, and fine nozzle glue dispenser. I don’t use specialist equipment—I prefer a rustic, handcrafted look—but if time is an issue it can be great. I use 20 or 22 gauge wire, which is bendy. With glue, for large areas use spray glue; for hand-size areas try glue stick; for anything smaller, use white glue (PVA). Always allow to dry fully between stages.

      I like to make leaves separately—there’s no point in spending time on them only to find they are hidden in your favorite container. If your vase is opaque, fill it with dried rice—it holds the blooms firmly, yet you can move them around easily. In general, I try to avoid leaving flowers in direct sunlight.

      I hope you enjoy making the flowers in this book— and that it will inspire you to come up with your own variations. Use scrap paper to practice first, and don’t get frustrated if your first attempts aren’t perfect— you will improve with practice!

      Chapter 1

      SIMPLE YET STUNNING

      SPIRAL

      Ranunculus

      These spiral flowers are very easy to make and remind me of ranunculus; try them in different sizes and experiment with your own spiral designs. They look better in solid color paper because you can see the structure more easily, but make sure the paper you choose will bend properly.

      1 Use the templates on page 120 to cut out one circle for each flower from white paper. I used both large and small templates for different flowers in my cluster.

      2 Make a pattern by cutting the lines of the spiral once and then go around a second time shaving off a very thin sliver of paper to make the line into a narrow slit. Place the pattern onto the colored paper and draw the spiral onto it through the slit. Cut along the line.

      3 Begin to roll the spiral around the tip of the toothpick, starting with the outer end. The paper is easier to roll if you dampen the tip of the spiral first. Keep the paper as tightly rolled as you can and ease it around the toothpick. If you use paper that has color on only one side, roll so the color is on the inside—as the flower opens, you will get much more color.

      Plain white paper

      Pencil

      Scissors

      Solid color paper Toothpick

      White (PVA) glue

      Green wire

      Wire cutters

      Thick needle or pin

      Seed beads

      4 As you reach the end, remove the toothpick and let the shape unroll just a little.

      5 Place a dab of glue onto the inner end of the spiral at the bottom and position the coiled section on top of it. Push down gently into the middle of the coil so the bottom edges go into the glue. Hold gently until the glue dries.

      6 Cut a piece of wire to the length you want for the stem; I made mine 7in. (17.5cm) long. Make a hole through the base of the spiral with the needle. Push the wire up through the flower, put a dab of glue on the end and pick up a seed bead. I left my stamens quite long so the bead stands proud of the flower. Let dry.

      7 Add a small dab of glue to the back of the flower to hold the flower steady in position on the wire stem.

      Spray of

      CATKINS

      Clusters of long, dangly catkins are easy to make. I used a snowflake-shaped punch to make my shapes because I wanted to cut quite a few, but you could roughly cut small circles of paper approximately ½in. (12mm) in diameter instead. Use different colors and weights of paper for the best effect.

      Branch or twig

      Scraps of different shades and weights of pale brown, yellow, and orange paper or thin cardstock

      ½in. (12mm) diameter snowflake or similar shape punch (optional)

      Needle and dark brown cotton thread

      Scissors

      White (PVA) glue

      Large and small orange seed beads

      Sponge

      1 Find a suitable branch or twig to use, or make your own from wire covered in brown tissue paper. Decide where to put your catkins and how many you need.

      2 For each catkin, punch or cut out shapes from several different colors and thicknesses of paper and very thin cardstock. Punch out several at a time.

      3 Cut an 18in. (45cm) length of thread, thread it onto the needle doubled and tie the ends into a knot. Put a dab of glue on the knot and thread a large seed bead down to the knot. Let dry.

      4 Put some of the punched shapes onto a sponge and pierce through the middle with the needle, pushing them onto the needle. Alternate colors at random.

      TIPS

      The weight of the bead helps the catkin hang better. The glue holds the bead in place.

      With glue less is more; using too much can make the paper buckle.

      5 Push a group of shapes onto the thread to about 1in. (2.5cm) above the bead.

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