DIY paper flowers: the tutorial to beautify your home at no cost and many curious ideas (photos)

Tissue paper, old newspapers, scraps of cardboard, napkins: very little is enough to have fun together with the children to decorate the house, creating many curious and original DIY flowers.

HOW TO MAKE FLOWERS WITH PAPER
To furnish and embellish your home and make it more colorful, you don't need to buy expensive furnishings, just a bit of imagination and a few tricks to get a fresh and original effect. As we have seen many times, very little is needed to transform many of the objects we have at home into new decorations and useful accessories. One of these is paper , of every type and consistency. With the paper you can make so many beautiful flowers that can give a touch of glamor to any room and original decorations. You can use everything you have at home: old newspapers , scraps of cardboard, scraps of tissue paper , napkins: each type of paper is suitable for making flowers. And don't forget to involve children: you will see that fun.

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HOW TO MAKE PAPER FLOWERS
So let's see, step by step, how to make flowers using recycled paper :

REQUIRED
    Scissors
    Scotch tape
    Colored cardboard
    Skewer stick
    Trimmings
METHOD
Cut out hearts from various cards: 3 hearts are needed to make a flower.
Prepare many hearts in all the colors you have available so you can create colorful floral bouquets.
Place the first heart with the tip up and shape the other two by closing them on the first.
In addition to the explanation, look at the photo tutorial to better understand the process.
Curl the tips of the hearts with the help of the stick and then assemble them.
Decorated with a colored ribbon .

DIY PAPER FLOWERS
And here are still many curious ideas:

With crepe paper in two colors, pink for the petals and green for the stem and leaves, romantic roses are made to be kept in the living room or wherever you want. Just cut some strips about 20 cm long and no more than 1/2 cm high. The strips are then rolled up in a spiral, starting from the bottom, along a wire for modeling that has been sprinkled with vinyl glue. With the green paper the leaves that are also attached to the wire are modeled. For the upper part of the flower, very long strips of pink crepe paper are cut, which must be rolled up on itself, creating a small cone, widening the upper end of it as you move outwards. At the end the flower is fixed on the stem with dellavinyl glue .

Beautiful the idea of ??the paper flower with surprise , to give to friends on special occasions. Just bring your own crepe paper, vinyl glue, wooden sticks, and scissors. First of all, cut strips of crepe paper colored the same size as the chocolate you want to wrap. After wrapping the latter completely, cover it with other pieces of crepe paper to shape a more consistent flower. The flower is fixed on the stick, placed in turn under the chocolate. With other green crepe paper, decorate the stem and then complete it by inserting the bouquet into an ad hoc gift card and you're done.

If you like to prepare sweets and often use baking cups, you will probably have bought more and not knowing what to do with those left over. Don't worry, they too can be turned into great decorations . Take five and fold each of them into eight, rounding off the end with the scissors. After that the cups must be overlapped, a hole is made in the center and a string must be inserted. The end of the cord itself must be knotted and the cups molded. For the leaves, it is used crepe paper, easily mouldable and after having cut a pair, it is fixed with hot glue under the flower and here is the latter ready to become an excellent decoration for gift packages.

With the very fine paper you create wonderful home decorations to hang anywhere on occasions of events or parties, or by creating, for example, romantic written or initials with cardboard and then fill it with colorful paper flowers in order to decorate the door home or children's room.

Even newspaper can be used to make very decorative flowers , just cut strips of paper and roll them into a rose to be fixed onto a wooden stick. With the vinyl glue, a little water and a tempera color, the color with which to paint the flower itself is prepared. With this technique it is possible to create any kind of flower.

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