![]() How to make crepe Paper Flowers – Step by step This post has been sitting in draft for a long time and they finally got it to see the light of day! Thanks so much, ladies! Since I’ve been crazy busy lately, I asked a few friends to help me out with this Paper Flower tutorial. We used them to decorate Alina’s third birthday festivities and to learn about Mexican Day of the Dead last year. Paper Flowers are easy to make and so beautiful. For Day of the Dead you might choose to recreate the “flower of the dead”, a marigold, after learning how to in our Mexican paper FLower Tutorial or simply create colorful flowers to decorate your home as an ofrenda. ![]() They and Papel Picado (tissue paper cutout banner) are ubiquitous across Latin America as decorations for any festive occasion. It's out of print, but you can still get hold of it on Amazon.A friend helped to create this Mexican paper flower tutorial for Day of the Dead celebrations and Hispanic Heritage Month, but really, paper flowers not hard to make at all. If you want to learn more about papel picado, there's a delightful book by Kathleen Trenchard called Mexican Papercutting (Lark Books, 1999). You can also make bigger, more elaborate versions of the buntings and use them as full-size festive decoratations. For a side-opening card, you need one pierced hole on the opening side (wrap the thread around the edge) and two on the fold side (one hole placed on the fold). You can use brads to mount the bunting on the card front - or you can just pierce holes and thread the craft thread through. I positioned a bit of punched border underneath the patterned paper strip as an accent mat and also glued punch-outs from the Petites as bullet-point-style embellishments next to the greeting. The patterned paper is October Afternoon Modern Homemaker, which isn't new - but is still available. Alternatively, you can pierce the holes with a needle - put a kneaded eraser underneath to receive the point.įor the card blanks, I computer-printed the greeting onto 160gsm copier paper. I used a 1/16" circle handpunch to pierce the stringing holes at either side of each flag. If you are working with the doily, use it on point (love those handkerchief points!). You can trim the punched borders in various configurations. Cut the flag out around the punched shapes to engineer the position of the border and motif. Next, position the paper punch flower and cut it out. ![]() To make each flag, punch the border first. I used ordinary coloured paper from a pad for the bunting, and craft thread for stringing. If you make a card with rows of buntings in graduated sizes, largest flags at the top to smallest on the bottom, then your card will have a perspective effect - like looking down a street festooned with bunting. The teeny-tiny flags do not have a flower shape punched out. Note that the pennant-style flags have the punched border at the top. ![]() Remember to vary the colours, size, and styles of your flags. It is important to use the Petal Pairs Petites because their smaller size makes a flag about the right size for a greetings card. The flower shapes were cut out with Petal Pairs Petites (I used Petites 1 no 892e, Petites 2 no 893e, and Petites 3 no 894e). The flags with the gently curving corner were made using the Doily Square Die (item 226e). For the straight lattice design, I used Simplicity Pattern Punch Doily Border 967e. The buntings on my thank you cards are made with Tonic Studios products. But you can mimic the intricate filigree cuts of Mexican banners easily with your paper punches. Authentic papel picado is crafted using tissue paper, a chisel, and a lead mat (those magnificent festive buntings are made up in quantity, cut out in stacks). The Mexican Day of the Dead holiday is coming up soon, and that got me to thinking about the beautiful art of papel picado - Mexican papercutting. Mexican-style banners made with Tonic paper punches (and a die).
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