How-To Make Paper Flowers

It’s the last Friday before Mother’s Day and we are going to do our last tutorial for our Mother’s Day breakfast in bed. This week we are going to share with you a how-to about making paper flowers that you can use to decorate for Mother’s Day. Nicole has taken the lead for this tutorial; she discovered how to make these flowers (she actually made a bunch for me when I had my tea party birthday party a few years back). Now, grab your supplies and get ready to craft!

P.S. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!

Paper Flowers

You will need:

Tissue paper in various colors

Scissors

Floral tape

Floral wire

Ruler

Step One:

Cut four 3 inch by 20 inch pieces of tissue paper.

Step Two: 

Roll up the tissue into balls to make the paper look crinkly.

Step Three: 

Fold the strips using a small accordion fold. 

Step Four:

Choose a length for your flower stem and cut a piece of floral wire that length. Gather the petals together in a flower shape and wrap the bottom of the gathered petals with the wire to help secure them together. Use the floral tape to wrap around the petals and wire as shown in the picture.

Step Five:

Enjoy your flowers. Make a bouquet for mom to put on her breakfast tray or leave a single flower for her. 

DIY Mother's Day Card

Hi there everybody. Happy May Day!

Today the focus continues to be on mom. We are going to do a DIY Mother’s Day card from scratch, so get in crafting mode and let’s start right away. I have chosen a purple and kraft theme for my card because I think that’s what my mom will like but you can go for any colour combination that you like!

A Card for Mom

Gather your supplies...

• Heating tool 

• Embossing powder (I chose the sparkly kind)

• A stamp (Mine says “Happy Mother’s Day)

• Ink (I picked “Iris” by Color Box)

• Ribbon (I decided to go with a dark chocolaty brown)

• Kraft card which is 6 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches

• A layer of dark purple cardstock 6x4 inches

• A layer of lighter purple cardstock 2 ½ x 1 ¾ inches and then a strip of the same colour 6 x ¾ inch

• A layer of white cardstock 1 ¾ x 2 ¼ inch

• Finally to finish off the card three hand punched hearts (I picked one of the dark purple and two Krafts) 

• Glue tape

Step 1

Cut all your cardstock to the appropriate sizes. I find it is so much easier to pre-cut everything instead of cutting as you go, but that’s just me. 

Step 2

Stamp and emboss your words onto the white layer and heat with the heating tool. Flatten under some heavy books.

Step 3

Glue the flattened words onto the layer of light purple cardstock.

Step 4

Glue the strip of brown ribbon in the center of the light purple strip and then glue everything onto the dark purple layer. * Refer to the next two steps for the layout of the card and how the layers should be glued.

Step 5 

Space out your hearts and glue them over the ribbon and light purple strip. 

Step 6 

Here’s the finished product. Hopefully it puts a smile on your mom’s face on Mother’s Day.