April Showers Bring May Flowers: Paper Flower Bouquet Ideas
10 February 2010
Author: Tracy Babineau
The most enjoyable thing about crafting a paper flower bouquet is the variety of options available to you. In nature, flowers take so many shapes, forms and textures that when you craft them you have a ton of options for materials that can be used. Get creative and have fun making flowers.
Here are a few ideas for crafting certain flowers:
- A rose, perfect in design, can be created from material, ribbon, lightweight paper or anything that can be molded easily.
- A daffodil is also intricate and delicate. For this flower, craft paper is the perfect texture and is also easily molded.
- A daisy or sunflower has such a strong, rigid shape that it can be created from light or heavyweight papers.
- Other materials that can be used for crafting flowers are felt, foam, metal, plastics and fibers.
Improvise with the middle of your flowers. Some great centers can be made from:
- Brads
- Eyelets
- Buttons
- Fluffy fiber
- Pom-poms
- Gems
- A grouping of beads
Flowers can also be described as a universal sign of happiness and life. Your crafted flowers can be used to accent so many projects: cards, gift wrap, home décor and scrapbooking.
The flower is an image that is recognized from a young age. Creating a paper flower bouquet or a greeting card incorporating a floral design is a great activity in which to include children.
Whether you make them alone or with your kids, in a vase or on a card, I hope that these paper flower bouquet ideas will inspire you to craft a garden full of pretty paper blossoms!