I decided that I did not want fresh flower for our elopement. I looked online for dried or silk arrangements and felt that they were way to pricey. As I searched I came across many different ways to make paper flowers. Since I am not to craftsie, I chose two of the less complicated directions and combined them into what I wanted. I also refined as I went along. I made a dozen paper flowers and was happy with how they turned out.
This is a picture of my supplies. I picked up a French/English dictionary from Goodwill for one dollar. I bought some scrap book card stock, floral tape, floral wires, and ink pads. From home I gathered two different sized glasses to make the rounds, an empty spray bottle and filled it with water, scissors, paper toweling, and wire pliers.
I tore out some pages from the dictionary that I had paid a dollar for at Goodwill.
I trimmed off the rough edge where I had tore it from the book.
I drew around a cup to make a round circle.
I cut out the circle.
I folded the circle in half.
and in half again - two more times
Then I cut it into a rounded like shape leaving the bottom uncut. Kind of like we did for hearts back in school days.
I unfolded it and it looked like this.
This is how it looked before I started cutting.
I don't know if you can tell by this how and where I cut the folded paper or not.
Another step in the cutting out.
This is the type of scrap book card stock I bought. So much I saw was brighter colors than I wanted. This tablet had more deep and subtle colors.
Here are some of the pages from the tablet. I used a variety of all the colors in the tablet.
I used a slightly larger cup to make the circles for the card stock and drew around it as before.
I followed the same steps I did with the dictionary pages.
I sprayed the card stock pedals with water and put them on a paper towel so they would not bleed onto my table and discolor it.
I crumbled them up into a ball and opened the ink pads so they were ready.
I pressed the edge of each onto one of the ink pads. I did this with various color combinations and some of the flowers I did not edge with ink at all.
I then wadded up the book flower pedals.
This is the floral wire and buttons with two holes.
I threaded the wire up one hole.
and down the other one
Then I twisted the wire.
I used wire pliers to twist it all the way to the end and made a stem.
Starting with one of the word pedals I stacked them in the order I wanted. I used four word pedals and four differed colored card stock pedals.
I stuck the pedal circles through the stem starting with a word one and ending with a colored card stock one and squeezed it together.
After it dried I gently pulled out the parts of the flower and opened it a bit.
When I finished a dozen of the individual flowers I twisted their stems into a bouquet.
I purchased some wire ribbon to finish it off. I trimmed the ribbon shorter than it is in this picture.
