DIY Flower Craft

How to Make Flowers from Paper - Who does not like the flowers? Yups, almost everyone likes flowers, especially bank hehehehe flowers. This time I will share how to make flowers from crepe paper. For those who often make handicrafts may already be familiar with this one material.

Crepe paper is often used to make various handicrafts because of its easy to mold texture and its cheap price. In addition there are so many choices of colors that can be used so that it can make a variety of interesting works.

Flowers from crepe paper can be used as various decorations in the house or other room. You can make flowers for wall hangings or flowers for decoration on the table. This ornamental flower can also be used to decorate the party room or other events.

Almost all the popular flowers such as roses, jasmine, tulips, sakura and other kinds of flowers. Of course each flower has a different level of difficulty.

Well this time we will learn to make flower decorations from crepe paper that is easy to make. Before entering the tutorial to make flowers, prepare some tools and materials needed below.

Tools needed:

Scissor
Ruler
Pencil
Small pot

Materials needed:

Crepe paper of different colors
Paper glue
Yarn
Newsprint
Small wire for making flower stalks
Isolation of color

How to Make Sakura Flower from Crepe Paper
The cherry blossoms are typical Japanese flower. To make cherry blossoms from crepe paper is quite complicated, the article of this flower not only has one stalk only. In one stem usually there are many twigs and flowers in it.

To make the stem you can use the wire then wrapped in paper or yarn to resemble the original twig. But if you do not want to bother, you can use twigs that have been dried and in durable. Also prepare a crepe paper with 3 different colors namely yellow, pink and dark green. After the two materials above are ready to make the paper flowers can follow the steps below.

Scissors of green and yellow crepe paper with size 1 x 10 cm, then pink paper with size 5 x 10cm.
Next fold the pink crepe paper then cut into five parts with elongated shape and oval shape like cherry blossom petals.
The result of the above cuts will produce 5 parts of petals each of which there are 2 piles of petals.
Next is to make the flower sticks with yellow crepe paper. Make a yellow crepe paper fold a bit long making it easier to stick petals on twigs.
After the flower pistil so, stick one by one flower petals on the pistil to form like a crown.
Next cover the pistil with a green crepe paper to impress like an original flower stalk.

In order to make the flowers look like real trees, you can make some cherry blossom buds. Make a circle of pink crepe paper, then coat it with 3 petals, and make a layer on the bottom with a green crepe paper.

After the cherry blossoms and buds are made enough, it's time to arrange the flowers. Paste the flowers and flower buds that have been made on the twig carefully. To paste it you can use glue.

Paste it evenly on the twig so that the branch is filled with flowers. To complement the stick also flower buds that have been made on the branch that has not been filled with flowers. Once completed you can stick a twig on a pot or other media.