Paper Flowers!

Paper Flowers!!! Can I just say how much I love these?! I had so much fun making them too, which is a total bonus! I realize these ones don't have stems.. but you get the idea right? So cute!

Since I know you are dying to make them, I will share the secret! You're welcome.

Here are your supplies!

• Computer paper, or colored paper 
• Scissors
• Paint
• Paint brushes
• Hot glue gun

Probably all stuff you already have in your house!

Step One: With your scissors, cut out an uneven circle. The size only depends on how big or small you want your flower to be. This might take a couple experimental circles until you find the exact size you want, but hey, more flowers!

 Step Two: Cut your circle into a spiral, starting from the outside in!Again, the size doesn't really matter, but if you cut the spiral too thin, it will make step three harder.

Step Three: Start rolling! Take the outside end of the spiral and start rolling it up, keeping it as tight as possible. Note, make sure that the edge of the spiral that you cut stays even with itself. The outside edge will be uneen, and that is totally just fine!

When you have rolled the whole thing it should look something like this:

(Notice how the top edge is uneven, and the bottom edge is even with itself, that is what we want!)
Step Four: Let it go! You heard me, place the roll in the palm of your hand and let it go. Because of the tight rolling, the paper will keep its shape, just a little more loose. Here is what you will have!

Step Five: You're getting closer! Take your hot glue gun, fold over the bottom layer of the flower, and put just under a dime sized dot on there. This will be the part of the spiral that was at the middle of the circle where you stopped cutting. Then place the paper with glue back where it was, and gentle push the rest of the flower onto it so that we don't have any loose or unraveling parts of the flower.

Step Six: Paint! Paint! Paint! Take your paintbrush and get some paint just on the end of it, then have at the edges of your flower! Or paint the whole thing, it is completely up to you! Note, this step is not necessary if you are using colored or scrapbook paper.

There are a few ways you can go from here. You can cut out a leaf and attach it, put a stem on it with pipe cleaner or wire, or the one I did, get a needle and thread and string it through the middle of each flower, giving you an awesome flower garland to decorate with! See?

 Cute huh? Way getter than a plain old wall that's for sure! I will definitely be doing some more experiments with these and other paper flowers and when I do, I'll show ya what I find! Thanks so much for stopping by!

xoxo
Megan