Do-it-yourself crepe paper flowers

Crepe paper is a lightweight, flexible material that is great for creating beautiful, lifelike colors. It can be used to make bouquets, including sweet ones, from sweets, voluminous home decorations or unusual postcards.

One of the most beautiful flowers that can be made from crepe paper with your own hands is a peony. The instructions for creating such a craft looks very simple.

1. First, the crepe paper needs to be cut into strips of suitable width.
2. Then you can start cutting out individual petals.
3. The edges of the petals need to be carefully stretched. In this case, they will look more natural.
4. To create a beautiful volumetric bud, you need to place a foil ball or candy inside.
5. After that, you can start assembling a voluminous flower. This is done very easily. All petals are wrapped around the ball. They can be fixed with a thread or attached to each other with glue.
6. The more petals are used to create a flower, the more voluminous it turns out.
7. When the bud is ready, its petals need to be carefully separated from each other.

Since crepe paper holds its shape well, it can be easily made into beautiful large roses. A master class on creating such a decoration looks very simple.

1. To begin with, you need to cut petals of suitable sizes and shapes from thin crepe paper.
2. Each of them must be carefully stretched.
3. The base of the craft can be made from crumpled scraps of paper. Petals are attached to this dense ball.
4. When the bud is ready, its lower part must be carefully tied with a strong thread.

In addition to roses and peonies, there are other flowers that you can make with your own hands.

One of the most unusual plants is poinsettia... This red flower in many countries is a symbol of Christmas, because in its shape it resembles the Star of Bethlehem. Paper poinsettia can be used to decorate your home for the New Years or to decorate gift wraps.

The step-by-step process for creating such a craft is as follows.

1. First you need to make the base of the flower. To do this, thin long flagella must be rolled out of pieces of green and yellow paper.
2. Next, beautiful leaves with sharp edges need to be cut out of green paper. To make them look more realistic, they need to be decorated with thin flagella twisted from the remnants of green material.
3. After that, according to the same principle, you need to make flower petals. Their edges must be slightly stretched and twisted inward.
4. Thin filaments must be twisted from scraps of red paper. They are glued to each petal.
5. After that, you can start forming the flower. To do this, the green and yellow parts must be brought together and wrapped in a thin strip of paper.
6. Red petals are glued to this base.
7. The stem of the flower is formed from light green paper. It is decorated with dark petals.

Bright poppies can be made from two colors of thick crepe paper. A simple step-by-step instruction will help with this.

1. The first step is to cut a wide strip from a sheet of black paper.
2. Its edges must be carefully cut. These strips must be twisted into thin flagella.
3. A round candy of a suitable size can be used as a basis for the craft. It must be wrapped in black paper.
4. The lower edge of the future bud must be fixed with a thin thread.
5. Cut out the petals of a suitable shape from red crepe paper.
6. The edges of each petal must be carefully stretched to make them wavy.
7. The resulting blanks can be attached to the base of the flower.
8. Next, the lower part of the bud should be wrapped in green paper.
9. The flower is attached to a stem made of thin metal wire, which is then also wrapped in green paper.

To decorate the interior, you can make cute green succulents from crepe paper. Even a child can easily cope with this task.

1. The first step is to cut the crepe paper into thin strips.
2. The prepared part must be carefully rolled up and bent in half.
3. The edges of the resulting petal must be cut off to form the base of the petal.
4. The same must be done with the rest of the blanks. Further, their edges must be slightly stretched and bent. Further, the corner of the petal needs to be slightly sharpened.
5. After that, you can start assembling the flower. All petals are laid out in a circle. Each of them is glued to the other.
6. Having finished with the first circle, you can start creating the next ones. Each of them should be smaller than the previous one.

The finished flower can be used to decorate a postcard or placed in a small pot. A plant like this will look great on your desktop.

Bright tulips made of crepe paper will be a great addition to a gift for mom or grandmother. Even elementary school students can cope with the creation of such colors. All that is needed for this is to select the necessary materials and follow the instructions.

1. To begin with, you need to cut 6 petals of a suitable size from crepe paper of the desired color.
2. The edges of each of them must be carefully stretched. The petals are large and realistic. The legs of the petals should be elongated.
3. Candy can be placed inside the future flower. It must be surrounded by three petals.
4. Next, you need to attach a thin wooden skewer or metal wire to the resulting bud.
5. The rest of the petals are attached from above. They are attached to the base of the craft with glue.
6. The resulting workpiece must be wrapped in thin corrugated paper. The tulip petals need to be slightly separated from each other.
7. Long leaves should be cut out of dark green crepe paper. They are also attached to the stem.

Asters will perfectly fit into a summer bouquet. Such flowers are made very simply.

1. First, cut the crepe paper into thin strips.
2. The edges of each of them must be carefully cut.
3. The resulting strips must be attached to a thin skewer and twisted into flagella.
4. Then you need to take strips of a contrasting color and twist around the base in a tight spiral, forming a beautiful volumetric bud.
5. The stem is wrapped in green paper.
6. Next, the flower must be slightly fluffed up.

Lovers of delicate spring flowers will love the beautiful blue bells. They are very simple to do.

1. To begin with, you need to cut out a rectangular flower blank from crepe paper and arrange the edge, as shown in the figure.
2. The resulting workpiece is folded into a bud and fixed with glue.
3. The lower part of the flower is connected to the stem. wrapped in green paper.
4. Several such blanks are attached to a common stem and supplemented with wide leaves.

Dark red and green crepe paper can also be used to make fine carnations. They turn out to be voluminous and realistic. Such flowers are made as follows.

1. First, a strip of red crepe paper must be carefully rolled into several layers.
2. The edges of this workpiece must be cut with sharp scissors.
3. Next, a strip of red paper must be rolled up, forming a dense bud.
4. The lower part of the workpiece must be carefully tied with a thread.
5. After that, the bottom edge of the flower can be wrapped in green crepe paper.

Carnations can be used to decorate spring cards or be part of a full-fledged bouquet.

The following video will tell you how to make huge flowers from crepe paper with your own hands.