How to Create Keepsake Paper Flowers
Paper flowers provide a permanent alternative to fresh flowers, giving your decor color and brightness long after fresh bouquets would have faded. If you want your homemade flowers to have a touch of meaning, create specialty keepsake flowers containing photos that make each bouquet original and personal. Create these flowers as gifts or simply as a way to showcase your favorite family pictures. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- 4-inch flower punches, several shapes
- Scrapbook paper, several colors and designs
- Photos
- 2-inch circle punch
- Craft glazing glue
- Paintbrush
- 20-gauge green craft wire
- Wire nips
- Pliers
- Hot glue
- Floral foam brick
- Flower pot
- Spanish moss
Instructions
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Punch six to eighteen 4-inch flower shapes from your scrapbook paper. Mix and match solid colors and designs with the shapes of your flowers. This is a great way to make use of extra scrapbook paper.
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Punch out one photo for each paper flower, using a 2-inch circle punch. Any picture that you like is suitable, such as family photos, school photos and images from magazines. If you have antique photos you'd like to use, scan them and punch the printouts so you can preserve the precious originals.
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Glue one circular photo to the center of each paper flower with glazing glue. Brush more glazing glue on top of each photo and onto the flower petals. This preserves both the flowers and photos. Let the glue dry overnight.
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Nip a 10- to 12-inch piece of craft wire for each flower. Grip the end of each wire with pliers and curl it into a 1/2-inch coil. Hot glue one coil to the back of each flower.
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Slip a floral foam brick into a decorative flower pot. Cover the foam with Spanish moss and stick the stems of your paper photo flowers into the foam brick.
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Tips & Warnings
These flowers will also look nice in a case.
Let the kids help by decorating the pot for the flowers. One idea is to have them paint of glue fabric onto a plastic or terracotta pot.
References
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