Make It: Paper Dahlia Flowers

As Spring is approaching we’re jumping the gun with some pretty blooms! These paper dahlias make great decorations for a party or merchandising decor. You could even make a small one to put on top of a gift!

How to:

Step 1: Gather supplies. We used Jillson & Roberts tissue in Blue (FT05) and spray mounted it to both sides of some card-stock. Print out This Template and cut out it’s shapes. This template makes a finished flower that is approximately 10″ in diameter. Scale up or down for larger or smaller.

Step 2: Cut the shapes from the template out of your blue card-stock. We used 14 of the largest and medium petals, and 11 of the smallest.

Step 3: Fold the two bottom corners of each petal into the bottom center and use a glue gun to hold them in place.

Step 4-5: Glue the largest petals around the outer perimeter of the circle you cut from the template. Follow with a row of the medium sized and then the smallest.

Step 6: Cut 2-3 circles from the blue card-stock each a little smaller than the last. Use scissors to cut fringe on the edges and adhere to the center of your flower. We used card-stock that matched the petals for two of our inner circles and a slightly darker piece for the middle.

And now you have a beautiful paper dahlia! You can repeat in different colors and sizes to make a paper flower garden. As you can see below we used them for props in our last Everyday photo-shoot!

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