Make it: White Paper Flowers

In our Everyday 2015 Catalog we used some pretty white paper flowers for our wedding beauty shot. These flowers are so easy to create and make great backdrops for store displays, or special events – like a wedding! See our how-to below.

Part of what makes these flowers so easy to make is that they are meant to be part of a bigger installation and therefore no single flower has to be “perfect”. Outlined here are two types of petal you can use(round and pointed) but you can experiment with others to recreate the petal shape of any flower you like!

Step 1: Cut out shapes from paper. We used circles in three sizes for one flower and a long pointed petal shape for another.

Step 2: Cut a slit in the base of each piece going about 20% up the height of the petal. Then overlap one half of the slit over the other and use a glue gun or double sided tape to hold it in place.

Step 3: Arrange the shapes to make flowers. For the circles this entailed positioning the circles inside each other, rotating each one a bit, and using the larger for the outside and smaller for inside. For the petal shapes we cut a circle out of card stock and hot glued the petals one by one around it.

Step 4: For the centers, cut circles out of paper. Cut a few (at least 3) of multiple sizes then stack largest to smallest. Use scissors to fringe the edges. Then fluff them up a bit so the fringe isn’t all laying perfectly flat. Attach the circles to the center of the flowers, and if desired finish with a rhinestone or other sparkly element in the center.

Step 5: Repeat this with various sizes and petal shapes and then arrange and glue them to a white backdrop.

These are easy, stylish, and fun. We still have the flowers we used for our photo-shoot hanging around various corners of our office!

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