We’ve been inspired lately by beautiful floral crowns. They are perfect for a summer wedding or beautiful everyday fashion statement! We made the crown featured here using Jillson & Roberts tissue, some pink acrylic paint and a floral wire “crown” that has a few mini plastic flowers and leaves adorning it. It’s amazing what you can create from some good quality tissue paper, we love it!

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Ready to use up some of that spare ribbon you have laying around after wrapping presents? Here’s a quick and easy way to create a cute hair bow to keep or gift!

Supplies :

J&R Ribbons. We used:
Sheer Gold Bow – FR3915 paired with FR1015 & XCM492
Sheer Lime Bow – FR3241 paired with FR1241 & XCM492
White Satin Bow – FR1124 paired with FR1021 & XCM492
Pink Grosgrain Bow – FR1210 paired with FR1204 & XCM492
Green Grosgrain Bow – 1241 paired with FR1021
Silver Satin Bow – FR1114 paired with FR1014 & XCM492

Also used: Glue Gun, and Bobby Pins.

This project is very easy and turns out so cute! They make great gifts, party favors or personal fashion statements. To start, cut strips of the ribbon for the main bow and middle bands. Our ribbon for the bows was about 8″ long (slightly shorter for thinner ribbon and longer for wider), and approximately 2″ for the middle strip.

Take the strips and using a glue gun, glue the two ends of the bow into the middle, then cinch and glue the middle strip around the center of the bow (attaching holographic on top if desired). Trim any extra ribbon, attach a bobby pin or hair clip onto the back, and you’re done! Clip it in your hair or onto a gift!

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In case you were coveting the new MSGM fringed sandals but weren’t able to buy them before they sold out – or you didn’t want to spend close to a thousand dollars for them! – we have the perfect solution. With some varied Jillson & Roberts ribbon, rhinestones, and a glue gun we made our own high fashion version!

We used 1″ Black ribbon (FR1021) for the strap and glued layers of fringe, made from strips of gold stretch tinsel (STC15), black curling poly (PC24), and natural paper raffia (PR18) onto the back. Then we made tassels from white and blue natural raffia (PR24 and PR01), orange curling (CM620), 5/8th inch brown satin (FR0907), and white grosgrain ribbon (FR1224 cut into smaller strips), which were glued on top. We also added some rhinestones in between for sparkle. To finish it off we put some velcro on the ends to hold it tight around your ankle. And voilà a versatile and fashionable embellishment for your favorite strappy heels! One of our beautiful and stylish J&R team members generously offered to model them for us.

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You know when you’re wrapping a present and a plain colored bow just won’t do? Here’s a quick tutorial on how to make a bow out of any paper you want! Exciting right?

Step 1: Pick your paper. We used Glitter Dot (R419). We cut two 12″x12″ pieces and used spray mount to attach them back to back (making it double sided). Then cut it into twelve 1″ x 12″ strips – note this will be enough for two bows.

Step 2: Find the middle of the strip and loop one end onto it. Staple in place. One easy way to do this is to bring the end to the middle flat then flip the end upside down to create the loop.

Step 3: Do the same to the other end. Once you get good at it you can staple both ends at the same time.

Step 4: Do this for 11 of the 12 strips.

Step 5: Take two loops and use a drop of hot glue (or other adhesive) to attach one on top of the other at a 45 degree angle to each other. Continue doing this placing each piece so it rotates and fills the gap between the previously placed pieces. We used six looped pieces on one of the pictured bows and 5 on the other. You can experiment and see how thick you like them.

Step 6: Take the remaining strip you didn’t make into a loop and cut it in half. Then staple it into a circle and glue it into the middle of the bow to fill the space.

Step 7: Add to your present and admire!

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For the decor at a recent soirée the host asked if I would make some paper flowers to match our Jillson & Roberts Bold Blossom 365 wrap – which she brilliantly used for the tablecloth! The flowers turned out great and the wrap created a perfect Spring-time mood.

Here’s the lowdown on how to create your own flowers….

It’s pretty simple, cut tissue paper (used here: FT16, FT39, FT09, FT27) petals in three sizes. Start laying them around in a circle with all of them overlapping on one center point. Go from biggest on the bottom to smallest on top. Lift the stack from the middle and scrunch/twist from the bottom center to hold them all together. Add some tissue circles in a coordinating color on the top and some crinkle (used here: CS27, CS24, CS39) on top of that.

Hang the finished flowers (after making sure everything is well glued together!), lay down some coordinating wrap and voilà! All you need is treats and guests! Bold Blossom 365 is the perfect colorful and modern addition to any party!

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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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