Exquisite Book of Paper Flowers: A Guide to Making Unbelievably Realistic Paper Blooms

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Make roses out of a music sheet Perfect for a wedding anniversary gift, take the sheet music for your first dance song or a print out of your vows and make these into paper flowers they'll love. Follow this tutorial by Smile Mercantile to make your own. Once dry, you can add it to your table, make a garland, add it to a wreath, etc. How To Decorate with Vintage Paper Roses How to make paper cacti These exotic plants look great in paper form, follow Paper Kawaii's tutorial to make some sweet cacti featured in their very own paper planters. Bring spring in with paper cherry blossoms Master the art of origami and fold your paper to create pretty cherry blossoms that look great scattered on windowsills or inside glass vases. Take a look at this tutorial by Kompi Art and have a go.

Place a skewer or knitting needle on the side edge of the flower petals, pinch the edge of the paper over and onto the skewer and begin to tightly roll the petal around it. Next, remove one petal from one of the pieces, two from the next one, and three from the third piece. Finally, cut the last piece in half. Save all pieces to form the rose petals. Begin to Form Petals for Paper Flowers How to make a paper flower bouquet Don't do things by halves, make a full bouquet of paper roses for that special someone. Follow this tutorial from Komp Art. One of the things I love about this book is the gorgeous photographs the publisher took of my flowers. In many cases they recreated the flowers I made (so we know my instructions worked—hooray!) and then made projects using the paper flowers. Here are some of their beautiful projects in the book:Once the whole petal has been rolled up, carefully remove the skewer or knitting needle and open up the petal, taking care not to completely flatten the shape you have created. Repeat for all the petals. These can be made in a variety of colours, but making a few flowers out of different shades of one colour makes a lovely selection, such as these yellow and orange ones. You could also try shades of pink. The ranunculus stems look wonderful displayed in simple vases, either individually or as a group. You will need: I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial, and let me know what projects you plan to make with paper flowers. Photocopy the ranunculus flower template onto your chosen paper or photocopy it onto some heavyweight paper and cut it out, then draw around it on your chosen paper. Do the same with the leaf using green paper and attach a wire stem with the single wire technique (below). The paper flowers can be large or small. I wanted a larger rose design to serve as a place card at each place setting.

The roses themselves are pretty enough but when you add the wording from your old books, they are simply unlike anything you have ever seen before.

What Can You Do With Your Old Book Flowers?

I am a huge lover of books and have so many on my bookcases, so these really appeal to me. Anytime a book is involved, I’m hooked. And, I should mention that if you have tons of books and you don’t have anywhere to keep them, I have a great list of 20 DIY bookshelves that you can build in no time. The next step is to shape the small circles into flower petals. Each petal will take the form of a small cone. Use glue to hold the petals in their new shapes. Any type of glue you want to use for this is just fine. Once you think you have enough petals, move on to the next step below.