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Update: Miss Kitten included pictures of the flowers she made!
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About a month ago I was scoping out the arts and crafts section at Wal-Mart when I came across this Martha Stewart Tissue Paper Bouquet Kit on sale for $6.87. We were on our way out of town because Mr. K was competing in a duathlon. I wasn’t exactly looking forward to spending lots of time by myself waiting for him to cross the finish line, so I thought the kit would be a great diversion!
The kit consists of floral wire, floral tape, tissue paper, and a few flowery embellishments. It makes four varieties of blooms, with a total of 27 flowers in the kit. It took me about a day to make all of the flowers, and my hands were pretty tired when I was finished, but I think they turned out great! I put them on my dining room table and I’ve been getting lots of compliments ever since! I decided against using them for the wedding, just because of the difficulty of transporting them to Grand Cayman, but if I were getting married locally, I would definitely consider using these bright, pretty, eco-friendly flowers for my centerpieces! Another bonus is that guests can easily take them home as favors at the end of the night!
If you are considering trying out the Tissue Paper Bouquet for yourself, I have two tips for you:
Using tissue paper flowers is a great way to cut costs for your wedding. They are delicate, classy, and easy on your wallet! I just wish they wouldn’t get squished in my suitcase on the way to the Caymans! Check Wal-Mart and Michaels if you are interested in trying these out for yourself!
Here are some other cute tissue paper flower kits from Martha. I bought the pink peony kit for my rehearsal bouquet!
Martha Stewart Pink Peony Bouquet (not available online but I found it at Wal-Mart!)
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Cute Favor Boxes from Martha Stewart
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Not Martha, but a delightful DIY carnation kit!
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Are you going to incorporate paper flowers into your wedding?
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Ohh! Can we see the finished bouquet YOU made? I’m so impressed with your crafting skills!
Those are really cute…I wonder if they have any other colors!
I’m not…but those are too cute! I would definitely make some as decor for a party…maybe a bridal shower.
I considered making paper flowers for some extra decorations (aisle decorations, guest book table, bathroom etc.) and these are super cute! Thanks for the review!
I am hoping to make paper flowers for my wedding to save some money and make things unique (but mostly to save money!). One of the bees posted links to some paper flowers that were absolutely gorgeous and I can’t wait to try my hand at some of the projects.
We are having a Mexican themed wedding so paper flowers fit right in. I have made several arrangements for the tables, etc. I used the same kit to learn a few tricks but used different papers and designs for the final arrangements. I found that there were more ways to go about it than covered in the kit - and it was really easy.
We’re likely to use tissue paper pomanders (similar to Pengy’s but with a Styrofoam ball). I like the idea of a rehearsal bouquet!
I found some of the flowers in the kit to be a little too difficult and they didn’t come out like they should have. Others came out really pretty.
We decided to have a destination wedding as well, but if I were planning to have the wedding at home I would have looked into paper flowers. I’m not big on flowers in my everyday life so this would have been a cute alternative.
Ooooh I think I’ll try that for my rehearsal bouquet! What a cute idea!!
I am! ^_^ I already have one bouquet mockup done, but I haven’t really gotten started on doing much more since our wedding is so far away. I can start now and have it done ages in advance, but I’d have masses and masses of paper flowers coming out my ears for over 12 months. 
Not so sure how I feel about that…plus the dust factor. What if they get irredeemably dusty?!
And opinions on how far in advance is sane?
Sounds like we would ALL like to see the ones that you’ve made Miss Kitten!
I am also making the tissue paper pomanders to decorate the ceremony site. The paper lanterns was MUCH more cost effective than the styrofoam option for me, and it gave me a variety of sizes.
My whole family and my FH thought that I was insane when I started this project 10 months before the big day, but I had read about the warnings of how time consuming this might be and wanted to get an early start.
To store them (I worried about the dust factor too!) I am hanging them in our garage, with a small trash bag used as a cover. I poked a small hole in the bottom of the bag and “threaded” my ribbon on the lantern through that so that the entire pomander was covered well. It seems to work well so far.
I’m halfway done with my porject and everyone has stopped laughing at the finished result! I love them SO much that I’m considering making some smaller ones for the reception decor. It’s just SO cheap and easy to do - the only drawback is the time factor.
I included pictures of my bouquet in the post, but for some reason they didn’t make it on to Weddingbee! Because if you are patient and take your time the flowers really can look just like the picture! I will see about getting the post fixed!
I hope I can find a way to incorporate paper flowers into my wedding. I just love them
I made these and loved them!!
Here’s a board I made with them. I hung up a picture of my late father and surrounded him with tissue flowers. Kind of cheesy, but I think he would have loved it.
You did a great job, yours looks exactly like Martha’s! I love the Peony Bouquet, does it come in other colors?
@TechGirl: I’ve only seen it in pink so far. Hopefully Martha will come out with new designs this spring!
walmart has such better prices! can you believe michael’s sells it for 19.99! i had a 50% off and it was still $10!
i was going to use these as centerpieces but someone told me how time consuming it was and i only have 4 months and 15-20 tables! i might have to go the non-diy way =(
I was going to use those as centerpieces too… then something in me said “no, use hundreds of wine bottles instead, much better” I think paper flowers would have been quicker.
I’m terrible at dealing with delicate tissue paper. 
I wish I could make these, but I always end up tearing such things.
Those look really nice! I’m lucky enough to have a family friend who used to be a florist - she offered to do our flowers for us (we buy them from the warehouse, she arranges them). I’m hoping it’ll save us a lot of money.
My mom did these to cover the top of our gift card box and they turned out gorgeous. I think we are going to use them for the toss and bridesmaid bouquets now and possibly the centerpieces, but we actually found the kits for $2.50 (clearanced and probably the section that my mom and I spend the most time in) and we bought every kit they had, but we are still short (I have over 30 tables that I need centerpieces for), so if we can’t locate enough kits for cheap, I think that I am going to purchase in bulk giant hydrangeas since they are roughly 8-9 inches in diameter, so I should only need one stem per vase and I am still under $200 for my centerpiece arrangements.
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Mrs. Kitten, Austin/Grand Cayman
Age and Occupation: 25, Law Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Dental Student
Engagement Date: October 19, 2006
Wedding Date: April, 2009
Venue: The Grand Old House, Grand Cayman
About Me: In 2009 I will get married (after a two and a half year engagement!), become an Army wife, graduate from law school, take the bar, move from Austin to Washington, D.C., and start my career as a lawyer! With all this going on, Mr. Kitten and I decided to have a tropical, "stress-free" destination wedding. Nevertheless, my micromanaging, detail-oriented, perfectionist side has prevailed---I am currently obsessed with every last detail of my "stress-free" destination wedding! But most of all, I'm beyond excited to become Mrs. Kitten on a fabulous Caribbean vacation surrounded by my friends and family!
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