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There are tons of paper-flower tutorials out there. I Googled around a bit and also used an Offbeat Bride thread on paper flowers to find a few I liked. My process for picking which flowers to make was pretty much:

1. Look at paper flowers. Decide if I like how they look when complete, knowing that they will probably not look as good when I do it.
2. Look at the tutorial. Does this seem like something I can reasonably expect I will be able to do?
3. Will it require buying a bunch of stuff I don’t already own and will never use again? How expensive is said stuff?
4. Try making one and see how it turns out.

So far I have made quite a few of these two types of flowers. I might make another type or two as well, depending on how much time I have. I used the tutorials I linked to, but I do have some advice beyond what the tutorials say based on my own experience.

For these guys I didn’t do the distressing or glitter stuff because it’s not my style. I bought this punch from Amazon. I hot-glued pipe cleaners to the bottom so they can be arranged into a bouquet at some point. And I just used a Q-tip with the end cut off to curl the edges.

My yellow roses in progress

For the other flowers, I cut out petals for each flower (using one full page for each flower) and asked Mr. Cannon to help with the crumpling step. It gave me one less thing I had to do, and he was more than happy to crumple so he could get involved without having to get too creative. I also left a little space in the middle of each of the flowers to feed the pipe cleaner through to give them stems.

Some blue flowers

I’ll post a finished bouquet when I finally have one—and I might add some more flowers to my repertoire before then. If so, I’ll link up the tutorials and show you how it’s going.

Is anyone else forgoing real flowers?

All images personal unless otherwise noted