Giant Paper Flowers

I thing giant paper flowers are beautiful and I had wanted to try this craft for awhile now. Bestie's bridal shower seemed like the perfect opportunity to create them with a purpose.

First: Getting the paper, and supplies (more about the supplies later on, but for this first flower I used card stock...)

I did a little research online as to the petal shapes and drew one that was similar for the rose shape. It's basically a heart shape with a flat, wide base.

Then I rolled the edges of the petals back, and cut the center of the base to fold and glue for dimension:

Here's a photo of round 1 being done:

I did two rounds around the edge, and then did the center separately. The center needed to be tighter clusters, so I cut 16 smaller petals (I made 3 different petal sizes in total- 9 of the largest, 12 of the middle size, and 16 of the smaller ones)

The center piece needed to be assembled a little differently, and rolled the opposite way- it needed to curve in, and be a tighter cluster.

Once I had assembled the center, I hot glued it right in the middle, and then used a few other remaining petals to fill in the space between the center and row two.

Here's how the first flower turned out:

Card stock was proving to cut more jagged than printer paper would, was thicker (which was nice for sturdiness, but the rolls weren't as smooth)

So I hopped online and purchased some printer paper to make the other flowers. This was far more cost effective.

Now it should, in theory, go faster since I had the petal stencil pieces established, and knew the process better this time as well as the quantities needed...

I cut out a bunch of pieces for the next few flowers, but with the time restraints and such I only made 3 more flowers (4 in total) and was happy enough with that. Lessons through this:

• Use colored printer paper (not card stock)

• Cut out the pattern pieces in mass quantities first, and assemble at a different time

Someday in the future maybe I'll do an expanded wall amount, but they worked well enough for the purposes this time.