Origami Paper Flowers

Spring is almost here! Keeping up with my spring inspired projects, let's make some paper flowers!

You'll need 2 different colored paper, I chose pink for my flower, and green for my stem.


You can get specific origami paper which is usually in perfect squares, but if you have normal rectangular paper like I do, just turn it into a perfect square like this:




And you end up with this:


Take your square and make creases from corner to corner (diagonally)



holding the creases, push in two of the sides to create a triangle

lay your triangle with the point of the triangle that won't openaway from you.


On one side take the 2 bottom points and fold up to the top point



turn over and do the same on the other side


now you'll have a diamond. take each left and right point on each side, and pinch together, making the same shaped diamond. This tucks away the flaps.






Now take each side on one side of your diamond and fold towards the center, overlapping the center just a bit, and tuck one side into the open end of the other side, then repeat on the other side of your diamond






Now you'll have 2 little "handles" on each side. Hold on to then with your thumb and pointer finger, (pinching where you tucked the sides together and making sure you hold tight enough they don't pop open) pull apart a bit and push the bottom down on the table, "puffing" it up





Now at the top of your flower, there should be 4 "petals" peel them back.




On the bottom of your flower you'll have a hole


Now take your paper for your stem, cut a piece length wise (about 2 inches wide) and keep folding lengthwise until you physically cannot fold anymore





Insert the stem into the hole on the bottom of the flower and you're done!

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Turning Roses into Peonies...I'm magic

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Here's a tutorial on how to turn silk roses into peonies, that you can do on any surface...I chose to do one on one of my old blue throw pillows. Peonies have got to be my most favorite flower in the world. They are so beautiful and delicate. There's something frilly and uber girly about them, which is probably why I love them!

What I used:

• Blue throw pillow
• 4 White fake roses
• Scissors
• Glue gun

Take your flowers

And pull off the backing and each layer...

Discard any plastic pieces and arrange petals in piles by size...

Starting with your smallest size , pinch together the tops of the petals, and the center will make a point

Put some hot glue on the tip of that pont, and place on the surface you are gluing your peony...for me, it's the center of my pillow. This petal will be the center of your flower.

Do the same for the rest of your smallest sized petals and cluster them around the center petals.

Once you have used all of the smallest sized, move on to the next size up and continue to cluster outside the smaller petals

Do the same for all the sizes, except for your largest peatals

Now for your largest petals, cut them into individual petals

Glue the tip, or the point of the petal, and glue them all around the outside of your cluster , but lay these flat.

Ta-da! A peony from roses!

Pillow Revamp & Fabric Rosette Tutorial

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Sorry I have been absent for so long!



I plan on being back in action with alot of new projects for Spring!



Since spring is right around the corner, I've been wanting to bring a little bit of it inside our apartment and cheer the place up!



I've had these old throw pillows on our couches for sometime now and I've been pretty bored of them lately, so I decided to jazz them up a bit!



Here's what I used:

• my old throw pillow


• scissors


• hot glue gun


• fabric


• and a puppy potty pad (which I use as a padded work space to protect my table).........don't judge.

Now, on to making the rosettes...

Lay your fabric out flat

About 2 inces from the edge of your fabric cut a little slit

Now grab hold of both sides of your cut

And rip it!!

Don't worry about trying to keep things straight, just pull equally hard on both sides and it will always rip in a straight line! (This also feels really good to do if you're P-Oed about something!)

Here's what you end up with

Now the lenth of your fabric strip will determine how big around your rosette ends up...the length of mine wasn't long enough for me so I just hot glued 2 strips together.

Once that cooled and dried I tied a knot where the 2 strips were glued, and that acts as the center of your rosette. (If you don't need to glue 2 strips together, then knot your fabric in the dead center of your strip)

Pinch the 2 sides of the knot together and glue them together so you end up with the knot on top and the 2 fabric "tails" side by side.

Start twisting your tails together and wrap them around the knot, gluing to secure as you go

Keep winding and gluing until all of your tail is secured to the rosette.

Here is what you end up with

Soooo cuuuuute!!

About this time in the project feel your pant leg being pulled from below the table and.......err......wait a minute! This isn't part of my tutorial....oh Harley!

And take your dog out to use the bathroom...this step is of course optional.

GETTING BACK TO IT!

I ended up making the bigger one with 2 strips glued together, and I made 2 smaller rosettes with only one strip of fabric.

Then I just glued them where I wanted them on my throw pillow and voila!

Beautiful! I loved it so much, I made one for my barstool!

LUUUUURVE