How To Make A BIG Paper Flower

Thank you for all of your kind comments on "Dressing the antique store window".   So many of you asked about the big paper flowers I used

 I think they would be great decorations for:

Weddings 
Showers

Luncheons

Classrooms

Church events

Parties........Or...Store windows

Now, after a lot of trial and error, I ended up with something that..Kind of resembles a flower

I tried making petal shapes, but that was too tedious.   So, I made circles in three different sizes.  I used a salad plate, cereal bowl, and saucer.   I now had "Petals" from large to small

I traced around the dishes onto regular copy paper then... 

...Cut my circles out.  Once I made a couple practice flowers I started cutting through 4-5 sheets at a time which sped up the process

After the circles were cut I curled the petal top with a pencil

And cut a slit halfway through the circle.  

Then  ran a line of hot glue and over lapped the bottom of the petal.  

Once the circle was overlapped and glued, it took on a petal shape

Now, using hot glue I layered the petals, I used four large ones for the bottom and then layered up three each of the medium and small petals.

Now it's looking like a flower

The center of the flower was made with cupcake papers.   The party store has so many colors and designs.

I turned two papers inside out.  The first one was glued in, then I crumpled the second one and glued it in the center of the first one

So, there you have it BIG PAPER FLOWERS
For all of your BIG PAPER FLOWER needs...I'm laughing!

  

Happy Creating!

Carol