For my daughter's garden party themed birthday party this year, I put together these giant tissue paper flower backdrops. They were pretty easy to make and made a big statement. I was so pleased with how they worked out and my daughter was ecstatic. In my next post I will share how the whole party came together!
Supplies:
+ Tissue paper
+ Clips
+ Scissors
+ Cardboard
+ Glue
Gather about three pieces of tissue paper together. Fold tissue paper in half and then keep folding until you get it like the pencil shape below. Then trim one end with your flower shape of choice - rounded or pointy. I show how each one looks in the next photos. You can use a clip to hold the folded tissue paper together.
Once cut, open up one piece of tissue paper and gather it in the middle.
Then fold it where you gathered to create a petal.
Here are some more photos to show you how the different shapes turn out.
Repeat the process until you have enough petals to fill out your flower, making it as full as you would like. I used about six pieces of tissue paper for each flower.
Then glue your tissue paper down onto a piece of cut out cardboard. My only suggestion is that you could see the cardboard through some of the flowers. It didn't bother me too much but you could alter the color so you can't see the backing.
Lightly press down so the glue attaches to the tissue paper. You can fluff it out a little once it is dry.
Here is the tissue paper from Target that I used for the pastel colors.
For the center of the flowers I kind of just winged it. I cut small strips and brought each side into the middle to create a bow shape. Then twisted it in the middle.
I made a couple and then glued them to the center of my flowers.
Then I took scraps of cut tissue paper and glued it inside of the bow shapes.
I found the more messy and less perfect they were, the better the centers came out.
While I was at it, I also made these tissue paper flowers on sticks to put in the cake and use for decoration. I used a similar method as the tissue paper centers. Cutting smaller strips with either a point or rounded end. Then pulling them all together in the center and twisting the bottom (see above photo).
I used washi tape and twisted it around the flower onto a stick. I watched my mom do this with floral tape at her flower shop for many years! Then I taped on little paper leaves.
I also added centers to a few of them.
I hung up the flowers around the house and made little tissue paper stems with paper leaves. Here is how they got put up the night before her birthday. A few fell down by morning so it is helpful to give it a test run to make sure everything is secure. I ended up using small nails to get the flowers to stay hung.
