Tutorial: Easiest Paper Flowers Ever!

Easy DIY: How to Make Beautiful Paper Flowers

Making paper flowers can be an inexpensive way to decorate your wedding or reception venue, while still impressing guests with beautiful whimsical art.

Step 1: Take a piece of paper and fold it in half. You can use up to three folded pieces at a time. 

Tip: Any paper will work, however, very thin paper (tissue) can rip accidentally or not be as durable and a very thick card stock may not be as pliable. Here, as you can see, I chose paper from a book. 

Step Two: Cut out Hearts and Lots of them. The trick is to cut out various sizes of hearts starting from a half-inch across to three inches wide. I cut out six pages of hearts total. 

Step 3: For easy management of your hearts layout according to size. 

Step 4: On the opposite site of the fold. Roll each heart backwards over a thin, long, round object.

Tip:  Here I am using a piece of Balsa wood, but you can use the end of a paint brush, a spoon, or anything else you can find that is slender and curved. 

Here's what your hearts should look like. 

Step 5: Take one half of the smallest heart and fold just past the center of the heart. Do not flatten.

Step 6: Fold the other side to overlap the fold you just made. This will be the center and base of your flower. Use glue to affix. I prefer a glue gun, but white glue will work as well (just hold it until it dries). 

Step 7: Using one heart at a time, working from smaller to bigger begin gluing the hearts around the base. 

Tip: As you work remember that it should not be completely symmetrical. Play with the petals a bit. 

One Heart

It looks more realistic to start with a few layers of small petals.  Also, remember you can trim the petals as you go if they seem too large. 

A finished flower! I used all of the hearts cut out from six sheets.

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