Thursday, April 7, 2011

For Today...

We'll start off with a new song for you to listen to, unless you've already heard it!  Here's the video for it to watch also :) they're attractive.

AND....

...Finally the tissue paper flowers

Okay, so you can go to any store that carries tissue paper and get any color(s).  Usually they're folded up in the package so try, if you can, to flatten them out a little before you start.

You'll need:
Tissue paper at least a package or two.
Scissors.
Floral wire.  ( I got mine at hobby lobby in the flower section but I'm sure you could find it a Michaels or any other craft store.  Mine is also green.)




So to start off grab 2 flat pieces of tissue paper, keep them together.  Start folding back in forth, as if you were making a fan (I usually keep the folds about 1 inch to 1 1/2 inches).


After you're done folding to the very end cut a piece of your floral wire, about 6-8 inches (enough for you to fold it in half and fit the paper in it and have leftover wire at the bottom to twist, you be the judge.)

Before you cut your wire and fit it around the tissue paper, you can cut your tissue paper to the desired size.  Because I like smaller flowers, I cut mine smaller.  In the picture it's about 6-7 inches long.

Next you're going to fan out, pull apart, your tissue paper so the two sides meet.


From here you're going to separate the two pieces of tissue paper, it's going to feel like you're ripping them so be careful and don't pull too hard.

After you put the wire around the folded tissue paper, you should have twisted the leftover at the bottom, this is going to be the bottom of your flower.  After you've pulled the two sheets apart, pull the bottom layer up close to the top layer to create the flower.  Mess around with it until you like what you see.

To make the stem just cut a longer piece of your floral wire and twist it around the twisted piece of your flower.

You can even add something in the middle if you would like like a button.
Also, instead of doing to layers of the same tissue paper, you could layer two different colors!

I hope the pics helped, have fun with your flowers!

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