Easy DIY: Paper Flowers & Painted Tacks
Hello everyone! How are you doing today? We have tons of sunshine and warmer temps so I'm feeling quite energized and ready to welcome in Spring. I thought today I would show a super easy project that I put together for you last month - I've been waiting to share it when it felt more appropriate for the season so now that March is here let's think about Springtime decorating! This is a very quick and easy way to make paper flowers that you can tack all over your mood board or wall, or you can replace the thumb tack centers with a button or a badge or even a simple paper circle center in a complementary color and glue them to gifts instead of bows or you can make really large ones to put all over your walls for party decor. I've been excited lately about origami paper - no clue what brought that on - but I'm suddenly finding it gorgeous for the season so I've used sheets of it to make the flowers. Are you ready to see what I've come up with? I hope that you like it!
Step 1: Grab some metal tacks and paint the tops with 2-3 coats of your favorite nail polish color - let dry - I left mine out overnight. Step 2: Fold origami paper (or paper that is perfectly square) in half, then half again so you have a small square. Cut into the square to create your flower using scissors. Petals do not need to be perfect, have fun and experiment. You can also free hand flowers if you like or you can cut out some cardboard templates in various sizes, trace around them, and cut out your flowers. This works if you want to create larger blooms as well. Step 3: Cut into the paper to create different sizes of petals and mix different papers and patterns, too. I use 4-5 layers to create my flowers. You can even mix up texture - try incorporating newspaper (I love the look of Japanese and Chinese newspapers), crepe paper and tissue paper for some layers along with paper. Step 4: Stack your petals to see how they look and rearrange or cut new ones as needed.
Step 5: Grab your thumb tack and stick it through the center! Now you can tack anywhere you'd like! You can also glue the petals in the center as you layer them and top it with a button or a circle you've cut using paper and add them to gifts, lamp shades or where you think you could add a little flower power in your home!
Easy and beautiful! I hope that you try making them and let me know how yours came out!
xo, Holly
(photos: holly becker/decor8)