Published 15:16 IST, October 28th 2019

A step by step guide to make paper flowers to decorate your home

Paper flowers are easy to make and are eco-friendly too. Here's an easy guide on how you can make DIY paper flowers to decorate your home or place of work.

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This comprehensive guide on crafting paper flowers at home can help art enthusiasts create ir own beautiful gifting items without investing too much time or energy. Paper flowers are a really versatile decorative item that can be included in various kinds of arrangements. y are also simple and inexpensive to make.

How to make DIY paper flowers to decorate your house this Diwali

essential requirement for making DIY paper flowers are coloured papers or tissue papers. Along with se, a pair of sharp scissors and a stapler are required. Below, re is a step by step guide to making paper flowers with se.

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How to make paper flowers - A step by step guide

  • first step in making se DIY paper flowers is to cut and fold paper.
  •  Before cutting, paper will need to be folded in half twice, so that re are four clean folds- horizontally and vertically.
  •  A corner with all pieces of fold- t one that is joined- should be taken and folded to opposite edge, so that a triangle is formed in end.
  •  Once that is done, extra bit of paper that remains as a rectangle will need to be trimmed off.
  •  What will remain is a perfect square. folds of square will need to be cut so that in end, eight individual squares are left.

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  •   next step is, to begin with,  paper. pieces of paper should be folded like a fan or an accordion. In end, seven or eight folds should remain.
  •   folds should be brought toger and centre must be folded to keep it in place.
  •  Next, edges of paper should be trimmed. This would ultimately create petals of flower. Different types of petals can be created by trimming paper in different styles. For example, rounding off edges of paper would give a rose-like effect.
  •   final step would be to separate individual pieces of paper. This has to be done quite carefully and patiently, to avoid ripping petals. However, if some petals do rip, re is need to worry because y will be hidden in bunch anyway. Fluffing pieces after unfolding m will lend flowers some volume as well. For better specificity, it would be easier to do one-half of flowers at a time.
  • Your DIY paper flowers are done.

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This is one of most popular craft ideas that can be done at home. It should be mentioned here that process described above is only one of methods of making paper flowers - most common one. steps may change in accordance with design chosen for flower.

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14:34 IST, October 28th 2019