Wedding flower tutorial ♥

Last week I gave a little sneak peek at what was on my craft table, and a few of you requested a tutorial for the paper flowers. Show you how I did it? Why, I'd love to!!! :o)

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You don't need fancy equipment to make these pretties. Just gather up some circle shapes and start tracing. I used five different sizes going from big to small {used the inside circle of the roll of tape in case you're counting...}. And I cut the circles out with a cool pair of scissors that I inherited from my mother-in-law. They cut a pretty scalloped edge, but you certainly don't need those to make this flowers. Pinking shears would work, or even a straight edge on these circles would still make a pretty flower!Oh, and a rhinestone brad for the center. Although, again, you don't have to have one of these to make this flower. You can glue the layers together in the centers and top it off with a pretty button and you'd be just fine!For each of my circle templates, I cut one from white cardstock, and one from vellum giving me a total of 10 circles to stack. After I cut the circles out I use an eraser to get rid of my pencil marks. {Does anyone else love eraser droppings? No? Just me? embarrassing...}Fold each circle in fourths and poke a hole with a large needle. And then crumple up each layer. The more you work with the cardstock the softer it becomes. The vellum I used wasn't as pliable, but I made it work.Stack 'em up ~ I alternated cardstock and vellum for this flower.Next, start pushing the brad through the center. {If you aren't using a brad you can put a dot of glue in the center of each layer and stack the flower. You'll just have to wait until the glue dries completely before moving to the next step.}Pretty but a little flat for my liking...So the final step is to scrunch each layer up and around the center brad {or button if you have glued one in}.Keep scrunching, one layer at a time...Until it's all bunched up like this:This is my favorite part ~ the unfolding...And that's it. Easy, huh?These flowers will be arranged on top of a box that my niece is using for her wedding to collect cards at their gift table. I'll show you that when it's finished. :o) ♥

PS: You can see some other examples in this tutorial that I did last year using the same stacking method. xo