Tissue Flowers

Do you have a vase that needs filling, but don't have the money to keep live flowers in it all the time? Well I have a solution for you!! You can make your own bouquet of flowers simply out of tissue paper.

Here's what you do:

Step 1: Cut a long narrow piece of tissue paper.

Step 2: Fold your paper in half about four or five times and cut a rounded tip at one end.

Step 3: Unfold.

Step 4: Fold again, but make sure the fold creases do not line up. Like so:

Step 5: Fold four or five times again and cut a new rounded tip on the other side.

Step 6: Unfold again.

Step 7: Fold tissue paper in half "hotdog style" and tie one corner together with some kind of string.

Step 7: Begin wrapping the tissue paper to look like a flower.

Step 8: When finished wrapping the tissue paper, tie another piece of string around the base to hold everything together.

Nice Work!! Now, I'm going to throw another, easier, kind of flower at you.

Step 1: Take a piece of scrapbook paper, card-stock, or whatever else (I used a leftover book page from our book wreath) and cut it into a circle.

Step 2: Make cuts nearly to the center all the way around it.

Step 3: Glue a button or bead to the center and fray out the petals.

I put these flowers together with the tissue flowers to make this framed picture:

This picture sits next to my vase of tissue paper flowers.

Whenever working with tissue paper remember.... tissue paper is not used for blowing your nose!

Enjoy!