How to make flowers from corrugated paper?

Any holiday needs appropriate decoration, in particular this applies to the premises. Bright and beautiful flowers made of multi-colored corrugated paper can become an excellent decoration of the hall. Outwardly, they look very natural, so many often take them for living plants. These crafts seem to be quite complicated in terms of execution, but in reality the technology for their manufacture is simple. Today we will learn how to make flowers from corrugated paper yourself. The main thing in this matter is to observe consistency, be patient and tune in to long, monotonous work.

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The benefits of corrugated paper

Why is this material used for the manufacture of artificial flowers? Most importantly, both children and adults can work with it. Kids really like to experiment with materials that are pleasant to the touch, and create beautiful masterpieces on their own. You can make flowers from corrugated paper with your own hands with the participation of a child, which will allow you not only to have fun and have fun with it, but also to create original decorative decorations for the upcoming holiday.

In addition, the advantages of this process include:

1. Financial availability of the material. This paper is sold in large rolls, you can find it in any store at an affordable price.
2. Storage. Since the material is packed in rolls, it is convenient to store it for a long time, while the attractive appearance is not lost. And in the closets he does not take up much space.
3. Easy to use. To create your own compositions, you only need glue and scissors, which indicates the ease of use of the material used.
4. The ability to instantly fix errors. If the first time it was not possible to connect or glue the parts, then you can quickly make new workpieces and redo everything.
5. The brightness of textures and colors. Fortunately, manufacturers constantly delight masters with a wide variety of textures and colors of the material, which significantly increases its popularity.

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Features of the manufacture of flowers from corrugated paper

Are you curious how to make a flower out of corrugated paper? Collecting them is quite simple. In this section, we will separately consider various manufacturing options for these decorative elements. Here you will find options for twisting paper strips and cutting individual parts for subsequent assembly into whole compositions.

Important! It is very important in the process of work not to forget to show your own imagination and to be careful during assembly.

Next, we will review detailed instructions for making the most popular color options.

DIY roses

There are several options for how to make flowers from corrugated paper with your own hands, which will be as similar as possible to real roses. These methods are significantly different, so the results are different. The simplest option is to make bouquets of ready-made paper flowers. And to make them, you need the following materials:

• Paper of the required color.
• If you plan to create leaves and stems, then you will need green paper.
• Scissors.
• Wire.
• PVA glue.
• Pliers.
• A simple pencil.
• Thick cardboard.

Method 1

Now let's start making roses from paper and sweets.The first way involves creating flowers based on the petals. The process itself involves special painstaking, observing accuracy and endurance.

How to make flowers from corrugated paper with your own hands:

1. Draw on the cardboard thick rose petals of several sizes. It is better to use 3-4 patterns to make the rose look more beautiful.
2. Cut the painted petals and prepare scarlet, red, pink or white paper.
3. Given the width of the largest petal, fold the paper with an accordion.
4. Attach all the blanks to the paper, cut the petals out of it in the right amount. Prepare them for assembly. Stretch the edges of each paper element by grabbing them by two rounded corners. Using your finger, make a notch in the middle of the petal into the future bud.
5. If necessary, make leaves in the same way. Just do not need to stretch their edges, because they are better to give shape at the time of joining or at the very end of the work.
6. Cut a few pieces of wire to the required length. Connect them in your hand, with the help of pliers bend one end so that you get the core of the bud.
7. Wrap the wire core with a petal of the smallest size, after attaching the lower part of the workpiece with glue to the future stem.
8. Form the bud, gradually sticking the petals according to size, starting with the smallest and ending with the largest.
9. To create a sepal, wrap the base of the bud several times with a thin strip of green corrugated paper.
10. Starting from the sepals, continue to wrap the entire stem, after gluing the leaves to the wire in the right places.
11. At the end, glue the material to form the stem.
12. Spread out all the leaves and petals. Let the flower dry completely.

Important! You can make such flowers as you want, then you can put them in a vase. As a result, you will get an original bouquet.

Method 2

The second method involves making roses by twisting paper strips. It will take you the whole process no more than 10 minutes, if everything is done according to the instructions below:

1. From corrugated paper, prepare a long strip of red so that its width is about 7-10 cm.
2. Work one edge into a pie shape. That is, pinch the edges of the strip with your thumb.
3. Roll the prepared strip into a bud.
4. Gently glue the edge to the finished bud or wrap the flower with a thread of the same color as the paper itself.
5. To create a sepal, wrap the resulting bud with green thread.

Using the presented methods, you can create huge compositions of chic roses for their subsequent use in the design of any holiday.

DIY peonies made of corrugated paper

It is difficult to find a person who would not like peonies. These flowers cannot be called traditional and boring, they are original and charming in their own way. But the most important thing is their size, their buds differ in impressive dimensions and volume. Therefore, now we will learn how to make large flowers from corrugated paper with our own hands.

To create peonies you will need the following tools and materials:

• Corrugated paper in different colors.
• Small paper attachment tools or ordinary paper clips.
• Wire.
• Thin thread.
• Scissors.

To create a bouquet of peonies, you need to do the following:

1. From each roll, cut one sheet of the required size.
2. Fold each element with an accordion of equal width.
3. Measure each workpiece so that the difference from the smallest to the largest size is 3 cm.
4. With a paper clip in the middle, hook each accordion.
5. Give the blanks the shape of the petals by trimming their edges as needed.
6. Align in the middle all the blanks, carefully lay them out.
7. Collect all the leaves in one accordion, rewind the thread in the middle.
8. Form a bud, giving the appearance of accordion petals, bending the edges up and straightening them to the sides.
9. Paper peonies are ready.

As a result, you will receive a magnificent beautiful peony bud.

Important! If you take more colors, you can create an incredibly original transition from dark to light shade, or vice versa. To make a full-fledged flower, you need to take green paper, in the process of making the bud, lay the blank from it down all layers. As a result, the green lower layer will play the role of sepals.

Volumetric Paper Lilies

How to make a voluminous flower from corrugated paper to create subsequently a beautiful bouquet of lilies? We will use the same principle of assembling the bud. The work begins according to the already known scheme: first you need to make cardboard blanks, cut the petals out of white paper.

It will be more difficult to make a white pestle with a yellow tip to create a flower. And it happens like this:

1. Prepare several pieces of wire of small diameter, having previously bent the ends with pliers.
2. Take white or yellow paper, wrap the workpiece from wire.
3. Dip the end of the future pestle into the glue with a bent tip. Then dip the blank into the orange decoy or black paint.
4. So make 5-7 pestles.
5. Created pestles should dry, then it will be possible to collect a bud from them.

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Now you know how to make flowers from corrugated paper in stages. And if you need to arrange a room for the celebration with your own hands, then there will be no problems. You will need maximum accuracy, patience and the manifestation of your own imagination.