Making Paper Flowers

Denise Brown

Summary

Create your own stunning flowers from paper with these 35 step-by-step projects.
Decorate your home using techniques such as simple origami, layered découpage, papier mâché and quilling. Using everyday giftwrap, colourful pages torn from glossy magazines, paper napkins and tissue paper to handmade paper, parchment paper and crinkly crepe paper, Denise Brown guides you through the process of making perfect paper flowers. You can display the flowers in vases, create bouquets and posies to give as gifts, use them to decorate gift boxes and greetings cards, or create wall hangings and window displays. Whether your taste is rooted in Simple yet Stunning, where you will find Oriental Poppies and Frilly Fancies, or Bright and Beautiful, with projects such as Vibrant Dahlias and Waterlilies, or finally, Sophisticated Style, where you can make a Peony Wreath or Elegant Lilies, you will be sure to find the perfect project. Making Paper Flowers is a fantastic new edition of the previously published Paper Flowers.

Available since: 05/10/2022.

Print length: 128 pages.

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