We love paper flowers here at Mid-South Bride. They are unique, fun, and a great DIY. We love to share paper flower ideas, examples, and tutorials here for brides who plan to DIY wedding flowers.
Here is an awesome diy paper flower tutorial we stumbled across for storybook paper roses on 100 Layer Cake.
Check out the full tutorial here (tutorial by Valerie Lloyd).
It looks quite simple based on the steps and the result is rather beautiful. It’s a great way to create a bouquet featuring words. You can make the bouquet personal by using a favorite book or printing out pages with poems or notes sent between the couple.
More Paper Flowers Instructions
If you are interested in creating paper flowers for your wedding and would like to try several different styles, there are several books available to teach you how to create beautiful paper flowers.
Here are some great paper flower tutorial books that can get you started creating paper flowers with step by step tutorials.
Paper to Petal: 75 Whimsical Paper Flowers to Craft by Hand
- Learn how to make luscious bouquets
- Sophisticated floral centerpiece ideas
- Use inexpensive tissue and crepe paper
- Easy basics of transforming simple materials into a vibrant display of flowers
- Time-tested techniques that are easy to produce gorgeous flowers
Paper Blooms: 25 Extraordinary Flowers to Make for Weddings, Celebrations & More
- Make a garden of paper flowers bloom
- More than 25 sophisticated patterns
- Gorgeous step-by-step photos
- Simply cut, fold, and crumple to create these extraordinary blossoms
- Use a variety of papers such as tissue, vellum, and glassine
- Pretty and modern designs for paper flowers
- Easy-to-do projects
How to Make 100 Paper Flowers: Ideas and Instruction for Folding, Cutting, and Simple Sculptures
- Instructions to make 100 beautiful flowers
- Comprehensive guide brings you a wide variety of techniques and styles
- Step-by-step instructions with color photos and diagrams
- Techniques include general crafting (cut, shape, and glue), origami, and quilling
- All patterns are included
Paper Flowers DIY Kits
Additionally companies like Martha Stewart sell kits with all the supplies needed to make tissue paper flowers and other paper flowers. If you want to take some of the work out of DIY paper wedding flowers you can purchase one of those kits to make flowers.
Martha Stewart Crafts Vintage Girl Tissue Paper Flowers
- Create your own centerpiece bouquet
- Kit includes 24 sets of tissue paper, 24 twelve-inch wires, 24 four-inch wires; 9 leaves, 72 stamens, 1 large polystyrene ball, 2 small polystyrene balls, and florist’s tape.
Martha Stewart Crafts Pom Poms, Pink, 2 Sizes
- Easy assembly pom pom tissue paper flowers
- Pre-cut pieces.
- Each kit from Martha Stewart makes 5 pom poms.
No matter what kind of paper flowers you decide to create for your wedding you will not be disappointed. Happy flower making!
