Thursday, April 7, 2011

More Paper Flowers!

There was an explosion of color in our church’s Parish Center for Grandparent’s day!  I had a small budget to work with wanted to try pitch a new idea to the chairwomen (my friends)…flowers with no vases.  Each table was set with a large, bright paper flower and small flower confetti.  And that was it!  It was a fast and easy set up and tear down, and very easy on the budget (about $30 to buy paper and glue sticks.) I made most of them over a two day period and enjoyed it.

The room has a very neutral palette, so I put bright Easter colored plastic table cloths on the tables to brighten the room.  That was the most expensive purchase of the decorations budget at $3 each.  It was fun to come up with different flowers from paper.  It reminded me of making origami back in the 70’s!  Here’s what I came up with:

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A garland of paper flowers greets guests at the entry door…

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a purple hibiscus…

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The flowers were laid out to keep from creasing.  A red tulip…

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red and pink poppy…

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a multitude of daffodils…

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a cluster of flowers on the food table…

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pink tulip…

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and flowers from the second food table.  I make the confetti with left over paper and a flower punch.

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Here’s a blue poppy and an orange daffodil…

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purple and blue pansy and a small cluster with poppy, ranunculus, and daffodils.

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no idea here…just make it up!

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Orange and blue pansy 

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pink hibiscus…

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I attached the welcome sign with wooden skewers to the back of the garland

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4 comments:

  1. I am decorating for Grandparents Day and we are celebrating it in a few weeks. Do you just use construction paper? Do you use brads in the middle or glue?

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  2. I LOVE this!!! I am decorating for Grandparents Day at my son's school and we are celebrating in a few weeks. Did you just use regular construction paper? Did you use brads in the middle or just glue? ANY help/suggestions regarding the paper flowers would be awesome! THANK YOU!

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  3. I used the astro-bright copy paper that you can get at Walmart in combo packs. The more colorful the paper, the more dramatic. I am a HUGE fan of glue guns...so it's just paper and hot glue! Good luck to you!

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  4. I made these amazing paper flowers to hang up at Thanksgiving. I found a wonderful tutorial for them and I will link her blog in the next post.

    paper craft

    paper flowers

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