more paper flowers

these look real! from lalalaurie via once wed. she dips her individual petals in beeswax. i guess that is what makes them look so beautiful.

more paper flowers

by next june you will have seen every paper flower there is to see on the internet. i promise. i bought some crepe paper the other day to try out the difference between crepe and tissue. i prefer crepe. it is like the difference between bad toilet paper and good toilet paper or pleather and leather. crepe is so much easier to work with and you can shape it to look more like real petals and flowers. as an example, i've put some pics up of Martha's crepe papers. she sells kits for making crepe paper flowers but luckily she puts the instructions on how to make them online. so for those who diy, we can use our own supplies and make them ourselves rather than having to buy the kit. i'm really adoring the peonies and dogwoods.

everywhere i look, more paper flowers

it seems everywhere i look, i see paper flowers. i keep seeing all kinds of designs which gives me more and more ideas about making them. here are the latest ones. these i found on Design Sponge and are by Zoe Bradley. they are actually part of an art exhibit. somehow i doubt mine would be considered for an art exhibit. but i do like the angular design of these.

and these are from a wedding featured by Brooklyn Bride. the bride made them herself. what is even more exciting is that she also had a mexican-inspired wedding and had a mariachi band and pinatas. yeah! AND the wedding was in central Florida. weird. i was trying to figure out from the pics where the wedding was held, but couldn't tell. if she is from cenFLA then that would just be weird. two girls from cenFLA deciding to have a mexican-inspired wedding with paper flowers. i asked my guy about a mariachi band but he drew the proverbial line in the sand at that one. he also wasn't too keen about the pinatas. oh well.