How to Make Tissue Paper Flowers (DIY Craft Tutorial)

Hi friends, it's Natalie from Doodlecraft teaching how to make tissue paper flowers for the perfect home decor or centerpieces.

These gorgeous paper flowers are easy, uses minimal supplies and no fancy tools!

Brighten a space in your home, give someone a hypoallergenic bouquet or decorate a tablescape with simple DIY tissue paper flowers.

Paper flowers are one of my most favorite crafts. If you haven't already tried the paper flowers posted in May, give them a try!

I have really bad allergies to flowers. I just cannot have them in my home for long or I pay a terrible price--days of body and head aches.

In order to brighten up the indoors and not have a reaction, I cope with paper flowers. I love all kinds of paper flower crafts but tissue paper flowers are simple to make and look light and airy.

Tissue paper flowers are a softer flower, lightweight, fragile and much more life-like than copy paper flowers. 

Grab that gift bag in the closet filled up with other gift bags and old tissue paper and let's get started on this fun and simple craft!

HOW TO MAKE PAPER FLOWERS (EASY DIY CRAFT TUTORIAL)

I love making paper flowers, check out my post on over 20 ways to make paper flowers.

Once you get the concept of making paper flowers, you can make them out of any paper material and in a variety of ways. Save those pieces of tissue paper from gifts to use for crafting later!

Make a bouquet, put the flowers on a wreath or decorate a wall with big colorful flowers--all with this easy step-by-step tutorial!

The best part is that it does NOT cost a lot of money, super simple supplies needed--not even a glue gun is required--and the end results are big impact gorgeous tissue paper flowers!

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SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR TISSUE PAPER FLOWERS

• Tissue Paper (cut into 3 inch squares)
• Floral Wire (or Pipe Cleaner)
• Scissors
• Paper Cutter (optional)

GATHER AND CUT TISSUE PAPER

Step one is to find some tissue paper.

If you are the type of person that has a gift bag full of gift bags in the front closet, you are my person. I love saving gift bags and tissue paper.

If you don't already have tissue paper ready to go, head the the craft store and get some sheets of tissue paper.

Next, cut the tissue paper into 3 inch squares.

For these little tissue paper pom poms flowers, you will need 6 colored tissue paper sheets and one green tissue paper square.

Pick colors to match your event or home decor. I'm using pink tissue paper and bright green for 2 of the flowers and white for the other one.

LAYER AND FOLD TISSUE PAPER

The next step is to stack the squares of tissue paper with the 6 colored sheets on top of the green sheet.

Layering them this way gives the appearance of a pink blossom with the green sepal or surrounding leaves.

**NOTE: You can do a yellow piece of tissue paper on the top for the center of the flower if desired. Or you can make an ombre effect by layering darker tissue paper on the bottom and lighter shades on the top.

Now do an accordion fold of the stack of tissue paper. These are folded about 5 times across the span of the piece of tissue paper. It works out to be about 2/3's inch folds...but it does not need to be exact.

CUT TISSUE PAPER

Hold the folded stack of tissue paper tightly and use the scissors to round the ends of the tissue paper in the shape of flower petals.

There are many different ways to cut the ends off, but I prefer the rounded edges...they all give a different look, so try petal shapes a few ways and see what you like.

Here's the cut layers of tissue paper to show how simple and casually it needs to be cut.

ADD A WIRE STEM

Now wrap a piece of floral wire or pipe cleaner around the center of the folded tissue paper. 

Here's the side fold wire wrapped image:

OPENING TISSUE PAPER FLOWER

Now is the fun part!

Tissue paper is delicate and tears easily, so take your time on this portion of the craft. Begin by opening up the flower and spreading the accordion folded tissue paper apart.

Simply put, now you need to separate the layers of tissue paper folds.

The tissue paper will be hard to pull out of the deep folds, so work gently and slowly, just lifting out one of the tissue paper layers at a time.

Continue working out the rest of the tissue paper

The first flower begins to take flower shape!

Pull all the different colors of tissue paper upwards and pull the green tissue paper downwards near the stem.

The resulting flower is a fluffy delicate poof ball of happiness!

The side of the flower looks so cute with the little green sepal leaves. You can add stem leaves to the wire as well if you want to give it even more greenery.

The wire could be wrapped with floral tape if desired.

Perfect for living room table decor, baby showers, a Mother's day bouquet, birthday party, wedding or formal even table centerpieces, for party decor, the perfect gift or just for a great craft!

Tissue paper flower tutorials work with a paper napkin as well! 

That's it!

Get creative with these easy tissue paper flowers and make them different sizes--even giant tissue paper flowers are the same technique with larger pieces or full pieces of tissue paper.

I love to DIY fabulous flowers to brighten my home because I am super allergic to real fresh flowers.

I love these bright alternatives that look great and need absolutely no maintenance!

CHECK OUT THESE OTHER FUN RELATED CRAFTS!

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