Paper Flowers

One more giant paper flower.........

One of the librarians where I work asked for a flower for her desk.  VOILA!  I had just a small amount of paper leftover to make a "desktop" paper flower.  I had to dig into the trash can to get the green paper.  I added a little scrapbook paper around the base of the soup can and some Easter grass to hide my "mistakes" when I accidentally got  plaster of paris on the green stem.  My motto is "you can always fix a mistake".   It turned out to be about 18" tall.....perfect for the top of a desk.  

GIANT PAPER FLOWERS

Ready to go to the library...............

Here you can see how large the daffodil is on my kitchen counter.  I anchored it with a rubberband between the cabinets so it would dry perpendicular when I added the plaster of paris to the can.

Here are the two poppies (I use that term loosely).  I decided to use a larger can for their base to make sure that they did not tip over.  We don't want anything falling onto the patrons in the library.

I mixed the plaster in the can, set the "stem" in the can and held the flower straight.  The plaster dries in about 30 minutes.  I anchored it with a rubber band to hold it in place for that time.

You can see how I attached the back of the flower to the cardboard wrapping roll.  I used a piece of foam core board and hot glued it.

REALLY BIG Paper Flowers

LIBRARY DISPLAY - SPRING INTO READING

I remember seeing some really big flowers a few years ago on a blog called House of Lars where they made huge beautiful flowers out of colored pastel paper.  These are my "budget wise" big flowers using colored butcher paper.  I made the stems out of wrapping paper rolls and used tons of hot glue.

I found some sand pails at The Dollar Store and plan to put one flower in each pail and display them on top of bookcases in the Children's area in the library.

I also remember seeing a tutorial for a rose wreath made out of old book pages.  I think it was from the Lettered Cottage.  You cut the paper into a square, round off the edges and then cut it into a spiral and  curl up the edges into a cone shape.  I just made mine on a much larger scale.

This is how the red flower started out.  I cut 8 petals, folded them into an accordion fan like pattern and then hot glued the petals together.