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Tutorial Paper Flower Poppy DIY
Gorgeous and cute these whimsical paper flowers are a breeze to make once you have learned the basic techniques of paper flowers making precisely the "Winding Technique". Place them in vases to spruce up your home!

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  • How to make a paper flower. Whimsical Paper Flower Poppy - Step 1
    Step 1

    Cut a red square out of the red crepe paper fold. Scrunch some leftover crepe paper scraps into a ball.Bend the stem wire into a hook (very important which most crafters don't instruct as it reduces slippage) and place the hooked end with the ball and wrap the ball with the square to tie with florist wire to get a balled center.

    Refer : How to Make 100 Paper Flowers - Anemone for more detailed explanation.

  • How to make a paper flower. Whimsical Paper Flower Poppy - Step 2
    Step 2

    Cut 1 1/2 inch wide black crepe paper and fringe it half way. Wrap center with the fringed paper to tie with wire.

  • How to make a paper flower. Whimsical Paper Flower Poppy - Step 3
    Step 3

    Cut a peice of the cream crepe paper breadthwise.Fold over the strip and cut the top into a gentle curve.Unfold.

  • How to make a paper flower. Whimsical Paper Flower Poppy - Step 4
    Step 4

    Wind the petalled strip around the center.

  • How to make a paper flower. Whimsical Paper Flower Poppy - Step 5
    Step 5

    Cut a similar 2 inch or more wider strip from whisper pink crepe paper and repeat step 3 with it.Unfold the strip and this time Cut each petal one inch into the curved side at the folded edges.Frill each petal and repeat Step 4

  • How to make a paper flower. Whimsical Paper Flower Poppy - Step 6
    Step 6

    Cut a petal shape from the scrapbook paper.Wrap tape onto a stem wire and stick onto the back on the petal to form leaf. Refer How to Make 100 Paper Flowers

    Step6. If you want to add guinea feathers. wrap the balled center with the feathers and tie with stem wire before adding the fringed stamen for form the variation flower below.

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