Do you remember making these as a kid?
I do. LOL. We used Kleenex or tissue paper. They were fun to do. Boy did this bring back memories when I saw it.

paper flowers:
Choosing tissue paper in closely graded colors for these flowers achieves the vibrant, glowing quality of real live peonies or roses. You can vary the diameter of your paper circles, with 7.5 cm/ 3 inches being about the smallest workable size.

All you need:
tissue paper in various colors
scissors
florists' wire
darning needle (optional)
green crepe paper
Cut circles of tissue paper.
Fold them into quarters and flute the edges using scissors.
Stack 4 or 6 circles of tissue paper together.
Bend a small loop in one end of a length of florist's wire.
Use a needle to make a hole in the center of the paper circles, then thread the straight end of the wire through from front to back.
Turn the paper over and gently bunch the circles up around the wire loop.
And wind the wire around the base of the flower at the back to secure.
Gently ease the tissue paper into attractive 'petal' shapes at the front.
Cut leaf shapes from crepe paper in proportion to the flower heads.
Although crepe paper is stiffer than tissue, do not make them too large, or they will flop.
Bend small loops at one end of lengths of florists' wire and attach the leaves singly or in pairs.
PS:
I would use Leaves from artificial flowers to draw/trace around to get the shapes I wanted them cut them out of the crape paper.
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Posted By: Adele
Date: 2004/5/8 12:41 a.m.
Yours sound neater than the ones we made!!!
We used a white Kleenex ... folded it using the "fan" method.
Pushed a "bobby pin" on it, at the middle ... seems like we then "folded" each end up, and tied it about an inch up from the "bobby pin" to keep it pulled together.
I think after that, we tore the edges at each end, so they would be "raggedy" like a carnation. Then carefully pulled all the folds apart to shape it like a carnation.
Next step was to ask Momma for an old lipstick, so we could (barely) touch the torn edges to put some color on it.

(I think all we had back in the dark ages was white Kleenex.) Golly I hadn't thought about that in many many moons, Roxanne, thanks for your project AND for my trip down memory lane.

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