Making tissue flowers is still one of our most searched projects! Whether it's for a bar-b-que, birthday, wedding or other special occasion, tissue flowers make a perfect decoration or giftwrapping accent. Easy and inexpensive to make, tissue flowers xan be made in virtually in colour and any size. Since we did our small tissue flower tutorial back in 200, customers have been asking us how to make large blooms, so here's the tutorial-

Start with tissue paper sheetsthat you can cut into a rectangle of any size. We took a full sheet (20" x 30") and cut in half to make a 15" x 20" sheet. Stack 8 sheets of tissue or more if you would like even fuller flowers.

Then accordian fold your tissue paper sheets working from the longest sides. Use a ruller or bone folder to crease the 1" folds.

Cinch your folded tissue paper sheets in the center using a length of tinsel cord to tie. You can aslo use a1 yard length of satin ribbon to tie if you wish to hang your blooms from a tree or ceiling.

You can either choose to leave the ends as they are or you can cut them rounded or pointed for some variation.

Now gently pull each piece of tissue paper towards the top center of the bloom to make a full circle tissue flower.

Some calculations- If you use 2 folds of tissue paper (for example 1 fold of 10 sheets in yellow and 1 fold of 10 sheets in orange) you will have 20 sheets in total. if you cut them in half, as per our instructions, you will have 40 sheets. Using 8 sheets per flower will result in a total of 5 flowers. At a cost of $1.95 per fold of tissue paper, each flower will cost about $1.00, including ribbon.

A colourful and COST EFFECTIVE way to decorate your next special event!