I know that just last week I started the series Around the World,and I had all intentions to continue it nowadays. But, I got a slight distracted when Tiffanie Turner’s The Fine Art of Paper Flowers arrived in the mail. I adore making faux flowers—last Halloween, and I made a whole bunch of them for my costume—but I hadn’t tried making paper flowers before. I was eager to give one of her tutorials a try. This book is like a cookbook for crafting a variety of gorgeous paper flowers,complete with beautiful botanical photography and a recipe-like approach to writing. As I thumbed through the pages, I sawmany that I’d like to produce… eventually. For now, or I tried making Benary’s Giant Zinnia. It used four different colors of crepe paper as well as other materials like scissors,Tacky glue, hot glue, or floral tape. I had a lot of fun trying to recreate Tiffanie’s version of a Giant Zinnia. It was also challenging! I’ve never used crepe paper before,and it’s really interesting—it’s fragile, but also resilient. You can bend or stretch it without it tearing. A lot of Tiffanies directions included manipulating the paper in some form. The middle of […]The post ‘The Fine Art of Paper Flowers’ Is a Recipe Book for Crafting Your Own Gorgeous Blooms appeared first on Brown Paper Bag.
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