Vintage looking paper flower tutorial

Beautiful, simple and a ?green? flower tutorial. I’ve included a couple different tutorials to give you a variety of looks. I recommend practicing a time or two before gluing them in place. And don’t worry if your paper becomes wrinkly, it adds to the vintage look.

You need:
*coffee filters (Unbleached filters give you the vintage look. You can also be ?green? by using your old coffee filters. Just rinse grains off.
*glue (I prefer Beacon Fabri-Tac)
*paint
*brushes

Option: depending on what you’re planning to use the flower for you can add wire to create a bouquet, or wreath. Fastening pin to create a brooch, the list is endless.

Tight New Bloom
Step 1: Cut filter in a spiral to the middle

Step 2: Place on a smooth surface like wax paper or counter top. (Do Not lay them on top of paper)
Water down paint and brush on filter. You only need to do one side as it will soak through. Let Dry

Step 3: Fold one edge over all the way down. This will give the petals a nice rounded appearance. Start from the center and tightly wrap. This is where a few practice tries helps. Once your happy with how tight or loose you need to wrap it, re-wrap adding a dot of glue at the base once in a while.

Opening Bud
Do Steps 1-2 as above.

Sept 3: Start in the middle wrapping your filter, after a few times around your going to fold the paper back on its self just a little, then forward, then back again. This will give the appears of opening petals. (See pic below) Do this the rest of the way around. Glue randomly. Nice thing about thin coffee filters is the glue will soak through a couple layers so you can use it sparingly.

A Full Bloom
Step 1 : You’ll need 5 coffee filters. 1st filter do NOT cut, 2nd filter cut a little off the top, 3rd & 4th filter cut making them smaller each time. 4th filter cut so its the exact size of the filter bottom. 5th one will be cut a little smaller than the coffee filter bottom.

Step 2: Take one of the strips you cut off and simply wrap it tightly around its self. This will be the flower center.

Step3: Put a strip of glue completely around the bottom of the flower center and place it on the filter that’s next size up. You can also add a bit more glue.

Step4: Take the filter and fold up around the small one (flower center). Make small folds around it (See step 3 picture in the Open Bud tutorial above)

Step 5 : Once again glue around the bottom and place this on top of the filter that’s the next size up. Repeat all the steps until you’ve used all 5 filters.

Step 6: If you want to add color, use a dry brush technique.