Crepe Paper Flower

You don't need a fancy die cutters to make these pretty flowers.

I have punched a 2 and a 1/2  inch circle and a 2 inch 

circle punch for my templates

I Folded over the crepe paper 7 times for each size petal 

placed the circle on top and cut around the circle.

Screw each petal layer up into a ball.

Open them out roughly 

and layer them up in the opposite direction, by that I mean each petal layer with naturally curl up wards when you open the ball, so start placing them on top of each other in the opposite direction. all the large petal layers and then the smaller ones.

Use a pricking tool to make a hole in the centre for a brad to secure all the petal layers in place, 

squeeze all the petals again and tease  out to form your flower.

Or stitch them in place and add a button. or a blob of silicone and some seed beads to look like stamens .

Here they are complete.

Use different size circles to get larger or smaller flowers

these take about 5 minutes to make.

Crepe paper cost about €1.00 a pack 

and each pack makes about 50 flowers 

so very cheap to make

but very effective.