5 Ways To Make Flowers With Decorative Materials

Flowers are the ultimate decoration. They are suitable for all types of spaces and can always bring color and life to any atmosphere for home or office. If you plan to use flowers to decorate, you will find these tips on using different materials to make flowers very helpful.

There are several benefits to decorating our living room, garden or study with flowers. The most well-known benefits of flowers are that flowers:

• purify the air.
• brighten up and enrich any space.
• bring an element from nature.
• help to relieve stress and improve concentration.
• are available in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and presentations.

We’re going to use the last point as a starting point to talk about our main ideas for this article. Using flowers as decoration is a great idea, it can just be pricey.

So we may have to look for other alternatives. Today we will show you some ways to make flowers from different materials to decorate spaces.

5 ways to make decorative flowers from different materials

1. Paper Flowers

It’s a basic idea, but a must. Paper flowers have the advantage of being very cheap and easy to make. You can use different colored paper and make flowers of different sizes.

To make them, follow these steps:

• Cut a circle out of a magazine, newspaper, or other type of paper. You can use a CD to follow the form.
• After that, cut the circle into a curl, from the outside in. Leave a circle in the center, which will later be the base of the flower.
• Fold the inner circle and roll the flour into a cone.
• Using hot glue, glue the loose end of the curl to the base circle and place it in a flower shape.

2. Milk carton flowers

You will be surprised to know that you can make beautiful flowers from drinks cartons. If you’re wondering how to make them, we’ll leave the instructions here for you:

• Cut the suit into vertical strips.
• Open the pack and remove the inner layer. Depending on what kind of milk you buy, the layer can be sandwiched between the colorful outer coating and the metallic inner coating.
• Paint the inner layer and cut out hearts in different sizes.
• Then gently press them down to flatten them.
• Start gluing the smaller hearts together and then add the larger ones. The outer petals, unlike the inner petals, should be folded slightly outwards.

3. From cardboard boxes

We know that cardboard boxes may seem too plain and boring, but you can make flowers with them. You just need some paint and creativity to give them a wow factor.

You can make them by following a process similar to that of the paper flowers. However, use the ribbed part of the cardboard boxes to make them, as it is more flexible.

• So, to divide the cardboard, submerge a thin cardboard box in water and carefully peel off the layer covering the ribbed part.

• When you’re done, let it dry completely on a flat surface.
• Then shape the flowers. If you want colorful flowers, paint the cardboard after it dries, but before you cut it.

4. Silk Paper Flowers

You can make these flowers using patterned wire, which you can find at any art and craft store.

• First, cut the paper into rectangles and fold it into an accordion.
• Then place the thread on the center of the paper and fold the paper over the thread.
• Cut the ends of the paper into a semicircle shape to make them look like flower petals.

• Now open the paper and fold each strip towards the center so that they all meet in the center of the flower.
• Use different colored paper to make different types and put them in a vase.

5. Made of foam paper

Of all the alternative flowers you could make, those made from foam paper are perhaps the best option. Foam paper flowers are beautiful and colorful.

To make them, just follow these instructions:

• First, cut different sized squares from the foam paper and round their corners. You should then end up with a rectangular circle.

• For the sepals, cut out a five pointed star with rounded tips. Try using a different color.
• Cut an inch long line in the widest parts of the petals.
• Cut a crescent from another piece of foam that is the same color as the paper from step 1.
• Stick a stick in the center of the star.
• Fold the petals where you made the cut and pull them through the stick. Stick the largest petals first.
• Finally, fold the crescent you cut earlier and roll it to create the center of the flowers.
• Bring them together and pass them through the stick to arrange them with the rest of the flower.

Finally, while we’re not officially putting it on our list, you can of course use real ones too. Unlike flowers made of decorative material, real flowers need maintenance, but they have a unique beauty.

Recommendation: by placing both types of flowers – artificial and real – in different rooms, you will achieve the right effects for each area. So give it a try!