DIY FLORAL BACKDROP Paper Flower Wall Easy/AffordablePosted by Brogaard Gregersen on June 13th, 2021 Hey everybody, my name is Elizabeth and I'm a visual merchandiser at a bridal boutique with a very small budget, and so I have to come up with a really affordable way to make gorgeous displays. And today I'm going to show you how to turn a stack of paper, some glue, stick and a display board and do a beautiful floral backdrop. Are you interested keep watching? So what I have here is a little unfolding display board thing that I got at the Dollar Tree, but you can really use like a poster board or even cut up a cardboard box like you can go cheap on this. I'M going to show you how to thank all the different flowers, then we're gon na put them on this board and you're gon na, be amazed at how and I'm also going to link down below on templates of all these flowers. So the first one is going to be a rose, and you want to get about eight sheets paper so, and I would definitely say that don't worry about being perfect, we are not going for perfection here. You don't have to be an artist all you want to do. Let your template out get your scissors and all we're gon na do is cut out these petals in the various sizes, little graduated sizes and see I'm not even following that template exactly because, in fact, I think they even look better when they're not so now. I'Ve got a stack here and you'll notice there's a little line there and that is for a slit boom. Now. One thing that I like to do is take the top of the petals and roll them a little bit, because it just makes texture and what you do see with the little slit there is you just take a little piece or a little strip of hot glue? Also be very careful with your glue, you don't want to burn yourself and I'm just overlapping these two slits and holding it there and you'll see that it makes a little bit of a 3d effect actually make about a torso of each petal. But again it just depends on what you want, and now I've made a template here if some graduated smaller sizes, so I'm gon na get a sex paper and I'm gon na repeat the process. I did for these for these little other sizes. This is not hard. It just takes a lot of time, and it looks amazing, okay and if you're gon na do a really large one. It'S a good idea to make tons of petals first for all your different flowers and then produce. But for now we're going to make this guy - and I always like to have a base for my flowers - and I just cut out like a circle shape then have to perfect again nobody's gon na see this. It'S gon na be on the bottom pop that down. So I'm gon na put glue in a circle like that, make the biggest petals first and we're gon na overlap them a little bit like so and be careful not to burn yourself. You can use the scissors to mash them down to one. I just use my fingers okay, so this is our outer layer and now we're gon na move on to our inner layer. Okay, so we have the first layer of petals down glued on the circle, yeah they kind of fold up in a 3d effect. I mean that was easy right and it's already starting to look a little uh look like a full hour and I pre-cut and made all these petals using the same exact process. So now I'm just gon na make concentric rings and you want to stagger them. So you wouldn't want to put it right on top of the other one. You want to put it in the middle of the two. If that makes sense, so I'm going to do Arina glue, just like I did before, and then I'm gon na take the bottom of the petal and stick it in the middle of the other two big petals boom boom boom. Look at this we're geniuses. Aren'T we, everyone will think you're a genius look at that go go again and you can make these petals any size that you want. I like to do big flowers like this, because it covers more space, but they look really pretty small too, and you can put as many petals and rings of petals as you like in there, and it's not like. I do with that number. I just kind of whatever, whatever I'm feeling so now, we've got a nice outer base and I'm just gon na go to the next smaller side. Another ring of glue in the middle. You please please, please remember to be careful with this hot glue. I'Ve been burned so many times, and young you're getting close to a finished next up, we're going to do a super, easy flower and it's I'm calling it a daisy and it's just little kind of oval shaped petals and for funsies we're gon na go blue with These now you can mix your petals. You can do a flower with different colored paper. That was good too this one, I'm just gon na be solidly, so I'm gon na get about eight sheet, put my template on top and out the shape. This is so easy. You know this is like the easiest one ever petals and I always try to conserve paper. So I got as many as I could fit on that set we're just gon na cut out those shapes and cities. I don't cut a slit in the bottom and make them 3d. I just lay them flat. I don't know why I just like to do in that way. However, you like boom, what do ya'll say instead of boom BAM, voila, maybe, and the last set again we're not being perfect here, we're being in fitted perfectly imperfect your hands tickets hired there we go, and I have an extra circle from that other flower. So more clear, right, blue big petals on the first layer - and these might just kind of face willy-nilly and then fill in this being the willy-nilly and I just feel free to kind of lean, either shape. And if you need to unless good those over and make it look better, okay and okay, so we've got a bit the flat base and we're just going to make another layer of petals flat pedals crumpled petals. So have a peek at this website sent a couple of rings of those sides. Petals and I pre crumpled, my other graduated size of the petal and I'm just gon na keep going circle. It glue, pedal pedal and you can quickly see how this is forming a delightful Daisy. I love daisies. I have daisies in my wedding. What kind of flowers did you have in your wedding? I bet they were pretty look how fast this is going. Y'All guess what we're gon na do next another circle of glue, more crumpled petals and we're just gon na keep doing this, and next I'm gon na. Do the smaller side, so now you can see that we've got the Daisy with so many concentric rings of beautiful petals and we have a really ugly looking Center. So I'm going to freehand a little circle and that's to form the center of our Daisy and there we have our next flower and let's get the board and put it on there. Should we put it how about there so we're just gon na put tons of glue down again? Are you all with me this takes time, but it's so worth it and it will. Last forever I mean we have a flower wall up in the store that has been there a year. That'S right we're getting there nuts stuff, I'm gon na, show you how to make a leaf now. Leave shapes are great to fill in on the board where you have like empty spaces or when you get really tired of making flowers, and you want to do something quick to fill it in and I've got you a template. So all you're gon na do is lay that down. I usually make a bunch of leaves and have a huge step ready. Okay, so I need them so we're just gon na cut this shape out, and you see there's all these weird lines on here. We'Re gon na explain those nothing crazy going on here. So now we have like the rough outline of a leaf and along this dotted line. I just want you to fold it in half fold it in half right and then along all these lines. That is for an accordion fold, so we're just gon na fold it back and forth, and that is going to give our leaf a lot of texture looky there. Now these you can um, you can crumple them a little more and I'll. Show you how it looks when you add it to the board, see how it fills in the space so easily, and you know you can your leaves in green or you can even make them look more realistic by cutting the edges like. So you can like cut shapes if you so desire again, there's no wrong or right way. Let'S see that kind of makes it look a little more like a leaf. Next up feathers. Okay, now I'm gon na make some adorable blue Frenchie feathers. Everybody loves feathers, right um, so here's the template grab a stack of paper, I'm not even counting. I just grab this back. You can do the same thing and we're gon na cut out along this line and then we're gon na kind of along this line. I got a very big stack of papers hard to cut okay yeah, just like with the leaf we're gon na fold it down the middle. Just like so, and now see all these lines. Those are cut lines, so we're gon na make this a fringy feather and I'm just cutting along those line, and you can cut more the more you do, the better. It looks like think if it gets real frenchie we're gon na do the same thing on the other side, just kind of roughly follow those lines. These are one of my favorite things to make they're just so flirty and fun, and they look good in any color. How cute is that and again these work great for filler anywhere your board looks a little. You know empty, just shove, a couple deep in there. Okay, so you guys get the idea, we're basically cutting out petals crumpling them up, making them three date with a little slit at the end and then we're gluing them to our board. So I am going to use. I have two additional templates: this flower, which has kind of it, looks like a smile sort of um. This one I'm going to cut these out and make that flower, and then I have a pointed flower that has a point at the top, so I'm gon na make the petals for these two different flowers. You, you got the idea. I know you do you're just glue them in circles, so I'm gon na do that for these two and then we'll fill this board up and that's not air cast. I figured she'd come out at some point there. She is so I'm gon na show you a really quick and easy way to make centers for the flowers, basically you're gon na end up with the fringy thing like this, that you'll roll into a tube right, and then you fluff it all like that, and you Glue it in the center right super easy get your paper fold it over and eat this friendship and you'll end up with that. Okay, so who is ready to see? That'S awesome. I mean really. This looks so cool in windows and you can do it in any color. You could do it. I like white on white or all neutrals are blush um. You can even use like jewelry for the center's if you want to go super glam, but this works really well for our store and I hope it works well for yours or your wedding, you guys laterLike it? Share it! |