You can make your own artificial flowers that won't cost you a fortune.Coffee filters, tissue paper, and fabric are some of the things you'll need to make ruffled flowers.To make realistic looking flowers, use colored materials and arrange the petals so they look natural.Artificial flowers look beautiful in a bouquet or on a craft project.
Step 1: If you want to make colorful flowers, put coffee filters in dye.
Stir in 2 cup of water until they're combined after squirting about 3 liters of paint into a large pan or bowl.After that, submerge up to 20 round coffee filters of any size in 2 cups of water.For pale flowers, keep the filters in the dye for 2 to 3 minutes or up to 15 minutes.If you use larger coffee filters, you can make bigger flowers.White flowers can be made without dying the coffee filters.
Step 2: Dry them in a single layer.
To remove the filters from the paint, use tongs or your fingers.Put the filters on a wire rack and let the excess paint trickle back into the pan.Don't stack the filters on the rack because they'll dry faster in a single layer.Depending on your climate, the filters should dry in 20 or 30 minutes.
Step 3: You can cut the filter into a spiral.
Use sharp scissors to make a spiral out of the dried coffee filters.As you cut your way to the center of the filter, the spiral strip should be about 1 inch wide.You can stretch the ends of the filters to make a long strip once you've cut the spiral.
Step 4: Attach the center of the spiral on the 12 in piece of tape.
Put masking tape on your work surface by tearing off a long piece.Place the end of the filter strip from the tape's end.The rounded end of the filter will become the middle of your flower.If you want to make a simple stem for the flower, use green masking tape.
Step 5: The bottom half of the masking tape is covered with a filter.
You can pleat the paper filter by folding it over onto itself.Put it on the bottom half of the tape.As you move down the tape, keep folding.You'll be able to wrap and seal the stem of the flower if you leave enough space on the masking tape.You will now have a strip of masking tape that is ruffled.
Step 6: Wrap the strip of tape around the end of the straw.
Press the tip of a straw on the bottom of the tape that isn't ruffled.Continue rolling the straw on the tape until you reach the end of the strip.This will form a flower.A thin strip of wire or a plastic stem can be used if you don't want to use a straw.
Step 7: Put green tape around the straw.
Attach the green masking tape to the flower by cutting off a piece.Wrap the tape around the entire straw.The flower's stem will be made by this.You can use the other dyed filters to make flowers.
Step 8: Take a piece of tissue paper and cut it to 10 squares.
You can make the squares any size you want, but make them as wide as you would like the flower to be.For a medium-sized flower, you can make the squares 3 by 3 inches.If you want to make more than one flower, cut 10 squares for each flower.When you cut the squares, you can stack several layers of tissue.
Step 9: Attach the center of the squares with a staple.
Before you staple them together, make sure the sides of the tissue paper squares are lined up.The frilled petals of your flower are created by the layers of tissue paper.
Step 10: Take the tissue paper and make a circle.
Cut a circle around the stapled center of your tissue paper with a pair of scissors.The circle should be as wide as you want it to be.If you want to be precise, you can trace a circle.
Step 11: Take the layers apart and pinch them together in the center.
If you want to get rid of the staple in the middle, you need to peel up 1 layer of tissue paper at a time.The ruffled texture of the petals will make you firm as you gather each layer.It will look like a small flower when you finish gathering the layers near the center.
Step 12: You can shape the tissue paper flower by unfurling the petals.
You can gently tug the tissue paper apart with your thumbs.It looks like a rounded blossom if you work across the entire flower.It's easier to attach a flower to a bouquet if you keep the bottom layer of tissue paper flat.
Step 13: Pull out silk or polyester fabric.
If you want to make realistic looking flowers, choose fabric in your favorite color or use several colors in different shades.To create a vibrant colored flower, choose peach, coral, and yellow.You can use a combination of these if you're using polyester fabric.
Step 14: One flower can be made from 24 fabric petals.
You will need to cut bean-shaped petals in 4 different sizes.For each bean-shaped size, cut 6 petals out of silk or polyester.
Step 15: You can sear the edges of the petals by lighting a candle and using the flame.
To create realistic looking petals, hold the petals close to the candle's flame so the edges don't burn.To sear every side, turn the petals slowly.If you're working with thick fabric, you need to hold it closer to the flame than if it's delicate.If it takes too long, move the fabric closer to the flame.
Step 16: Stitch the bottom to secure the smallest petals.
Roll the petals tightly while you hold the bottom.The center of your flower will be made by this.Make a few whip stitches across the bottom layers to keep the petals in place.
Step 17: Stitch the bottom of the small flower around the center flower.
Put a little more of the smallest petals around the one you just sewed.Your flower can begin to take shape if you hold the petals tightly by the base.To secure the new flower, whipstitch the bottom again.
Step 18: Continue to sew on the petals, from smallest to largest.
Once you've attached all of the smallest petals, you should add the next smallest one to the flower.You should add the largest petals for the outside of the flower.Continue to whipstitch the base of the flower so it doesn't fall apart.
Step 19: Wrap the thread around the petals.
Attach a knot at the base of the flower.Pull back the petals at the top of the flower to make them look like they're growing.You can attach flowers to stems for a bouquet or glue them onto bows.