DIY made paper poppies can be a wonderful decoration of a room, an element of a festive decoration or a gift for a celebration. They are used both one at a time and in a bouquet with other colors. For example, with cornflowers, daisies, sunflowers and various spikelets.
In addition, corrugated paper poppies are great for creating sweet gifts - bouquets of sweets. To turn a regular flower into a present with a surprise, it is worth replacing the middle of the paper with an original wrapped treat.
What is needed for poppy seeds?
Before you make a poppy from paper, you should stock up with the necessary materials and tools:
- Corrugated paper (red, green and black).
- Rigid wire or wooden skewers.
- Cotton thread.
- Adhesive tape or glue gun.
- Black marker.
- Thick paper, templates will be made from it.
- Sharp scissors.
In the case when the poppies made of paper, created with your own hands, are designed to organize the composition in a basket or flower pot, you will need to choose a small beautiful container. To fix the colors, additional materials will be needed: polystyrene foam or a floral sponge. An organza, mesh or cloth will be required to fill the space inside the basket.
Paper cutting
To make the petals, you need to draw and cut a poppy pattern from paper. Its shape should be wide at the top and narrowed down.
To get the petals of the same shape and size, you need to cut six rectangles from red paper (their size is 8 x 11 cm). In addition to large elements, poppy flowers also include green sepals. The blanks for them will be slightly smaller: 5 cm in width and 4 in length. According to a template prepared in advance, several leaves of green paper are cut out. Do not make them more than 8.5 cm in length. The stalk will be wrapped in a strip of green paper. Its length is 50 cm, width is 2.
Making a poppy
Each of the cut petals must be processed as follows:
- Fill the lower part with a marker. Avoid tearing the paper and creating too sharp strokes. The border should be slightly blurry.
- The upper edge of the petal must be carefully stretched with your fingers along the entire length so that the effect is ruffled.
Cooking the middle:
- Wrap a lump of thick paper in a rectangle of green material.
- Tightly fasten to the flower stalk (skewer, wire).
- On the upper plane of the middle, draw strokes with a black marker.
Stamens will be made of black paper. For the workpiece, a rectangle should be cut out with a length of 12 and a width of 4.5 cm. Then along one of the long sides it is necessary to make incisions of 3 centimeters. It is impossible to cut to the end. All narrow stripes need to be carefully folded into the tubes with your fingers, making sure that they do not come off. When all the details are prepared, they only need to be assembled and fixed.
By the way, the availability of materials should be taken care of in advance if you are thinking about how to make poppy paper. Today, many stationery stores sell rolls of various types of decorative materials.
How to make poppy paper: flower assembly
First of all, you need to roll black stamens around the green center. They are attached with a drop of glue, tape or just a thread. Then the time comes to fix the petals. They stack in turn, with an overlap. Since their base is quite wide, when folding the petals, it is necessary to form uniform folds in one direction. At the next stage, sepals are fixed in the same way. The stem of the finished flower is decorated with a long strip of green paper. First, the sepals base is wrapped twice, and then the skewer or wire is decorated. Leaves are attached to the planned sections of the stem.
Knowing how to make poppy paper, you can easily create a composition from any number of such colors. By the way, their palette does not have to be scarlet, it can vary. For example, poppies from yellow, blue and purple paper look great. In order for all the flowers to form a reliable, stable composition, polystyrene (floral sponge) is placed on the bottom of the basket or pot . On top of it is decorated with green paper. Stems of flowers, piercing the foam, hold tightly in it. Empty space is filled with mesh, paper, cloth or other colors.