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Eco-Conscious Party Decor

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Simple tissue flower, step by step instructions for showers, holidays and fun. The background shows a softly focused image of white paper flowers handging from a wooden beam. Baby's breath and light coming into blinds are in the background

It’s easy to lose ourselves in the never ending ways to decorate for holidays, weddings, showers and special occasions. I strongly believe we can have beautiful homes and spaces to celebrate without making backwards steps for sustainable living. Paper flowers are a great way to make an occassion feel elevated and special with only a few dollars. The paper flowers can be composted or recycled. I plan on making paper with the flowers petals in my garden this summer.

How to Decorate with Paper Flowers

Before you craft your paper flowers, having an idea of where you’ll place them will help you know how many you’ll need. The more paper flowers you make the bigger impression. It’s always impressive to have hanging elements so consider where you can add, place or string flowers from above.

This softly focused image is of white paper flowers hanging from a wooden beam. Baby's breath and light coming into blinds are in the background

Anything you can do with regular flowers you can do with paper flowers, thankfully paper flowers don’t need the kind of care real flowers do. Corners are the first spot I look at to fill and frame a space. Below the paper flowers are tucked them between the lamp and trays, backstage of the cookies and cupcakes. I paired it with a bow (reused from packaging) and baby’s breath to mix up the texture.

a dessert table with cupcakes with white frosting on cream colored plate and sugar cookies with multicolored sprinkles on a raised, glass plate. In the background are blue and white paper flowers. The white looks ombre to blue. Three lit white candles, a sprig of baby's breath. The lamp has a white bow around it.

Decorating with all the same size flowers just makes decorating difficult. Craft your flowers in various sizes. Pairing the flowers with different shapes, sizes and colors add variety. Paper flowers don’t have to all be the same color, isolating a color in the center can create a more realistic or playful look.

How to make a Puff Quilt

If throwing a shower, the paper flowers after the party can also be adding to bouquet for the rehearsal. This vignette below shows the paper flowers on a manikin. The sewing manikin was used to hang a robe for the bride made from her mother’s bridal dress.

A very large blue paper flower and small white flower, baby's breath and tuft of blue tulle are arranged on a manikin. The mankin has a silk white robe with lace. In the background there is an illegable card, blurry balloons and babys breath flowers.

When decorating with paper flowers, more ideas to pair with paper flowers include:

  • Paper fans
  • Real flowers – homegrown, baby’s breath (use flowers that don’t mind drying out)
  • Fabric tassels
  • Photos on a stick
  • Feathers
  • Bows
  • Cloth/fabric
  • Cut garden greenery, herbs or dried sticks, twigs

How to make a simple flower

There are many ways to make a flower! In fact, there is a flower making rabbit hole on the internet that could pull anyone in for days.

This is the simpliest way with the fewest materials/skills. If you are looking for a simple and effective paper flower this one is for you. Gather tissue paper, scissor, wire and tape. If you can’t find colors that suit your vision, try layering the tissue paper colors with white.

this image shows the steps: 1 stack > layer of tissue paper, step 3 fold in half, step 3 fold in half, step 4 fold in half as many times as paper will comfortably allow, step 5, cut petals, try different styles the paper is rounded at the top.
step 7, rearrange/turn papers to vary the petals overlap, step 8, insert end of pencil and twist to create a small stem, step 9 secure by poking wire through, step 10, twist, tape, open and style

Trouble Shooting:

If you find that your flower isn’t as full as you’d like or you’d like to add a color in the center, make another flower the roughly the same size or smaller and stick inside the flower to bulk it out.

Enjoy making paper flowers for any occassion or just for fun. Browse the Scrap Library for more eco-friendly party ideas.

KirbiFagan

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3 responses to “Eco-Conscious Party Decor”

  2. These are beautiful! They’re a great way to decorate for baby or bridal showers, also! We have done that for a few different events and they always look so classy!

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