It’s been a long time since I’ve made flowers with tissue or crepe so this weekend I thought why not? Only this time, I’m planning to find a multitude of uses for them so stay tuned!

In the meantime, here’s a tutorial on how to make them. Enjoy :)

1. Cut five sheets of crepe paper and stack them. If you are indifferent towards specific size, you can cut across the width of the crepe paper and divide it into five sheets of equal width. (For math lovers: half of the width = radius of the crepe flower.)
2. Fold the stack upwards about 1cm.
3. Fold the stack backwards using the same height as the first fold. Keep going back and forth!
4. You should get something like an accordion fan once you’re done.
5. Grab the folded stack in the middle and cut off corners on the top and bottom to form an arrow.
6. Fold the stack in half (arrowhead to arrowhead) to mark the middle. Use transparent tape/ wire/ string to secure the center tightly.
7. Let the crepe folds fan out and peel each of the five layers apart. Be gentle as crepe paper tears easily!
8. After finishing one side, move on to the other half to get a complete crepe flower!

For those in mass production mode, you may consider doing it in phases (i.e. doing all the cutting of sheets at one shot, doing all the folding and center securing next, etc) In this mode, I managed to make 11 crepe flowers the size of my hand in under an hour. Batching FTW!