DIYs DIY Spring Paper Flower Project

Looking for a creative way to use paper tags? This paper flower project is made from simple paper gift tags. See the DIY instructions below.

If you had a million years.

And a million guesses.

You will NEVER BELIEVE what I made from these.

What are you thinking? What are you guessing?

What could a person make from tags like these?

You might guess a calendar. Nope.

You might guess a garland. Nope.

You might guess a wreath tag. Nope.

I’ll give you a hint.

I painted them.

Well…actually, I painted them and then I dipped them in water and then I let them dry and stacked them up….

….and made this.

A flower.

YESSSSSSSS.

Can you believe it?

When my husband walked upstairs and I was sitting in the craft room making this and he saw the flower for the first time his eyes widened and he said, “WOW.”

He left me painting a bunch of tags and when he walked back in I was holding this.

Here’s an overhead view of the flower so you can see the tags better.

Did you guess?

It’s a flower completely made up of tags.

You know.

Those simple white gift tags that you use to tie on presents. I saw a flower like this in a book and thought to myself—you can make that KariAnne.

So I kind of figured it out.

Want to know how I made it?

Oh, good. I have a step-by-step.

DIY Spring Paper Flower Project

supplies:

small paper tags

large paper tags

styrofoam ball

paint

white floral wire

// the BEST craft apron //

Step 1: paint the tags

This was kind of a learning process.

(total aside: I think it makes it so much easier to figure out if you are wearing a super cute craft apron like this. )

I started with a super watered-down mixture of paint and water. I took a picture of how much paint I used to water. First, I painted the mixture on the tags, but I thought it looked too painty and I was going for more of a watercolor look.

So I just soaked the tags in the water for about 2 minutes instead.

Then I pulled them out and let them dry on parchment paper.

If there were spots on the tags, I used a dry brush to spread the paint around on the tag.

Step 2: start creating the flower center

I cut down the edges of the smaller tags to start forming the flower center.

I took a small styrofoam ball and stuck a piece of white floral wire into the center of it. The tags are bendable because they’ve been painted, so I started with one tag and hot glued it in place and then wrapped another one around the edge of that tag and hot glued that one in place.

It looks a little awkward at first.

Do not give up.

This is the hardest part.

After this step, you’ll start to see the flower.

Step 3: keep wrapping the tags

I kept wrapping the tags around the center of the flower and hot gluing them in place.

Each layer of tags was slightly larger than the tags before it.

After I glued the tags in place and then bent the edges back of the flower to make the petals.

Step 4: add the larger petals

For the next step, I started to add the larger tags.

The challenge at this step is that the flower has a circle base, so I wanted to bring the flower to the point at the end.

So when I started adding the larger tags, I cut the end of the tags to a point (you can see it in the photo).

And then I started hot gluing the larger tags in place.

I kept gluing the tags in place until I had the size of flower that I wanted.

Step 5: add twine

Wrap the twine around the ends of the tags.

I threaded it through and let the ends hang off the tags.

I added the twine to the outer tags.

Step 6: wrap the ends and add leaves

Once you have the flower the size you want, wrap the stem with floral wire.

Start at the top and wrap the flower until the stem and the top of the flower (the end with all the tags) is completely wrapped.

You can also wrap leaves into the stem as well.

And that’s it.

Meet the newest member of the Thistlewood household.

This DIY spring paper flower.

Just between us?

Those tags had NO IDEA what was in store for them.

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