Happy new year folks. Welcoming the year 2014, I made a floral wreath using tissue papers. It is simple and easy. I bought a metal ring from Idee craft store here which costed me 90 cents. Colorful tissues add a great look to this wreath but I chose white as I was (and am) missing snow a lot this winter. In future, definitely I will try some colored tissues too. So here is how we get started.

   I took a tissue paper which is generally folded into a quarter of its size. I used one of its creases and cut through using scissors. Now I have 2 rectangular pieces of 1 tissue paper. Likewise I made a large stack. For making one flower, I used 5 such rectangles. More you use, more fluffy the flower becomes. But using too many is also not good as it makes folding difficult. So, after stacking 5 rectangular pieces together, I made a valley and then a mountain (these terms are given to these folds in origami, you can look it up in google) . When you hold it on the side, you will be able to see a zigzag pattern. After folding the tissue stack, finally you will end up with a thick strip of paper. Now to add some look, I trimmed the edges into semicircular shape. I placed the ring on the table and I placed the folded tissue stack on it and tied it to the ring.  

Now that the tissue stack is secure, I gradually lifted up one layer of the tissue paper. Slowly repeating this on either side of the thread until the very last layer, gives a full bloomed floral look. 

Now, one flower is completed. To cover the rest of the circumference of the ring, I repeated all the above steps.

For this wreath, I made seven flowers. The number of flowers needed depends on how big the metal ring is and on the length of the tissue strips. If the length is less, one has to make more flowers to cover the ring. 

To make the flower stay in proper position, I glued the thread to the ring and later pasted the tape behind the flower. This helps in keeping the flower face us.

Here is the final look. Hope you like it :)

more tissue flowers

Some more tissue paper flowers that I made recently. They lit up the gloomy winter day for me :)

Tissue paper flowers

I made these long ago. There are two kinds of them. The first kind can be made using instructions from
http://spoonful.com/crafts/tissue-paper-flowers
I tried different looks for these flowers. The orange flower had the edges trimmed to get a look of carnation. The yellow is not trimmed at all.

For making the second kind, I took the tissues. I laid them on a table. And I placed a circular ring on it to draw a circle. For this I used the tape roll. Then I cut the circles. From 1 tissue paper I got four circles because I didn't open the tissue paper. I used it in its normal form with four folds. By repeating this on several tissue papers, I got a lot of circles.

      Now, I took one circle and pinched it at the center holding the pinched part down. Then I took another circle pinched at the center and placed it next to the first one. They are held at the center which faces down and the edges of the circle are kind of folded and very close to each other. I repeated this process for about 15 to 20 circles holding the pinched parts all the time (It can be more depending on your choice), never letting them go. This way of arrangement slowly shapes up like petals. At the end, I used a tape and wrapped it around the pinched part that I have been holding since the beginning. I wrapped really tight and made sure that the circles were not coming off the flower. I made several flowers in the same way. Here's the finished look.