Welcome to the first in a new, highly-requested, How-To series! I’m still trying to think of some snappy little title, so that may change one day. Every other Tuesday I’ll be bringing you a new project and will cover a broad range of crafts and levels of difficulty.
This week we’re making simple tissue paper pom-pom flowers. I’m highly addicted to making paper flowers of all kinds and will share a variety of others with you in the future but I thought this quick and easy project was a great starter!
What you’ll need for one 5″ flower:
4 pieces of tissue paper, 10″ x 5″
18″ piece of thin wire, floral or any other type
Scissors
Stack the four sheets of tissue on top of each other. Make 3/8″ accordion folds, creasing after each fold. I find it easiest to make one fold, flip it over, make the other, and repeat, so you are always folding up away from you and it’s easy to see.
Fold the 18″ piece of wire in half and slip over the center of the folded tissue. Twist the bottom closed. Using sharp scissors, trim the ends of the paper into rounded or pointy shapes. I chose rounded for this one.
Separate the four tissues layers, one at a time until the flower begins to take shape. Depending on what you will use them for, you can keep the bottom flat or you can puff them into a ball for hanging.
You can use these little flowers just about anywhere! I love using them as napkin rings for a summer picnic or when we have guests over. You can use them to decorate a basket or the back of a chair, make a bouquet for a vase or they are beautiful as a bow on a gift.
Try layering different colors of tissue for a beautiful effect or embellishing the centers with buttons or beads. You can also easily make other sizes by starting with different sized tissue. In the future I will show you how to make really big ones to hang from the ceiling. I hope you have fun making these pretty little flowers. I’d love to hear about what uses you find for them!
I’ll have a PDF instruction sheet that you can download or print
available later today.
lillyella 
Well I’ll be. . . I was just making these out of coffee filters with my 4 yr old. Love your “grown-up” version!
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This is so pretty and easy too! Thanks
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These are too sweet, I’m definitly using these on gifts and I love your idea as napkin holders!!
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These are just too pretty and they look so easy to make! I am inspired!
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VERY CUTE!!!
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Very cute, they would be perfect for the front of a basket on your bike. Love it.
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Super cute! Love that yellow color too. Thanks for sharing, Nicole!
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oh this is beautiful, nicey! bravo! great new series!
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Totally cute!!!
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i just tried these at work. i couldn’t resist. My first was a bust, but my second I made a little bigger and used six sheets and its super cute! Trying to figure out what to do with it…LOL
but will probably make a bunch for my house warming party and hang them from the trellis over my patio
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Oh, we used to make giant flowers like this for Fiesta (which just happens to be right now!). Your small ones are much more practical. I am digging out the tissue paper!
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Great tutorial. Must try this out, looks so simple and absolutely lovely!
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Sweet!
I used to make bouquets of them for mother’s day when I was a kid – I had forgotten all about them. Cannot wait to do this with M tomorrow!
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bookmarked! i’m using this in my wedding if you don’t mind!
thanks so much for sharing it! it’s just the kind of thing i was looking for!
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of course I dont mind! You just have to share pictures 🙂
and Ill be using them too
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These are lovely, Thank you for sharing. 🙂
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Oooo, this looks easy enough, and such gorgeous results!! TFS!
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These are so cute, I couldn’t help but link to them on my < HREF="http://nettacow.blogspot.com/2009/05/look-out-again-weekly-links-post.html" REL="nofollow">weekly roundup<>. Thanks! :>)
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These are so much fun. We recently made several of these, too, from the same Martha Stewart tutorial. Lovely decorations.
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This is so beautiful. Are you serious it is made of tissue papers…unbelievable. nice work dude.
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Very Informative ideas about how to make Tissue papers pom pom flowers.
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Amazing art of Flowers. During a research I found an online website that flowers to usa
and I gave them the idea about it for they really appreciated. I am not sure how will they going to use it but they really liked it.
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wow…i never thought of it before
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Nice idea! I never try to make a flower tissue before, Anyway, thanks for sharing this post. I've got an idea.
-pia-
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Gorgeous work, thank you for sharing this method.
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I suggest this site to my friends so it could be useful & informative for them also. Great effort.
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gorgeous Marsha!!!
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Lovely tutorial. For a very creative person like you, ordinary materials can turn into something lovely like this one. The end result looks hard to make if someone has no idea how to make one. Thanks a lot for sharing this tutorial, this sure will help me. I'm an artificial flower enthusiast. 🙂 ~ Gia
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I love what people do with tissue papers and towels in the restaurants and hotels. This is a diversion in an otherwise monotone job. I love your blog by the way.
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I love how you make the paper flower, You made it so simple to make, your technique is easy to follow, with this tutorial, I can sure make one for myself as well. Thanks.
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Hi there, thanks for sharing this tutorial. We loved it so much we’ve put a link to it on our blog http://www.polkadotlighthouseuk.blogspot.com along with a few other flower-related items. Thanks again and congratulations for your blog! Olga
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Makes sense!! Good solution to a problem I am sure, many people were facing! It is blogs like these that will help people to try out new ways and means to a solution. So thank you for sharing it .
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this is toooo good.. so simple yet pretty.. plz do share more flower making techniques, i love doing floral arrangements:)
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