The Flower Parlor // Flower Mobile Tutorial

Oh Joy! A tutorial! I am super excited to share with all of you the work that Charlotte and I put into this very first crepe paper flower tutorial; and most of you will be happy to know that it is of my last creation, the Spring Flower Mobile. In order to pull it off, I had to recreate everything; and some items, such as the sheer blue ribbon were used up in the first mobile, so I had to use different materials for the second. Do take a look!


How to Make the Flowers

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1 // Four of 2' of your choice of Ribbon
2 // Four of 5" of your choice of colored floral tape
3 // Four of 5" 22 gage cloth floral wire


1) Lay the ends of the wire and ribbon together.
2) Secure by wrapping the floral tape in a downward diagonal position.
3) Repeat three more times for the rest of the stems.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1 // Pips (or stamens)
2 // A bit of floral tape


1) Pinch the pips in half.
2) Wrap pips around the ribbon ended stem.
3) Secure by wrapping with floral tape.
4) Repeat three more times on remaining stems.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1 // Your color choice of either pre-wrinkled* Wrapping Tissue or Crepe Paper for four 1 1/2" petals per flower.
*To pre-wrinkle, cut out a skinny section of tissue paper and gently twist it. Carefully untwist it, and cut out the petals. This wrinkling gives the light tissue paper more structure and texture.



1) Scrunch the base end of a petal.
2) Secure with floral tape a quarter inch below the top of the stem.
3) Repeat three more times with remaining petals.
4) Repeat steps 1-3 three more times on remaining stems.

How to Make the Clouds

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1 // Your color choice of Crepe Paper cut into two 6x4 inch pieces, and seven 3x4 inch pieces
2 // Your color choice of Card paper cut into a 2x4 inch oval
3 // Craft scissors
4 // (Optional) Your color choice of four Crepe Streamers cut into 1 foot lengths



1) Fold over piece of crepe paper so that the grain of the paper is perpendicular to the fold.
2) Hot glue along the bottom (unfolded) edge.
3) Quickly scrunch pleat together, making sure that the back is gathered in with the front to make a bubbled fan shape.
4) Repeat for all of the pieces of crepe paper.




5) Glue a smaller bubbled fan to one end of your piece of card paper.
6) Repeat with like size bubble fan, laying it against the first one.
7) Take a piece of streamer, unevenly gather it, then hot glue the gathers together. Repeat with the remaining streamers.
8) Hot glue the streamer off-center against the last bubble fan.
9) Hot glue on a larger bubble fan, staggering it's placement.
10) Continue glueing on the rest of the bubble fans and gathered streamers, always staggering their placement on the card paper until the cloud is finished.
11) Repeat three more times for the remaining clouds.

Putting it all Together

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
1 // Pliers
2 // Two 3/16" dia. x 12" long wooden dowels
3 // Two 18 gage, cloth floral wires
4 // Your choice of colored floral tape


1) Wrap each dowel in floral tape.
2) Center them one on another exactly in the middle.
3) Secure with more floral tape.

4) Wrap both wires in floral tape.
5) Using the pliers, secure one end of a wire at one end of a dowel.
6) Lay wire across the next dowel end and wrap it over and under.
7) Secure end of wire on the third dowel end.
8) Repeat with the second wire.



1) Dab some hot glue just behind the secured wires.
2) Attach the end of the free end of the ribbon connected to the flower.
3) Repeat for the rest of the flowers



4) Carefully hot glue the ends of dowels and secured wires as shown above, and quickly attach the cloud.
5) Repeat three more times for remaining clouds.
6) Lastly, tie a 2' length of ribbon to the middle of a wire, and then tie it again on the opposite wire.
7) Repeat step 6 once more and... You're done!!! Yay!


Now don't be discouraged if this tutorial looks a little ominous to you. It will take a bit of practice, but it is easy enough for anyone to grasp quickly! And I know that I sent you on a little online shopping detour along the way, but again, everything in moderation. If this paper craft is something near and dear to your heart, or else you are very new to it but think it would be such fun to learn, let me reassure you by saying that, yes! It is very fun to do! And you will enjoy it if you like detailed work and have an afternoon's worth of time on hand one to two days a week like I do... if I am lucky that is.

One last thing: I know I forgot to mention the leaves in this tutorial, but really they are optional. If you would like to add them, just take two pieces of 1"x4" of any color of Wrapping Tissue, twist it carefully but tightly so you get a structured texture. Untwist the paper and cut out one long pointed leaf from each piece, and hot glue the ends to the bottom of the stem. Then repeat for the remaining flowers.

What did you all think of this first Tutorial?

I would love to know, how many of you would like to take up this craft?

Would you like more crepe paper flower tutorials?

What flower have you been wishing to see me make on our blog? 

Have a splendid day my friends! 

"All flesh is as grass,

And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.

The grass withers,

And its flower falls aways,

But the word of the Lord endures forever."

1 Peter 1:24-25

Fondly,

Jessica 

The eldest sister & singer