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Crafting Paper Flowers -- Crafty Sundays Review

 

Disclosure: I was sent a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I haven't done a Crafty Sundays review in a while but want to share this great paper flower book with you. I love making various paper flowers and finding different ways to make them. Today I am sharing Crafting Paper Flowers by Emily Paluska. This book uses quality crepe papers to make the flowers. 


From the Publisher: 

Craft everlasting beauty with paper flowers

Crafted from crepe paper and perfectly detailed to match the beauty of nature, these accessible flower projects are combined to create stunning arrangements, garlands, and wreaths.

Each flower is thoughtfully explained, taking care to get the details right on every unique component and ensuring that crafters of all levels can dive right in and bring these masterpieces to life. And here's where the real magic happens: once you've mastered crafting these exquisite blooms, you can let your imagination run wild, combining them in unique and captivating arrangements that perfectly reflect your personal style, event, or home decor.
  • Learn to make 24 different and incredibly realistic flowers and plants. Then, combine them into beautiful arrangements for home decor or sophisticated events
  • Full projects include bouquets/arrangements, a garland, wreaths, a potted plant, and a cloche
  • An amazingly accessible craft - make stunning flowers by following the clear, step-by-step instructions and photos, even if you’re a beginning crafter

Lifestyle photography and artwork copyright © 2024 by C&T Publishing, Inc.


From Me:

This book has beautiful projects!! I decided to try the classic rose and use the supplies I had around my house. I had some good quality crepe paper that I got as leftover samples from Paper Source back when I worked there. I couldn't find any of my flower making supplies but used some flower wire I was able to find. The instructions and templates are easy to use and follow. 


I did not make the leaves for the rose. I printed the template page for the rose and followed the instructions as best I can. I am very happy with how the flower came out.


The steps were easy, and I personally love how the rose came out. It was so easy to make, and the instructions are full of photos and are truly step by step. I love how they make it fairly easy to personalize each part of the flower. They suggest making the cuts for the sepal as well as for each petal. It allows the creator to make each one unique and look more real. 

Lifestyle photography and artwork copyright © 2024 by C&T Publishing, Inc.


The are a variety of flowers in the book. Some of the projects require painting to get the flowers to look real like the daffodil pictured above. Since I had limited colors of crepe paper, I only tried the rose but am excited to try some of the different flowers. 

Lifestyle photography and artwork copyright © 2024 by C&T Publishing, Inc.

After all the instructions for the individual flowers there are projects that include bouquets and wreaths and more like the Mushroom Cloche pictured below. There is a large variety and so many things you can do with these beautiful projects.

Lifestyle photography and artwork copyright © 2024 by C&T Publishing, Inc.

I hope you will check out this great book!! Be sure to check out my past paper flower posts!