You're my wonder wallflower

What a weekend! It started out simple enough with a few projects, throw some friends, a French themed dessert party and a hint of jazz and I'm on board! This weekend, I wanted to challenge myself I looked all over the internet for creative ideas to do with either recyclable paper, or any easy DIY fun project for a weekend. It was one that I found in passing made from old books that I loved.... it was a wallflower. -- now this large flower on the wall obsession happened about a year ago, there were these circular fabric (yarn almost) flowers that were really popular... sad part I can't remember what they are called (a true sign I'm aging) But this comes in close second! So what do you do? Well you make a million cone shapes out of paper and build on them. The tools I used for this are:

- Glue
- Double sided tape
- Glue gun
- Cardboard
- Lots of Paper

So you just start out with the primary layers, like this:

Between each piece I used double sided tape to hold them together really well. The first few layers I did the cones a bit tighter, and then I loosened them as I got closer to the front

Now, this looks easy, but it actually took me about 45 minutes (watching devil wears prada I might add) to get the first circle completed, the good news is as you get closer to the center and build more layers you have less to cone.





I used double sided tape and glue to gold the layers together, to get that extra strong hold (can you see how large this flower is ? It's the size of a table -- WOWA!

You can see here that I got a thick piece of white cardboard and glued it to the back of the flower, to give it that extra strength when it would be up against the wall. No word of a lie, as I started to make it, and it got bigger and bigger, I was terrified that it would all fall apart after I put it on the wall. But so far so good, it's been up for a few days now. So a little further into the project:



Success! It's complete! -- And yes those are my happy feet! So, the center part I just accordion folded some paper, and I hair sprayed that bad boy into place. I let it sit for a few hours before I put it up... after all I was having friends over -- so naturally I needed to unveil the finished product.

Before:

After:



Pretty Cute right? It has sculptural properties, fills a HUGE part of the wall and cost 6 bucks. I mean does it really get any better than that? Paper to the rescue!

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