Spring Up!

Can you say Whoohooo?! Its the first day of Spring! I can't tell you how excited I am for open windows and colorful flowers! It has been quite the long, gray winter here in New England.

I have already jumped ahead last week and created some tissue paper flowers and balls in spring pastels to prepare for the season. I learned this technique back in elementary school and has become popular again and with good reason. This was the perfect no money, quick project I needed that brought a big impact to my dining room. 

Tissue Paper Flower

Materials: Tissue paper
                  Pipe cleaner
                  Scissors

 1. You'll need 8 pieces of tissue paper. I used 2 blue and 2 pink cut in half. 
 

 2. Fold the paper in a under, over motion the whole length of the paper.

 3. Depending on what you want your end result to look like, cut the ends of the paper. I cut a point into my ends but you can also round them.

 4. Use your pipe cleaner  and tie it in the middle of the paper. If this will be exposed you may want to use green to look like a stem. Mine are going in solid color vases so any color will be fine.

5. Fold the paper in half.

6. Gently pull the paper as to separate each sheet. Pull all the sheets in the same direction.

 Here are a few pictures of the finished flower.

 Tissue Paper Ball.

Follow the same steps as above only I tied the middle with a long piece of ribbon to hang the ball from. When pulling the paper to separate the sheets pull then in opposite directions to create a ball.

I hung 3 balls above the flowers for a nice center piece for our dining room table. These are great to hang above a dessert table for any event as well.