Brightly colored paper flowers

If you have a need to make bright flowers to decorate a card, a panel or for some children's crafts, then nothing can be easier if you have paper, glue, paints or felt-tip pens and smart half-beads. This lesson shows how to make small variegated flowers with your own hands. They will be two-layered, although you can make and more lush versions. The color of paper and materials for work you can choose at your discretion. In the same way, you can use not only ordinary colored paper, but also corrugated or kraft paper, tracing paper and so on. You can create compositions at your discretion, whole bouquets, flowering panels, which will decorate the children's table, room or wall at the exhibition.

What you need to prepare to create small flowers with your own hands:

• colored (preferably double-sided) paper;
• a simple pencil;
• manicure scissors;
• tweezers;
• glue;
• half beads;
• Watercolor paints or markers, felt-tip pens, special ink, whatever you have on hand to color and brighten up the flowers.

How to make flowers with your own hands

1. Take paper for work (in this case even ordinary paper for office printouts will do), although it can be a child's version from a set.

2. Take the leaves you like and cut them into squares. The size of the squares will determine the size of the future flowers. The squares do not have to be even.

3. Carefully draw a five-leaf flower on one of the squares with a pencil or you can make a model with 6 petals. Put the two squares together and cut out two blanks at once with manicure scissors along the contour. Thus, they will turn out to be exactly the same. You can fold more than two layers and cut them out.

4. Take tweezers or some other tool and gently crimp the tips of the leaves in each piece to make the flower more lush.

5. If you are making a two-layer model like the one shown above, glue together two flowers with crumpled petals.

6. Take the coloring option that you have. It can be plain watercolor paint and a brush. You can just paint the ends of the petals lightly and carelessly with a color you like.

7. Or use brightly colored markers, drawing out a sloppy pattern or some other variation.

8. Decorate the center of the flower with a beautiful half bead, not necessarily in the tone of the paper.

9. The resulting flowers are very interesting - three-dimensional and eye-catching.