Hey there!  Welcome to Decorate and More with Tip!  If you are new to my blog, welcome I am so glad your came to visit. I hope you find my tips and ideas for decorating on a budget helpful.  There are so many ways you can decorate on a budget.  I great way is searching on Pinterest for inspiration.  On any time of the day you can catch me scrolling through Pinterest saving ideas to my board.  Here is a blog hop that shows you to take your favorite pin and make it a reality.  You will want to keep reading because down at the end of my page I am going to share something with you about my blog today.  It’s pretty neat!!

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Today is our monthly Pinterest Challenge the theme is Spring craft/DIY, the challenge is hosted by Erlene My Pinterventures.  I am in a group of talented bloggers sharing our version of some inspiration we found on Pinterest. Like always, I will share their links down at the bottom of my page.  To view my previous Pinterest challenges you can catch up here ⇒ PINTEREST CHALLENGES. Just click to follow me and my pins on Pinterest →PINTEREST ACCOUNT.

I have only a couple more days before we have the baby shower, I need to finish all the baby shower preparation by then !!  I am working on the cake backdrop right now.  I love the flower wall décor I have been seeing.  What a perfect craft for this Pinterest Challenge. Scrolling through Pinterest to find some “How to tutorials”.  To be honest, I have seen several videos on how to make them.  The tutorials goes so fast I have to keep rewinding to understand each step.   Taking what I gathered from the videos I watched I hope I made an easier tutorial for you to follow.

I went to Hobby Lobby and grabbed a pack of scrapbook paper when they were running the paper half off.

I traced all the patterns out on the scrapbook paper and cut then all out.  There are 6 patterns cutting 8 pieces per pattern besides the last one you will cut 12.  You will also want to make an octagon base.  I just made a 6 inch square and cut the corners off.

NOTE:  If you want to make larger or smaller flowers, use the same pattern but enlarge or decrease the size.  When making larger flowers you will need to make more of each pattern and smaller flowers you will not have to use all the patterns.  Make as many or less as you want for your flower. 🙂

Plug your hot glue gun in because we will be using it pretty much for this DIY.  Placing the octagon in front of you and all 8 of #1 pattern.

Preparing the petal

Cut 3 inches in the center bottom of the petal

Add a line of hot glue to one edge of the cut and place the unglued side on top of the hot glue line.   Take something to roll the petal top edge, roll 1/4 down the petal.  This gives the petal a shape.

Taking the 8 petals of pattern #1 and glue down to each side of the octagon.

When laying the next row glue down between the two bottom petals.

Do the above steps for patterns 1 through 5. We will be doing more curling to #6.

After we finished gluing pattern 5 down this is what your flower should look like.

With pattern #6 we will be curling the whole entire petal.  After curling glue the center bottom like normal and place in the center using all 12 petals.

This is what your peony will look like or maybe even better!

MAKING THE LEAF

• Taking one 12×12 evergreen scrapbook paper, a pair of scissors, pen or pencil and a zigzag pair of scissors.
• Cut your paper in half
• Fold one half in half (does this make sense)?
• Cut a leaf shape out of the folded sheet
• Trim you leaf shape with your zigzag scissors

Draw the vines on your leaf

To get your leaf to have the indentations, we will be folding the lines we just made.  This is how I did my leaf.  I folded from the center of the leaf to the edge.  I did not fold down straight across.

This is what it should look like.

We have our flower and now the leaves.  Here is what mine looks like.

I will be making different sizes and colors for the baby shower.  Here is just two I made so far.

You will have to check out my feed for the baby shower reveal.  It’s this Saturday!  To see all of the Baby Shower Decorations you can view here → SHOWER DECORATIONS

Since I couldn’t find a nice pattern to make a peony I decided to share mine with you.  Click here to download.  Paper Flower Pattern

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