Let's Celebrate with DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers

Photo credits: photography by Janet Kwan Photography | craft beer by GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co | hand lettering by Love Lettering on this oval tub | real flowers from Flower Treasures | shot in the Noodle Gallery (artwork by Laura Culic) | creative direction and DIY projects by Lorrie Everitt

Giant tissue paper flowers are one of those DIY projects that can be translated to fit almost any theme and colour scheme and when you group together a collection of tissue paper flowers they can make a huge impact. Use them to create photo backdrops at weddings, celebrations and pop up markets.

It really doesn't matter if your flowers look like a specific type of flower. Use our templates and diy instructions as a guideline. Tissue paper and sizzle are available in many different colours so go ahead and just have fun.

Here's the supplies we used to create our giant tissue paper flowers: tissue paper, sizzle, natural excelsior, twist ties, cardstock, scissors and our petal templates.


Let's make a "sunflower" (or a flower with pointed petals):

Cut the tissue paper petals using the sunflower template in the quantities indicated.

Scrunch the flat ends of the tissue paper to create the petal shapes.

We suggest cutting a piece of cardstock cut into a circular shape so that it can be use it as a base to form the flower and afterwards for hanging purposes.

Create the first layer of  your flower by gluing the petals to the cardstock as shown below ...

Once the first layer is complete repeat with the remaining larger petals to create a second layer ...

Now that you have the hang of it, add two more layers of petals using the smaller petals ...

Once the petals are all set, glue a scrunched up ball of sizzle to the centre of the flower.

You can also create flowers with a more rounded petal shape using our other flower petal templates.

Cut the number of petals as indicated on the template and then follow the general directions for scrunching the tissue into petals and gluing the petals onto a cardstock base ...

We added a few layers of contrasting tissue paper (circles that were scrunched to give them a little texture) and then added natural excelsior to the centre of this flower.

You can also find more variations of tissue paper flowers in this blog post too. 

Giant flowers take up a lot of space and you will find that you do not have to make many of them if you are trying to create a large backdrop. Try to vary the size of the flowers a bit so that you will have some that are a little bit smaller to fill in the spaces between the flowers.

Download the petal templates here.

We'd love to see your giant tissue paper flowers and how you used them. Share your photos on Instagram at #creativebaginspire and tag us at @creativebagco.