1. Pick some pretty tissue paper. Depending on how full you want your flower, you will want 2 yellow sheets for the centre and 4-6 sheets for the petals. Lay the sheets of tissue in a pile as neatly as possible.
2. Fold all the sheets over at the same time. You can play with the folded size to get different effects, but 5-6cm is a good start.
3. Now repeat this fold back the other way.
4. Continue with this accordion-style folding until you have folded all the paper. At this point, I like running something hard like a ruler along the folds to ensure they stay.
5. Now, you can unfold the tissue and separate the yellow pieces from the rest.
6. Fold the yellow tissue back up. Thanks to that little ruler trick, it should go back together together nicely and easily. Fold in half and trim to about half the size it was.
7. Now, take a pair of scissors and make lots of long cuts in the yellow tissue.
8. This will now be your flower centre.
9. Now, take the coloured tissue, fold it in half, and cut the ends into whatever shape you would like your petals to be. The most important part here is to make sure you cut quite a long way down the sides, making it easier to form your flower.
10. Now you have your petals and the centre of your flower. If you notice any petals that are too joined together due to how the paper is folded, now is a good time to fix them.
11. Unfold all your tissue paper again and lay the yellow tissue back in the centre.
12. Re-fold the tissue. This can be tricky; try to get it back together as best you can, as it doesn’t matter if it is messy.
13. Fold all the tissue in half.
14. Wrap a pipe cleaner through the centre of the folded tissue paper and twist to secure it.
15. Now start with one side and pull up the tissue while fluffing it up, separating each layer to create the centre of the flower.
16. Now, do the same with the petal layers. You need me to be very gentle so as not to rip the tissue paper.
17. Once you have finished one side, it’s time to do the other.
18. Ta-da, your pretty spring flower.
Have fun with different colour combinations and petal shapes. Another thing you can try is creating two petal sizes so that your innermost petals are slightly shorter, creating a more layered effect. Have fun with it. I would love to see your flower creations.
