50+ Paper Flower Tutorials & Templates: {Free}

Stained Glass Style: Made with black construction paper and tissue paper of various colors.

Double Fringe: You will need double-sided colored paper, scissors, glue, a ready-made or a do-it-yourself slotted tool, or just a wooden toothpick.

Tulips: The flowers and leaves are made with double sided decorative paper.

Ornaments: Easy project made with cheap computer paper.

Popup: Made with pages from a magazine.

Peonies How-To: Made with recycled paper that has been ripped and boiled in water and then pulsed to a pulp using a blender.

Perfect Daisies: These cheery blossoms brighten any table and make a wonderfully unexpected bouquet to give to a friend.

Elegant Parchment: This project makes a remarkably simple and beautiful flower that can be used to make a bouquet, a boutonniere, a brooch, or just about any flowery thing that starts with the letter B.

Book Paper: Made with pages from an old book and a large scallop punch.

Napkin Wallflowers: By using paper napkins, instead of tissue paper, the flowers have a more structured hold. They almost look like fabric.

Cupcake Liners: Made with eight small cupcake liners per flower, pipe cleaners and floral tape.

Large Poppies: These are lovely and huge!

Fringed: Make these with some clever snips of your scissors.

Dimensional: Made with a scalloped square squeeze punch and decorative corner punches.

Rolled: Learn how to make paper rosettes using cover or text weight paper and florist wire. Beautiful alone and arranged in bouquets.

Assorted: Features an assortment of flowers to make using colorful silk paper or other thin paper sheets.

Recycled: They don’t require any adhesive, and there are just four shapes to cut out.

Nifty Folded: These are quite clever and made with double-sided patterned paper, a circle punch, glue stick and vintage buttons (for the center).

Ranunculus: Made with cardstock and includes a free template to download (note the page says for subscribers only but that has been changed so everyone can download it).

Coffee Filter Roses: Made with a box of disposable cone coffee filters (8 filters will make one full bloom rose).

Layered Petals: Petal template provided (pdf), paper is curled using a filigree split tool.

Cupcake Liner Carnations: Each flower is made from 3 regular cupcake liners, cloth or paper covered florist wire and a dab of hot glue.

Pom Poms: Made with eight sheets of tissue paper in the color of your choice.

Pom-Pom Flowers: Made with four sheets of tissue paper and the edges can be cut curved or pointed after folding.

Mexican: Made with 8-10 sheets of brightly colored tissue paper per flower and twist ties, pipe cleaners, ribbon and/or wire.

Instant: Made with assorted lightweight paper such as tissue paper, sewing pattern paper, etc., and cut with shredder scissors.

Carnations: Made with tissue paper, pipe cleaners (chenille stems) or floral wire or floral tape.

Tiny Flowers: Made with four pieces of tissue paper measuring 2 1/4″ by 3 1/2″.

With Tulle: Layers of petals are made with 2 colors of tissue paper (2 sheets each) and two rectangles of tulle.

Crepe Paper Flowers: Use these directions to make the crepe-paper flowers that adorn this fondant-covered cake.

Double Peony: Made with crepe paper, wire, glue and mulberry paper.

Shaped: Flowers crafted from colorful tissue or crepe paper are graceful, inexpensive to make, and always in season.

Roses: Made with florist’s tape, 18 gauge cloth-wrapped florist’s wire, 2-ply or Double Sided Crepe paper in petal and leaf colors. Includes free pdf template pattern download.

Roses: Made with red crepe paper (30″ in length), green crepe paper (12″ long), glue and green wired stem.

How To Make: Vintage tip sheet from 1948, the instructions teach you the fundamental principles of crepe paper flower making.

DIY: Nice tutorial, these feature glued microbeads in the flower center.

Made With Streamers: These are made with crepe paper streamers in three colors for petals, center and leaves.

Glittery: So pretty! Step-by-step tutorial with lots of pictures, petals are rimmed with glitter and a shiny button is glued in the flower’s center.

Giant Paper Rose: Wow! Made with floral tape, 18-gauge floral stem wire, Doublette crepe paper and craft glue.

Kusudama: The Japanese kusudama is a paper ball made out of multiple identical origami shapes glued together. Also see this example with beads added.

Tulip Instructions: It is relatively simple and looks so sweet when bunched together with other tulips, or different types of flowers.

Roses: Three different styles shown: the Kawasaki rose, the Bird base rose, and the Standard rose.

Lotus Flower: Free pdf tutorial download available.

Simple Lily: The paper is coloured on one side and white on the other which gives a nice stripe effect down the centre of the petals.

Assorted: Here’s a gallery full of all kinds of flowers to make, includes bleeding heart, globe flower, primrose, edelweiss and lots more.

Eco-Chic Bouquet Alternative: Features clever “paper bag flowers” crafted from brown Trader Joe’s grocery bags.

Crafted: A bouquet like this requires about 25 flowers and 10 leaves. Once you have arranged them, cover the stems in wide ribbon.

DIY Pom Pom Vines: This project is a simple twist on a pom pom garland by stringing them vertically with paper leaves so they become vines.

Simple: This bouquet of delightfully airy flowers is as easy to make as it is beautiful.

Centerpiece: These gorgeous flowers are quick and inexpensive to make and add a burst of color to parties and celebrations.

Tissue Paper Garden: It’s easy to make and can be customized by using different colored tissue paper, patterned paper, fabric flowers, painted branches, and so on.

Cherry Blossoms: The blossoms look best if you use paper that is the same color on both sides.

Rose Branches: You may use a bit of glue or double-stick tape to keep the flower from unrolling and loosening up with time.

Hanging Rose Ball: Made with crepe paper streamers and styrofoam ball forms.