Easy Tissue Paper Flowers

Oops.. I've been slacking on my posts, so this week to make up for it I decided to post a fun and easy craft idea. My grandma surprised me with a little gift in the mail and wrapped it all up in pink sparkly/glitter tissue paper (she knows me too well), and there was enough of it that I decided to make fun tissue paper flowers that I'll be putting around my house.

Step:
1. Buy tissue paper in any color and stack anywhere from 5-15 sheets of tissue paper. (I used 10, but use more if you want a full circle to hang)

2. cut the paper in half. (you'll get more out of your tissue paper and they're still pretty decent sized)

3. start to fold the paper, which is still stacked, back and forth about an inch or two- clearly it does not have to be specific or even too pretty at this point.

4 when you are done folding, you should have a fan. fold it in half and tie off with string (or floss)

5. at this point you can choose to cut the ends, either round or pointed (as I do later), or leave as is.

6. start to pull apart the layers and fluff them together to hide any open seams.

7. shape to half-circle to place on table or keep fluffing into a round shape and hang.

alternative step 5. cute both ends to a point to create a lotus effect.

end result:

So try this one out for yourself and send me pics of what you create! I'll definitely be doing this craft again, next time I'm going to experiment with different tissue colors and size as well (pics to come)