How to Make a Paper Flower for Your Christmas Gift Boxes

Making your own custom Christmas gift box is a great way to make a more personal gift, especially when it is unique and relevant to the person receiving the gift. There are all kinds of ways you can make your Christmas gift box and one of the most popular accessories is to make a paper flower and place it in the box.

So how do you go about making a paper flower? Well, that's what this article is for! Let's get started ...

Choose your colors

First, you need to pick the colors you want to use for the paper flower. Note that the flower will have several different layers. How many layers you really going to use is up to you, but not usually the recommended minimum. Use paper that is multicolored or plain paper with one color. You can use different leaves of different colors, just make sure the colors go well together. Since this will be for Christmas gift box, you probably want to use holiday colors.

Cut the shapes

There are a couple of ways you can cut out the shapes: You can use a template cutter that's actually shaped a flower or you can just use scissors and do it yourself. Either way is fine, but the key here is to make sure that each layer you cut is smaller than the last. Therefore, if you use a template, make sure you have different sizes to work.

Traditionally, the layers for the pedals will be the same color (or similar), and the center will be a unique color. This creates the natural appearance of a real flower.

Once you have finished cutting shapes, can be folded, wrinkled or cut them to make them look more realistic. If you prefer to leave them alone, that's fine too.

The stack of forms

Finally, the forms will be stacked on top of each other, with the largest being at the bottom. The center of the flower will go on last. You can choose to join them or become attached with double-sided tape. If you use multiple colors for this paper flower, be sure to rotate the different layers so that each color shown. You can also put a cool accessory in the center if you want, like a diamond or a small pendant.

Attach it to your Christmas gift box!

Last but not least, connect paper gift boxes for Christmas gift! You can do this with a dot of glue or whatever you prefer. Now the Christmas gift box has some appeal seriously!

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