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DIY Flower Confetti Tutorial
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Before today, you probably didn’t even know you wanted to make flower confetti. I’ll just warn you, it’s all you’re going to want to do after you read this blog post.
Today, I thought I’d create a DIY flower confetti tutorial that’s fun and easy to make. You can create these flowers with just about any watercolors, but they’ll look more vibrant with professional-grade paints. You can start with any paper you know will respond well to watercolors: I chose to use 140 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. Begin by painting a blob of any color you like.
Follow up that blob with other floral-ish blobs like the ones below.
Add a couple of perky leaves to some of your blobs. {To make a leaf, you’ll paint a simple, somewhat rounded triangle.}
{At this point, you can add brown or green to the centers of a couple of your flowers, if you wish.}
Once your paint dries {it doesn’t take long}, use a simple gel pen to draw a circle over one of your blobs.
Then, draw a series of crescent shapes along the inside of the circle.
Draw some crescent shapes within the crescent shapes:
And continue to draw increasingly small crescents until you have something that resembles a rosebud.
Once you finish your first flower, it’s time to move on to another blob. Starting in the center of the flower/blob, use your pen to draw a few squiggly amorphous shapes like these:
Continue to draw those amorphous shapes in a pattern like the one shown below. You’ll end up with a pretty, geranium-like flower!
I’m moving on to a sunflower-type shape now. My goal isn’t realistic flowers here, so I used a sketching technique to outline the center brown circle a couple of times, as well as each of the petals. {By “sketching technique”, I don’t mean anything fancy — really I’m just saying I drew quickly!}
Once I finished my sunflower, I moved on to another … well, brown and yellow blob, for lack of a more eloquent way to say it. I just did a bunch of dots in a circle pattern, then drew a few lines with circles floating above their tops. {You’re really just going to have to look at the picture below to understand what I’m saying.}
The next flower I did was really simple: I just drew over the pink part with a spiral, then I outlined the leaves.
Taa-daa! These are ready to be cut into flower confetti.
I used regular, run-of-the-mill scissors to cut these flowers out. I like the look of a little bit of white around the outline, so I didn’t take any pains to ensure I was cutting exactly around the flower.
See what I mean? All of these have a little bit of white around them, and I think it adds to the whimsy/handmade effect.
At this point, I know you’re thinking, “Okay, Lindsey, this is all well and good, but what on earth am I going to use ‘flower confetti’ for?” I am sure you can find many uses for them, but here’s what comes to my mind:
Envelope Confetti
Slip these in the folds of a letter or in a card. When your recipient opens the card or letter, the floral confetti will tumble out. {As a bonus, these flowers are a lot easier to pick up than traditional confetti, or, goodness forbid, glitter, which stays around forever!}
Floral Bookmark
Glue these on a hardy strip of paper such as card stock or watercolor paper. Boom: instant, beautiful bookmark.
Pretty Envelope
Glue your DIY flower confetti on an envelope of a contrasting color. I love kraft paper because it’s earthy, which goes with the overall whimsical nature theme of the flowers.
Other Ideas
- If you’re hosting a meal {hello, holiday season!}, these are great to sprinkle around the table to add a festive feel. For winter flowers, I’d stick to whites, dark greens, grays, and deep reds.
- This DIY flower confetti is precious to have a flower girl throw at a wedding.
- Use big flower confetti for gift tags!
- I use these as whimsical product photo props from time to time.
If you have any other ideas, please let me know in the comments — I know that you’re creative and probably have something in mind that I didn’t think of!
Warmly,
