Sweet DIY: cupcake liner flowers

From creative seating cards to handmade wedding decorations, Martha Stewart Weddings is full of amazing and inspiring DIY tutorials…

But Martha is not the only one inspiring crafty brides.
Luckily, the “blogosphere” is full of free templates and tutorials to help unleash your creative side.

I recently stumbled upon the how to make flowers out of cupcake liners tutorial on the Intimate Weddings Blog.

I immediately purchased some fun and bright colored liners so I could try out the project myself.
Cupcake Liners on Etsy are easy to find, abundant and delightfully cheap!

Here is the fabulous tutorial from Intimate Weddings:

Supplies needed: cupcake liners (eight small cupcake liners per flower were used here), pipe cleaners, a straight pin and floral tape

• Take cupcake liners out of their packaging.

• Flatten eight cupcake liners (enough for one flower) with your hands.

• Using a straight pin, poke 2 holes on the inside of the liners about a half inch apart.

• Insert pipe cleaner into the holes through the inside of the cupcake liners.

You will probably only be able to do a couple at a time.

• Keep repeating until you have all 8 cupcake liners threaded onto the pipe cleaner.

• Bring the end of pipe cleaner through the second hole.

• Starting as close as you can to the edge of the liners, wrap your pipe cleaner with floral tape.

It takes a bit of practice to get good at it.

Voila! A lovely paper flower to admire!

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