A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers: Learn to Make 43 Beautiful Paper Flowers (Over 250 Full-size Templates)
Create dozens of beautiful paper wildflowers that look just like the real thing!

In this book, paper artist Emiko Yamamoto presents her secrets for making realistic blossoms, leaves and stems from inexpensive colored paper sheets. Her flexible cut, curl and paste method makes it easy to create an amazing variety of different flowers and to tailor your creations to specific settings, occasions and color palettes.

This how-to guide has all the information you need:
  • Descriptions of the necessary materials and tools
  • Actual-size templates that you trace
  • Step-by-step instructions for cutting out the petals and leaves, giving the paper realistic curls and creases, and putting all the pieces together with simple dabs of glue

With just scissors, a few sheets of colorful Tant origami paper and craft glue, you can create breathtaking, inexpensive paper flowers. The chapters are divided into Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, so your paper bouquet will always be in season!

A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers features more than 40 distinct flowers, including:
  • Grape Hyacinth
  • Bluebell
  • Wild Tulip
  • Climbing Rose
  • Lavender
  • Poppy
  • Forget-Me-Not
  • Wheat
  • Snowdrop
  • Primrose
  • And more!

Show off the finished pieces in a shadow box, make special handmade cards, fill vases full of flowers that will never wilt, or decorate things like place settings and gift toppers.
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A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers: Learn to Make 43 Beautiful Paper Flowers (Over 250 Full-size Templates)
Create dozens of beautiful paper wildflowers that look just like the real thing!

In this book, paper artist Emiko Yamamoto presents her secrets for making realistic blossoms, leaves and stems from inexpensive colored paper sheets. Her flexible cut, curl and paste method makes it easy to create an amazing variety of different flowers and to tailor your creations to specific settings, occasions and color palettes.

This how-to guide has all the information you need:
  • Descriptions of the necessary materials and tools
  • Actual-size templates that you trace
  • Step-by-step instructions for cutting out the petals and leaves, giving the paper realistic curls and creases, and putting all the pieces together with simple dabs of glue

With just scissors, a few sheets of colorful Tant origami paper and craft glue, you can create breathtaking, inexpensive paper flowers. The chapters are divided into Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, so your paper bouquet will always be in season!

A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers features more than 40 distinct flowers, including:
  • Grape Hyacinth
  • Bluebell
  • Wild Tulip
  • Climbing Rose
  • Lavender
  • Poppy
  • Forget-Me-Not
  • Wheat
  • Snowdrop
  • Primrose
  • And more!

Show off the finished pieces in a shadow box, make special handmade cards, fill vases full of flowers that will never wilt, or decorate things like place settings and gift toppers.
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A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers: Learn to Make 43 Beautiful Paper Flowers (Over 250 Full-size Templates)

A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers: Learn to Make 43 Beautiful Paper Flowers (Over 250 Full-size Templates)

by Emiko Yamamoto
A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers: Learn to Make 43 Beautiful Paper Flowers (Over 250 Full-size Templates)

A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers: Learn to Make 43 Beautiful Paper Flowers (Over 250 Full-size Templates)

by Emiko Yamamoto

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Overview

Create dozens of beautiful paper wildflowers that look just like the real thing!

In this book, paper artist Emiko Yamamoto presents her secrets for making realistic blossoms, leaves and stems from inexpensive colored paper sheets. Her flexible cut, curl and paste method makes it easy to create an amazing variety of different flowers and to tailor your creations to specific settings, occasions and color palettes.

This how-to guide has all the information you need:
  • Descriptions of the necessary materials and tools
  • Actual-size templates that you trace
  • Step-by-step instructions for cutting out the petals and leaves, giving the paper realistic curls and creases, and putting all the pieces together with simple dabs of glue

With just scissors, a few sheets of colorful Tant origami paper and craft glue, you can create breathtaking, inexpensive paper flowers. The chapters are divided into Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, so your paper bouquet will always be in season!

A Beginner's Guide to Paper Wildflowers features more than 40 distinct flowers, including:
  • Grape Hyacinth
  • Bluebell
  • Wild Tulip
  • Climbing Rose
  • Lavender
  • Poppy
  • Forget-Me-Not
  • Wheat
  • Snowdrop
  • Primrose
  • And more!

Show off the finished pieces in a shadow box, make special handmade cards, fill vases full of flowers that will never wilt, or decorate things like place settings and gift toppers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804854016
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 03/09/2021
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Emiko Yamamoto is a graduate of Nagoya University of the Arts, where she first exhibited paper artworks. Her experience there sparked an abiding love of creating beautiful three-dimensional art with paper. Emiko's paper creations have been featured in many exhibitions, and she is often commissioned to create paper art for advertisements and magazines. She is continually developing new forms of expression using paper, including work with paper illustrations and displays. Emiko is president of the Paper Decoration Association in Japan, where she lives and hosts paper crafting workshops. She is the author of several Japanese books on the subject of paper cutting art, as well as Tuttle Publishing's English edition of Paper Flower Note Cards. Visit Emiko's paper crafting website at y-ycreation.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Before You Begin

The Tools You'll Need 68

Paper Suggestions 69

The Basic Steps for Transferring Patterns 70

Basic Techniques 72

Spring Flowers

Wild Tulip 75

Grape Hyacinth 75

Sweet Pea 76

Bluebell 77

Chamomile 78

Sweet Violet 79

Celandine 80

Lily of the Valley 81

Vetch 82

Daisy 83

Columbine 84

Garlic Mustard 85

Blue Woodruff 85

Sea Thrift 86

Summer Flowers

Climbing Rose 88

Buttercup 89

Chive 89

Lily 90

Red Currant 91

Red Clover 92

Poppy 93

Rose 94

Lavender 95

Dog Rose 96

Common Mallow 97

Globe Flower 98

Forget-me-not 99

Edelweiss 100

Blackberry 101

Autumn Flowers

Pincushion Flower 102

Aster 103

Marsh Mallow 104

Grape 105

Wheat 105

Meadow Saffron 106

Olive 106

Winter Flowers

Christmas Rose 107

Winter Aconite 108

Cyclamen 109

Primrose 110

Glory of the Snow 111

Holly 112

Snowdrop 112

Patterns

Wild Tulip 114

Grape Hyacinth 114

Sweet Pea 115

Bluebell 115

Chamomile 116

Sweet Violet 116

Vetch 117

Celandine 118

Lily of the Valley 119

Daisy 120

Columbine 121

Garlic Mustard 121

Blue Woodruff 122

Sea Thrift 122

Climbing Rose 123

Buttercup 124

Chive 125

Red Clover 126

Lily 127

Red Currant 128

Rose 128

Lavender 129

Poppy 130

Dog Rose 131

Common Mallow 132

Globe Flower 133

Forget me-not 134

Edelweiss 135

Blackberry 135

Pincushion Flower 136

Aster 137

Marsh Mallow 137

Grape 138

Wheat 139

Meadow Saffron 139

Olive 140

Christmas Rose 140

Winter Aconite 141

Cyclamen 141

Primrose 142

Glory of the Snow 142

Holly 143

Snowdrop 143

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