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Crepe Paper Flowers – A Blue and Yellow Wedding

Posted on March 1, 2013August 2, 2015 by Martha

All quilt work took a back seat these past two weeks while I began a new project for our dear friends who are getting married this June.  They were high school classmates in the late 60s, and recently met again at a high school reunion. Kyle has been our friend since he and my husband, Gordon, were fraternity brothers in college, and we are so happy that he has found the love of his life, Marcia.

The blue and yellow color scheme is taken from their high school colors, and I offered to make flowers for the wedding.  Yellow flowers were no problem at all, but since there are very few blue flowers in nature, I decided to just ignore that fact and make whatever blue flowers I wanted. Blue roses, blue peonies, blue carnations — the possibilities were endless, and fortunately Marcia liked the idea.  To soften the color scheme, I added some flowers in ivory and a light chartreuse. One thing I hadn’t thought about was the limited color palette of both yellow and blue crepe paper.

After much scrounging, I’m pretty sure I have managed to accumulate every shade of these two colors in every type of crepe paper. However, I’m always on the hunt, so I can’t resist stopping at any new store I drive by (drug, dollar or party) to check their supply of crepe paper streamers. You may not be aware of this obscure observation, but there are subtle differences in streamer color, texture and width from different manufacturers.  I need lots of variety because I am making around 220 flowers for the 16 centerpieces and two large arrangements. Here is a practice arrangement for one of the large vases. Crepe-Paper-Wedding-Arrangement   And here are the rest of the finished flowers waiting on my window seat.  I think I have made about 120 flowers, so I’m a little more than halfway done. Crepe-Paper-Wedding-Flowers-3   Crepe-Paper-Wedding-Flowers-1   Crepe-Paper-Wedding-Flowers-2   Congratulations to the happy couple!

Marcia-and-Kyle

9 thoughts on “Crepe Paper Flowers – A Blue and Yellow Wedding”

  1. Chris jurd says:
    March 1, 2013 at 11:52 am

    Wow Martha! Those flowers are amazing.

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  2. Donna says:
    March 1, 2013 at 4:04 pm

    Gorgeous flowers–do they take a lot of time? They look so real!

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  3. Carmen says:
    March 1, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    How beautiful!!

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  4. Mickie says:
    March 2, 2013 at 4:39 am

    Your flowers are just fantastic! You have a big job ahead of you! Love that crazy quilt too 🙂
    Hugs,
    Mickie

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  5. Panee says:
    March 4, 2013 at 6:25 am

    Wow! How did you do them? They are amazing!!!

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  6. Tina says:
    March 5, 2013 at 3:51 am

    Fantastic work! In natural colors your flowers look so real. I’ve used your tutorial with a few adjustments to make flowers out of felted sweaters. It is so much fun.

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  7. Barbara says:
    March 5, 2013 at 8:40 am

    You have flower making down to an art. These are just lovely. (And what a sweet couple and story!)

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  8. Pratima says:
    March 6, 2013 at 3:35 am

    Wow! hard to believe these are made of paper! They are stunning, Martha!
    Beautiful combinations!

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  9. Marnie says:
    March 14, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    Love your flowers…I design Nylon flowers 🙂 so a friend link your site on FB…Very nice

    Reply

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