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HOW TO MAKE GORGEOUS FLOWERS FROM OLD MAGAZINES - Easy to Follow Craft Tutorial
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Jan 15, 2025
Everyone adores flowers and these paper flowers will last for ages (years), Even better, they are made from old magazines so you are re-using something rather than throwing it away. They are super quick and easy to make with very few skills and hardly any equipment. If you want a particular color theme you can use old children's picture books or even colored paper. Make a few and place them in a vase to match your home decor or how about presenting a friend or loved one with a bouquet of them, If you like written instructions then check out the step-by-step instructions on my blog at https://christines-crafts.com/gorgeous-magazine-flowers/ Enjoy your flower making and please comment below to let me know how you get on.
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hi I'm Christine of Christine scraps
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today I'm going to show you how to make
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flowers from your old magazines great
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upcycling project make them for yourself
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make them for a bouquet for a gift
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really easy to do you don't need much
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equipment at all so let's get started
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these are the flowers we're going to
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make as you can see I've made a few
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various different colors your color
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depends on the page you use from your
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magazine some of these were used a
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child's book to get a nice pink color so
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what do you need to do these flowers
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you're gonna need a pair of scissors
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some florist tapes a nice idea for stems
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but it's not essential some masking tape
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or decorators tape some double-sided
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sellotape really easy to use some sort
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of stick a bamboo stick some florist
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wire even a pencil at a push and
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obviously a page out of a magazine so
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the first thing we're gonna do is make
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that page rectangular I ripped mine out
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of the magazine so I'm just gonna tidy
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up that edge I'm not taking any fancy
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measurements I'm making it perfect but
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just tidying up the rough edge it's
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because we're gonna start folding it
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shortly so we want a nice edge to work
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to so once you've got a nice page you're
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going to decide which side is the side
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you want that's my side I want on the
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outside so that's the one you fold in so
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fold your page in half lengthways and
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then take the top layer and fold it back
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to that fold so you get a nice little
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concertina effect once you happy with it
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turn it over do the same to the other
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side so what you're gonna have it's all
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folded basically into four now we're
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gonna open that top up and we're gonna
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get the double-sided tape I'm going to
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put a length of it along the bottom
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there so that we can stick the top
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down for only sticking it at that one
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edge okay it's a good selfie tape and
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then the hardest part of all these
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projects peeling the protective paper
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off the double-sided sellotape always a
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challenge once you've got your paper off
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fold your magazine back and stick it
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down make sure it's firmly stick firmly
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stick firmly stuck and then repeat for
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the other side so open it up get your
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double-sided tape put a length of it on
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right at the edge there right now the
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bottom
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and the usual problem make sure it's
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firmly down and then try and take the
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backing paper off and then fold top of
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the page down so now you've got it
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folded into four and you've stuck those
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edges down so at the top there it still
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opens up the other end you've stuck the
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edges down so now we're going to form
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the petals so those edges that are not
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glued down you've got those edges that's
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the edges we're going to cut for my
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petals so take your scissors and cut a
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little strip but don't cut all the way
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through you need to leave that bit at
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the bottom with the double-sided tape on
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it and leave that to keep it hold it all
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together
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so you'll see I'm cutting them about
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five millimeters half a centimeter apart
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it's up to you how wide your petals are
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it'll just depend how intricate your
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flower is at the end obviously have
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speeded this up so you once you get to
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the other end it's time to start making
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it into a flower so all the way along
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the length that you didn't cut we're
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gonna put some more double-sided tape
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and that's what we're going to use to
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stick it to its stem let's get a
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protective paper off
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find what you're using for your stem and
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place it at one end and start rolling
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and you're just gonna keep rolling to
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form your flower try and keep the bottom
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in line so that you end up with a nice
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detailed flower where the top of the
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petals are all about the same length and
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they all come together keep rolling
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right until you get to the end and then
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basically you have a flower and all
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we're going to do is make it more like a
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real flower instead of having that sharp
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end at the bottom of your flower a blunt
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end even we're going to get some masking
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tape and turn it into more of a conical
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shape so it looks more like the base of
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a real flower
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so stick it on so that it overlaps
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between your flour and your stick we'll
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call it a stick but it's your flower
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stem and just keep wrapping keep going
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round keep dipping it in doesn't matter
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you getting it folded it's a little bit
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untidy you're going to end up with it a
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little untidy because it's going right
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round that flower and then just around
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the stem at the bottom so keep wrapping
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you keep wrapping until you're happy
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with it till you think you've got rid of
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that step now this is a very interesting
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task if you're a cat so you'll notice a
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pore has arrived and it's gonna get a
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whole lot better she's coming for a
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closer look at that stick that's moving
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around so we'll just pause and get rid
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of the cat okay so keep going until
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you're happy with it and then cut your
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masking tape and just get the end on it
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doesn't matter how much masking tape you
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have on here it's entirely up to you if
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you didn't want very much or if you want
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loads as you'll see it's made it more of
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a tapered bottom to the flower it's not
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too pretty just yet
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make sure it's firm make sure it's tight
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and then I recommend again a little bit
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of double sided tape and sticking it on
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to that masking tape it's not essential
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but I found the florist tape sticks a
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lot better with a little something to
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help it get started make sure that's
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firm get your paper off and then away we
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go again you'll notice that pesky cats
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appeared in the corner so let's get our
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florist tape and start at the top make
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sure you completely cover all your
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masking tape so right at the top start
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wrapping it round once you've wrapped
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all the way around you're going to start
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to work your way down the mask into
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making sure your overlapping all the
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time you don't want any of the masking
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tape or the stick to show through you
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want it to look like it was completely
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natural base of the flower and a green
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stem so once you get down onto the stem
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it gets a lot easier again you can see
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I've sped this up a bit so it's not so
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boring to watch and you can just roll it
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down
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we're upping it round when you get to
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the bottom cut your masking tape put
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your end in tightly firm it all together
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and you've finished your flower and
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that's all there is to it and then you
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can repeat for as many of these flowers
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as you like and there you go so well
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done thank you for watching please take
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the time to give me a thumbs up or
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subscribe underneath this video and good
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luck with making your own flowers today
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thank you for watching
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