Paper flowers are super cool, and such a great flower alternative. I actually built an entire paper flower arch for my mother?s wedding. Their ceremony space was rather plain, and their budget rather small, so I wanted to give them a way to have flowers without the cha-ching. Ever since, I?ve been trying to come up with unique ways to utilize paper flowers. You can use pretty much any method out there for your flowers. You can use fabric, tissue paper, scrapbook paper, etc. I wanted to try out something fun and different for this tutorial, so I?m going to do an origami flower headband. This is a great base idea for a bridesmaid?s headband or even a bride?s hairpiece. The one I made is pretty simple with a pop of color and flowers, but you could go huge and flower crazy; the sky is the limit. You can follow along and create your own origami flower headband or you can just take this idea and run with your own style. Supplies:

Crepe paper
White Mesh
Origami paper (varying sizes)
Hot glue gun
Headband (old or new)
Embellishments (I used small pearl-like beads)

 
 
 
 
 

Step 1: Take your origami paper and fold it corner to corner.

Step 2: Unfold and fold the opposite way, corner to corner. You should end up with two folds in a cross pattern.

Step 3: Where the cross meets, gather your paper and pinch. Bring the two corners together on both sides and fold.
You should have a triangle shape. The two sides that come in when you pinch get tucked in the ...