Anemone made of crepe paper

Anemone made of crepe paper is an excellent spring table decoration.

Anemone made of crepe paper is an excellent spring table decoration, or an effective decoration on a gift wrapped with crepe paper.

Prepare:

- crepe paper in yellow, orange or dark green shades
- soft chenille wire in yellow shade
- moss
- florist ribbon
- thin florist wire
- florist sponge

1 To make a flower, cut out ribbons 2 x 5 cm from crepe paper. Round the tops. Use soft wire to make pistil and stem and shape the end of the wire into a spring.

2 Place petals, one by one, around the pistil. Fasten them with florist wire.

3 Cut out green crepe paper for sepal 7 x 5 cm. Cut the tops as shown in the picture and then wrap it around the petals. Fasten with the wire.

4 Wrap the florist ribbon first around the sepals and then the stem. Fix it with the glue at the bottom.

5 Use your fingers to stretch carefully the crepe paper at the bottom of the petals. Do the same with sepals.

6 Make the buds out of crepe paper cut into triangles and then wrap them around the soft wire.

7 Add sepals to the buds and wrap with florist wire.

8 Put florist sponge in a pot, cover with moss and arrange the flowers.