We are all about the DIY wedding flowers at this time of year. Not that we need a special occasion for our paper flowers! We have enjoyed making a vase full of crepe paper calla lilies this week. Simple, elegant and perfect for any occasion, our DIY calla lily is one of our most favorite. Use a good quality crepe paper in white, green and pale yellow to make your paper flower. Begin by downloading our pattern below then you can follow our simple step-by-step tutorial. Using crepe paper is different. Firstly, your petal shapes must be cut out along the grain of the crepe paper. By doing this you can gently pull the grain apart along the edges of the petal which will give it a natural looking outwards curl – so pretty! Similarly with the leaves, cut the pattern out at a diagonal to the grain. The grain of the paper will then look like the lines of the leaves, giving them a beautifully natural quality.
We would love to see our paper flower designs out there in the world. If you are inspired to make any of our paper flower crafts, or you are making your own DIY wedding flowers, you can share your pics with us over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #DIYDreamingWithLia. See you there! ~ Lia
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This is an older SVG? I found it to be a very jagged cut on the spathe, rather then a smooth clean line. I will try cutting by hand instead. I know its actually very simple but I love that most SVGs cut so cleanly.
Yes it’s an older project. I recommend you try this one from December: https://liagriffith.com/crepe-paper-calla-lilies/
Do we use heavy crepe paper or the extra fine?
We used heavy crepe for this one 🙂
Thank you so much for this tutorial. Can you please elaborate more on the center of the flower? How many times do you twist the paper? How far down on the wire do you glue it? Do you glue it just at the base, or all along the sides of that piece? All of your centers seem a lot more 3D than mine. Mine are very flat.
Thank you so much for your help!
Sara
Hi Sara! Twist a full 365, and glue the wire in so it touches the inside tip of the center. Wrap the paper around the wire but only glue at the base.
Is there an SVG available for these? Thanks!
The SVG file has been uploaded 🙂
How long is the stem for each flower. Can’t wait to start.
Mine are about 11-12″, but you can make them as long or short as you’d like 🙂
Yes I have a hard time to cut leaves, always wrong grain lines
It can be a little tricky at first for sure.
Lia, I’m loving your paper flowers and would love to make them as gifts for my friends this year. I can’t wait until your line is available at Amazon! Until then, can you please recommend where I can purchase crepe paper that I can practice with? I haven’t found a store that sells them in sheets and there are so many online stores that I’m skeptical of where to buy from. Thanks so much for your time!
We can’t wait either! PaperMart.com sells rolls in a variety of colors. We’re pretty sure their crepe is made in China, so the quality is very different than our German made brand. But it would be good to practice with! 🙂
Where can I purchase crepe paper for your floral projects?
I am actually releasing my own line of crepe paper! For this particular flower, I would recommend Carte Fini’s 180 gram crepe. This crepe is thicker, so it great for calla lilies because they are just one large petal for each bloom. For more intricate flowers, my extra fine crepe works wonderfully! My crepe will be available for purchase through Amazon starting July 1st, you can find more details about it here: https://liagriffith.com/extra-fine-crepe-paper-line/
[…] Wow these calla lilies are gorgeous and look so realistic. They can be made as a gift for Mothers Day or Birthdays, or as decor for weddings. This step by step tutorial shows you how to make them. Follow the link for more detail;Â https://liagriffith.com/crepe-paper-calla-lily/ […]
Do you think this pattern would work with the metallic text weight paper you usually use? I’m not a fan of crepe, but I want to try these out! Thoughts?
Unfortunately this template won’t work well with regular paper. Crepe is a stretchier paper, if you wanted to make this with text weight paper, you would need a larger template with a slightly different shape. Sorry about that!!
My crepe paper is too thin. What can I do? Here in SA we only can get that thin crepe paper.
I think thin crepe paper will be fine! If it ends up being too flimsy and won’t stay upright, I would say that you can try doubling the crepe 🙂 Good luck!!
How do you know which weight paper you should purchase to get the best results? Thanks
I used 180 gram for this project, but you could also use something lighter and it would work well too!
Simplistic, graceful beauty! Thanks for sharing your artistic talent with all of us.
Thank you so much for your sweet comment!
I’m having three fresh callas on my dining table – a dark purple red color, which looks beautiful with some branches of red cornus. To hide the naked calla stems I put some short buxus branches into the glass Vase.
Well, of course do paper callas last longer than fresh one, but I love fresh flowers … 🙂
Beautiful!! And yes, nothing can beat a bouquet of fresh flowers. I actually love mixing paper flowers into bouquets of fresh flowers, it adds a nice element of texture!
Thank you ery much, they are beautiful calla lillies.
Thank you 🙂
These Calla Lilies are so graceful and quite real looking. How do you do it Lea? Did you take course in paper construction for flowers? Or knowing you and your love of paper flowers it’s a talent you came by naturally.
Whichever it was you are so good at it. Love these. Would love to make some some day. Have resolved to give myself time to get this shoulder/arm situation resolved/completed before I embark on any other big projects. Next will be getting my loss of hearing resolved. Has become problem which interferes with my ability to function as well as I can as 75 yr. old woman. So have lots to accomplish for while.
Mean while will keep abreast of what you are creating day by day and hope to be able to make at least some of your inspired projects. Will print out ones I really want to make first then keep printing out as we go along. So glad you keep projects available for later consideration. Will have quite a portfolio of projects to make when I’m ready, will be quite an inducement to get myself squared away. Included in all this is learning to use my exciting Cricut. Will be watching videos you told me about and any other resource to learn how to use it to get best use of it’s qualities. You are quite an inspiration yourself Lia. Thank you. Happy week
Thank you so much as always Jane. I haven’t taken courses for paper flowers, it’s just something that I started doing one day and discovered that I absolutely loved it! Something that I’m currently working on is creating a class for paper flowers that I can teach online with videos and such. Fingers crossed that I can launch it some time in the spring! You are sounding quite busy these days Jane. Take your time! The projects will always be here for you when you are ready to return to them 🙂