Urban Nest

My mom taught me how to make these ribbon flowers when I was little, but I haven’t made them in ages. I wrapped a gift for a friend recently, and thought the package needed something extra and remembered these little flowers. It was the perfect addition and was really fun to do. I whipped up several of them to keep in my ribbon stash for future gifts.

If you want to make some, you can download the instructions here.

Here’s another quick flourish you can add to your packages.

{ink and paper flowers}

Urban nest’s very own Stephanie is the designer behind ink and paper’s stylish gift wrap, stationery and greeting cards. Stephanie recently filled a Richmond art gallery’s window with these paper flowers that she made out of ink and paper’s gift wrap. She used 3 layers of flower cut outs held together by a brad. She added a floral wire to the leaf so she could bend them into an organic shape and used the wire to attach an alligator clip – that makes them perfect to clip on to a present!

Tags: flower, gift wrap, instructions, paper, ribbon

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