Cupcake Paper Flower Valentine

A few weeks ago, Abbie was tinkering around with some cupcake papers and made a flower. Knowing that a Valentine’s Day party is around the corner, I asked her this week if she thought she could take that flower idea and incorporate a chocolate kiss. She sat right down and got to work, and even added a way to include a message! Here’s what she came up with….

Materials

1 yellow cupcake wrapper
1 pink cupcake wrapper
1 green cupcake wrapper
one dark chocolate kiss
glue gun

Instructions

Glue the point of the kiss into the center of the yellow cupcake paper.

Glue around the edges of the kiss.

Fold the yellow paper up around the kiss and stick it to the glue.

Find the center of the pink cupcake paper base (an easy way to do this is to fold the base in half both ways; the center of the plus sign that the folds create is the center of the base). Begin to crinkle the paper up like a flower, holding the center. Spread hot glue around the inside of the pink paper.

Put the point of the yellow cupcake paper in the center of the pink cupcake paper. Wrap the pink cupcake paper around the yellow center, squeezing them together.

Find the center of the green paper base and crinkle the paper into a flower like you did for the pink paper, but this time make a stem all the way up to about 1/2″ from the top. These are the sepals for your flower.

Open it back out and fill the stem with hot glue. Quickly squeeze the stem together to solidify.

When the glue is dry, open the green ruffles to create sepals.

Glue the pink flower into the center of the green sepals.

Fold another green cupcake paper in half and flatten it completely (not just the base).

Cut the cupcake paper into the shape of two attached leaves.

If you wish to write a note in the leaves you should do it now, before gluing. Just open the leaves and write on the white part inside.

Glue the leaves to the stem of the flower, so that when you fold them down, your message can be read.

Then make more for all your friends!

Cupcake Paper Flower Valentine

 

Print

Make a flower from cupcake papers and a chocolate kiss. Write a message on the leaves.

Author: Blossoms and Posies

You'll need...

• 1 yellow cupcake wrapper
• 1 pink cupcake wrapper
• 1 green cupcake wrapper
• one dark chocolate kiss
• glue gun

Here's what to do...

1. Glue the point of the kiss into the center of the yellow cupcake paper.
2. Glue around the edges of the kiss.
3. Fold the yellow paper up around the kiss and stick it to the glue.
4. Find the center of the pink cupcake paper base (an easy way to do this is to fold the base in half both ways; the center of the plus sign that the folds create is the center of the base). Begin to crinkle the paper up like a flower, holding the center. Spread hot glue around the inside of the pink paper.
5. Put the point of the yellow cupcake paper in the center of the pink cupcake paper. Wrap the pink cupcake paper around the yellow center, squeezing them together.
6. Find the center of the green paper base and crinkle the paper into a flower like you did for the pink paper, but this time make a stem all the way up to about ½" from the top. These are the sepals for your flower.
7. Open it back out and fill the stem with hot glue. Quickly squeeze the stem together to solidify.
8. When the glue is dry, open the green ruffles to create sepals.
9. Glue the pink flower into the center of the green sepals.
10. Fold another green cupcake paper in half and flatten it completely (not just the base).
11. Cut the cupcake paper into the shape of two attached leaves.
12. If you wish to write a note in the leaves you should do it now, before gluing. Just open the leaves and write on the white part inside.
13. Glue the leaves to the stem of the flower, so that when you fold them down, your message can be read.

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