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Can you imagine the excitement when a copy of How to Make 100 Paper Flowers<\/a> arrived in our mailbox? We were given the opportunity to review this book, and oh my were there two happy girls when we opened it!<\/p>\n

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Yes, those bookmarks are all projects Abbie must urgently<\/em> try.<\/p>\n

This is an easy book for us to review – we love it! Abbie is still swooning over the beautiful flowers: “Some of them are SO realistic!” I (Mrs. Brown) am swooning over the gorgeous photos, and delighted that Abbie is going to fill up our house with flowers that won’t die!<\/p>\n

Maria Noble<\/a> has created projects that vary in difficulty, as well as materials. She provides instructions for creating flowers from crepe paper, tissue paper, origami paper, cupcake liners and more! Most of the projects Abbie was chomping at the bit to try use crepe paper, but we didn’t have any on hand and needed to order it. So we looked to see what she could make while we wait for the crepe to arrive.<\/p>\n

We decided to create a poinsettia (it’s that time of year!) based on several of Maria’s patterns. This is a more folksy\/interpretive flower, as opposed to dazzlingly realistic doublette crepe flowers like these from the book:<\/p>\n

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The flower uses the Origami Sunburst pattern in How to Make 100 Paper Flowers<\/a>. And the leaves are reduced version of the Magnolia Leaf. Maria has given us permission to publish these instructions, including a printable template for the leaves.<\/p>\n

We think this flower makes a gorgeous and elegant gift topper, in lieu of a bow or ribbon. If you’re not sure how to tidily wrap a package, check out our gift wrapping tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is there someone special in your<\/em> life who would be blessed by an extra fancy gift topper?<\/p>\n

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Origami Poinsettia Gift Topper<\/h2>\n

Materials<\/em><\/p>\n