Poinsettia flower with Satin ribbon

Hi friends!! Today I want to share with you a tutorial for making poinsettia flowers with satin ribbon. I had learned this from a lady in Assam, when I was in Std X. I love the way these flowers look.

I had made this hanging flowers bouquet with this technique, long back.
Also see my tin can luminaries project posted today where I used these flowers.

Now, onto the tutorial (P.S. This is a picture heavy post)

1. Take the broad satin ribbon which we easily get in craft stores. The effect with the double shaded ones is much better, but since I wanted to make poinsettias, I have used bright red color.

2. Trace the petal shape onto the ribbon and cut them. You will need 7 petals for one flower.

3. Make lines on the petals using hot knife.

4. Take craft wire and wrap it with green tape. Cut the wires a little longer than the petals and glue them to the back of the petals as shown.

5. Once the glue dries, take 7 flower centers, and fold them. Take one petal at a time, bending them backwards and start adhering them around the flower center, one by one with thread.

6. Tie 3 petals at first, for the top layer. Then layer the rest of the petals below them.

The wire makes it easy to bend and place the petals in any form.

Use the flowers for decoration or as embellishments for your projects. You can make leaves also in similar way with green ribbon.

Hope you like the tutorial :)

Please drop in a comment in case you have any queries regarding this. I will answer them in this post later.

Happy crafting!!

Challenges entered:
Southern Girls - Ribbon
ABC Christmas Challenge - Christmas - anything goes
Cooking It Up With Katie - # 86 anything goes
Create Me Pink Challenges - #5 Christmas Colours
Creative Belli - #132 winter/Christmas
Digistamps 4 Joy - #33 Christmas, no animals
Decorate to Celebrate - #13 Christmas party decoration
Inky Impressions - #26 ribbon
My Mum's Craft shop - 35 traditional Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #68 Merry Christmas
Paper take weekly - Anything goes