Easy, Beautiful Tape Flowers for Crafts and Fashions

Sometimes, when youre doing crafts, home decorating, or fashion projects, you go down a list of things, until you find just the right one. You might be working on a project that requires a flower, so you go down the list: real flower - wont work; silk flower - a bit costly and a trip to the store; tape flower - perfect! Unless you make one, you cant appreciate how beautiful the flower is, and how simple it is create. The stunning flower can then be attached to a flip-flop, a picture frame, a curtain tie-back, or even a purse.

Tape has really come far, hasnt it? No longer do we have to stick with black, gray, or white. In fact, tape now comes in nearly every color - including metallic shades - and even patterns. Online, you can purchase Washi, or similar tapes, and they feature stripes, plaids, dots, and other interesting designs. With your choice of tape you can make the most stunning flowers, for use with your craft, home decorating, and fashion projects.

There assorted tape flowers that a person can make but many of them require a visual tutorial - and even then, it can be difficult to follow. There are all sorts of angles, and folds, and tricky insertions. But theres one flower design you can make and, depending on how wide the tape is, what color or pattern it is, and how you use it, each flower can look completely different. Start by tearing a length of tape and then tearing three more to be equal in length. Lay one piece on a table so that the sticky side is facing upwards, and so that one long side of the tape is facing you. Take the left end, and fold it towards the middle, and do the same with the right end. However, stop both ends short of meeting so that you leave a sticky area, right in the center. Youve just created two petals! Separately, make the same arrangement again, and stick it to the first one, so that the petal sets form an "X" shape, and so that the sticky center of the new piece is facing upwards. Continue to make another set, and one more, and sticking them to the original "X", so that you end up with an asterisk shape (*), with the sticky center of the final tape piece facing upwards. When you have four pieces of tape, arranged as described above, that will create one layer of the flower. Go through the whole process again, making an asterisk shape from four more pieces of tape, but starting with tape that is shorter in length than the tape pieces from the first layer. So, if the tape pieces from the first layer were eight inches long, each, tear the tape pieces for the second layer so that theyre each 6 inches long. Continue to make each layer smaller, and to stack the layers on top of each other, until the flower is as thick as you want it to be. End with a trinket glued on top, right in the middle, to cover the last sticky center of tape. The trinket can be a rhinestone, a pom-pom, or even a button. Make many different flowers and attach them to mirror frames, garments, belts, lamps, headbands and more. Use little strips of tape to make tiny flowers, or large pieces to make huge flowers. Make some with eight petals, some with six, and so on, so that each flower looks different. Theyre all shiny, stunning, and cheap!