20 Best Ideas for DIY Giant Paper Flowers to Make

We recently celebrated a special event for my young daughter. I love to DIY the party decor whenever possible and a paper flower wall was high on the to-make list. Here is a collection of the nicest giant paper flower tutorials I found when looking for paper flower backdrops.

Making Large Paper Flowers

Giant and large paper flowers are a budget friendly way to add a pop of color and texture to your special event. Whether it’s a bit of floral wall decor or full photo backdrops, DIY paper flowers are a great alternative to real flowers. Not only are they less expensive but you can use them for your home decor for years to come.

There were so many beautiful giant paper flower templates out there and I wanted to share them with you! Here are 20 of the nicest giant flowers I was able to find on the internet. Most of them come with free printable templates. I hope they’re helpful in making your own backdrops for birthday parties, baby showers, or weddings.

To make paper flowers you’ll need a hot glue and a glue gun plus paper in colors of your choice. While cardstock and crepe paper work extremely well, consider different types of paper such as gift wrap or even newsprint. Finally, you’ll need some way to cut the paper such as hand cutting or the use of a cutting machine such as the Cricut Maker or Cricut Venture.

DIY Giant Paper Flowers Tutorials

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Giant Alora Garden Rose

The frilly layers and detail in this giant paper rose by Burlap and Blue immediately jumped out at me. A how-to video tutorial was included as well.

Giant Paper Dahlias

Hello gorgeous paper dahlias! I love the two- and three-tone colors of these easy paper flowers. And the cutting is quite simple as you simply use squares for the petals and a large circle for the center.

3-D Paper Flowers

The layering of colours yet simplicity of these pretty 3-D flowers from Red Ted Art got my attention. The small and medium petals layer so well!

White Paper Roses

How pretty would these all-white big paper flowers be for a wedding backdrop? There’s a great tutorial with step-by-step instructions over on My Online Wedding Help. The way the flower builds from the center of the petal looks so effective.

Multi-Coloured Giant Paper Flowers

The different shapes, colours and sizes of paper flowers in this display by The Craft Patch Blog are so interesting to look at. Included are photo and video tutorials as well as SVG files to use with your Silhouette or Cricut machine. 

Gold and White Giant Paper Flower

Like the different shape of this flower by Craftify my Love as well as the mix of gold and white patterned paper.  The PDF pattern is available in her free resource library.

Rippled Paper Roses

These large flower petals with pretty ripples and different shades of the flower center gives depth to these roses by Country Hill Cottage.

Giant Paper Rosettes

These pretty paper rosettes , also from Country Hill Cottage, would make a huge impact on the wall. You can also use these easy designs with different colors of seasonal papers to make decor for Christmas, New Year’s Eve or the 4th of July. Simply mount them to the wall with some removable Command strips.

Tissue Paper Daisies

How sweet is this idea for tissue paper daisies? You could use these giant standing paper flowers in a spot where there’s no sunshine but you still want to have something floral.

Tone on Tone Paper Flowers

The center of the flower area of these tone-on-tone flowers by Create and Babble provide a lovely contrasting texture to the flower. The larger flowers were inspired by this tutorial (with template) from Ash and Crafts. We used a slight variation of the large flowers for our own backdrop.

Furled Petal Rose

I really like the furls on this design by Jennifer Maker as well as the compact shape. Although you can  cut the card stock paper by hand, there’s SVG cut files option for using your cutting machine such as a Cricut or Silhouette. Then just layer up from the base of the petal to make the flower as complex as you want.

Pointed Tip Flowers

We actually chose this flower design from Abbi Kirsten for my daughter’s party and made over a dozen of them. You can use extra large petals to create flowers of different sizes. And her resource library is filled with all sorts of lovely paper flower tutorials.

Multi-Layered, Tone-on-Tone Flowers

The level of detail in the layers of petals of these paper flowers by Hey Let’s Make Stuff is just beautiful with a variety of sizes. You can use your darkest colors for the largest petals of the outer layers and then work to lighter shades for the smallest petals in the center of your flower.

Giant Paper Rose with Leaves

Well, a girl can never have too many roses, right? This giant paper rose by Dream Posy also comes with templates for the cutting the pretty vine leaves.

Giant Paper Poppies

A field of poppies! Just love these oversized free standing paper poppies made using regular printer paper! Find this giant paper flower tutorial here.

Pink and Beige Flowers

This pattern by Stacey Homemaker provides a slightly different floral shape with quite a bit of depth. The beige and pink flower color scheme is also so lovely and modern. 

Huge Tissue Paper Flowers

Who doesn’t have stacks of tissue paper just waiting to be upcycled? That’s the best part of these colourful tissue paper flowers by Hello Creative Family: high impact for low cost!

Jumbo Paper Peonies

We absolutely love peonies but are so sad that they only bloom for a short time each year. This paper peony tutorial by Lia Griffith is a fun way to put these short-lasting blooms on display year-round.

Colorful Paper Flowers on Stems

These flowers from Oh Joy are beautifully colourful and so much fun with interesting different colors and petal shapes. Plus don’t they look great on the wooden dowel stems? You could create a whole lovely flower garden or life-sized bouquet.

Giant Paper Flower Tablescape

Life is a Party used a beautiful mix of giant paper flowers to create a pretty spring center piece. She includes a how-to video going over the basic steps to make a variety of different paper flowers.

As I mentioned above, we use the designs by Abbi Kirsten and Ash and Crafts to create our own flowers. We actually used pearlescent pink, white and gold wrapping paper which came out much less expensive than using cardstock. Here’s my littlest in the flower garden showing them off.

I hope we’ve convinced you that making giant paper flowers needs to be on your DIY projects list! I’ll share some of the photos we took of our paper flower backdrop. Also, now that the party is done, I’ll be repurposing them as home decor for the girls’ bedroom.

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