THE ACCESSORIES

BOW

1. Fold a piece of paper in half and draw a shape like the one shown—sort of a tall trapezoid with curved sides.

2. Cut out the shape and unfold it. This is your bow template. You can make many of these in all different sizes if you want.

3. Fold another piece of paper, and line up the bow template against the folded edge lengthwise. Either trace around the template, or cut around it carefully.

4. Cut out and unfold this long piece.

5. If your paper has a pattern, make sure it’s facing downward, then curl the sides of the paper inward and glue each end to the middle of the piece. It should line up perfectly.

6. Cut a long, thin strip of paper, at least several inches long.

7. Wrap this strip around the center of your bow shape, making at least several passes around it. Stop once the center of the bow has a thickness to your liking, then glue it and trim the excess.

8. Glue two short strips behind the bow, trim them to look like ribbon, and you’re done!

 

FEATHERS AND LEAVES

1. Fold a piece of paper in half.

2. Cut an oblong curve along the fold, then open the piece of paper.

3. Cut little notches into the sides of the feather shape. For leaves, just make a shorter, wider feather shape.

 

LILY

1. Cut a fat raindrop shape out of a piece of paper.

2. Curl the edges of the paper.

3. Glue the base into a cone shape, overlapping one side on the other.

4. Glue a sliver of paper into the middle of the cone, and add a green leaf behind the lily.

 

ROSE

1. Cut six squares.

2. Take one square and fold it in half.

3. Fold it in half again.

4. Make sure the part with four edges is pointing upward, and fold one edge about halfway across the square.

5. Fold the other edge in the same manner, but in the opposite direction.

6. Make a curved cut across the folded piece as shown.

7. Unfold the piece, and you should have a flower shape. Follow steps 2–7 for the remaining paper squares.

8. Trim your six flower shapes as shown.

9. Take your largest flower piece, and glue it together over the gap you cut out.

10. Curl the petals of this flower shape downward.

11. Repeat these steps with the next three largest flower pieces.

12. Take one of the flower shapes you cut in half and glue each of the two halves into a cone. Since these don’t have an extra half petal to use as a glue flap, just overlap one petal across another slightly.

13. Take the other two half-flower shapes and trim an extra half petal off them.

14. Discard the pieces you trimmed off, and glue the larger pieces into a two-petal cone.

15. Take your two largest flower pieces, and glue one into the other as shown.

16. Keep gluing flower shapes into the center of the rose, descending by size.

17. Cut an angular shape like the one pictured.

18. Roll it up lengthwise and glue it into the very center of the rose. This doesn’t have to be perfect and you can trim it to be shorter.