Following on from making Kusudama flowers at the craft dabble last year (see previous post Craft Dabble) I decided to make a flower ball as demonstrated by the tutor.
The ball is simply 12 of the flowers formed into a ball shape. Each flower uses 5 sheets of paper, so 60 pieces all together.
I decided to make a test version and chose newspaper magazine supplement pages for the paper.
So I had 60 squares to cut out.
It turned out quite well and so I decided to make a Christmas version with Origami paper.
The origami paper was sourced by a friend at The Works and was half price. It comes in thick books of 500 sheets. It is much easier with origami paper.
As I said previously, there are so many tutorials on Kusudama flowers on You Tube there is no point explaining here.
What is worth explaining is how to get the flowers to fit together. You have to make two half balls of 6 flowers. Due to the shape of the flowers they fit together well. A central flower nestles neatly surrounded by the five other flowers.
Much glue and paper clips and small clips helped to keep them all together.
Let the two halves dry, then apply lots of glue and a hooped ribbon sandwiched between the two halves and assemble the whole ball.
I used craft glue for this, so the ball took a while to dry fully.
I glued a small jewel in the centre of each flower for a bit of Christmas sparkle.
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