Paper Bouquet: Using Paper Punches to Create Beautiful Flowers

by Susan Tierney Cockburn

Cherry blossoms, forsythia, marigolds, and Who would have imagined you could recreate such gorgeous blooms with just paper and craft punches? You can—and this accessible new craft will appeal to anyone with a creative bent. Using her own original, unique techniques, Susan Tierney Cockburn offers 40 beloved flowers to make for decorating gifts and home décor. She teaches the simple basics, including paper manipulation, gluing, and coloring, and presents her flowers as colorfully as they’re found in nature. From A (Amaryllis) to Z (Zinnia), there’s a bountiful bouquet of blooms to choose from! Photographs document every step, and a visual template of the punches accompanies each flower. A dozen sample projects range from picture frames to wreaths.

Genres: Crafts

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2008

Reviews

[Anne]

This book was most useful for me to help me learn the names of flowers in English ;) All the projects are relatively the same, the only differences being in the type of flower itself...otherwise it's all just flowers made out of paper punches. It's a very useful book though, when you have the right punches, and all the bright colours and illustrations make the book easy and fun to follow.

[Jessica]

This book is very interesting and instructional and has lovely photographs. However, I must not have noticed the subtitle "Using Paper Punches to Create Beautiful Flowers", because every flower requires the use of punches. I would have been happier with this book if there had been a section on making basic flowers without punches and perhaps included some patterns for copying, to make this craft a little more accessible to people who can't afford all of those lovely paper punches at the craft store! Though I will admit that this is much more my fault than the book's fault.

[Sandy D.]

Great paper craft book. It has a very large variety of flowers. I wouldn't recommend it to a novice paper crafter as the instructions are VERY detailed. I think it's easily scare away a weekend crafter. But, if you've been into paper crafting for a while, it's a definite must-add to your collection.

[Jacquie]

Great book, my mom and I each own a copy and have given many to friends. The directions could use a few more pictures for me (I'm a visual learner) and I wish she would give a more complete list of punches; she names the punch but not the brand and it was a real process to track some of them down!

[Janet Armentani]

nice book. a little too involved for my skill level