I was after a quick and effective idea to make a birthday card, so I did lots of hunting around for some inspiration. I really wanted an idea for a nice flat paper flower, but this seems surprisingly hard to find. In the end, I found this great tutorial on how to make fabric hexagonal yo yos, and decided to try it with paper. It worked really well, although I will say a thicker, better quality paper made it so much easier and gave a nice finish. I used two different sized hexagonal flowers to decorate my card – one on top of the other, finished off with a sequin.

I’ve put together a little tutorial on how to make them, and combined with the fabric tutorial, hopefully it should all make sense! As usual, if there are any problems, please let me know and I’ll do my best to help.
Ingredients
- Patterned paper (a bit thicker is easier to work with)
- Circle template (I used a glass)
Instructions
1. Cut out a circle from paper – any size will do but the smaller the more fiddly it gets (about 8cm across is a good size).
2. Fold in half and then into quarters.
3. Unfold the circle, and mark the centre (this makes the next few folds so much easier).
4. Fold one edge into the centre mark.
5. Fold the left hand corner into the centre.
6. Repeat stage 5 twice more, until it looks like the example below.
7. Fold the left hand corner into the middle to make a point.
8. Unfold the point, and put the left hand edge on top of the right hand edge, as shown below.
9. After stage 8, you will be left with a little flappy bit.
10. This bit is really hard to explain, but you need to flip the flap under the triangle to the left of the last triangle which you made. I had to try this stage out a few times before I got it right, so please let me know if you get stuck.
11. Tuck the flap in, and make sure all your triangle seams line up centrally. 
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