Tissue Paper Wreaths

For my friend’s baby shower I was looking for attractive but affordable decorations.  After searching and searching I was inspired to create tissue paper wreaths, which work quite well especially for a autumn shower. 

They’re so very easy to make…it just takes a little time.

I cut four sheets of tissue paper in half over and over again, until I had pieces approximately 4 or 5 inches.  It’s not important that the pieces be exactly the same size – a little variation makes it more interesting.

Another trick is to layer a couple of different shades of paper – I used light yellow and a golden yellow to give the wreaths more depth.

Fold the pieces accordian style, wrap with floral wire, separate and fluff the layers, and attach to a styrofoam wreath.





Here are some of the orange/peach flowers and the finished yellow wreath.

And, the final product hanging against a backdrop of sage dupioni silk.  And, of course there were lots of yummy desserts on an old drop-leaf farm table my parents bought years ago.

Baby Shower

Here are pics of the baby shower.  What a fun day!  Everyone is so happy for my friend and her new little

one on the way!

She’s not finding out the gender of the baby, so I decided to go with a sage green/yellow/pumpkin orange color scheme.  I didn’t want the colors to look too “springish” because it’s almost fall.  So these colors aren’t the most traditional for a baby shower, but I think it worked okay.

I used a piece of sage green silk as the backdrop for the dessert table.  Adding to the fall feel of the shower, I used an old drop-leaf table to display the food.  We had petit fors from my favorite bakery with buttercream icing in green, yellow and peach.  I dipped marshmallows in colored sugar to make marshmallow pops(although the colors came out too bright.)  And, I made tea biscuits with jalapeno jelly – yum!

Here’s the non-dessert table.  I made another wreath of yellow tissue and hung it with a sage green ribbon. I used baby food jars to hold the flatware.

Crab cakes with corn pudding, fruit skewers, spinach bites, cucumber cups with hummus, and chicken salad croissants – yummy!