Colour Burst African Proteas

This latest batch of African Proteas featuring multi-coloured paper petal rounds, highlighted with white stems and white centres. They are also sporting a few petal rounds of our new Freshly Found Protea Print.

I decided to photograph this batch with some of the beloved tools that I use to create these blooms.Let me introduce you to them:

• Leather hole punch – much stronger that a conventional paper hole punch – Has been making holes for me for years and years.
• Green plastic knife. – It curls the petals just right – not too much and not too little! A valuable member of the team.
• Mini stapler – (Sometimes replaced by his close cousin, the long-arm-stapler)
• Pen – one of many I use to trace around the cardboard petal pattern pieces
• Scissors – I need good quality ones to cut the paper well.  Very protective of the few pairs I have that can do the job well.
• Pliers – Helpful with securing the wire flower stems.
• Masking Tape – I love this stuff.  Sticky, but not too sticky.   Wood glue bonds it and paper together well.  A vital role in making these African Proteas and most of the other paper flowers we make.
• Bits and Pieces Bucket – a gift from my daughter.  So useful for prettily collecting paper offcuts.

Chat to us about making up bespoke paper flowers for you.  We made these Africa Proteas as a bespoke order, and we are able to pack and send them all over the world.  Read posts about the many protea variations we’ve made in the past.