Paper Geraniums
Lately I see a lot of paper plants popping up on my Instagram feed and I just love them, I love them so much that I tried to make them myself. I also wondered why they are so costly, but after my very first plant I got the answer to that, it’s extremely time consuming.
I first had to draw the leaves in Adobe Illustrator, send them to my Silhouette cutter, cut them, paint all the leaves with acrylic paint, let them dry, tie them on plant wire, cut the flower leaves, tie them up ….. and so on.
This is my very first attempt and it took me almost a day. But I love doing it so much and I love the result.
I’ve used Bergs Potters pots as they are gorgeous dry but when you water a plant they kind of loose their cool white washed look and just look like any ordinary terracotta pot.
I’m not a house plant person. I like to decorate with flowers and seasonal foliage I collect from the garden. So the paper geraniums are a great outcome as I also don’t have to water them. My next attempt to a paper plant will be hollyhocks.
Love, Yvonne xxx
They turned out so well! I have bern admiring them from afar on Instagram and then gor the chance to see them IRL last spring at John Derian and they also have them in Seoul at Astier de Villatte. They are beyond beautiful but soooooo expensive. I could see all the work that went into to them but for that price I would be scared to ruin them on my way home or the cats might cheer on them. So I keep on admiring them from afar .
I made paper snowdrops years ago when I still lived in Lüneburg. That was quite easily made thanks to good old Martha Stewart’s how to….
Geraniums are my new found love and I have some inside and -believe it or not- some fabric ones. They bring me so much joy!
Patiently awaiting your next creation! Sending love from the East!
Yvonne
Yes to all of that! I was totally inspired with the ones John Derian sells and also Plants for Shades. Making and shipping them is such a delicate thing. I’m enjoying it so much though and working on a big one for Boris’s studio.