WHAT YOU WILL NEED: • Scissors
• Pliers (to cut the length of the stem)
• Fevicol or glue • Yellow crepe paper • Duplex crepe paper (peach and white used here)
• Pre-wrapped green wire (to be cut into stems)
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PAPER PEONIES Gather all the tools and materials listed.
1. Cut the shapes as shown in the picture (1). While drawing the pattern on crepe paper, make sure that the grains of the paper are parallel to the arrows on the patterns, as the paper stretches only one way and you don’t want it to tear.
For Uurmi Bhatia, everything has to have a meaning and a story. She chose the name Mi Ikigai because it tells her story: “Ikigai is a Japanese word that means ‘the purpose of your being’, while Mi is what I often sign my name off as, instead of Uurmi,” she says.
2. Shape all the cut petals by gently stretching them in the centre of each petal in the manner shown in the picture (2a). Hold and gently stretch with your thumbs. Repeat for all the petals (2b). 2
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