Hi All!
In honor of my 30th birthday coming up this next week I wanted to put together some fun adult birthday party ideas. To make it even more exciting I invited a few of my favorite blogger to join in giving us, an Adult Birthday Party Decor Hop!
House full of Handmade – Salsa and Margarita’s Invitation
Little Bits of Home – Celebrate Birthday Banner
Simple Nature Decor Blog – Eco Friendly Birdseed Party Favors
Love Create Celebrate – Adult Tropical Slushie
2 Bees in a Pod – Scented Bee Soap Favors
Pocketful of Posies – Paper Floral Garland
Iris Nacole – Doughnut Hack, From Plain Jane to Party Ready
Now if you know me at all, you know I love my Silhouette Machine (affiliate) and you know on of my favorite things to do with my Silhouette Machine is make paper projects like my DIY Olive Branches, my DIY Beach Party Invitations, and my Preppy & Unique DIY Valentine’s Wrapping Paper. So for my birthday party decor idea I thought I would step it up a bit and do something big, like really big, Like 7 feet long! So for this extra large birthday decor hop I made a beautiful Birthday Paper Floral Garland.
10 Sheets of Dark Green 12×12 Cardstock
10 Sheets of Lighter Green 12×12 Cardstock)
1 Roll Green Floral Tape
Green Floral Wire
6 Sheets Assorted Colors of 12×12 Cardstock
1 12×12 Sheet Gold Cardstock
Hot Glue
Hot Glue Gun
Silhouette Machine
Round Ink Pen
Wire Cutters />
3D Flower Silhouette Patterns (from Silhouette Store)
Leaf Silhouette File (Contains all three designs, tri-lobal, single leaf and small leaf)
Download Leaf Cut Files Here
To make the leaves for my paper floral garland I started by cutting out 10 sheets of both the dark green and light green leaves using a mixture of both the single leaf and tri-lobal leaf patterns.
Next I folded each leaf in half excluding the stem area.
Then using a round barreled ink pen I rolled the leaves in various directions until the desired shape was reached.
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
To assemble my paper floral garland stems I started by wrapping a piece of floral wire with tape.
Next I went back to the top of my wire and added my first leaf using floral tape. Be sure to pull and twist the tape as you wrap it around the wire to activate the glue.
Then I continued adding both single leaves and tri-lobal leaves for about 4-5 inches. Then I made anther branch and attached it to this one in a long stream. Until I had two pieces measuring about 3.5 feet each. I also made and additional 4 pieces measuring from 8 – 15 inches. These you will want to keep separate.
Next I place the two long pieces side by side and twisted the ends together to make a loop. Since I knew I wanted the garland to hang in an L shape this is what I will use to secure my garland. If you want one long straight garland, you only need to make one continuous piece.
To hang my garland I wrapped the circle loop around the back corner of my frame and tucked a few leaves in along the upper edge making it completely damage free.
If you’ll notice in the picture above the corner of my garland is a bit sparse. This is where I added those 4 extra pieces. I simply added a hook in the end of the wire and hung them in the loop.
To make my flowers I found 3-4 3D flower patterns in the Silhouette Store and purchased them. After cutting them out using my Silhouette Machine I rolled each petal using a similar method as the leaves then hot glued the layers together. Finally I added a leaf or two to the back of each flower and a piece of floral wire. Then added a hook in the wire and hung them on my garland. My very last step was to make 3 leaf bunches (2 gold 1 green) using the directions above and add them here and there to the garland for a touch of sparkle. 
Thank you all so much for stopping by and checking out my Paper Floral Garland! I’ll be sharing a few more fun diy birthday ideas with you as I prepare for my big birthday bash! 
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Wow Cat – this garland is gorgeous! We love how the leaves look so real. Your chalkboard graphics are stellar too! thanks for allowing to be a small part of your special day…Happy Birthday!
Thank you ladies so much for everything! You truly are the best and I am so happy to have you be a part of the big day! You ladies are true friends!
Incredible! This seriously blows my mind. I can’t believe you *made* that!!! SO beautiful!
Thank you so much Samantha! It was a lot of work but I’m hoping to get a lot of use out of it! You can bet any party we have from now until forever it will probably be there!!
Ahh, I love this! Something tells me I’d totally mess it up if I ever tried one on my own, but hey, maybe you can make me one? Haha! Seriously though, this is just beautiful! I hope you have a wonderful birthday!
Thank you so much Iris!!
Wow! This is so beautiful. I had to do a double take when you said it was made out of paper. I need to make a garland for me now. I hope you had a wonderful birthday! Thanks for inviting me to party with you.
Thank you Kati! I’m so glad you could participate! It was a lot of fun and I love your party invitations!
I love the garland, and this is so pretty! The work is amazing and I can tell you spent a great deal of time making it! Hugs Maria
Thank you so much Maria!
This is seriously gorgeous! Sounds like a lot of work, but it’s beautiful!!! I would do this while watching a chick flick.
That is exactly what I did Lindi! Thank you so much for joining in the hop!
WOW!!! So beautiful and looks so real! Fabulous garland and love the sign too!!!
Thank you Steph!
Oh my gosh, I had to go back and check a couple times because I couldn’t believe that was cardstock!! That is stunning!! Fantastic job!
Thank you so much Natalie!! It was a lot of fun to make!
Cat, this is probably the most beautiful Silhouette project I have ever seen!!!
Thank you so much Rachel! That means so much to me!!
Wow! I can’t get over your talent and creativity and patience! Scheduling to share on Silhouette School’s FB page! 🙂
Wow! Thank you so much Melissa! I really appreciate that!!
Beautiful Silhouette project! Thanks for stopping by and sharing with us at Merry Monday. I’m all excited about fall and can’t wait to see all the fall food and projects at the new party starting tonight!
Thank you so much Shirley!
Wow! so, gorgeous! The details are insane on this garland. It’s just stunning, had to pin this and hopefully one day be able to make it!
Aww, thank you so much Deb!!
Can you tell what leaf you purchased for this. I would like to make something similar but searching through the thousands of Silhouette files is daunting.
Hi Mari! I actually made my own file. If you send me an email at cat@pocketofposies.com I’ll be happy to send it to you. Thanks!
Cat