How To Make A Paper Fan And Create A Flower Fan Card

Summer is coming and sometime you just want an easy summer craft project to make with kids. Or you want to use a simple concept to add to your crafting skills. This super easy tutorial with take you through how to make a paper fan, and also how to upscale the paper fan into a gorgeous card.

Or course there are many uses for these fans, cards, banners, scrapbooking pages the list goes on! But today I am going to look at making the fan as a fan summer craft for kids, or, an easy but beautiful card.

How To Make A Paper Fan

You Will Need

For The Fan

• 2 x 3.5 squares of double sided coloured of patterned paper. Not too thick as it makes it hard to fold and bend.
• Scissors
• String
• Glue gun
• 2 Lolly sticks
• Cricut Maker and card mat if you want to cut your squares with a scalloped edge.

For The Card

• Blank card and envelope
• Washi tape
• Card stock for centre circle ( could be cut on a Cricut, with a stamp or by hand)
• Happy Birthday decal ( I cut mine with vinyl on my Cricut) but you could also use a sticker decal or stamp
• Stick on mini pearls in a corresponding colour
• Large strong sticky pads
• Glue gun

How To Make A Paper Fan With Lolly Sticks

Start by cutting 2 squares. I cut mine 3.5inches x 3.5 inches with a scalloped edge on my Cricut Maker. If you would like to use my template right click and save the image below and upload to design space following these instructions.

Start by folding your two squares into 1cm folds. However if you have a scalloped edge be sure to keep this in the outside edges as you fold. Once folded, press down on your fan shape to secure the folds.

Now glue together both squares with strong glue and hold together until you are confident the glue is dry. Once dry tie the centre tightly to create a bow shape. Then once the string is secure tease two of the edges together and glue to secure them, this will start to form your fan shape.

Next, when the glue is dry, glue lolly sticks to the remaining two edges and allow to dry, this will form your fan handles. This will give you a cute paper fan, you can stop here!

This is a great summer craft for decorations, banners and crafting with kids. However if you want to learn how to make a paper fan card then read on.

How To Make A Paper Fan Flower Card

Put your fan to one side, and use the washi tape to create a border on your blank card. I choose a plain natural tape, although you could go bolder and brighter, anything goes here.

Once your border is in place stick strong double sided sticky pads to the back side of your fan and secure it to the card.

Then either cut out the centre portion, and message on your cutting machine. Or use a stamp and punch to create a centre. You could even make a smaller fan with tissue paper?

I used permanent vinyl to make a happy birthday decal which I transferred to my card, however you can also use stick on decals if you don’t have a cutting machine.

To finish off the card decorate with mini pearls, these add such a pretty 3d effect to the card. Card making can be as easy or difficult as you want it to be, its all about be creative and personalising your creation.

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