The Posey Box: Spring Collection

Our extensive lineup of spring paper flower tutorials covers a wide range of techniques that you can use to unleash your creativity. This collection includes two premium tutorials, Coral Charm Peony and Cherry Blossom, as well as many other favorites like magnolia, lily, tulip, and ranunculus. 

You can save on all of these tutorials during our Black Friday Sale! Our entire library is on sale, but our collections offer a bigger discount.

The sale ends December 2—which is your last chance to buy any of these courses. While you will have lifetime access to anything purchased by that date, we are closing sales at that time as I shift focus to the next chapter of my teaching career.

The Spring Collection is expansive and quite a deal. You’ll have access to eight paper flower tutorials for only $200 instead of $400. This covers twelve flowers and plants!

Let’s look at what’s included:

Coral Charm Peony Tutorial

Join Quynh to learn how to make the Coral Charm Peony. This bloom is a semi-double peony, a herbaceous plant that only blooms from mid-spring to early summer. The large flower is cup shaped and will bloom to be about 6-7” in diameter. When it first blooms, it is a deep persimmon color. As time goes on, it will change to a pink coral color, and then a cream color right before the petals fall off.

What you will learn:

• How to color and dye your crepe paper.
• How to construct a structural peony by wiring your petals, creating a look that is stately yet soft at the same time. I will teach you how to mieter in two different ways.
• How to laminate your crepe paper to create lush and thick stamens.
• Understand what a Coral Charm Peony is and be able to identify carpel, stamen, stigma, anther, filament, guard petals, sepals, leaves and stem.
• How to change up your crepe paper to reflect the petal color change as the flower ages. (Did you know that a peony bloom lasts about 5 days, and within that time, it will change from a deep persimmon to coral to cream before its petals fall off?)
• Using the same petal to create your petals, I will show you how to create your peony bract and leaves sets.

 Japanese Dwarf Magnolia  Tutorial

Our magnolia tutorial is inspired by Chinese brush paintings of tiny, knobbly bonsai branches covered in pale, pink blooms. You’ll learn how to create your own miniature magnolia branch that will arrange easily with other flowers. It will look spectacular paired with parrot tulips or climbing roses.

What you will learn in this tutorial:

• How to create magnolia flowers in various stages of bloom
• How to create furry magnolia buds (which can be easily turned into pussy willows)
• How to create a realistic, knotty branch

Paper used: heavy Chinese crepe paper, German doublette crepe paper

Level of difficulty: 3

Large Wall Peony Tutorial

Go big and bold with a gorgeous and gigantic peony. If you’re not sure about diving into something of that size, we have instructions to make a smaller version of the wall peony, including the more delicate Itoh peony. Our tutorial will guide you through every step, including some tricks to make this enormous project a little quicker. 

What you will learn in this tutorial:

• How to create a lush peony and Itoh peony to hang on the wall
• How to use color spray tool to give your petals an ombre color

Paper used: German doublette crepe paper, Italian 180 gsm crepe paper

Level of difficulty: 4

Calla Lily Tutorial

When you think of a calla lily, you probably think of a long, elegant white bloom, which you can certainly make with our tutorial. But we’ll also show you how to use color spray and crepe to create some of the livelier varieties out there. The large, single petal of the calla is the perfect canvas for a dramatic blend of pinks and corals. We’ve got a tried and true method for sculpting that petal into the perfect shape, meaning you’ll have the time and patience to make an entire bunch of these beauties.

What you will learn in this tutorial:

• How to use one piece of crepe paper to form a calla lily
• How to make the spadix
• Techniques for stretching, cupping and sculpting

Paper used: German doublette crepe paper

Level of difficulty: 3

Parrot Tulip Tutorial

Fringed and ruffled parrot tulips are dramatic little blooms, but the black parrot tulip takes it to another level with its moody, dark coloring. Our tutorial will show you how to add the warm shades of purple and red that swirl on its mitered petals. You can adapt this tutorial and its techniques to make a vast array of parrot tulip varieties, perfect for celebrating spring.

What you will learn in this tutorial:

• How to miter petals and leaves
• How to laminate heavy crepe
• How to wrap lightweight wire with floral tape with Quynh
• Marbling Coloring Technique with guest paper florist Wendy Middaugh
• Explore other art coloring mediums to color your tulip petals

Paper used: Italian 180 gsm crepe paper or Chinese heavy crepe paper

Level of difficulty: 4

 Ranunculus Tutorial

The dense layers of the ranunculus give the bloom an aura of lusciousness that looks absolutely stunning in large arrangements. With our tutorial, you can create your own overflowing bouquet of these pretty flowers. You’ll also learn to make lacy and silvery Dusty Miller, a filler foliage that pairs beautifully with blush and white ranunculus.

What you will learn in this tutorial:

• How to cut multiple petals quickly
• How to build around a preformed center like a styrofoam ball or spun cotton
• Proper circular petal placement
• 180gsm Crepe Paper Fading Experimentation with guest paper florist Wendy Middaugh (see how well three color protectants kept Italian crepe from fading under direct sunlight for seven weeks)

Paper used: Italian 180 gsm crepe paper

Level of difficulty: 3

 Peony Tutorial

Humans have revered peonies for centuries—and rightly so! These lush blooms are showstoppers in a garden, and our paper tutorial can bring three amazing varieties into your home: the Bowl of Beauty, the Semi-Double, and the Bomb Peony. These gorgeous flowers have distinct characteristics that you’ll learn how to create and then be able to adapt to other varieties of peonies. Because really, who can ever get enough of these opulent flowers?

What you will learn in this tutorial:

• How to create a multi-petal center for your Bowl of Beauty Peony with Inga
• How to make a fluffy Semi-Double Peony with Quynh Nguyen
• How to create a Bomb Peony with guest paper florist Hester Bisschoff
• How to make a peony carpel
• How to color hydrangea petals using Soft Pastels with guest paper florist Wendy Middaugh

Paper used: German doublette crepe paper, extra fine crepe paper, Italian 180 gsm crepe paper (Chinese heavy crepe paper can be used)

Level of difficulty: 4

Cherry Blossom Tutorial

Learn how to create Quynh’s signature cherry blossom branch! The blooming of cherry blossoms means that spring is here. There’s nothing more magical than standing under a tree and being showered with delicate petals in the breeze.

What you’ll learn:

• How to create each individual bloom
• How to combine blooms in interesting clusters to make up a large branch
• Coloring branches to create interest and depth

Paper used: German doublette in pink and yellow, extra Fine crepe in light green, Chinese Crepe paper in Brown

Buy The Spring Collection before sales to these paper flower tutorials close on December 2.