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Hello everyone. In this video I'm going
to teach you how to make balloon flowers
from a beginner's perspective. First of
all, I'm going to show you how to make
your very first balloon flower. And then
after that, I'm going to teach you
an advanced technique to quickly make
flowers as well as teach you several
flower variations so you'll have a
complete collection that you'll be able
to make for decorations or for parties.
Let's get started.
Here's how to make a basic flower
balloon. You're going to take your
balloon and inflate it to...maybe leaving
two inches or so of uninflated end.
We're going to start with the nozzle end.
You're going to create what's called a
"fold twist." So what you're going to do is
hold the nozzle, fold the balloon in half
and you're going to make a small bend here.
Now take your hand and you're going to
grab this and twist. Now notice how I'm
holding with the hand. If I let go, it
comes undone. So fold, hold,
now grab with the other hand and twist
and you have a petal.
Repeat the process as many times as you
like - probably four or five times. So fold
and try and match the first petal. That's
two. Third one, fold twist... three petals.
Let's do one more fold twist and you have
four petals. Now at this point you
probably could do one more. We'll just
keep it at four here but five does
look a little nicer. And now you have to
cut off and discard the rest of the
balloon. So what you do is take the
end of your balloon here, you pinch it
down so you take some slack out. Get some
scissors and then just trim it and then
this will come undone. I'm going to use an
advanced method here - I don't have my
scissors.
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Wrap it around the middle. The fold
twist holds it in place. You have four
pedals and you're ready to add your stem.
Get a green balloon. Inflate it almost
all the way to the end. Now you're going
to take your nozzle end. You're going to
create a small basic twist of about two
inches. So what you do is you pinch and
then twist with the other hand. Remember
to hold it so it doesn't come undone. So
pinch, twist, now holding it, I'm going to
take this little part here and place it into
the center of the petals here.
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Adjust and then you have your basic flower.
Now notice how the flower faces up when
you're holding it like this. So something
that's nice is to create a pinch twist
here. So what you're going to do is this is
called the pinch twist. You're going to hold.
You're going to pinch down. You're going to
make a small basic twist here. So hold,
pinch and twist. Now bring this hand here
and move it over and hold it. Now we're
going to make, basically, a little bubble
here that's called a basic twist. So I'm
going to pinch again and twist. It looks
like this. Now I'm going to fold it in half,
hold with this hand otherwise it's going to
come undone. Now this is called a pinch
twist. I'm gonna use my hand here. I'm
going to grab this, pull up a little bit and
twist.
you
can see how it makes the flower
face forward when you're holding it like
this.
Now we're going to make a couple of fold
twists just as you did with the petals
to make leaves. So come down a little
distance on the stem. Fold, twist, one more
time. Fold and twist and there you have
your basic flower balloon. This is a
flower that you don't see all the time. It's
called an iris. So you're going to inflate
your balloon. I'm using purple here and
just leave a little bit of uninflated end.
It's only a few twists but it creates a
distinctly different balloon flower. So
take your own inflated end and your
nozzle. Tie them together. Now you form a
loop. What you're going to do is take
this here where you tied them together
and the other midpoint and create two
loops by creating a basic twist here. Fold
it in half. See?
I have two loops that fairly match. Now you
have one more twist to turn this into an
iris. So what you do is flatten this and
you're going to think of an imaginary line
about two-thirds of the way down. And
you're just going to twist and this will
form the balloon right there. And attach
your stem. Get your green balloon and inflate
it to as much as you like. Take the
nozzle and all you do is take this
nozzle and wrap it around this petal
here. And there you have it, an iris below.
This is a very unusual balloon flower that you don't
see very often. It's very time-consuming
but for completeness I wanted to show it
to you. You need to be making each petal
by hand and it has this pinch twist that
makes it look quite different from the
other flowers that I've taught you. So
what you're going to do is inflate your
balloon. Leave plenty of uninflated end.
I've got about four to five inches here.
Now go make a tiny basic twist - maybe
an inch and a half to two inches. Pinch
twist - by the way I'm going to assume
that you know how to make these already
so I'm gonna go a little faster because
this is the one of the last balloons I'm
going to teach you and you've probably
learned the fundamentals already. Pinch,
twist and one more basic twist here to
match this one. Take the nozzle and wrap
it into the twist here.
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And there you have a petal. It's a
different look. You repeat the
process so I'm just going to go through
and you can make as many petals as you
like or can.
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You get the idea. You can do five. I
didn't start with enough uninflated end here.
But if I wanted have enough for five, I would
have had to probably have another couple of
inches of uninflated end. But I
think you get the picture here. So anyway.
I'm going to tear off or cut this off.
If you're going to cut it you're going to
squeeze and kind of get some slack here
so it's not tight. And then just cut. I'm
going to use an advanced technique here.
I wrapped the end around just to kind of
anchor it and tie it down.
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And there you have a cool flower.
So what I'm going to do is push
the nozzle into the balloon and I'm
going to grab the nozzle inside of the
balloon by pinching here. Remove the
finger and now I'm holding the nozzle
inside, and then twist. And so now you
have three different variations for the
center of the flower with the stem.
There's this one, just the basic
twist with the nozzle showing or you can
do a pinch twist. I think I prefer the
pinch twist. But this one's kind of cool.
Now insert this into the middle of the
flower as we did with the other flowers
and there you have a pretty cool flower.
Now here's an advanced way to make the
pedals and make them very quickly. What
you're going to do is inflate your
balloon and leave some uninflated in.
I left about two inches here and then
tie the uninflated end to the nozzle to
form a loop. Now you're going to have to
distribute the air through the balloon.
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You want this balloon very soft for this
technique. So what I've done is left
that uninflated end and I've squeezed
until the air is evenly distributed. Now
I find the midpoint and then make a
basic twist there.
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Now we're ready to make the pedals.
You're going to divide this into thirds
so approximately there. It looks pretty
good. So we're going to twist here ,and
here.
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Stack them together and now you see where
these twists exist on this side and this
side. What we're going to do is we're
going to have to do this in one motion.
You push these together and then twist
at that point. So once again, you have
hold here, push and twist.
And there you form a six-petal flower
in one motion. It's an advanced technique
and it's going to take a lot of practice. Now
you're ready to add your stem.
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There you have it. Well I hope you had
fun learning how to make balloon flowers
and you have a whole collection of
different flowers that you can make for
your next event, whether you want to use
them for decoration or you want to hand
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