Giant Paper Flower Template — Free Backdrop Flower, Any Size

The backdrop flower template, flat and folded

Backdrop flower template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size — The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.

Backdrop flower folded up from the template — the finished piece — The finished backdrop flower, made from it.

What this template is for

The giant paper flower for wedding backdrops, stages, nurseries and shop windows: rings of cupped petals on a base disc and a rolled fringe centre, sized from the flower's diameter. Round, pointed or heart-shaped petals.

Also called giant paper flower · paper flower backdrop · large paper flower · wall paper flower — all the same shape, and this is it.

Wedding and engagement backdrops
Stage, mandap and photo booth walls
Nursery and bedroom walls
Shop window and event displays

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same backdrop flower at the same size — only the format changes.

Which file goes where: PDF, PNG, SVG or DXF

PDF printing at home: Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate: Upload, lock it in place and design your backdrop flower on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity: Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters: Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly → · Putting your own design on it →

Printing it

Type your size above, then download the PDF.
Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the backdrop flower itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the steps never do. The names in capitals are the labels printed on the template.

Cut the solid lines
Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.
Score every dashed line
Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.
Step by step
1. Cut out every petal, the BASE and the CENTRE strip, and the fringe cuts in the strip.
2. On each petal, overlap the two sides of the V and glue them, so the petal cups. Fold its foot back along the dashed line.
3. Glue the eight OUTER petals by their feet round the edge of the BASE.
4. Glue the MIDDLE petals inside them, sitting between, then the INNER ones.
5. Roll the CENTRE strip up tight, fringe at the top, glue its end and glue it in the middle.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let it dry before you use it.

Questions about the backdrop flower

How big is it?

Type the finished diameter. The outer petals are 0.95 of the radius long and two thirds of that wide, the middle ring 0.78 and the inner ring 0.58 as long. The default 240 mm flower has 114 mm outer petals and prints on about five A4 or US Letter sheets; for flowers over 550 mm, print on A3 or tile the petals.

How do the petals cup?

Each petal has a V cut out of the middle of its foot. Overlap the two sides of the V and glue them, and the petal curves into a cup. Curl the top edge over a pencil for a softer, more open flower. The foot below the dashed line folds back and is glued to the base.

How many petals?

Eight outer, seven middle and six inner, glued in rings on a base disc 0.4 of the flower across, each ring turned to sit between the petals of the one outside it. The centre is a strip fringed with cuts 4 mm apart, rolled up tight.