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These roses are made from crepe paper rather than the traditional tissue paper. You'll find that crepe paper can be curled and manipulated easily with your fingers and that the ridged surface of the paper adds an interesting texture to the flower petals. Follow these simple steps to make some authentic-looking paper roses for decoration or just for fun.
Draw a square onto a piece of card-stock paper or cardboard. Make a rose petal shape by rounding off each interior corner of the square. You should be left with a shape that somewhat resembles a circle that is flattened at the top and bottom.
Add a 3/4-inch-long rectangular shape, or stub, that extends from the center bottom of each petal. This stub will be the portion of the petal that is taped to the rose's wire stem.
Draw a leaf shape onto a piece of card-stock paper or heavy cardboard. Make sure that the size of your leaf is in proportion to the size of your flower, and add a small stub at the bottom of your leaf shape as you did with the petal shape in step 4.
Place each petal shape onto the crepe paper so that the ridges on the paper run from the top to the bottom of each petal. Trace around each shape with a pencil, one at a time, and repeat until the desired number of petals has been traced. Cut out each petal shape from the crepe paper.
Cut a length of floral wire (16- or 18-gauge) and wrap a small petal's stub around it. Secure the petal in place with green floral tape. Take a second petal and place it so that it slightly overlaps the first. Tape this petal into place as you did the first and continue, using larger petals as you move toward the rose's exterior, until all the petals have been wrapped around the wire.
Use clear tape to attach your leaf shapes onto the wire. Space the leaves along the stem as desired and tape the leaves at the stubs. Start at the base of the rose and wrap green floral tape around the length of the wire. Be sure to cover the taped portions of the leaves as you wrap.
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kiesue said
on 3/6/2008 When I was a child in the late forties and early fifties, our neighbor used to make huge bouquets of crepe paper flowers for decorating the graves on Decoration Day (Memorial Day). She made all kinds of flowers and I still remember how in awe I was at the beauty of them! They were so realistic looking!!
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Anonymous said
on 6/30/2006 To make the stems look real, get a real stem or a flat stick, make the rose on that and then cover the stem with green tissue paper.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Wax coat your paper roses with tinted paraffin. Have your paraffin melted in a double boiler, then spoon it into the rose petals to coat lightly. When you are satisfied with the inside of the rose, quickly dip the entire flower into a deep pan of melted paraffin to coat the back of the petals. You do this with a quick (in and out) motion, then hold and turn the flower gently to disperse the paraffin evenly over the flower, and to allow any excess to drip back into the pan. Don't coat the rose heavily, or the wax will crack. Back in the late forties and early fifties, Mothers used to make roses (like your crepe paper roses) and wax them. Their children would then go door to door to sell them for Valentine's Day, and Mother's Day.