Steps to Make a Paper Rose

Video Transcript

"There are many ways to make a paper rose, and I'm going to show you just one of them right now. My name is Robert Segundo, and today, we're going to make a kind of a rolled crepe-style rose. If we look down here, you can see I'm using tissue paper, which is usually what's made...used for crepe-style flowers. What I've got is I got two different colors here. I got a green and a pink What I'm going to do is I'm going to take my green, and I'm going to fold it in half. Then, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to fold it up one more time. What this is going to be is this is going to be our leaf at the end. I'm just going to flip it over. I'm going to take my pink that I've cut off rather jaggedly, though it doesn't really matter. I'm just going to put it there. I'm going to roll this up like so. Make sure it kind of stays within the green. Now, if you want to, if you don't want your stem to be so thick, you can take and cut. You don't have to use quite as much of the green that I've used here. Take this down just a little bit. I mean, you can cut this off. Instead of having two pieces, you can cut it off and be one piece or whatever. Let's roll it up. What I'm going do to is I'm just going to take and grab the bottom. I'm just going to twist it really good, and the more you twist it, the smaller it'd get, and we want to twist it as much as possible to emulate that stem so it gets really thin. What we're going to do is we're going to take our leaf section that we have here, and we're going to kind of pull it off just a little bit so we don't forget about it and twist it up by accident. I'm just going to go ahead and twist the rest of this end. Grab up here at the top. And if you want to, you can get the little -- I don't know what you call them -- the little hang-y down parts that come off the rose. You can come up here and twist those out, if you wish, if you got a lot of excess up here, and it's something like that. And then just basically grab your rose, kind of open it up a little bit. Just kind of push it down and give it that petal look to it. Something like that. If you keep working with it, you'll get it to looking the way you want it to. But, you know, that looks good enough for right now, so there it is. There's your crepe-style paper rose. So play around with it, have fun, and enjoy."