Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Paper Flower Roundup


As promised, here is a roundup from around the web of some gorgeous paper flowers! All of these would be great for weddings, home decor or a gift for your special someone this Valentine's Day!

Above you will see a rose that I made thanks to a great tutorial and template from Ellinee. I tried several roses, I will post more photos of mine at the bottom of this post, and I can say that regular copy paper (or paper of a similar weight) is easiest for these, though you can also make them with card stock and vellum without too much trouble. I really love these as I have seen several tutorials for roses around the web that are either too simple and so don't look very realistic or need you to cut out every single petal individually (and who has the time to do all that?).

The rose template even comes in several colors so you could print it out onto white copy paper and get a variety of colors! I chose to print out a template onto card stock and trace it onto some fancier paper I had lying around. I also left out the leaves and glued mine into stems so I could make a bouquet. To add a stem, just poke a little hole in the center of your petals and string them on, in the correct order, before gluing them in place.


Of course, no paper flower roundup is going to be complete without mention of my own tutorials! If you happened to miss them, I made a couple of cute tissue paper flower tutorials: Tissue paper pom pom flowers and tissue paper flowers with individual petals.



My favorite of my own tutorials was, of course, my paper calla lilies.


If crepe paper is more your style, there are a multitude of varieties available with tutorials from Martha Stewart Weddings. These even have tutorials for making several varieties of faux stamens to build your flowers around!






Are you into quilling? Then these double fringed flowers from Inna's Creations might be right up your alley. I haven't tried these out myself yet, but when I do I will be sure to let you all know how they turned out :)


Have some leftover party streamers? Check out these cute centerpieces. It's an easy version of a poppy and the crepe paper streamers used are readily available (I know I've seen some in my local dollar store!).


Have you seen any paper flower tutorials that shouldn't be missed? Let me know, I'd love to check them out!


Here are some more of my paper roses. Which is your favorite?










16 comments:

  1. I'm so excited that I came across this post. I definately want to make some just because they are beautiful. That red one though....HOLY COW is it amazing and different. I've never seen one like it
    Anyhow, thank you for putting this together...you saved me some hunting time

    ~Tanya

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  2. I just can't choose a single one cause they're all gorgeous! Thanks for all this wonderful info.

    Hugs XX
    Barbara

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  3. Let me know how your flowers turn out :)

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  4. Lovely. Can't wait to try this. Thank you.

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  5. Thanks for posting my rose templates. I did spend a lot of time figuring out how to make it different than any other paper rose out there and it is fun to see how these templates work for other crafters. Yours look perfect! Cheers! Lia (from ellinee.com)

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  6. Thank Lia! You did such an amazing job! It is so much better than any other template or instructions I have seen for roses! I looked at some of your other projects and they are just as nicely done! :)

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  7. They are all beautiful, but the bottom one is my favourite.

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    1. My favorite is the one at the bottom. Is the template that I downloaded (for the orange and pale pink) the same as that last one (with the writing on it)? They are beautiful...I am going to try it..thanks!!! Linda S

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  8. Hey can I get the template for these? They are so beautiful!!

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    1. The template is available for free from Ellinee.com at this link: http://www.ellinee.com/freebie-friday-diy-paper-rose-templates/ It is printable in several colors, in case you want to simply print it out and make it from your copy paper! I printed mine out onto card stock and traced. Lia also has step by step instructions on this link, the templates can be found at the bottom of the instructions.

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  9. All 3 of your rose examples are absolutely gorgeous!! I found your blog via pinterest :o)

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    1. Thank you, I'm really quite enamored by these roses. I also adore Pinterest, I find such great ideas on there for pretty much everything.

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  10. Gorgeous! I will have to give these a try one day. LOVE LOVE LOVE the purple rose but I'm biased. :)

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  11. I love the script roses - so elegant.

    I tried to print the rose PDF but my laptop won't let me download it. I tried copying & pasting but that didn't work. I only got steps 1-6. Is there another way to get the PDF?

    Thank you, Darlene

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  12. Gorgeous, I have to say I love the rose with the handwriting on the petals.

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  13. Hi I found this post December 2015 and the template is linked to a new site for those of you interested... http://www.elli.com/blog/freebie-friday-diy-paper-rose-templates/

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