![]() Keep the end at the top long, but curl the sharp end under to avoid snags. ![]() Repeat for all the blooms, starting with the larger blooms on top and the small blooms at the bottom.Ĭurl the wire end at the bottom of the flower into a spiral shape. Then hot glue the cone in the center to help hold it’s place on the wire. The blooms should look layered on one side. Overlap those ends until you have a cone shape. Cut a piece of wire about 18 – 24 inches long.Įach flower piece has a slit on one side. Since I made several wisteria blooms, I varied my number of flower pieces to add interest. If you cut 4 sheets of paper you will have 8 flower pieces, four large and four small. Make sure about half are large and half are small. pencil or small cylindrical tool for curling paper.Cut the leaves with a pencil or small tool. 1 sheet of 12 x 12 inch cardstock – green leaf colorĪssemble the bud, as explained in the rose section.3 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 inch cardstock in the color of your petals.You may want to play around with which direction you roll them to get a natural effect. You can use a cup or other large cylinder to help get a nice curl. Gently curl the petals by hand to give them shape and dimension. Finish off the flower with the bud in the middle. Add the medium petals, and then the small petals. Glue the large petals around the perimeter of the base, overlapping them a little bit. You should end up with a curved petal, shaped like a shallow bowl. Apply a small dot of hot glue to the sides of each of the slits and slide them under the center section. There are two slits at the bottom of each petal. There may even be some gaps between the petals. They should twist and look somewhat imperfect. They should not meet in the center perfectly. Twist and glue the petals to each other one at a time. The base can be any color and is cut two to a sheet. *If using a gradient of shades, you need 5 of one color for the outer petals, 5 of another color for the middle petals, and 4 for the center petals and bud. 14-15 sheets of 8.5 x 11 inch paper or cardstock*.The Craft Smith 12 x 12 papers didn’t need hardly any tweaking. FYI…The pink paper I used for my roses was pretty thick, so I ended up using a blade depth of 5 and a thickness of 30. ![]() Settings can vary depending on how new your blade is though. So, start with the recommended settings, do a test cut and then make adjustments from there.
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