Paper Roses Tutorial

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is looking forward to a fantastic weekend.
And since our spring is late, no flowers yet, go are going to make some of our own, to brighten those dreary days.

To make a rose like this one, you will need:

Scissors

Decorative edge scrapbooking scissors

qiulling tool or something long and round to twist your paper around it.

Glue

Long strips of paper 1 inch x 11 0r 12 inches long

Distress ink (Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose, Fired Brick, Milled Lavander)

Chalk ink

Lets begin!

Cut a strip of paper, and color it with distress ink

At the beginning of the paper leave approximately 3 inches untouched, the rest cut evenly approximately 1 inch, make cuts on the top of the paper, where you did decorative edge.

Then in the middle of those cuts (1inch)

make cuts on the bottom.

Curl top  edges with a tool away from you.

making sort of pyramids.

Cut long strip (the 3 inches one) and little ones into "petals"

Curl long piece into s "straw"

Glue our "petals" like so

Add some color and dimensions with chalk

Gather your rose bud , piece by piece glue

the petals on the rose

Happy crafting!

Dianascarlett