I started with making flowers from traditional cardstock. Over time I came to learn and love crepe paper flowers as well.
Today I will teach you all the essential supplies you will need to create these DIY paper blooms that are both realistic and last indefinitely.
Use ink daubers or ink blending brushes to spread your color from the bottom center of the petals up the center.
Adding Distress Inks And Pigments For Depth And Color
Cutting Petals with Scissors To make the process faster when cutting by hand you can fold the paper and cut 2 petals at once.
How To Curl Your Crepe Petals 1. Hold the petal between thumbs and index fingers, gently press your thumbs away from each other. 2. The second option is to use a scraper tool to curl the edges.
Cutting Petals with a Cricut Machine Now if you own a cutting machine like a Cricut Maker then you can use the Rotary blade to cut crepe paper which makes the process much faster.
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