Traditionally, I love to work with cardstock for many of my paper flowers, but crepe paper turns any flower into an imitation of its real-life counterpart.
Cutting your crepe paper is not like cutting cardstock – the reason being is that there is a grain to the paper. With crepe paper, you always want to cut the petals so that the grain is running vertically along the length of the petal.
Cutting Petals with a Cricut MachineNow 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.
At-A-Glance Tutorial To shape your petal, cut about a 1.5 -2-inch slit at the very bottom, creased the petal down the center gently then, curl each top edge backward with your wood dowel or pencil.
How To Curl And Stretch Your Crepe Petals
1. Hold the petal between thumbs and index fingers, gently press your thumbs away from each other cupping the petal.
2. The second option is to use a scraper tool to curl the edges.