1) If you have square craft paper it is not necessary to complete this step.
As we want to use a square piece of paper, if you are using A4 Paper, firstly fold the A4 sheet in half, then complete steps 2 and 3 below to achieve the square shape.
Keep the rectangular shape you cut off when creating the square as we will use this piece of scrap paper later on in the tutorial.
2) For the next step it might be easier using the 'Cabbage Rose Corsage' Template below as I have yet to understand how to properly achieve this shape. I actually followed THIS Youtube video, but as it doesn't explain it very well I'll try to explain it as clearly as I can.
Taking one of the square papers, fold it diagonally to obtain a triangle. The end result you want to achieve is a diamond shape with two equal sized triangles near the side of it.
In the picture below, I have inserted a dotted line - that is to be the middle of the diamond shape. You need to fold the two corners upwards to create the two equal sized triangles.
I've tried to shown with the black arrow below where the two corners should cross. Where the two cross should actually be the middle of the diamond shape.
And you should get something like this. I can completely understand if that wasn't easy to follow - if you would like me to explain this, even after watching the Youtube video please drop me a comment below!
3) The next step is to cut out a petal shape, and then cut off the pointed part of the petal shown by the dotted line below. When you open it up, you should get a full flower template with a hole in the middle. I actually cut the hole too large here, it would be much easier to cut it slightly smaller as shown in the template above.
And you shold do the same with the remaining 3 pieces of paper and should be left with 4 flower templates.
4) The next step is to curl the petals. This is where you use your paintbrush/cotton bud to curl the petal. If your flower templates are smaller I would use something like a cotton bud, however if yours is bigger like mine, then use a thin paint brush - it gives a more subtle curl.
Do this to all four templates.
6) Do you remember the scrap rectangular piece of paper above? Well this is where we will use it - cut a circle large enough to cover the flower hole (hence it being better to have cut a smaller hole before).
6) You may have noticed that we have two 3-petal templates, but we actually one need to use the one.
For the remaining flower templates you need to clue them a the blue points shown below.
For the smallest template (1 petal) I would advice curling it first before gluing, as it makes the gluing process a lot easier.
Do you know what you're getting for Mother's Day?
Lovely post, what a cute looking flower, I'll show it to my daughter and perhaps we'll try it together :) Thanks for the clear instructions.
This is so pretty, thanks for this tutorial. In Spain we celebrate Mother's Day on the first Sunday of May, so I still have some time before getting the gift for my mom.
so creative.... absolutely adorable.... i love to make such things and i am definitely trying this idea..thanks hun!
that looks very easy to make and it is very pretty too! thanks for the thorough DIY instructions.
Great job on this! I'm terrible at arts and crafts stuff, so I'll just admire what you did instead. I'm too afraid to try it out myself. Haha.
omg you are so creative and this is so beautiful.
What a beautiful idea. You are really creative, will try this DIY soon.
These are lovely, alas I dont think I have the patience to do these.
wow, thanks for sharing this step by step guide! and we can use different coloured papers to make a rainbow rose too!
wow beautiful rose..i have been making crepe rose too.....it's so time consuming!!
Great post, the rose looks amazing. I wish I had time to do things like this but I'm not very good at creative things.
I am not a DIY type of girl. Chalk it up to laziness...lol. But this is a good post. I love your blog.
No idea what I am getting but I bet no one will make me a rose like this; it is beautiful!
Oh wow!! This came out GORGEOUS! My daughter is really into making arts and crafts so I'll definintely be showing this to her to make.
This is beautiful! You are so talented, absolutely perfect for Mother's day too!
So pretty! I'd never think to do this, great tutorial!