Paper roses - A tutorial

I was feeling a little nostalgic when February's kit arrived in early January. On the 20th, my sweet girl turned 6, and I knew I wanted to do something soft and sweet to celebrate her and her birth.

When I opened the kit and came across this piece of paper from Crate paper, I was immediately inspired by the pink rose in the center at the top of the paper.

After playing around with paper scraps, a happy accident resulted in the rather sweet rosettes I put on my "At Six" layout here:

I love happy accidents.

I wanted to share with you how these pretty little things came about.

1. Trim a circle. I used this 3" punch for this example, but in my layout I used both a 3" and this 2.5" punch from Marvy. This or this scalloped punch might be fun too.

2. Take your scissors and trim a swirl around the perimeter a few times, getting smaller each time.



3. Roll it up.

4. This is where the happines happened. I rolled it up and wasn't really happy with my flower. I thought it was far too tight and was far too dimensional for my page.

So I put it down on my craft table.

Let go.

And got this:

And I was instantly in love.

And then I made several more in different sizes, lol.

When you are adhering, you can adjust it. And you can hide the end with a brad or a button in the middle of your flower, just as I did on my "At Six" layout.

Isn't Morgan beautiful? She's turning into such a sweet little lady.

Have a great day! Davinie