Paper Roses Tutorial Update

I love making 3-dimensional items for my cards. I especially love making quilled roses. I have used them on the cards that I have posted this week. I decided to make a tutorial for how I make them. It has been a process. I started quilling some time ago. I found it to be interesting that exactly a year ago today, my friend Dawn, posted my tutorial on her blog, because I hadn't started blogging yet. Here is that tutorial. While I still like those roses, I think the ones that have evolved over the year are more realistic.

I start with these basic supplies. Aleene's Tacky Glue,

a regular office hole punch, scissors,

a scrap of cardstock, my quilling tool,

and my ek success flower punch.

I punch out 3 flowers and 1 partial flower. I call it the "B" shaped piece

Using the office hole punch, I punch holes in the centers
of 2 of the punched flowers.



Using my scissors, I cut from one edge of the flower to the center.

The punched out flower that wasn't punched, I make little

cuts between all the petals. This will be the Base of the rose.

I use the end of my quilling tool to press into the center

of the base. It makes it look kinda like a little bowl.

This is a quilling tool. You can see the slot at the top.

I insert the quilling tool into the center of the flower and slide

the edge that was cut into the slot of the quilling tool.

I slowly roll the flower around the quilling tool.

I roll both of the double punched flowers using the quilling tool.

I open one of the double punched flowers just a little bit.

I put the second double punched flower over the slightly opened

one and I rotate them so that the overlap eachother.

I put the "B" shaped piece into the quilling tool with

the rounded edges facing down.

I roll it all the way up.

While the "B" shaped piece is still rolled up, I slide it into the

centers of the double stacked, double punched flowers.

This shows the "B" piece coming out the back side of the double

stacked, double punched flowers.

I add a drop of glue to the center of the base.

With the other parts still on the quilling tool, I place them

into the glue that is on the base.

This is what it looks like with all the pieces glued together. You could

leave the rose like this and it would look pretty, but there is more

that you can do that makes it look more realistic.

After the glue dries, which takes about 10 mins., I take my

quilling tool and starting at the bottom layers, I curl each petal outward.

The finished rose.