Cardstock Peregrina Flowers
Peregrina Power
May’s craft collection just wouldn’t feel complete without a few fun florals to add to your spring decor. While April’s showers may still be working on your garden, these gorgeous Cardstock Peregrina Flowers make a lovely stand-in. These bright, happy blooms will definitely perk up any arrangement, especially when paired with tropical foliage like monstera leaves or hibiscus.
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We love these Cardstock Peregrina Flowers their bright red blooms and lovely detailing. However, crafting a paper flower that looks fresh enough to pick from the garden takes time and patience. With that in mind, we consider this an intermediate craft. Also, while detail scissors will certainly get the job done, we still recommend your cutting machine for this project. Once you’ve gathered your tools and materials – it’s time to get crafting!
In Latin America, the Peregrina Flower, also known as Spicy Jatropha or Jatropha integerrima, is revered for its vibrant colors and resilience. Its fiery red petals reflect the warmth and intensity of the Latin American spirit, while its ability to thrive in diverse climates serves as a reminder of the resilience and adaptability within each of us.
We've chosen a combination of fiery Pimento and warm Caramel Apple cardstock to create a base for your Cardstock Peregrina Flowers. Our step-by-step tutorial will help you apply different techniques to really turn up the wow factor. For instance, we’ll walk you through adding a bit of depth and dimension to your Peregrina petals with colored pencils and paint markers. Once complete, it’ll be hard to tell them apart from the real deal!
Your finished Cardstock Peregrina Flowersare perfect for accenting floral arrangements, adding a pop of color to a bookshelf, or creating a festive centerpiece. We’d love to see how you’ve styled your Cardstock Peregrina Flowers, so snap a photo and tag us on Insta with #MadeWithLia, or upload into our crafters’ community.
Tools
Materials
- Lia Griffith Cardstock – Pimento and Caramel Apple
- Floral Tape — Green
- Floral Wire – 24-Gauge Paper Covered Green
- Posca Paint Marker - 3M Fine Reversible Bullet - Orange
- Posca Paint Marker - 3M Fine Reversible Bullet - Bright Yellow
- Colored Pencils – Cream, Apple Green, Pale Vermilion and Mulberry
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3 Comments
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Danita
May 20, 2024 at 2:20pm
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Danita
May 18, 2024 at 9:42am
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Lia
May 20, 2024 at 12:40pm
@Danita
Back to the TopAh…I understand now. The wire sits beside the base of the petals! Thank you!
I have really come to love working with cardstock as we make more and more of these flowers! I do have two questions as I begin this project:
1) About how many flowers & buds do you have in each cluster of the Peregrina?
2) I’m confused about the bud attachment to the wire. I need some clarification between steps 13 and 14. The verbiage sounds like you fold the two sides of the petals together around the wire to adhere it, but if you do this, the buds points will face down. The picture in step 15 definitely shows the open bud petal tips up. I know I am missing something obvious and apologize if it is right in front of my face!
Aw I love that you are enjoying our cardstock flowers! When grouping the buds and flowers there are no set amount per stem you need to stick with. I would suggest 3-5 flowers accompanied by a similar amount of buds per stem. To attach the bud to the wire you are simply folding the two bud petals in half over the tip of a wire, the wire will sit to one side of the base of the two petals and the wire should stay in place with the hot glue inside of the bud.