Crepe Paper Camellia
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Go With the Flow(er)
Go With the Flow(er)A stunning new crepe paper flower masterpiece you’ll fall in love with… Our crepe paper camellia is a project made in paper crafting heaven! Featuring our double-sided crepe from our online shop in Strawberry + Tulip and Ferns + Moss, the two-toned nature of these blooms make for an extra artful appearance. We paired our finished camellia flowers and buds with some real fresh greens which bring these blooms to life.
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Tools
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Craft Scissors
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (optional)
- Paintbrush
Materials
- Lia Griffith Double-Sided Crepe Paper – Strawberry + Tulip Pink, Ferns + Moss
- Floral Wire – 18-gauge and 20-gauge
- Floral Tape — Bark
- Gloss Mod Podge
- 16mm Wooden Bead or 15 mm Cotton Spun Paper Balls
Steps
- Gather the tools and materials listed above.
- Cut the crepe paper according to template notes using scissors or the Cricut Maker.
- Glue the bead to the 18-gauge floral wire.
- Cup the petals then curl the tops out using your fingers.
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Annie
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Leave a CommentWould this work using extra fine crepe paper?
Thanks
It should work ok! The petals just won’t be as structured as with the flower made with double-sided paper.
Hi Lia, I love this beautiful flower and want it to be my next project! However when I load the SVG file into Design Space the leaf is not aligned with the grain in order to cut. On other SVG’s the leaf has been rotated so the grain is up and down (vertical) and the leaf is cut on the diagonal so it cuts correctly with the grain in the right place, but in this one the leaf is sideways and the grain is showing diagonal. I hope that makes sense! Thank you 🙂
Thanks for letting us know! We have updated the SVG to make it easier to use.
Desperately trying to cut these with the Maker – but running into issues with the rotary blade dragging through and destroying the Lia Griffith brand double-sided crepe paper. I’ve used setting “crepe paper” and “tissue paper” both with same results. Any suggestions on what setting works best? Cricut’s response is to “try different settings” but Id like not to destroy my mats and stock of very fine crepe paper.
If the rotary blade is dragging that may be the problem. It should be rolling. It may be the blade is stuck. Do you have an extra rotary blade you can try.
Hi! The rotary blade should NOT be dragging– if that’s the case, it sounds like an issue with the machine/blade. When first got our Maker and tried the crepe paper setting, it required the Knife blade (which we didn’t have at the time), so we experimented with different fabric settings and were successful with those as they used the Rotary blade. So if you can spare a small piece of crepe, try cutting a small circle on various fabric settings to see how those work. I hope that helps!
Thanks Folks! Calling cricut now – replaced the rotary blade and tried many different variables. Got it to work on one setting – but not repeatable 🙁 2nd and 3rd time it ripped through the paper and the mat surface! keeping my fingers crossed that they can fix it.
Hello
The svg file must not actually be an svg file. It doesn’t drag to the cricut upload in design space, I get the message that “you have chosen an unsupported file”. Hope you can fix this so I can make these flowers. Happy Easter,
Sheila
Hi Sheila, you have to unzip the file that downloads from our site to extract the SVG, then upload that to Design Space.
I guess I’m still baffled. I am familiar with zip files. However, when I click on it, it goes to my downloads folder and immediately opens on my screen. It isn’t coming up as a zip file. I’m using a MAC computer. I’ve actually downloaded other svg files from your website (for example the fall frosted paper peony) using the exact same steps I have tried this weekend and again today and have had zero problem. I just can’t seem to get this flower file to work. (Also, it is marked on the paper template Plumeria not Camellia) .Is there something that I’m missing, I thought I knew what I was doing. LOL. Thanks
Did you click all three downloads? The “template” is a PDF– which, you’re right! It’s marked incorrectly as the Plumeria so we’ll get that corrected. But that PDF usually will open up in the browser window. The last download is the SVG file that should go directly to your Downloads folder as a .zip.
Hi, Lía:
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Those work as well!
1. I asked this question a few days ago, but I can’t remember where! You may have already answered t or you may have chosen not to which I will certainly understand due to your affiliation with Cricut. I love making crepe paper flowers and think I would make more if the new Cricut Maker cuts the very fine crepe paper. I just don’t see how the fine paper wouldn’t stretch when taking it off the pad. I have a Cricut air which works fine for paper and I would hate to spend the money for a new one if the Extra fine crepe paper doesn’t work well on it.
2. When you use the Pelion to make double sided paper, do you find that it doesn’t stretch as well?
Thanks so much for your time. Should you choose not to respond to No. 1, no problem.
Hi Rosemary! I’m happy to answer your questions– while we love the Cricut and use it in our office, we know it’s not the ONLY cutting machine out there, and fully support the use of other brands 🙂 The Cricut Maker uses a rotary blade so it just cuts the crepe paper gently, and using a Fabric mat helps the crepe stay in place but not stick so much that it ruins the paper. As much as I love the machine, I still do cut quite a bit by hand! And the pellon does make it more difficult to stretch the crepe. You can still gently stretch and cup it but you can’t stretch too much or else the layers can separate. I hope this all helps! 🙂
Just asking a general question. Some of your tutorials (paper white) call for using tacky glue rather than hot glue. Can tacky glue be used for all your flowers? The hot glue strings drive me c-r-a-z-y! Many thanks for all you do!!
You can certainly use tacky glue for every flower– it really comes down to personal preference. We like hot glue because it dries faster, but will use tacky on flowers that we don’t want to have extra bulk that hot glue can sometimes give. Definitely use hot glue for metallic paper flowers though 🙂
Hi Lia
How do you make the buds?
We added those steps to the photo tutorial 🙂
when you print template is it portrait or landscape tia
Annemarie xx
Each template is different, but this one in particular is portrait.
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