Crepe Paper Flowering Succulents
No matter what we do, we always find it tricky to keep succulents alive. That’s why we’ve crafted many of our own felt and paper succulents over the years. Since we already have so many simple succulents for you to make, Meagan decided to design something a bit more challenging. These crepe paper flowering succulents are a great way to expand your crafting skills and will look gorgeous in your home!
Due to all of the pieces that need to be cut, we recommend using a cutting machine to speed things up. But you can also cut by hand using our template.
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Just keep blooming
One of the things we love about these crepe paper flowering succulents is that they will always be in bloom. You can also easily customize this project to make different sizes of succulents in various colors. We’d love to see what you create using our pattern, so be sure to share it with us by posting photos to our Facebook page for members or by tagging #MadeWithLia on Instagram.
Skill level: Intermediate due to the small flowers and extra steps needed to make your own double-sided crepe paper for the leaves. Also, blending the PanPastel takes some practice.
Crafting tips: Make sure to watch our mini course on how to create DIY double-sided crepe paper. You can also use the different sizes of leaves provided in the template to create a variety of sizes of succulents. What I have made is just a suggestion!
How to Make Crepe Paper Flowering Succulents
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the pattern below.
- Cut succulent leaves according to template notes using scissors or a cutting machine. Note: You will be making your own double-sided crepe paper for the leaves using our extra-fine crepe in Fern and Coral. If you need help with this, check out our mini course for tips!
- On the green side of the xs, small, and medium leaves, use a paint brush to apply magenta pan pastel to the tips and blue to the base of each leaf, then blend.
- On the coral side of the large and xl leaves, use a paint brush to lightly apply magenta to the tip blue to the base and green to the center, then blend.
Full tutorial available for members to download below.
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Tools
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- Craft Scissors
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (recommended)
- Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
- Curling Tool
- StarCraft Heat Press, Cricut EasyPress, or Iron
- Paintbrush
- High-Temp Hot Glue Gun
Materials
- Lia Griffith Extra-Fine Crepe Paper – Fern, Coral, and Mango
- Fusible Web
- PanPastel — Magenta, Bright Yellow Green, and Phthalo Green Tint
- 6mm Spun Balls
- Floral Wire – 18-Gauge Paper Covered Green
- Floral Wire – 24-Gauge Paper Covered Green
- Tacky Glue or Art Glitter Glue
- UV Resistant Fixative Spray (optional)
- Floral Foam
- Moss or Rocks
- 4″ Pot
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Leave a CommentCan I assume the SVG file makes 1 large succulent and 1 flower? Also, the PDF shows to cut 4 each of the flower stem leaves. The SVG only has 3 of each.
Correct, the SVG will make one large succulent and one flower! We have updated the SVG to match the PDF, thank you for making us aware of this mistake. 🙂
Why does it say to add “blue” pan pastel to the base when there is no blue listed in the materials. Only Phthalo Green Tint? Am I missing something?
Sorry this is a bit confusing Sandra, we have to shorten and simplify our instructions to fit in the photo tutorial and the phthalo green tint looks light blue next to the bright green that we are also using. To answer your question when blue is mentioned in this project it is referring to the phthalo green tint!
These are gorgeous! I think the materials list means to list 18 and 24 gauge floral wire rather than 18 gauge twice.
Thanks for catching this Kelli!
Is there actually a green tea color? I don’t see it in the felt paper scissors shop.
Sorry Natalie we had the colors mixed up in the PDF Template it is actually Extra Fine Fern not Green Tea!
I can’t find anything in the instructions about when to make the double sided paper? I assume it’s before cutting, but wanted to make sure before I move ahead. And if we do make the double paper before cutting, do we still use crepe paper and default pressure setting to cut? I tried to cut some double sided paper for another project last week and it didn’t go so well. Thank you 🙂
Hi Barbara. There is a link in the text to this mini-course that shows how to make it. https://liagriffith.com/craft-academy/tips-for-diy-double-sided-crepe-paper/ For the cutting, we made this video to show you our favorite settings. Cricut does change things in the software, so we find these settings to work the best. https://liagriffith.com/craft-academy/cutting-machines-for-crepe-paper/
These are Beautiful, I Got to make so many monthly flowers. Exciting.
My all-time favorite succulent we have made! 😉
She did they are amazing!
Is it only the leaves for the flowers that are double-sided using the coral/green combo?
The flower sepals and stem leaves are both the double sided coral and green tea. The colors for each leaf/petal type is listed in the PDF Template.
These are just gorgeous! I cannot wait to make these Thank you!!!!
Share photos! These look so real to me. Meagan did such a great job!
These look phenomenal!
Totally agree!! 🙂
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