This is the time of year when we love to make mums! Last month Meagan made some frosted paper mums that are perfect for beginners. And now for our October collection, she has designed these beautiful crepe paper football mums.

As you’ll see in our video tutorial below, this crepe paper flower has a lot of thin petals to shape, curl, and glue on. So we would say this is more of an intermediate paper flower project.

Kick off your crafternoon with some mums

Although we’ve made a lot of mums, this is the first time we’ve made crepe paper football mums. These flowers got their name because they were originally given as corsages for the homecoming football game and dance. That being said, we’d much rather use these big, wild blooms to make our own paper flower bouquet!

As with most of our paper flower arrangements, we like to mix in some smaller buds with our full-size blooms. Our video tutorial will show you how to make both. To get started, check out our tools and materials list, then download the flower SVG file or template below.

Crafting Tips: Apply the panpastel colors before removing the petals from the cutting mat if you have cut them on a cutting machine. Also, they are a pretty wild flower, so don’t worry too much when curling that each petal is perfect.

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Tools

Craft Scissors
Detail Scissors
Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
Curling Tool
Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (optional)
Paintbrush
Art Sponge
High-Temp Hot Glue Gun

Materials

Lia Griffith Extra-Fine Crepe Paper — Chiffon
Lia Griffith Double-Sided Crepe Paper — Ferns & Moss
Floral Tape — Fern & Moss
20mm Cotton Spun Paper Ball
Thick Paper-Covered Stem Wire
24-Gauge Green Paper Covered Wire
UV Resistant Fixative Spray
PanPastel — Red Iron Oxide Tint (380.8) and Magenta Extra Dark (430.1)

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21 Comments

Tina Howland-Wilkinson September 6, 2021 at 12:33pm

love this flower, however, i had a hard time. the center not connect together I had to glue the petals back on the strip after. so my center curl was not great. also would hot glue ruin this? the tacky glue and I just seem to not work well together on flower petals

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1. Lia Griffith September 7, 2021 at 10:35am
  
  Hi Tina! Be really gentle taking the paper off the cutting mat or while curling, otherwise they will rip easily! I wouldn’t recommend hot glue cause it may bulk it out to much, but if that makes it easier for you, give it a try on a few!
  
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sherri kneebone March 11, 2021 at 1:41pm

Loved making this flower and it turned out so beautifully. It is so fragile while making though, a few petals tore off on the centers and it seems like it wouldn’t be very sturdy in a bouquet. Is there anything I can treat it with to make it sturdier?

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1. Lia Griffith March 12, 2021 at 12:55pm
  
  Hi Sherri! You could make it in double-sided (or even heavy) crepe paper if it feels too delicate for a bouquet!
  
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Sheila Goodman February 20, 2021 at 10:42pm

I just finished my first of these wonderful mums and I want to thank you for such a great video. I cut it out with my maker and without the hand cutting, the flower and bud worked up beautifully. I can’t wait to make many more!p

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1. Lia February 22, 2021 at 10:58am
  
  Oh we love to hear this!!
  
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Renee Plains February 2, 2021 at 6:03pm

Another great tutorial – thank you! One of my favorite Lia crepe paper flowers. !

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1. Lia February 3, 2021 at 9:35am
  
  Yay so happy to hear this, Renee!
  
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Nathalie Benoit January 24, 2021 at 2:46pm

Bonjour,
Je suis débutante avec la machine Cricut explorer 2.
J’aimerais bien faire cette merveilleuse fleur.
Pouvez vous me dire quel lame prendre ?
Quel programmation mettre (le papier crépon n’est pas dans la liste de matériel?

Merci pour tout.

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1. Lia Griffith January 25, 2021 at 1:52pm
  
  Unfortunately, the Explore 2 does not have the rotary blade which is the only one you can successfully cut crepe paper with. Here is a video where we talk about this. https://liagriffith.com/craft-academy/cutting-machines-for-crepe-paper/
  
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Melanie Heywood October 28, 2020 at 11:11am

The video instruction for this bloom was really good, but I missed the photo instructions too. Especially as I like the visual effect of comparing to see if I’m on the right track.

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1. Lia October 28, 2020 at 3:42pm
  
  Thanks for the feedback, Melanie. I made a note of this for future projects that could be better off with a photo tutorial instead of this quick format video!
  
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Alice Smiley October 20, 2020 at 1:03pm

This was an amazing video tutorial! Thank you!

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1. Lia October 20, 2020 at 1:53pm
  
  Thanks Alice!!
  
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Mikellee Pesenti October 8, 2020 at 2:44pm

Was wondering what the spray can is. Not in supply list & couldn’t make out what it is in the video .

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1. Lia October 12, 2020 at 9:51am
  
  Thank you for catching that! We just updated the post to include the fixative spray.
  
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Pam Stumph October 5, 2020 at 12:45pm

Can these be made out of card stock? TIA

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1. Lia October 5, 2020 at 1:19pm
  
  This pattern is made specifically for crepe paper (taking in mind the direction of the grain and the stretch & weight of the paper). You can certainly try it with cardstock but it would be harder to shape these delicate petals.
  
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Linda Guldbæk October 2, 2020 at 12:20am

That was really the best videotutorial you guys have ever made 🙂 No questions left – i’m starting right away.

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1. Lia October 2, 2020 at 8:09am
  
  Can’t wait to see your finished flowers Linda!
  
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