The Iris of the Beholder
The iris is shrouded in meaning – royalty, faith, wisdom, hope… It is a truly special flower. We think our crepe paper iris flowers do a beautiful job of reflecting this. The intricate pattern and delicate nature of the extra fine crepe paper give this project a graceful and elegant feel. We made our flowers in white, but a classic iris in purple is another stunning option. You can find an SVG file in this Heavy Crepe Paper Iris post!
Click here for our beginner’s guide on how to make crepe paper flowers.
Tools & Materials
- Extra Fine Crepe Paper (White)
- Extra Fine Crepe Paper (Cypress)
- Extra Fine Metallic Crepe Paper (Gold)
- White Fabric Covered Wire (24 gauge)
- Green Floral Wire (18 gauge)
- Floral Tape
- Yellow Craft Paint
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
- Craft Scissors
- Paint brush and palette
Steps
- Gather the tools and materials listed above.
- Cut all of the crepe paper pieces according to the pattern’s instructions.
- Trim three white wires and one green wire in half.
- Run a small line of glue along the flat edge of the petal. Place white wire on the glue and cover with a second petal piece.
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Sources
Shop our crepe paper and floral tape at our online shop. We used extra fine crepe in white and gold, and double sided crepe in green, but feel free to play around with colors of your choosing! For floral wire, we used white fabric covered wire in a 24-gauge and green floral wire in an 18-gauge.
More to Explore
Are you loving these paper irises? Check out more DIY crepe paper flower ideas here and let your creativity blossom.
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18 Comments
The Crepe Paper Flowers book doesn’t address how to deal with the 3 sepals. Where do I look for information on this assembly?
You can see them in this tutorial. I do not have the book in front of me, but you can add them to the stem below your flower then use floral tape to attach them to the stem.
Yikes! I didn’t realize getting the svg files from your linked comment counted against the monthly downloads.
Yes, if you downloaded the files in the project, then that counts as one download. If something happened in error, please email us more details at hello@liagriffith.com!
Hi,
Looking for the SVG files for this – is it available?
Please advise…thanks…
It’s available in this post: https://liagriffith.com/heavy-crepe-paper-iris-with-svg-cut-file/
Is the Iris in a svg file?
There’s an SVG in this post: https://liagriffith.com/heavy-crepe-paper-iris-with-svg-cut-file/
Should gold crepe paper be added to the materials list? I thought I bought everything to make these, but now that I’m sitting down to do it, it’s mentioning gold crepe for the sepals…?
Yes, thank you for catching that! You could color white crepe with a gold pen, too.
Can we convert these into cut files?
We’ll be posting the SVG files in a couple weeks!
Thank you can’t wait!!!!
OH my gosh – how stunning are these??? The detailing is so life like, even the gold bits (not quite sure what the correct botanical name is – lol)!
Oh I love making Iris–I’ve done some bearded Iris which have a few more details, but the same structure. Yours are BEAUTIFUL!!! — as always!!
xoxo
Susan
Thanks Susan! 😉
Beautiful and will have a try at making these . Wonder if there will be a video for this as I think it is crucial to put the petals together correctly and I can’t quite “get it ” from the pictures
Many thanks Sue x
Thank you, Sue! I don’t have a video for the Iris, but show this technique in my Parrot Tulip video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDatsdbBN8A (the petals are made around the 7:40 mark 🙂 )