We’re no strangers to potted strawberry plants around here. With their ripe red fruit, bright green leaves, and pretty white flowers, the finished product is always a feast for the senses. This month’s Member Make is a cute little crepe paper strawberry plant that looks good enough to eat. This ultra-realistic paper plant lets you bring lush summer flora right into your home all year round — no green thumb necessary!
To get ready for our workshop, gather your tools and materials below. Join us live on Friday, June 16th at, 11:00am PT. Or you can watch the video recording later!
Sweet Summer Strawberries
To achieve a realistic-looking plant, much of the technique comes in applying PanPastel to the berries and leaves in shades of red and green. Varying the size, shape, and color of your strawberries will make your plant appear in different stages of bloom, but if you prefer the all red look, that works too! The great thing about paper flowers and plants is that you’re in control of the finished product with no interference from mother nature.
Cotton Spun Eggs in two different sizes form the realistic 3-D berries for this plant. Our tutorial will show you tips and techniques for making them look ready to pick right off the stem! Due to the more difficult aspects of this project and the materials used, this project is more appropriate for our advanced crafters. However, everyone is welcome to follow along!
Once finished, this crepe paper strawberry plant will look so cute on your kitchen window sill or as the crown jewel of your summer tablescape. No matter how you style it, we’d love to see your finished result. Share a photo of your project with our crafters community or on our Instagram page with the hashtag #MemberMake!
Crafting tips: Use the PanPastel to color the strawberries, and add more green to make some look less ripe. PanPastel color will transfer to your brush while adding Mod Podge, so be sure to clean your paintbrush after adding Mod Podge to each strawberry. Adding a hint of red PanPastel to the leaves will help give them some more dimension, or you could use the green as well.
Skill level: Advanced
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Tools
- Kai 8″ Scissors
- Kai 5″ Detail Scissors
- Pinking Shears — Scallop
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (recommended)
- High-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
- Curling Tool
- Paintbrush
- Needle-Nose Tweezers
- Steel Ball Shaping Tool
- Blending Brushes
Materials
- Lia Griffith Extra-Fine Crepe Paper – Linen, Vanilla, Chiffon, and Juniper
- Floral Tape — Green
- Cotton Spun Eggs — 20mm and 36mm
- Floral Wire – 18-Gauge Green and 24-Gauge Green
- Mod Podge – Matte
- Posca Paint Marker – 3M Fine Reversible Bullet — Brown
- PanPastel® Artist Pastel — Permanent Red 340.5 and Bright Yellow Green 680.5
- Aleene’s Tacky Glue or Art Glitter Glue
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8 Comments
Hi Everyone, enjoyed your video on making the strawberry plant. I do want to make a couple of comments as I’m wondering if things are really different where you live to where I live in Canada. All the strawberries I have ever seen, and we pick our own every year, have yellow seeds on the berries. I believe you used a brown marker for the seeds. Is there a reason for this? Also, you have flowers on with full grown strawberries which doesn’t seem to sit right with me. When I pick strawberries I don’t usually see any flowers as they usually come before the berries do. Is there also a reason for this? Just wondering about the above. Thanks for all you do. Looking forward to viewing many more videos!!!
I was informed that this has a duplicate comment to a previous comment I left. However, that comment has nothing to do with this comment at all. I don’t understand this at all.
Thanks, Helene! There are so many varieties of strawberries out there. The reference Meagan used was smaller berries (some in my garden are 3x that size) with the darker seeds, but you can definitely make them with yellow seeds. As for the blooms, I have seen my plants have both at one time depending on the stage of growth, but again, you can customize your plant without the flowers.
Where can I find the recorded tutorial?
We film our Member Make workshops live on the date posted in the article. You can join us for the real-time live recording and ask your questions. . . or watch the replay anytime after we record.
Hello, I just went to get supplies and things ready for the June 2023 Member Make: Crepe Paper Strawberry Plant. I ran into a problem that I require help with. At the end of the pictures, where I would usually get downloads for everything, there was only one download and it said Tutorial and Templates. I usually cut the templates by hand, however, with this ‘new’ way of doing downloads, I can’t get the templates anymore. What happens to the people who don’t have a Cricut Maker just yet. Are we not going to be able to make this project? I’m quite disappointed in this supposedly quicker method, but who is it quicker for, not me.
Hello Helene! We are doing our downloads just a bit differently now. Everything for this project is in one download, which is a zipped folder. Download this onto your desktop and simply double-click to unzip, and you will see everything you need there. Let me know if you have any issues.
What size clay pot do I need to buy?
We used a 4 inch tall pot with an opening that is also about 4 inches.