Double-Sided Crepe Paper Fern
Have you ever turned your favorite plant into a paper craft? I personally love ferns and moss! Fun fact: The Pacific Northwest is home to about 40 species of fern. We’ve made paper fern wreaths, some felt ferns, and these potted paper ferns. This time, our designer May created a double-sided crepe paper fern plant for one of our entryways that we recently redecorated (stay tuned for more on that!).
If you love the look of plants and want to add some zero-maintenance greenery to your home or office, try making this paper fern plant! If you have trouble keeping plants alive, this DIY project is perfect for you. Once you’re done making this fern, all you have to do is decide where it goes!
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Where the Crepe Paper Fern Grows
Before you make this project, make sure you’ve picked out a pot you want for your paper fern plant. Then fill the bottom with floral foam and top it with faux moss, which you should be able to find at your local craft store. You can use a cutting machine or cut your fern leaves by hand (just download the template below). Make sure your floral wire is at least two inches longer than each leaf. Then, use some hot glue to attach the floral wire to the center of the leaf. Once you’ve done this for all your fern leaves, use the two inches of floral wire we mentioned earlier to stick your leaves through the moss.
You can make this fern in just four simple steps! We’ve included a photo tutorial below for making this double-sided crepe paper fern plant, but you can also scroll down for printable instructions. If you make this fern (or you’ve made one of our other paper or felt ferns before), make sure to share it with us by using the hashtag #MadeWithLia on Instagram.
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- Lia Griffith Double-Sided Crepe Paper — Green Tea & Cypress / Fern & Moss
- 24-Gauge Green Paper Covered Wire
- Turbo Tacky Glue
- 6″ Foam Ball
- Moss or Decorative Stones
- Vase or small pot
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Leave a CommentLove this! Went to make this for my son for xmas and the Cricut design space does not register the medium value fern (left side bottom fern) when you upload it. Can you tweak it for us?
Thanks for pointing that out. It should be updated now.
Hi there ….
Cant wait to make this beauty and need you to set me straight. The svg file does not match the photo template or the paper template. The svg has a template 2 fern leaves. What am I missing?
Hi! I just double-checked the files and see the SVG matches the template and photo tutorial. The preview of the SVG file looks like there is only 2 ferns, but when you upload into Design Space it will show all 4.
Hi Lia,
This project has made me really want to buy a cricut maker to craft my own houseplants (I decidedly do NOT have a green thumb). Do you find that there is a limit to the tightness of a curve that the rotary blade can handle, especially with crepe paper? Apparently, according to cricut, it doesn’t handle curves tighter than 3/4″ well, but the curves on these ferns appear significantly tighter than that and look fine. I am planning to become a member but would like to create some svgs of my own as well (while I save $ for a cricut), and would love to know what your opinion is on this, so I can adjust my expectations accordingly! Thanks! Your designs are so lovely and I can’t wait to try them!!!
Amie
Hi Amie,
So happy we have inspired you! We have not found to much that the Cricut rotary blade cannot cut, it is our favorite tool. 🙂
Lia, I was in Tanners summit last weekend and I’m trying to find the file for it. I downloaded yours but it is too small. I can adjust it but how big? What am I doing wrong?
Sharon, we’ve been having issues with Cricut downsizing our SVG files 🙁 We’re hoping the problem is fixed very soon… If you select the whole grouping of ferns as is, it should be 10.25″ wide in Design Space.
Excited to watch you on Tanners Summer Summit. I joined a couple of months ago but have been afraid to try it out. I have missed 2 lives but hope to catch the next one.
Sharon Thimmesch
P.S. My PayPal comes across a s Alvin but that’s the hubby, I’m Sharon, just FYI.
Hope to you see you on our lives soon, Sharon!
Hi Lia,
I’m loving my new hobby of making crepe paper flowers with my Cricut Maker. However, I had problems with the double-sided fern svg file. I was able to upload the svg file into Design Space and modify it, but when I clicked the “Make it” button, the screen didn’t move past the green circle spinning around instead of going to the screen where I would select the material type. Could you please advise on what I should do? I’ve used many of the svg files from LiaGriffith without any problems.
Thanks!
–Rebekah
So glad to hear you’re loving your new hobby! Have you by chance tried this again since you wrote the other day? We were experiencing the same issue in Design Space last week, but it seems to be fixed now. If you’re still having trouble, please send an email to hello@liagriffith.com.
I wish there was a video on this can I ask why the tops of the ferns are separated from the rest of the ferns ?
Hi Anita! The tops are glued on at the end because they don’t overlap as nicely as the bottom half, and to give a more polished look to the fern.
I had the exact same question so that you for answering that. I‘m pretty new to this, so I find it hard to follow when the template and the instructions don’t match. I love your videos and would love to see one for this, actually one dedicated to creating greenery for bouquets would be fantastic! Thank you for sharing your wonderful craft with all of us.
We have a great greenery bouquet here! https://liagriffith.com/paper-greenery-wedding-bouquet-video/
Is there a blade that can be used with Explore Air 2? The rotary blade is only for cricut Maker.
Sadly, no– from what we understand from Cricut is that the Maker is the only machine that can handle the rotary blade because of the adaptive tool system.
Can you tell me what the Fern name is with the rounded leaves ? Thank you !
We cut it from the double-sided Green Tea & Cypress crepe paper.
Just beautiful!!!!! Which mat and blade did you use with your Cricut? The Cricut website says to avoid cutting pieces less than 3/4’’ with the rotary blade… but I can’t see what other blade I could use… any tips? Big thanks 🙂
We used the pink fabric mat with the rotary blade. It worked for us!
Beautiful…will there be an svg for it?
The SVG has been uploaded 🙂
thank you…they are so much fun
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