One of my favorite scenes when driving through California is the wild poppies along the side of the highway. We have made crepe paper poppies in shades of bright orange before. But it was just recently that my eyes caught the quieter version of the California state flower, which they call Pink Champagne. So I gave myself the challenge to make these frosted paper California poppies.
And now that I have made these beauties, I’m sharing the tutorial with you so you can craft your own version!
California Dreaming
These delicate frosted paper California poppies are a perfect flower to make with the cutting machine. They have detailed centers and leaves so our text weight frosted paper gives them a pink sky sunset glow. You can even add a gradation with the pale gold PanPastel as I demonstrate in the photo tutorial below.
When finished, you can arrange your frosted paper California poppies into a bouquet as a gift, pop them on top of a wrapped gift, or pot them to create some pretty home decor.
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Tools
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (optional)
- Craft Scissors or Detail Scissors
- Curling Tool
- Needle-Nose Tweezers
- Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
- Paintbrush
Materials
- Lia Griffith Frosted Craft Paper โCitrus Pack, Conifer Pack, and Melon Pack
- PanPastel Artist Pastel โ Pearlescent Yellow 951.5
- Art Glitter Glue
How to Make Frosted Paper California Poppies
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the pattern below.
- Cut frosted paper petals, leaves, sepal, and stamen on your cutting machine or with scissors.
- Color the centers of all your petal sets with PanPastel.
- Using a curling tool, shape each petal at the base upward, then curl down at the tip of the petals.
Full tutorial available for members to download below.
Explore More
Love these poppies? Explore all of our frosted paper flowers to see what else you can make. You can also make our paper string of pearls, pictured above.
Are you having trouble? Feel free to contact us and we will be happy to help you out.
11 Comments
Love these so much. thanks.
You are welcome!
Hello,
Could you please tell me what color marker you used on the orange poppies.
Thanks,
Nancy
Hi Nancy, the links to the markers has been added to the post.
Good Morning,
I have downloaded the SVG Cut File twice. Thinking I downloaded wrong. I have found it does not including the cuting.
I’m I doing something wrong?
Thanks for your help!
Nancy
Hi Nancy! The SVG file looks fine on my endโ can you email a screenshot of what you’re seeing to hello@liagriffith.com?
Thank you!
love these so pretty
Thanks!!
These are sublimely pretty!
I gotta admit, they look more like oriental poppies than California poppies to me. I’m guessing the more sparse pistils would be trickier to incorporate?
Exactly ๐