Frosted Paper Flowers — April 10, 2025

Frosted Paper Gardenia

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Frosted Paper Flowers — April 10, 2025

Frosted Paper Gardenia

Beginner

60min

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I designed this original paper gardenia in the first year of this site. Although it is still one of our most popular projects, I felt it was time for a new design.

This pattern is simple to cut by hand or with a cutting machine. In addition to the full gardenia bloom, you will learn how to make the leaves for this flower and add a bud.

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Keeping things fresh!

We are always thinking of new ways to make flowers. So along with a new design for this frosted paper gardenia, I also used some new techniques to make this flower as well as new materials from our shop. For the center, I used one of our cotton spun balls to keep the spiraled paper in place. And I gave the flower new dimension by adding some color to the petals and center.

Overall this frosted paper gardenia is simple to make since the petal layers just slide up the wire. The center is the only complicated part just because of the spiral. But the spun ball really helps! If you have any questions, be sure to reach out.

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You can find the full video tutorial on making this gorgeous gardenia in our frosted paper flower master class! Just click the link below.

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How to Make a Frosted Paper Gardenia

Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the flower pattern below.
Cut your petals and leaves, and score your leaves as shown on the pattern.
Add color to the center of one side of each petal piece.
Glue cotton spun balls to floral wires — one for the bud and one for the bloom.

Full tutorial available for members to download in the right volume.

Tools

Craft Scissors or Cutting Machine
Detail Scissors
Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
Curling Tool
Paintbrush
High-Temp Hot Glue Gun
Scoring Stylus (for Cricut Explore or Maker)

Materials

Lia Griffith Frosted Craft Paper – Citrus Pack: color 4 and Succulent Pack: color 3
18-Gauge Green Paper Covered Wire
15 mm Cotton Spun Paper Balls
Floral Tape — Fern & Moss
PanPastel Artist Pastel — Bright Yellow Green 680.5

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13 Comments

Echo August 12, 2023 at 10:13am

I’d love a bit more guidance on the second set of spiral petals on this one. Are they supposed to tuck into the previous spiral? Be offset? I’m having a hard time telling from just the picture.

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1. Lia August 14, 2023 at 9:07am
  
  @Echo
  
  Oooh. I actually taught that flower in the frosted paper flower master class. You can tuck them in if they line up to be able to do so. Otherwise, just arrange them on top of the first layer.
  
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MONICA January 17, 2022 at 6:48am

Hi Lia ! I would love to see this flower made of felt . Thanks!

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1. Lia January 17, 2022 at 9:51am
  
  @MONICA
  
  Great idea! On the list.
  
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Judy May 21, 2021 at 11:54am

The leaves in the photo above look so real that I can’t believe they’re paper! Beautiful! Please tell me that they are made of paper! If so, I’ll definitely have to make some because gardenias are my daughter’s favorite. She’ll love these!!

Judy Stewart

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1. Lia May 21, 2021 at 12:17pm
  
  @Judy
  
  Thank you! Yes, they are made out of paper! The tutorial will show you how to make them. 🙂
  
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Christine May 1, 2021 at 4:43pm

It is hard to only download 5 items when you have to download the tutorials also. I love your products but this is the only thing that I wish you would change.

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1. Lia May 1, 2021 at 7:53pm
  
  @Christine
  
  Hi Christine! It is not 5 downloads. It is 5 total projects, so if you were to download the template, SVG file, photo tutorial, and instructions for this gardenia, that would count as 1 project download. Altogether you get 33 projects each month (the current craft collection + the 5 projects of your choice.)
  
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kimberly February 21, 2021 at 7:52am

Thank you for the directions! and yes, video of your technique would be super helpful on this. thanks!

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kimberly February 15, 2021 at 7:33am

I had a hard time doing the spiral petals, getting them to spiral doing one at a time seemed to be hard! can you provide a bit of advice on that? where in the petal is best to glue?

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1. Lia February 15, 2021 at 10:11am
  
  @kimberly
  
  It is really helpful to use the cotton spun ball in the middle as a foundation for your first round of petals. You can take your time to arrange them and maybe press the corners at the base where they overlap to help form them. Once I have them arranged, I can then add glue to the middle of each petal to keep them in place. This would be a great video tutorial to do so you can see my exact method. Noted! 😉
  
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Jill January 30, 2021 at 10:04am

Any tips on what setting the cricut maker cuts text weight paper best at? I’ve tried a few but they are either too much or too little pressure. Thanks!

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1. Lia February 1, 2021 at 11:19am
  
  @Jill
  
  It all depends on the sharpness of the blade and the Cricut software updates, but I find the most luck using the setting for light card stock. You can even test the “more setting”.
  
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