VIDEO: Crepe Paper & Honeycomb Paper Mushrooms
This beautiful project has been a member favorite for the last year, so we have decided to make these in a LIVE video craft-along which is open for all to join and ask questions along the way. The workshop will be on September 8 at noon Pacific Time, so mark your calendars! If you are unable to join us, you can also watch the replay here.
For a fun “Halloween Lite” craft, I designed them to look like a poisonous Death Cap mushroom, which promises to cause mayhem if eaten. I added a couple of paper moths to give these pretty but haunting paper mushrooms an added Halloween vibe. Otherwise, you could easily keep this project out all year long.
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Moths, mushrooms, and moss, oh my!
I just love how these paper mushrooms look like a piece of art on display. Plus they are very simple to make! Using honeycomb paper for the textured mushroom tops gives them such beautiful detail, and the crepe paper adds a soft, delicate look to the stem. Since I am using heavy crepe paper and simple forms, I do not recommend a cutting machine but instead simply cut the crepe and honeycomb by hand.
Once you've crafted your paper mushrooms, you can adhere them to the base of a glass dome and toss in some dried moss to give it a more realistic touch. You can also glue a paper moth somewhere inside and outside the dome.
To get started, check out our supplies list and cut the pieces according to the template. This is a hand-cut project, so no cutting machine is needed!
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Tools
- Craft Scissors
- Detail Scissors
- Pinking Shears — Zig Zag
- Needle-Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
- High-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Needle-Nose Tweezers
Materials
- Lia Griffith Heavy Crepe Paper – Vanilla
- Honeycomb Paper — Cream
- Floral Wire – 24-Gauge Paper Covered White
- Thick Paper Covered Stem Wire
- Art Glitter Glue
- Glass Domes 7-inch and 10-inch
- Dried Moss
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Leave a CommentI am going to make these in bulk for my wedding decor. How many mushrooms can I make per package of crepe paper/honeycomb paper?
For the honeycomb, one sheet you can make at least 16 mushrooms (that gives you some wiggle room). For the crepe paper, one pack will make at least 100. Send pictures! This sounds amazing.
Love this project as well as the watercolors. My question is how did you secure the mushrooms to the dome?
I used a thick, sticky glue dot. You can also use hot glue.
Thanks!
I have made many! flowers from patterns developed by you, and this was one of the most challenging. Maybe it was me????? The cut was hard to figure out. No matter how I turned the paper it it still didn’t look like the one on the video. Video was confusing. Maybe, I
need another lesson with more detail cutting instructions. It was my problem for sure. I finished project but wasn’t pleaseed with my result. Will send pics. Need tutorial on moth.) Doris
I am sorry to hear that this did not work for you. In the video I show how to see which direction to place the template and how to know which side of the honeycomb to use. Maybe you can look at the photo tutorial as well? The moth steps are in the tutorial starting at number 44.
Love these mushrooms, can you briefly explain the moths? Is the body just wrapped crepe paper?
In the PDF photo tutorial steps 44-52 explain how to make the moths. 🙂
Is the dome 10″ high or does it have a 10″ base?
10 inches high. 🙂
Hiya.
I am uk based – is this membership something I would benefit from? I was emailed about the mushroom project and obv realising it uses specialist paper I don’t want to find I cannot source things in the uk and/or your store doesn’t ship, or every project requires things to be shipped deeming it too expensive for me… does that make sense?
We have a lot of members from the UK. For some of our specialty papers there are sources in EU and we also do ship from our own shop at FeltPaperScissors.com. If you want to log into the Community portal which is open to anyone (link at the top of the site) you can ask others there from the UK of their experience. I would LOVE to have a shop warehouse in the UK.
One other things. . . this project and my monthly Lia Live is open to everyone, so you can check them out ahead of time to see if you would like to make crepe and specialty paper projects.
Your link has an error message
https://feltpaperscissors.com/product-category/honeycomb/
I was hunting around for here you found that link. Can you share with me so I can fix it? Thanks!
I the meantime, this is the correct link. https://feltpaperscissors.com/product-category/Specialty/
Hi Lia,
I can’t buy the honeycomb paper from your store as I’m based in Singapore. I hunted high and low but the shipping costs far outweighs the cost of the paper. Is there an alternative method available? Thanks!
Unfortunately, not really. This design is unique to this honeycomb. We do have other mushroom projects on our site.
Making these now – can’t wait to put it all together!
Is there a template for the medium mushroom top?
I think I mislabeled it as small. The smallest one does not have the crepe top. I will update it. 😉
Hi, I am trying the large mushroom, little confused, is the hot glue just in the center, how do you glue down the rest of the honey comb to the cap? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Just at the center. You really don’t need to glue the whole thing down, as it fits nicely together.
@Lydia Stank, you are not the only one 🙂
@Lia, Thank you for showing us a really nice project, once again. But I too have problems with understanding the instructions. I have a couple of questions.
1. How many “Honeycomb” pieces would I have to cut for a medium and also large mushroom? I will be using fine crepe paper for this.
2.Will I have to stretch the paper before or after I cut the mushroom stem template?
Thank you for all the brilliant inspiration on your website 🙂
Kind regards
Marlene
Hi Marlene! This a made from pre-glued honeycomb paper. We sell it in our shop, so here is a link. https://feltpaperscissors.com/product-category/honeycomb/ With this amazing vintage style paper, these mushrooms are quite easy to make. For the thin stem wraap that is to thicken the stem, I slightly stretched as I wrapped. For the final stem wrap. I did not pre-stretch the paper.
Hi Lia! Will there be a video tutorial for this as well or just the photo tutorial? Thank you!!
Just a photo tutorial. We tried, but too many things on the plate right now. 😉
Thank you for the message. I overlooked that this is a special kind of paper, I thought it was crepe paper and honeycomb was the colour
It is a new paper we are carrying now. It just seemed so perfect for these mushrooms. 🙂
Hi!
Will there also be a video tutorial here?
I have studied the photo instructions, but I don’t really understand points 11 to 14. Especially how the inner life of the mushroom is supposed to be created from 3 pieces.
I used three pieces of honeycomb paper, not crepe paper, for this mushroom part. Is that what you are using?
What sizes are the glass domes that you used? And where did you buy them?
Hi Laura! I just added links for these in the post. I am so happy Ikea still carries them.
This is going to be such a fantastical fairy garden addition Looking so forward to trying my hand at it
Some people learn better from written instructions and pictures and this is the big benefit of having pdf instructions. Also, not everyone has constant internet capability so being able to print off the instructions for later reference is a great membership benefit.
Thank you for providing so many magnificent creative projects
Thanks for your feedback! I will have the photo and written instructions up very soon. 🙂
Will there be an instruction pdf too??
We usually don’t include written instructions when there is a video tutorial. The video will do a much better job of explaining how to make this one!
I *MUST* make these for my mushroom-loving son’s room! Can’t wait for the video!
Love it! Hoping to have the video tutorial done by next week!
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