Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Coffee Filter Rose Tutorial

I made these roses for our Valentines day party and they turned out so darling!  With spring, Easter this weekend and mother’s day next month I thought it was a perfect time to share how I made them!

photo_1
Here’s what you will need:
  • Coffee filters
  • Acrylic paint
  • A large bowl
  • Water
  • Masking tape
  • Straws (bendy straws are great so you can make an arrangement)
  • Scissors
Fill a large bowl with water and two tablespoons of paint in the color you choose.  I did two bowls one with yellow and the other pink.  Mix the paint into the water really well. 

Next submerge the coffee filters up to 20 at a time.  Just push them around to make sure they soak up some color. 

Squeeze the excess water out and allow them to dry completely.  ( I did this step at night and hung them in the kitchen with string and clothes pins and they were dry by morning)

Sorry I didn’t take pictures of those steps! 

Now you’ll have nice beautiful colored circles Smile

Cut a spiral into the circle.

photo_3

Cut a strip of masking tape and start pleating the filter down the length of the tape like so:

ruffled

Make sure you leave enough of the sticky part available to roll around the straw.  There’s no right way to pleat it so don’t worry about being “perfect” Every rose is unique! I will suggest you start with the center of the circle and pleat it down the tape.
 
photo_2

The middle of the circle is a little smaller and creates a beautiful center for the rose. (I hope that makes sense.)

Next take the end of the straw (the end with the bend) and start from the beginning of tape, the end that used to be the center of your filter, and wrap it around the straw.

flower

Keep wrapping.

flower 2

And you will end up with this beauty!

flower 3

Now just keep going until you have enough for a bouquet. I currently have one in my fabulous new closet and it makes it feel like an adorable boutique!

photo_1

Blog post to come soon on my closet project!

It works best to display the roses in a colored vase since the stems are actually straws Smile  But if you are using a clear vase like I did, then use green tissue paper to disguise the straws. 

Feel free to get creative with the colors and have fun!  I dipped some filters in both the yellow and the pink and got a really pretty antique, older look to some roses, and a pretty coral color on others!  You can also use two filters for one rose to get a larger rose!  Please share with me if you make these yourself I would love to see how yours turn out! 


Linking up here:


7 comments:

  1. Oh I love this, thanks for the tutorial!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I had pinned these a while back! I was just telling the girls today that we were going to make some for our Easter table! So awesome to have a tutorial! Thank you and Happy Easter!

    Take care,

    Trish

    ReplyDelete
  3. These are just beautiful and so realistic looking! I love roses, so I am definitely going to try these. Thanks for sharing.

    Have a blessed Easter,
    Deborah

    ReplyDelete
  4. How pretty! These would be a great alternative to real flowers for me - my cats eat anything plant-like! Thank you for sharing this. :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Hey Jessi! Just wanted to let you know that we featured your beautiful flowers tonight at our link party!

    http://www.uncommondesignsonline.com/

    ReplyDelete

Search