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Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Today I have another crepe paper flower tutorial for you. When I posted my succulent tutorial, I mentioned that I had to find a way to make the petals look thick or else the succulents would look like a water lily. Someone asked me if I had a water lily tutorial, so I decided to go ahead and make one. The technique is similar to the succulent tutorial: shape petal and glue onto a circle base in layers. This tutorial will be very easy. Supplies: Crepe Paper – For the flower in the tutorial, I used two very similar shades of pink for the petals and a light yellow for the center. Scissors Glue Small piece of cardstock for the base – cut into a circle, approx 2″ diameter First, you need to cut the crepe paper into strips. My strips were approximately .5″x2″. Make sure that the crinkles run parallel with the length of the strip. You will need about 20 strips. I had three layers for my flower: The outermost layer had 7 petals, the middle layer had 6 petals and the inner layer had 6 petals. […]
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