Coffee Filter Paper Roses (slowed down)

You can find the tutorial here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV8XSZAvVk4

Royalty free music provided by Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com. This piece is called Hypnothis and can be found and downloaded here: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?keywords=Chill

Paper roses crafting. I realized that the camera was a little off at one point, sorry.

Templates for the roses: http://images.marthastewart.com/image...

This video was never meant as an instructional. It was just something I did to show how easy a coffee filter could be made into a beautiful work of art. The video is far from sterling. The lighting is off. The rose is almost never center.

You can view the video on how to make it at Martha Stewart. Here is the list of materials and instructions:

Tools and Materials
Box of disposable cone coffee filters (8 filters will make one full bloom rose)
Scissors
Coffee filter rose templates
16-gauge floral wire
Floral tape
Water color paint
Flat brush
Bamboo skewer
Glue stick

Coffee Filter Roses How-To
1. Trace and cut petal shapes through both layers of filters, as per templates.

2. Form rose. With coffee filter No. 1, take four connected petals and poke an 18-inch length of 16-gauge floral wire down through the center of the bottom of one end petal so 1/2 inch of the wire remains sandwiched between two opposite petals.

3. Wrap adjacent two petals tightly around first two petals; wrap with floral tape around base, then 1/2 inch down wire, to secure.

4. When working with floral tape, pull it as you work to expose the sticky part of the tape.

5. With coffee filter No. 2, take four connected petals and sandwich "flower bud" between two opposite petals. On the adjacent petal pair, gently tear the perforation of the base so that you have a strip of 2 side-by-side petals. Wrap this petal strip around the other two petals and secure with tape.

6. With coffee filter No. 3, take four connected petals and gently tear the perforation at the base to create a strip of four petals. Wrap this petal strip around flower bud and secure with tape.

7. With coffee filter No. 4, gently tear the perforation at the base of petal shapes to create a strip of five petals. Wrap this petal strip around flower bud and secure with tape. (The folded petal gives rose stability and a more rounded form.)

8. With coffee filter No. 5, place three petals, overlapping slightly on rose and wrap just once (to avoid bulk) with floral tape to secure.

9. Wrap remaining three petals opposite the first three. Repeat for shapes cut from filters Nos. 6, 7, and 8. Use finger and thumb to separate petals, creating air pockets and making petals curve outward from the base. Use 3 or 4 extra single petals to fill in holes and give a rounded shape.

10. To paint the roses, use watercolor paints, mixed with a bit of water. Paint the base color, first doing the bottom, then the top, working from the inside out. Accentuate with a darker color on the tips. Use a flat brush to apply a third color of undiluted watercolor to edges. Let dry overnight.

11. Once painted roses are dry, curl left and right sides of outer petals around a bamboo skewer to create a point. Work your way from the outside to the inside of rose. Curl inner petals just slightly by wrapping top straight down around bamboo skewer.

12. Add five paper sepals secured with floral tape to short stem. Wrap floral tape in a spiral down wire stem several times to create a thick roselike stem. Burnish stem with skewer to smooth tape. Cut 6 paper leaves and sandwich a 4-inch wire between. Use a glue stick to stick 6 leaves together with a 4-inch wire stem.

13. Secure leaves to stem with floral tape.

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[dinijay]

wow, that looks real!! good job! Thank you for sharing!!!!!

[CookingAndCrafting]

@dinijay Thank you so much :)

[susi1662]

WOW!!! That is an amazingly gorgeous rose! Kudos to you for being able to make it!

[CookingAndCrafting]

@susi1662 Thanks :)

[Midnightdrink]

I love how your cat just pops up and starts playing with ur stems...Mine does that too!

[CookingAndCrafting]

@Midnightdrink aww thanks. I keep this because she has since passed...reminds me of how playful she would be when I was crafting. Now, the new sassy kitty I have will swat at things and get herself hurt instead of just being playful hehe

[juzanothergal]

Hahas th petals looks so soft and real ^^

[50100betinho]

very beautiful work, I also do some work with filter coffee, visit my blog .......