Crepe Paper Orange

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Cup the petals individually very gently between your thumb and fingers in the top third and then gently stretch underneath the curve you’ve created very slightly to straighten the petal. If you are creating harsh marks in the paper when you curve it, then you are applying too much pressure. Also available with the same spec – 17gsm, 40% stretch and colourfast – are Rainbow Crepe, Fluorescent Crepe, Safari Crepe and Crepe Streamers. Cut a rectangle of 180g orange crepe paper across the grain measuring 13 x 5cm (5 x 2in). Stretch fully between your fingers and cut out two pieces from the stamen template. Repeat again with the 180g yellow crepe paper and cut out one piece using the same template. We can now apply the petals directly underneath the bottom of the fringed centre. Glue the small petals first, with a light layer of glue at the base. Place the first three small peach petals equally around the centre and then the next three in-between. Make sure you push each petal on firmly so that they don’t start to come away from the centre.

You can now choose which of the 60g peach crepe papers you would like to have as your main flower colour, with the other peach shade acting as the accent colour. To make the calyx, take a piece of the green-tea doublette crepe paper and cut three of each of the calyx pieces. Cup each of these in the centre to give shape and apply a light layer of glue to the bottom of each one. Glue the three small round pieces evenly directly underneath the centre and then place the three longer calyxes in-between. Once the pieces are dry, you can then open them out in the same way as the previous tutorial and make your leaf in the same way. Step Two: Open up the honeycomb balls. Tear a piece of green crepe paper about 3” – 6” long for the pumpkin stem; tear different lengths to create different stem lengths. Twist the ends together and glue one end to the top center of your ball. Cut out pumpkin leaves and glue between an accordion layer near the top center. To add some looped stems, cut some wire about 5” – 8” in length, and wrap your stem-covered wire around a pencil a couple of times. Glue the wire near the top center of the ball. Cut each of the 20-gauge wires around 2cm (0.80in) from the bottom of each carpel and then push against each wire at the bottom of each to a 45-degree angle.

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Take each piece and fold over, then finely fringe in the direction of the grain, down two-thirds of the length of the paper. The finer you fringe, the better the flower will look. Isn’t it surprisingly easy to make an accordion garland?! It takes some patience adding each layer, but now that I know how to make one, I want to try a couple more in some interesting shapes.

Our mantel is going to look so festive once I throw a bunch of these pumpkins on it. If you’re hosting a Halloween or fall party, orange honeycomb tissue balls in various sizes turned into pumpkins would look great on the tabletops. To cover the base of the petals and the calyx, stretch a 1cm (0.4in) wide strip of 160g grass-green crepe paper and glue tightly around covering the base of the petals underneath the flower-head. Then bring this down on a 45-degree angle, applying a little glue as you go and continue down the wire stem. You can cut the length of the stem with wire cutters as well if you prefer a shorter flower. Wrap the stem tightly four or five times. Pinch the base of the petal together, then wind over the pinched area and down the wire with tape. Repeat to make up six petals. Bend the wire within the petal into a curve and up again towards the point. Stretch out the centre slightly, then repeat on the edges near to the point of the petal to create a fluted effect.I love how it kind of looks like a real dried Chinese Lantern branch. If you don’t have foam balls lying around, just roll up a little ball of tissue paper for the inside. Bend and shape the flower and stamens. Carefully drop green marbling ink into the centre base of each flower and a tiny drop either side; don’t overdo this as the ink and the oil within it travels up and down the paper. Make two smaller lilies in the same way, this time using template B and cutting five petals only.