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Terri Burson

How to Create DIY Colored Crepe Paper Flowers

Hello again crafters! Terri here, with an easy DIY project that turns ordinary white crepe paper rolls into beautifully colored crepe flowers! I’ve got a quick video at the end as well, showing you how to easily spin and twirl these pretty blossoms. Let’s get started, shall we?

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Gather Your Tools

First let’s gather our coloring tools and supplies.  You will need:

Coloring the Crepe Paper

1.  Add water to a large glass bowl or pie plate to just barely cover the bottom with water.  It’s important that you do not overfill or over-saturate the crepe paper. Spritz several times with a variety of ink sprays into the water and stir gently.

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

2.  Dip the entire roll of white crepe paper face down into the mixture, soaking up most or all of the water.

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

3.  Now, spritz a little more spray into the empty pie plate and dip the crepe paper into the added mixture. I chose to only use my darkest shade of purple for this step. As you can see, the watercolored mixture will begin soaking up about halfway down the side of the roll. Do not soak the entire roll.

This roll needs to dry. I did not want to risk using a heat tool and burning my crepe paper. Find a warm, sunny spot in your house and let dry naturally on a cookie rack. This may take a day, possibly two. Or, you could do like I did and let it sit on the dash of your car in the hot sun while you’re at work!

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Rolling the Flowers

4.  Next, place the E-Z Runner® Grand Repositionable Dots Refill cartridge into your E-Z Runner® Grand Refillable Dispenser. Using repositionable adhesive make it easier to repair any mistakes by unrolling and re-rolling your strips of crepe paper.

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

5.  Cut 3 strips of crepe paper to desired length for one flower. I cut approximately 14″ for each strip. The more strips you use, the larger your bloom. You can also use just one strip for very small blossoms.

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

6. Apply your Repositionable Dots adhesive along the length of the crepe paper strips, on the bottom, non-colored portion. The advantage of using the E-Z Runner® Grand Repositionable Dots Refill is that it won’t tear your crepe paper. Yet, it magically holds everything together. Wow!

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

7.  Begin rolling, in the direction that is most comfortable for you. As you roll, you will want to pinch and gather the bottom after each turn, to help form your shape.

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Crepe Flower Buds

As you can see below, this is the size of a blossom with just one strip of colored, crepe paper. You can view my short video at the end of this post, if you’d like to see the rolling in action.

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

You can easily peel your flowers off the wooden dowel for use in a decorative bowl, or you can leave in place and decorate your dowel for use in a vase. If you like, you can embellish your flowers even further by adding a touch of glue from the Dual Tip Glue Pen along the line of your petals, and dusting with extra fine glitter.

You’ll see me talk about this in the video below.

How to Create DIY Crepe Paper Flowers by Terri Burson for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

I’m so excited about the possibilities that this opens up, by coloring your crepe flowers!  Using the E-Z Runner® Grand Repositionable Dots Refill to achieve this makes all the difference.  No worries about tearing your crepe paper either! Check out my video below, if you’d like to see how easy it is to roll these crepe flowers in just  3 minutes or less! If I can do it, you can do it! Lastly, stop by my blog, Waving My Wand, if you’d like product links for the craft items that I used today.  See you next time….  Terri

  • Creative Time: 30 minutes (does not include dry time)
  • Skill Level: Beginner Level

Materials Needed:
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®:
E-Z Runner® Grand Refillable Dispenser
E-Z Runner® Grand Repositionable Dots Refill

HomeHobby by 3L®:
Dual Tip Glue Pen

Other:
Ranger Ink Distress Sprays

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