Decorative Paper Rosettes

Hello Fellow Krafters!
        So as you know I'm planning my daughter's rainbow art party for her 8th birthday.  In order to be the thrifty person that I am, I am going to make as many of the party decorations as possible.  Which brings me to today's post.  I just looked online and the rosettes that I am making can cost anywhere from $26.00 to $65.00 for a set of roughly 10 to 15 rosettes. So far I have made about 16 for about $6.00.
        The beauty of this project is you can really make them for any occasion, just change the paper to whatever theme you are celebrating.

Materials

-8.5 x 11 card stock or paper (Depending on how big or small you want your rosettes,you may want to change the paper size.  Mine came out to about 9 inches in diameter)  You will need 5 sheets for each rosette you plan to make.
-hot glue gun
-hot glue sticks
-scissors

Step 1: Fan fold the paper in about 1 inch increments. Don't worry it doesn't have to be perfect. If it ends up uneven just trim the access paper off.

Step 2: Fold the paper in half

 

It should look like this. Repeat this same process with 4 more sheets of paper.















 You can see the rosette forming when you put the papers together like this.

 Step 3: Begin by hot gluing 2 rosette sections together. Allow the glue to set for a few seconds before hot gluing another section of the rosette. Keep in mind how you want your rosette to look and be sure to glue the sections in the correct order.

 

Step 4: After you have glued all the sections together, now glue in between each section.

Repeat this process for each section of the rosette.

 Step 5: Glue the very last 2 sections of the rosette together forming  a complete circle.

Step 6: Hot glue the center of the rosette together and push all sections together while the hot glue sets.

 

Viola!!!

 

There are so many ways to use the rosettes. I haven't quite decided how or where I'm going to put them but I have a few ideas up my sleeve!  Once I decide, I'll be sure to show you krafters! I hope you enjoyed this post and I hope I shared with you a way to save some $$$ on party decor.  Until next time...

 

 

Keep krafting,

 

 

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