Hybrid Rose - A Carte Fini Tutorial by RoyasCreations

Hi everyone! I have a very exciting tutorial!

I'm going to tell you about my love affair with the 60 gram crepe paper. It's the best choice for making delicate flowers such as roses, peonies and many other flowers.

Here is what you need to get started:
* Scissors
*Tweezers
* A cotton ball
* Thread
* Glue gun
* Pliers
* 16 Gauge flower stem wire
* 180 gram crepe paper - I chose Carte Fini # 591 Ivy Green
* 60 gram crepe paper -  #212 Bougainvillea

Roll out 3-1/4 inches of the paper and cut across the grain. Then fold your paper 5 times along the grain and cut out the petals as shown in the picture:

Now take a piece of cotton ball and one square piece of crepe paper measuring at 5 inches by 5 inches and stretch out to the maximum. Next place the cotton ball in the middle of the paper and bring the sides together and tie the end with some thread:

First, bend the top of the 16 gauge wire and then tie the end of wrapped cotton ball to the 16 gauge wire just as I have demonstrated in the picture:

Next, take your first petal and slightly stretch and wrap around the bud using your hut glue by adding just one small dot on each side of the bud. Then hold tightly until the glue has cooled:

                         

Now use the thread to tie the bottom of the petal to the bottom of the rose bud:

Take the second petal and place it on the side of the bud and repeat the process as before. Do this process a few more times until you achieve your desired rose bud:

Now let's start blooming your rose. Take another petal and slightly cupping it with your two thumbs just as I've done in the picture. Use a petal tweezers to shape the top part of your petal by rolling the petal away from you as I've demonstrated:

Then wrap the new shaped petal around the rose bud and place a dot of hot glue on each side of the bud to hold the petal in place. Now wrap the thread around the bottom of your petal to the bud every time you glue your petal:

Repeat this process a few times until you achieve a half bloom rose. Now start shaping the rest of your petals by cupping and shaping the petals with your petal tweezers. Turn the petals a little more inward just like the ones I've done in the picture:

Wrap each one around by over lapping the other until you achieve a full bloom rose. Wow!!! Look at what you just created with the most delicate yet sturdy paper. I love using the 60 gram crepe paper because once you've manipulated the paper by using either your fingers or the petal tweezers, it will look so real:

The next step is to cover the rose bud and the stem with the green crepe paper. Cut a 1/2 inch width and 20 inches length strip:

Then use a dot of hot glue at one end of the strip and start wrapping it around the rose bud going all the way down to the bottom of the stem:

For the final step, cut out five pieces of calyx just as show in the picture and use hot glue to affix hem to the bottom of you rose:

Congratulations!!! You just created a beautiful rose!!! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. I would love to hear any feedback or suggestions you may have for my next tutorial.

All the best,

- Roya -

Peony Floor Lamp - A Carte Fini Tutorial by RoyasCreations

Hi Everyone!!! I am back with a new Carte Fini tutorial for a peony floor lamp. Please visit cartefini.com for the highest quality Italian crepe paper.


These are the items you need to create this fine art piece:
* Scissors
* Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
* White Thread
* Ruler
* 19 rolls of 180 gram Carte Fini French Vanilla crepe paper #577
* One floor lamp - I bought a 5' lamp from Ikea but you can make one if you like

Ok...lets get started. First you need to cut 6 inch long peony petals for the first layers. The tips are 1-1/2 inches, the bottoms are 1/4 inches and the mid sections are 2 inches wide:

For the second layer of peony petals, you need to cut them about 10 inches long with 2 inch tips, 1/4 inch bottoms and 2-1/4 inches wide at the mid section:

Take the first layer of petals that measure at 6 inches long. Using your index finger and your thumb, shape the tip of the petal by holding the petal's tip away from you and use your fingers to pull the petal tip downwards to get a crinkly inward shape as demonstrated in the picture below. Then, use both thumbs holding the middle of the petal and gently pull to the sides of the petal to form a spoon shape. Repeat this proses with all your petals; both with the 6 and 10 inch petals:

This process will be used for all your petals in making this beautiful floor lamp.
Take your 6 inch petals and one by one, glue the bottom of the petal so that the tip would be bending downward and away from you. Place a dot of glue on the back of the of the petal on the bottom part and adjust to the inside top part of you lamp as I have demonstrated in the picture:

Repeat this process by overlapping the other petals until you have completely covered the inside of the top part of your lamp:

Start covering the lamp from the outside. Start at a corner and work your way around the top of the lamp. Use a dot of hot glue on the bottom part of the petal and glue it to the lamp:

For the remaining first layer of the petals, make sure that you are overlapping them as shown below:

It is time to use the 10 inch petals and glue the second layer on the outside of the lamp the same way mentioned above:

Next, take one petal tie the bottom of the petal with your thread. Then take the second and third petals and tie the bottom of the petals to the first one. Make sure that the petal cups are facing each other and you have formed a cupped formation demonstrated below:

Now glue the three petals to the corner of the top part of the lamp. Always start each layer from the corners; this is how you will round off the corners. Now, repeat the process of tying the three petals as you did before and glue them to the lamp by overlapping them over the petals that are already affixed to the lamp. Repeat this process until you have gone around the lamp:

Now repeat this process for the next layers approximately half way down the lamp, again starting from the corner by gluing the cupped bunch 3/4 of an inch lower than the first bunch that you have already affixed to the lamp:

Next, we are going to start this entire process from bottom up by starting with the 6 inch petals on the outside of the lamp:

This how you'll achieve the second upside down peony; repeat this process all the way up until your petals meet. Congratulations!!! You just made your first lamp!!!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please visit my website RoyasCreations.com. I would love to hear from you regarding these tutorials so when you get a chance, drop me a note.
All the best,
Roya