Paper Rose Necklace

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  Step 1

  Start of by cutting individual petals out of your chosen book.

  per flower you will need about 5 different sizes and 5 of each petal size.

  Then roll the top of each petal so the look more realistic

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  Step 2

  For the centre of the flowers i used wooden skewers (for the smaller flowers I used 1 and for the larger I used 3)

  Then take one of your smallest petals with the rolled edge on the outside and glue it round the skewer(s)

  Note: you will need to cut the skewers so if you don't have a saw then probably better only using one of easier to cut with scissors

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  Step 3

  Follow this round in a circle until you have built up your flower, moving up petal sizes, until you reach the desire flower size.

  Remember petals get glued on rolled side out and slightly pinched at the bottom

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  Step 4

  Take your bunch of flowers and cut of the ends of the stems so they are flat against the flower.

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  Step 5

  I used buttons as the back to my necklace so it would keep it's shape and weigh it down but you could use felt or something similar instead

  I lay out my large buttons so that I could see roughly how many I would need and the shape I wanted for the necklace

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  Step 6

  Then I took a few of them, gluing them around my first flower

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  Step 7

  Add more buttons following the pattern you laid out and build in bunches of the leaves as you go

  Note: I picked up some cheap plastic flowers and took the leaves on them

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  Step 8

  once you are finished gluing all the flowers, you should have something that looks like this

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  Step 9

  Flip your flowers over and position the wire on the bottom of the buttons, gluing it round the edge. I left a longer piece of wire on one side so that the flowers could sit to the side when worn as a necklace

  Then taking two pieces of ribbon, tie them to the end buttons on both sides of your flowers

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  Step 10

  glue the ribbon up the wire and then wrap round the ends of the wire and glue in place so the wire doesn't dig into you

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  Step 11

  And there you have it!

  This piece can either be worn as a necklace or as a dress topper, like I have here.

  I also took a left over flower and leaves and glued them to a clasp to make a matching hair piece!

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Olivia · 1 project 13th August 2013

This is so beautiful- I MUST try this! Thank you for uploading this

Crafta La Vista · Edinburgh, Scotland, GB · 33 projects 17th August 2013

Awww thanks huni. Glad you like it xx

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