1. Dilute food colouring or dye in water (the richer the colour, the darker the rose). In order to expedite the process, use a large container where you can place several coffee filters at the same time.
2. Place coffee filter in the coloured water. The longer you leave the filter in the water, the richer the colour will be. Continue this process and allow to dry. If you are like me and don’t like waiting, you can use a hair dryer to expedite the process.
3. In a small container, dilute yellow and red food colouring or dye to make orange; this will be used for the centre of the rose (you can skip this step and the next step, however, I think that this is what makes the rose so realistic looking)
4.With a paint brush, gently add the orange/yellow colour to the edge of the filter. The filter must be dry or the paint will run and mix with the pink. Once again, allow to dry.
5. Once the filter is dry, take the filter with the orange edge (not very noticeable in the picture, but you want it to be very gradual) and fold in half.
6. Fold that half in half.
7. Cut the bottom of the filter as shown
8. Open the filter and cut a slit on one side only as shown.
9. Take your floral wire (sorry, I forgot to buy some and so I used a pipe cleaner; it works well but it’s not as sturdy as floral wire)
10. Start wrapping the coffee filter around the pipe cleaner
11. Continue wrapping until…
12. The entire filter is wrapped around the wire
13. With floral tape, tightly wrap bottom of rose as shown
14. In a similar way as steps 5 and 6, fold filter to form a triangle (I folded it 4 times)
15. (Optional) With your scissors, scallop the edges. This does not have to be perfect.; nature is perfectly imperfect.
16. Open filter and repeat steps 9-13. You will repeat steps 9-13 until you have the desired size. For this particular rose I used 4 filters in total.
17. Once you are satisfied with the size, wrap the filter one last time but this time…
18. Wrap the entire wire
19. It’s difficult to tell from the pictures but the last row of ‘petals’ looks like one continuous petal. In order to give the rose a realistic look you will have to cut the filter in the shape of a petal..see fig. 20.
21. I tried to show you with an arrow how the cut would look (I apologize for the quality of the picture)
22. The rose is now done. Now it’s time to fluff it up and make it look real by adjusting the petals. Use the method I showed you here (steps 6-7).
Those are the best roses I’ve seen in a long time!!! Thank you sooooo much for sharing!
Perhaps you could use a drop or two of Rose oil or perfume to attack more than our visual senses!
Wow! Beautiful. I need to add floral wire to my shopping list. I have floral tape somewhere and I do have the coffee filters. Thank you so much.
Lucy- Thank you so much for doing this. I have seen them made but never quite took the time to figure out exactly how to do it. These are wonderful! Wonderful! Did I say wonderful? You are SUCH an amazingly talented lady! Hugs- Diana
Thank you SO much for posting the tutorial for all of us!! I can’t wait to make a bouquet to put in my craft/guest room once I finish making it over. 🙂
Love them. And, I can see where the subtle orange makes a huge difference. Thanks for the tutorial.
These are beautiful!! Thank you for the tutorial sweetie!! I will be trying this out very soon and be sure to share the outcome and a link back to your blog on mine!!! Your mantel looks beautiful!! Many BIG hugs!
they are so beautiful!!
those or gorgeous, look like the real thing. thanks for linking with type A.
Those are Seriously Beautiful!!! Talk about great, being able to MAKE roses when you cannot buy them! Thanks for the tutorial too! 🙂
beautiful!!!…thanks for sharing:))….
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Your roses are just beautiful! Thank you so much for showing us how to make them. I can’t wait to give it a try! : )
I wish I can do it myself, but I am not that sure!
Those are absolutely stunning! LOVE them : ) I’m blown away by your creativity…I mean seriously, they look real!
Visiting from Tatertots and Jello : ) Have a great weekend!
Love,
Laura
Holy cow … those are beautiful! Great tutorial!
These are sooooo pretty and your mantel looks outstanding! I’m having a GIVEAWAY…would love to have you come by and enter to win a gift card and some goodies!
Blessings,
Linda
Wow – so beautiful! I have made roses out of crepe paper before, but these are so much better!! Thanks for sharing the tutorial!! Following you now!
BEAUTIFUL!!! It looks so real I can’t believe it 🙂
Thanks for sharing this wonderful tutorial. I’m going to give it a try. The roses are so beautiful and how nice that they’ll stay “fresh” for a long time. Thanks for this sweet inspiration.
Lynn at Cottage and Creek
Your rose, and mantel!, is just beautiful! What an absolutely great photo tutorial. Thanks! Joni
Beautiful roses! The tutorial is easier than one I have tried. Thank you so much.
Wow. Coffee filters?! Never would have thought. Nice work!
So pretty and I can’t wait to try to do it!
wow = these are amazing!
thank u 4 the tutorial 🙂
Awesome! thanks for the tutorial! I’d love for you to link up to my Sew Crafty Party! Can’t wait to try these today!
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I love this! Thank you for showing us how to make these beautiful roses. I have wanted to play with the coffee filter flowers but I love your coloring idea!
Thanks so much! I’m dying to see how you make the jars aqua!
Faye
(wildrosevintage)
Oh these roses are so very pretty and realistic looking! I would love a huge vase full of them please!
goodness they are gorgeous!!!!
Amazing & beautiful !
Thank you for sharing Lucy
Would you mind me sharing this post and a link included on my blog? I think my blogging friends would love this idea!
Thank you
mary
Your roses look beautiful! Thank you for the tutorial as I would love to try those.
Carolyn
I’ve seen coffee filter flowers before but yours are absolutely gorgeous. Thanks fot the wonderful tutorial. I just became a new follower:)
‘hugs from afar’
Beautiful mantel and the roses are glorious!!! Thank you for sharing a great tutorial. I’m your newest follower.
Blessings ~*~ Wendy ~*~
These are the cutest I’ve seen! Love it!
Thank you for linking to my party! Just popping in to let you know that I featured you on my wrap-up. Thanks again.
~Gay~
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Ok, I am back to say 3 things. I love your blog. It is beautiful and you are quite talented.
I made the roses..pretty, they make me happy.
I gave you a little award, I see you got one this week, but because your blog is so lovely I decided to give you another.
Theresa
Roses came out really nice & your mantel look fabulous.
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SO pretty, I’ll have to try this, thanks so much
Super great post, love them! Thanks for sharing.
machelle
Just found your blog,and am so happy I did. My granddaughter turns 2 in March and I want to use the roses for her party. Thank you so much for giving me a craft I can actually do
I just came upon your blog and have been enjoying it. I read about making the beautiful pink roses (I want to try making them) and am delighted in seeing your mantel. Next, I want to check out the newspaper? roses. The jar idea is something new to me, and I am eager to read about how you make them. Now, I will just browse about and enjoy. Thank you so much for sharing!
Those are the prettiest roses I’ve ever seen. You should make a wreath too! Thanks for the tutorial.
Dropping by from How To’s Day. Hope you’ll come see the informal picture wall I did for DD2.
Allison
Atticmag
Lucy – I just wanted to let you know that I made some of these using your tutorial. I am doing a post about it this weekend – and am including your link!
Thank you for this great tutorial, a small thread to you on my blog.
Hello from France, Miette
vraiment très joli
un peu de beauté dans un jour gris …merci
so excited I’m finally trying this! I’m waiting for them to dry and it’s killing me! I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time thank you for sharing!
Just lovely, can’t wait to try! 🙂
Thanks so much for this tutorial! These are so beautiful & I’m so excited about trying this project but sadly, mine look nothing like yours. LOL! *sigh* I wish I could figure out what I’m doing wrong. Any chance of a video? 😀
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These are lovely! There is a family wedding coming up in a year or so. I will have to let the bride to be know about these…
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Love these!! Just made my first one, and waiting for the next round of filters to dry! They work perfect with my mantle decor! Can’t wait to show my husband when he gets home from work.
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These are beautiful and I appreciate the time you took to post this tutorial. I am going to give them a try. Thanks so much.
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ok everyone has done such a great job! I love this idea i am stuck though! everyone has been able to do this without a problem and here i am with a problem… so sorry!! I want to master this task!! Please help! Im stuck at step 13, I have wrapped my filter.. now do I take it off the wire?? and then cut it again…??? again so sorry to ask a “dumb question”… lol
Hi…it’s not a dumb question so please don’t worry ..what I do need is your email address so I can respond to your question, you’re a ‘non-reply’ blogger …hope you see this …xo
Lu
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I am so in love with this! It is so easy and so romantic! I think I want to try it in a really rich pink as wel1! I cannot wait
I just tried my second time, and I don’t get it … each time I wrap one around it just seems so tight, and not fluffy like yours, (meaing spacious). Yours looks so lose like a real rose, I don’t get how you do that. what is the purpose of folding 3 or later 4 times ? (meaning the coffee filter ) please help as they are so pretty – (bechbumm59@aol.com) thank you. – Stacy
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I love this idea for making roses, it was very nice creative work and i love this rose. I have one of my Magnetic Crack Detector business, i hope you like it.
These paper roses are so cleverly made, and beautiful too! They would be perfect little decorations at a countryside wedding, don’t you think?
Lucy, Wonderful tutorial.. thanks so very much!
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Thank you Lucy for your very good tutorial . The result was a beautiful rose…. Thank you again for your time and care to show us your work. I wish you success and a hug from me and Brazil,my country.
Thank you Lucy for your very good tutorial . The result was a beautiful rose…. Thank you again for your time and care to show us your work. I wish you success and a hug from me and Brazil,my country.
i really like this rose tutorial easy and stylish, and you can add more color consistent to make it more decorative, Thanks for share.
Love your coffee filter roses, they turned out awesome. So pretty.
beautiful, beautifu, beautiful–how unique and practical. Hope you don’t mind – I pinned it on my Pinterest board.
Thank you
Hi there Lucy
Wow these flowers are Amazing thank you so much for sharing your creativity
Hi your roses look beautiful but I am a little confused. When you say open the rose and repeat 9 thru 13. You used 4 filters. Do you layer one on another and if not how do you combine them. I admit I am not very crafty
This is amazing tutorial. Pretty cool. I love it!
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