DIY :: Paper Rosette Tutorial

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Today, I thought I'd share with you a little tutorial for some Christmas ornaments I made with my girls on the weekend. This is a perfect family craft. Anyone older than a toddler should be able to easily help make these adorable Paper Rosettes.


I first caught a glimpse of this type of decoration on Miss Mustard Seed's amazing blog. I have no idea if this is how she makes them or not. We tried a few different ways and this is the one that seemed to work best for us!

Supplies: Vintage Sheet Music, double-sided tape, scissors,
double-sided foam tape, buttons, Scor-Pal.
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1. Score every 1/2" across the sheet music.

2. Rotate the sheet music and score every 2" across.

3. Fold accordion style every 1/2" following the scored lines.

4. Up close of the folding. See, it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful
(I love using that Nester quote! It's so true.).

5. Cut every 2" on those scored lines.

6.  You'll get 8 pieces (enough to make 4 ornaments)
out of an 11 3/4" x 8 3/4" sheet of music.

7. Apply a piece of double-sided tape to both ends of one piece.

8.  Get ready to stick 'em together.

9. Attach two pieces together to form an accordion cuff bracelet.
At this point, if you're my daughter, you'll put the bracelet
on your wrist and do a little dance.

10. Back to the craft at hand: cut a piece of double-sided foam tape smaller
than your button and stick it to the back of the button.
Peel the backing off so it's ready to go.

11. Stand the "cuff" up on the table. Gently squish in the top of
the cuff and flatten it.

12. The top now becomes the center!

13. Arrange it nicely. If you let go at this point,
 it will sproing back into a cuff shape!

14. Press the button (with double-sided foam tape on the back) gently, but firmly into the center.
Other adhesive options are glue dots or a glue gun.
 If you decide to go for a messy, liquid type glue, you'll have to place
 something heavy over it to hold everything in place while the glue dries.

15. A Paper Rosette!
 Perfectly cute as is, but some other ideas I'll try next time are: glitter the edges. While it's still in the cuff shape I would dip the outer edge in runny glue and then into glitter and let dry before forming the rosette. I also plan to string a bunch of them on hemp to make a tree garland, and also will add some to my burlap bunting to hang on the piano (or my faux fireplace mantle, if I ever get it installed!!). The mantle is real, the fireplace is faux, in case you were wondering.

16. 4 Paper Rosettes from one page of vintage sheet music! A few other ideas for  these fantastic rosettes is to layer them with burlap or paper doilies, or both! Then attach to a card or scrapbook page as a cute embellishment.

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Please visit Gloria tomorrow for day 5 of the 12 Days of Christmas blog hop!


~Cindy

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