DIY: Wreath with Roses made of Recycled Paper!!

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 love the look a little retro and vintage of this wreath and I love creating using recycled stuff!! So I want to show you this wreath, that I have decorated with roses and leaves I made using magazines paper!!

ღTUTORIAL: ROSES WREATHღ

MATERIALS:

- Wicker or styrofoam wreath as a support (measure of your choice)
- Magazines to be recycled 
- Hot glue
- Staple

I decided to use reds and golds for my roses because I want to use my wreath for Christmas, of curse you can make your own roses using the colors you prefer.

Phase 1: GET THE COLORS YOU NEED!!

Torn from magazines all pages with pinks, reds, browns for the roses and also light and dark greens for the leaves. Writtens and images on the magazines papers will give more movement to your rose!

Phase 2: CREATING THE ROSE

Rip in half a page, you will obtain a strip about 4" high, fold it in half but do not press on the middle!

  

Insert your left forefinger at the beginning of the strip and begins to roll it with your right hand, as you can see in the pictures below:

Squeeze the base of the rose

 

 

Secure the base of the rose with the stapler and roll another strip of paper of a lighter or darker color around the first one.

And here is the rose!

 

Phase 3: CREATING THE LEAVES

For the leaves fold a 4"high strip of green colors and tear it.

 

Bend again the piece you have obtain and tear it.

Now you've got a rectangle of paper measuring about 4 "x 2".
On the reverse bend about of 0,2" all sides:

 On one side fold the two corners:

 Fold the two corners again a second time as in the picture below:

 Fold the two corners on the other side just once, in this way:

And here is a leave!

 Fold the leave on the centre to give it a rib:

And here are the rose with its leave!

I used a wicker wreath as a base to fix all my paper roses and leaves with hot glue:

To cover the entire wreath I created nine roses, not all big, I made also some buds rolling only one strip of paper, this is the final result:

I added a red bow and a red ribbon to hang it on the wall:

Tell me what do you think of this project! It is really funny to do! :)