Paper rose template

Originally posted: Jul 7, 2016

I recently used this rose template to make paper flowers to decorate the stage for our school play and everyone LOVED them. I was inspired to create a paper rose printable template for everyone to download and print up on their favorite colored cardstock paper.

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I wish I had pictures to show you just how beautiful the stage looked with all of the paper rose flowers that adorned it. Everyone was begging me to show them how they could make these for weddings, and birthday parties, bridal parties, and the list kept on getting bigger and bigger. You can make these paper roses for ANY occasion!

Here’s a free downloadable template as well as a helpful step-by-step to guide you while making these paper flowers.

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Print My Free Paper Roses Template

Once you start printing the free paper roses template that I provide to you, and you start cutting out the different shapes and assemble them, you’re going to start thinking about all of the possibilities that you can do with them.

You can use this paper rose template for an endless amount of ideas. Thinking of Valentine’s Day and what to do? Nothing says “I Love You!” more than something handmade from the heart. Use red, pink, and white-colored card stock paper, and make centerpieces or make bouquets to hang on the wall or ceiling.

Do you want to add a little extra something to add flair to your Halloween decor? Print up my paper rose templates onto brown and orange cardstock paper. If you want to use black paper, use a pencil to trace the outline of the rose that you’ve already printed.

There are so many different color options of cardstock that you can use my free paper rose template for, that you’ll have every holiday, season, or reason taken care of.

Don’t forget that you can even use these on floats for parades, pep rallies, special events, school dances, and the list goes on!

The more of these paper roses that you make, the more amazing the effect will be!

Rose Paper Flower Template and Materials:

I’m giving you my paper rose template free, but you will need the following materials before you can begin making these stunning decorations.

– 8.5 X 11″ cardstock

– Pencil

– Scissors

– Hot glue

Free printable petal templates – Download the Large, Medium, and Small Petals below:

Click to Get Free Rose Paper Flower Template

How To Make A Paper Rose

Step 1. Create 3 petal patterns from the free rose paper flower template pdf. Think heart shapes, make them wide and not too long. I used chipboard so that my patterns last longer, but you can just use cardstock paper. You can also download the rose template free in the links provided above.

Step 2. Trace each petal and cut 4 at the same time. You’ll need 12 petals altogether. Cut a slit at the center bottom of your petals vertically.

Step 3. For the center of the paper flower, cut a circle about 8.5″ wide. Scallop the edges like petals as you cut. Cut a spiral into the circle creating scalloped petals as you make your way to the center.

Step 4. Begin rolling the center paper flower and hot glue it down once you reach the center.

Step 5. Overlap and glue the flaps of each petal. This makes the petals more three dimensional.

Step 6. Start with the smallest petals and glue them to the small flower opposite each other.

Step 7. Fold some of the petals over, use a dowel to round some of the edges of the petals.

How gorgeous are these pretty paper roses? They would make beautiful decor for a party or on the wall in different colors!

More Free Paper Flower Templates:

Here are a few more printable flower templates for you to practice your paper flower-making skills on.

Paper Hydrangea Flowers

Tissue Paper Ice Cream Flowers

Paper Flower Bouquets

Egg Carton Flowers

Paper Tissue Hyacinths

The options are almost endless when it comes to turning bright, colorful paper into cardstock paper flowers. They work amazingly as easy DIYs for kids, beautiful yet simple decor for events, and fun projects for the family to enjoy together.

And with these downloadable paper flower templates, you can’t go wrong. Check out more creative DIY paper flowers and more creative projects for kids.

John Lavelle is an artist and art teacher who loves working with all things paper – cardstock, cardboard, foam board, tissue paper, and of course toilet paper tubes. John graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Bachelors degree in cartooning and earned his Masters degree in Art Education.

Over the past few years, John has been working with young individuals who have ASD, which constantly keeps him on his toes and who are the inspiration behind the creative projects he prepares for their daily art classes. You can follow his latest projects on Instagram and on his site, the Art Dream.

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Learn how to make giant paper roses out of cardstock with free templates! The roses are perfect for creating romantic flower backdrops for weddings or parties, and a single rose looks great as a wall ornament. We created the roses in an ombré effect and went from dark to light, choosing a deep mulberry tone for the outer petals and making the inner petals and centre light pink. Of course, these paper roses look absolutely gorgeous if you choose only one colour.

You can download the giant paper rose flower template for making the petals at the end of this post. And for more flower paper crafts, check out our giant paper dahlia tutorial!

Get your glue gun ready and let’s craft beautiful large paper roses! In our video tutorial we show how to do it in 5 easy steps!

What cardstock should I use to make paper roses?

Since we want to curl and bend the petals, it’s best to use a light-weight cardstock for this project, 65 lb cardstock is ideal. The petals are made with our printable large rose flower template, which you can download below.

How to attach paper roses

You have different options when it comes to hanging paper flowers. You can use a piece of ribbon a wire loop threaded through the base of the rose and then hang it on the wall using a nail or a hook. This presentation looks particularly great if you want to present a single rose as a wall ornament. If you want to assemble a floral backdrop, it can be more practical to use double-sided tape or command strips instead of a ribbon.

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Once you learn how to make a paper rose with my Free Rolled Flower template you will be able to dream up virtually any diy project and want to add these Cricut Roses to it.

Cricut has always been known for its cutting performance and versatility. And with the new Cricut Maker, it delivers professional quality every time. There’s a few new blades, that you can use for cutting virtually any fabric, and you can see it in action with these Fabric Rolled Flowers, this post features the rotary blade, which is a blade to cut fabric for sewing.

Coupled with the Design Space app Cricut Maker Delivers the ultimate in professional level designs and you can use it to cut hundreds of materials including delicate fabrics and paper and card stock.

Paper roses and other flowers are super popular right now, especially with the popularity of the Cricut. And the Cricut also makes my free paper rose template so to cut.

And while paper crafting has been around for as long as there’s been paper, having a free template for and step by step tutorials is awesome–then you add in the ease of making a realistic and easy paper rose with a Cricut?! It’s a paper rose revolution!

How To Make A Paper Flower

If you are wanting to learn how to make a paper rose, then you are in the right place. This is the easiest flower template I’ve ever used.

You can make giant paper flowers, a tiny paper rose, whatever. It’s just an easy paper rose complete tutorial–no matter what size flower you want to make.

So, to make a paper rose, the complete tutorial duration is about 15 minutes, including the time it takes the Cricut to cut out 4 whole flowers–and you to roll them.

Also, with just a few supplies you can make beautiful a paper rose for you to use in shadow boxes, on cards even wedding bouquets. 

I posted a video on my Instagram the other day, it was a time-lapse of me making showing me making the paper rose, I was asked for a tutorial so many times that I decided to give it to you.

What you need to make a rose out of paper is:

Firstly, all you have to do is load the template to Cricut Design Space and cut. After that, depending on the size you are going for you may have to adjust the DIY paper rose template.

Tips For Making A Paper Rose

• Firstly, if you want the same size paper rose that I have, you don’t need to resize them at all and you can get two per printer sized pieces of colored paper and 4 per 12×12.
• Secondly, watch the roses video to learn how to roll your roses.
• In conclusion, use thick card stock paper for more a firm paper rose, or lighter card stock if you want to give it more texture and folds.

I was amazed at how easy it was to make these roses and how super cute they looked finished. 

I made these beautiful paper rose shadow boxes for Mother’s day and my customers really loved them.

You can make these as small or as large as you like. 

And with this tutorial, you will definitely be able to add a little beauty to so many things. 

To sum it up, the possibilities are endless! Add a little glitter and give them some sparkle, dip the tips into a little paint or ink and recolor the edges, even use patterned paper to give it a more unique look.

I have plans of my own for teachers’ gifts, wedding bouquets, and even more shadow boxes. 

Shadow boxes are very popular right now, I have a quick tutorial on how to make an ombre paper flower shadow box, so make sure you are following along. 

I would love for you to leave me a comment telling me what else you would like to see and I hope this tutorial makes it easy for you to make your own rose.

Looking for more projects using paper roses?

Grab The Step by Step Instructions and the Free Paper Rose Template Below.

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In today’s post: Learn how to make gorgeous paper roses with this free paper rose template in five beautiful colors.

Hello, my name is Autumn, and I kill plants. I think it’s the whole have-to-water-them-regularly thing. I just kind of never get around to doing that. I actually get quite a lot of things done each day, but the way I do it is by not getting around to doing other stuff, like signing my kids’ reading minutes charts or cleaning out the basement or, apparently, watering our plants. Something’s gotta give, right?

Hence: flowers made of paper.

I saw a tutorial for making paper roses at Capitol Romance years ago and decided last week to finally give it a try. I wanted my paper roses to look somewhat realistic, which meant I needed to use paper that was colored on both sides. The only problem is that most pretty printed paper is only colored on one side.

So I decided to make a printable paper rose template that includes a really pretty design that could be printed on both sides of a plain old sheet of paper. I started working on the template and a few hours later I had this:

Gorgeous, right? And, happily, it won’t die when I neglect to water it.

Printable paper rose template

I created these templates in five different colors for you. The one you see below is a purply/red and it’s my favorite. Each template has two pages: one is the front page and one is the back, so be sure to check “double sided” on your settings before printing. (Or just print page 1 and then re-feed the piece of paper before you print page 2 on the back.) This is what the front of the paper rose templates look like:

And the back is just a full page of the same pretty watercolor design. Download the paper rose templates by clicking below:

Purple/red rose template

Pink rose template

Blush (very light pink) rose template

Soft red rose template

Yellow rose template

How to make a paper rose

Watch this video to see how to make a paper rose. Written instructions follow.

1. To make a paper rose, begin by printing a template on both sides of a piece of printer paper (not cardstock). Cut out each of the four squares on the paper rose template. Fold each square in quarters, making sure to keep the curved lines on top. Cut along the curved lines. Also snip off the corner or point of the heart to make a small hole.

2. Open up the papers and you’ll have four “petals”. Each petal has lines on it. Cut along the lines.

3. Discard the piece of paper that says “discard”. Now you will have 7 pieces: one with seven petals, one with six, one with five….all the way down to one with one petal.

4. Take the first piece and glue along one of the cut lines. Overlap the other cut line slightly and press together to adhere.

5. Repeat with all the pieces except for the one-petal piece. For that one, just use a toothpick to help curl it in on itself.

6. Roll the edge of each petal around a toothpick to curl it outward. You now have 7 sets of petals that you will layer together to make a paper rose.

7. Place a dot of hot glue about 1 inch from the top of a piece of floral stem wire (or any other wire).

8. Slide the biggest petal onto the stem and down to the dot of hot glue. Add more hot glue if needed to secure it to the stem.

9. Place another dot of hot glue inside the first petal and slide the next largest petal down on the stem. Add more hot glue and the next petal, and continue until you have added all the petals.

As you add petals, position each one so the petals don’t completely line up with the ones below it for a more natural look.

You may finish off your paper roses with some floral stem tape if you like (I didn’t).

I have a vase of these sitting up on a bookshelf and I love the touch of color they bring to the room. A whole bouquet of paper roses would be beautiful!

If you’re looking for even more paper flowers, click here: How to make paper flowers {20 gorgeous step by step tutorials}

These are the collections of free tutorials and templates on how to make paper roses from different kind of paper. But you could definitely try with any kind of paper you have.

These paper rose tutorials are so easy and it’s for beginners.

Paper rose tutorial from 1-size-petal template.

Video tutorial

I have seen so many people made this paper rose successful right at the first time.

Their tip is just opening the video and playing with replay/stop quite many times while imitating each step.  So all you need is just a little bit of patience. 🙂

Step by step instruction

Step 1: Cut the petals with the free template.

You can choose any color paper you want, I made some with printer paper 80gsm (21lbs). But I found that paper from 120 gsm (32 lbs) to 160gsm works better for this rose.

On each flower, we will need 4 pink 5-petal- layers and 1 green sepal. The free template is in both PDF and SVG files now.

It means PDF file is for hand-cut. SVG file is for cutting machine.

If you cut by hand, be sure to use a sharp scissors, so that the petal cuts are neat.

Step 2: Form the curves of the petals

Use the edge of the scissor to curve the petal. Try to curl both sides of the petals.

Step 3: Assemble the petals

Glue the wire gauge #20 to the first layer. A small cool glue on the head of the wire will help to fix the stem with the flower.

Use your fingers and glue gun to attache the next layers accordingly. Please refer to video instruction for clearer view

Step 4: Finish the sepal, receptacle and the stem of paper rose.

Cut the sepal template on green paper color and glue at the bottom of the flower.

Then wrap a small strip of tissue paper to form the receptacle.
Use the green floral tape to wrap all the sepal and the stem.

Step 5: Make the rose bud

I made 2 types of the rosebud. The first one will need 1 layer (5 petals) only.

And the second rosebud will need 2 layers (equals 10 petals)
Following the steps of making rose flower above to finish the buds

Step 6: Make the paper rose leaves

Cut the leaf with the template.
Then use my technique in the video to cut the edge of the leaf will help the leaf be more realistic

Use the head of the scissor to create the leaf’s vein
Then glue the leaf with the wire gauge26 by white glue

After finishing the single leaves, arrange 5 leaves to make a rose branch.
You could find the tissue paper rose tutorial for my latest technique to make these rose leaves.

Templates

PDF TEMPLATE DOWNLOAD, OLD VERSION
( HANDCUT )

SVG TEMPLATE DOWNLOAD, OLD VERSION
(MACHINE CUT)

Paper rose tutorial from 2-size-petal template

I found that my previous version could be improved at many step, so that the roses are more beautiful and a beginner could success easier. I also updated the tutorial and template, please enjoy.

Video of paper rose tutorial

Step by step instruction

Step 1: Cut the templates

Wewill need 4 layers with 2 sizes for each rose flower. We will use the smaller size for the 1st and 4th layers, and the larger one for the 2nd and 3rd layers.

The template is nearly 4″ and the finished flower is 3.5″.

You can print the PDF file and cut by scissors.

Or you can use this paper rose template for Cricut, ScanNCut, Sihouette Cameo cutting machine.

Step 2: Form the curves of the petals

Please use an awl tool to form the petals.

Pls be patient with all of these small steps, because the petal curves are fine, the places of glue are correct, then your flowers will be pretty.

Step 3: Assemble the petals

Folding the pentagon shape at the bottom of each layer will help the flower be in precise shape.

It’s important to see where I glue at each layer, and how to curl the petals that help the flower in natural forms.

So please watch the video carefully.

You can set the slow speed in YouTube setting, or re-watch it as many time as you need.

Step 4: Make the sepal, receptacle and stem

Please see this paper rose tutorial to see how I assemble the stem easier.

Step 5: Make the rose buds

The new rose bud is made from just one layer. It is just like the first layer of the flower.

The above paper rose I made from updated version template, just curl the 3rd and 4th layers in different direction. And that leaf template is the first one of the SVG file.

Materials and tools

Templates

PDF TEMPLATE, NEW VERSION
(HANDCUT)

SVG TEMPLATE, NEW VERSION
(MACHINE CUT)

Paper roses from tissue paper

Click here to find the tutorial and template to make tissue roses

Yes, you see it right, the flowers are made from the packaging tissue paper.

And the red color paper is so adorable, life-like roses.

Or here is other tissue rose tutorial that I found on Pinterest but I could not track the author. Please help to let me credit her as this flower is really amazing.

Paper roses from coffee filter

My coffee filter rose tutorial and template

The petals is easy but the center is quite life-like that I love this so much.

Here is another step by step tutorial that you could DIY paper rose from coffee filter and fabric color.

See how stunning when the flower is dyed with different shade of pink.

Belows are the roses made by Patty Sloniger.

She hand painted each paper petal with white and various shades of pink watercolor paint as well.

This coffee filter bouquet is amazing that I wanna try some day.

I’ll definitely share with you all the tips and steps to DIY roses.

Rainbow paper roses

Please check out this post on my cardstock rainbow roses full tutorial and template.

Many readers have shared there awesome rainbow paper roses in my Facebook group and said that it’s not as hard as their first impression at all.

So why don’t you give it a try.

Toilet paper roses

Check out this post for full tutorial for toilet paper roses.

In this million view video clip, there is one thing that I could do much better: using the sharp scissors.

With the sharp cut, the rose petals are neat and the flower is prettier with no doubt.

Some other examples of flower that you could make from toilet paper.

Lace paper roses

Please follow this lace paper rose tutorial if you want this stunning paper flowers with the help of a cutting machine or a punch.

Or you could follow this tutorial to make the roses from doily paper.

Roses from crepe paper

Crepe paper is so easy to form the curves of the petals as you want, so it’s quite look real flowers.

Here are some video tutorial to make

Inverted crepe paper rose from Tsvoric

And the giant paper rose made from crepe paper by Nata.

This giant paper flower is so pretty that could be replaced for a bridal paper bouquet.

Giant paper roses

Please check out this post on how to make giant roses from printer paper, including the free templates.

In this video, I used water color and oil pastel to color the petals and it’s not good enough.

I would try other coloring method next time.

But I’m happy with the form of the flower. How do you think?

And here is other tutorial to make a giant rose from Jennifer Maker.

Well, as you see, there are many ways to make paper rose, from different kinds of paper, in different size.

Once you master the skill, you can create your own roses soon.

But wait, if you want to learn making paper flowers, just click the link, you will find more than 40 free templates and step by step tutorials of how to make a piece of paper to flowers, event they are facial tissue, tissue paper, coffee filter, printer paper or cardstock paper.

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