Not a Card with Nina-Marie: Crêpe Paper Flowers!
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Hello friends! It’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you! I am creating a dimensional home decor piece that involves making crêpe paper flowers. I love these because they are easy and SO realistic looking!
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I made my flowers with the Sizzix Ranunculus die set, but there are many other flower die sets to choose from. I also picked out the Color Splash pack of crêpe paper to cut my blooms from. Some of the flowers have stamens attached to them.
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All of the florals were adhered onto an Etcetera Tag from Tim Holtz, which was covered with a combination of Rustic Wilderness Distress Paint, Tim’s Stone layering stencil, Translucent Grit-Paste, and Walnut Stain Distress Ink. As an additional embellishment, I spritzed the tag with Antiqued Bronze and Ground Espresso spray stain.
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The word “bloom” was die cut with Simon’s Everett Solid Letters set; I also tucked Fanciful buttons and Heart Adornments around the florals for some additional texture and interest.
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This piece is SO gorgeous and would be PERFECT for displaying in your home for the summer season! Be sure to watch the video to learn exactly how I made it!
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Beautiful!!! I made crepe flowers about 20 years ago, so fun!! Thanks for reminding me how great they look!!
This is really pretty
Not at all surprised that Nina-Marie would create something so spectacular. She’s a rock star!???
I’m so glad you did this video. About ten years ago, I made roses with this kind of crepe paper (where I got it they called it Italian Crepe Paper and they, also, had variegated varieties). The roses were so realistic that I created an arrangement which looked so real that people would come up and smell them. I lost my supplier. But now I have a place to get that paper again. Thank you so much and the project you did was wonderful. I loved it.
WOW ! You did an awesome job with this piece of art. I haven’t made flowers in ages & ages. The first ones I ever made were for a carnival float, they were made out of very carefully folded toilet roll !! Thankfully this paper came along. x