Sophie and I came up with the idea of making a Christmas Paper Rosette Wreath when I was in the process of making the Easy DIY Halloween Pennant. We went shopping for some pads of decorative Christmas papers and she chose three different pads that coordinate. It will be just as easy to use one or two different pads. There is plenty of paper in each pad.
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Supplies Needed for The Christmas Paper Rosette Wreath
- 12-inch x 12-inch Christmas paper pad
- Paper cutter
- X-Acto knife or Scissors
- Straight edge
- Cutting Mat
- Paper Edger Scissors
- Tacky Glue
- Low Melt Glue Gun
- Bira Craft 12 X 12-inch Multi-Purpose Scoring Board & Score and Fold Tool
- A balsa wood flat ring or a flat ring made from cardboard
- Faux Rhinestones
Cutting The Paper Strips for the Christmas Paper Rosette Wreath
Decide how wide you want your rosettes. I’ve made a variety of sizes. Remember that when you cut the strip, the diameter of the rosette will be twice the width of the strips of paper.
*A little tip for scoring glitter paper or embossed paper, place the paper design side down.
Use the scoring board and score at 1/2-inch intervals.
After scoring, fold into accordion pleats along the score lines.
Most of these are creased at 1/2-inch intervals but the smallest rosettes are creased at 1/4-inch intervals. (The scoring board makes this quick and easy. I’m a fan.) If you don’t have a scoring board, click here ►for step-by-step directions to make them by hand. ◄Click here for how to glue and shape the rosettes.
The largest rosettes we made are 5 – inches in diameter and are made from three 2 – 1/2 -inch strips of decorative paper. The smallest is 1 and 1/4 – inches across. Making a variety of sizes makes the wreath more interesting visually. The smallest is made by using one 5/8 – inch strip of paper. The 12-inch length is sufficient for making one of these. You can see that some of the larger rosettes are made with two 12-inch lengths, and some are made with three.
Add Interest with Paper Edger Scissors
For added interest, pull out your paper edgers and cut one edge of the strip before folding. You can cut after folding but it’s much easier to cut first. Then, glue the ends together, making sure the decorative edge is to the outside. Shape the rosettes and glue the centers as usual.
Gluing The Paper Rosettes
To glue the rosettes to the base and to each other, I first applied Tacky Glue to the back of the rosettes in the areas that will touch the base or the other rosettes. Then, before placing the rosette in position, add a few strategic dabs of hot glue. The hot glue will quickly hold the rosette in position while the Tacky Glue sets.
Base For the Christmas Paper Rosette Wreath
This balsa wood base has been in my craft stash for years. The wood base has a cut through it, which I glued together for this project. If you don’t have one of these, you can draw a flat shape like this using round plates or a compass. Then, just cut the shape with scissors or an X-Acto knife.
Start placing the largest rosettes on the base and decide how you want them positioned. After working with these rosettes for a while, I like gluing the little medallions on both, the front and the back, for added support. Gluing the medallions to the board and to each other is easier with that flat surface. Before gluing the rosettes, decide on a hanger for the wreath. You will need to leave a space for the ribbon or cord. You can see in the picture below that we left a space for the red ribbon.
As we began gluing the rosettes to the base, we decided we didn’t like the random patterns on the medallions in the center of each. We decided we liked the little snowmen in the center. A snowman theme began to take shape. Gluing the snowmen medallions on top of the first medallions we glued to the rosettes is a simple fix. I used Tacky Glue for this.
Adding Interest to the Christmas Paper Rosette Wreath
After gluing the rosettes to the base, we began layering the various sized rosettes until we had a layout we liked.
At that point, we came across the tags in one of the Christmas paper pads. Each pad of paper had a few pages of these.
We cut these out and placed them in the center of some of the rosettes. Through the course of composing the wreath, we switched these out several times before deciding which ones to glue to the wreath.
After the medium and large-sized rosettes are placed, we add some tiny rosettes. A medallion will cover up too much of the rosette. We had a sheet of self-sticking faux rhinestones we bought at the dollar store. One of these in the center of the little rosettes added a little sparkle and seems the perfect addition.
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Finishing Touch for the Paper Rosette Wreath
The finishing touch for the rosette wreath is a wired ribbon bow. I tied a ribbon bow to the satin ribbon at the top of the wreath. Once the wired ribbon bow is pushed down on top of the top rosette, a little bit of hot glue holds it in place.
Sophie and I are giving this rosette wreath to my mother, her grandmother, to display on her apartment door. Hopefully, she loves it!
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Paper Rosette Wreath
How pretty!
Thank you, Dee!
Debra, I just love this wreath, and made it one of my features in this week’s Friday with Friends post!
You always have the most creative ideas. It’s the artist in you 🙂
I still remember the snowman you did last year – so cute.
Thank you for contributing to the link party, and I hope to see you this week.
Oh, thank you, Rachelle! You seriously made my day! Thanks for hosting! Yes, I’ll be visiting again!