DIY Rosettes!

Someone in the Wedding Buy & Sell: FraserValley group on facebook was selling these beautiful rosettes that she had made for her daughters wedding.

Aren't they awesome?

I set out to making my own!  Here's how they're done!!! 

This is plain printer paper all gussied up with some Washi tape

I had made two of these prior, just to get the hang of it... For this final one, I used some plain white printer paper and a bit of washi tape.  I also used a flowered border punch to give it a decorative edge.  It looks pretty just like this!!!  Make sure to decorate BOTH edges of the paper because we'll be folding them in half later.

Time to start folding!

I flipped the paper over to the backside and folded it in half.  This will help my concertina folds stay nice and even!  

Fold again!

Now fold the two short edges into the middle!  

And again!

Now take your new edges, and fold into the middle again!

One last time!

And fold the new edges into the middle once more!  

Open 'er up!

Once you've folded everything up, you can carefully open the paper up again.  

Now do a concertina fold!

Once it's opened up, you can concertina fold the paper.  All the folding we did earlier makes this step way more simple!  The alternative is just to do this with the paper without all the pre-folding, but it's hard to keep everything nice and even.  

Now do everything all over again two more times!  Yikes!

Fold each piece of paper in half

 Once you've got them all nice and folded up, fold the two decorated ends up to meet each other, kind of like a fan shape.

Attach with double sided tape or a glue gun!

  Tape some double-sided tape or a glue gun and tape the inside pieces together to make 3 separate fan shapes.

Attach all the fans together!

Once you have your three fans, glue or tape each edge to another edge, and you'll get a beautiful rosette!

Voila! 

I made some smaller rosettes to go in the middle of each one.  I attached them with a glue gun and they're stuck there for good!  I made a small hole at the edge of the larger rosettes and threaded a piece of ribbon through so that I can attach them to the photobooth backdrop that I'm making!  

I'll do another tutorial on the small rosettes next time, and hopefully an update on the backdrop!  It's going to look AMAZING!  Only another 50ish rosettes to go... Boy, oh boy!