This same flower that smiles to-day....To-morrow will be dying...this is a tutorial for a method of making old,shabby, faded looking roses using a coffee filter :-) In my recent gallery under The Sea Hag Beacon Hill are more photos of completed roses and a few small bouquets.
Im going to include pictures of each step...please ignore my beyond desperate need for a manicure...which would actually be wasted on me since my hands are always in some combination of glue/paint/clay.
Supply List:
*Coffee filters (mine are unbleached,but probably doesnt matter)
*Pastels in desired colors (I used a soft pink,wine,med.pink and green)
*Needle and thread (the stongest yet thinnest,sharpest needle you have)
*Cloth covered wire (I used some I had left over from a flower kit, but 32 gauge or similar is OK)
*Scissors
*Tweezers
*Aleene's Tacky Glue
*Floral foam (optional)
*Toothpick
*Wire cutters or old scissors
* Vase (optional)
*Assortment of prepunched leaves (these can also be made with coffee filters if necessary)(optional)
*foam pad and stylus for preparing prepunched leaves(optional)
* Visual aid (picture or actual rose to look at is nice but optional)
I'll be back after I throw something in the microwave for dinner....