Dark Rosette

Sorry about the photo.  I don't have the rosette anymore - it was made for my friends leaving party.  Beside tulips, she likes most things black (see post Tulip Card).

I used Dovecraft linen 12x12 card stock in Juniper and Pepper Pot and plain white for the centre.

Firstly, with a border punch by EK Success, Scallop Diamond, I punched all the way along one side, put it in my paper trimmer and cut it to a depth of 2.5 inches (5cm for the younger folk).  Then, between each curve of the punch, I scored a line to make folding the card (like a fan) easier. Repeated the whole thing again so I had two strips of folded paper and attached them to each other to a make a tube.

Next came the tricky part of carefully pulling and encouraging the paper folds on one edge to move inwards to form the rosette.  With some very strong and sticky glue dots, I held the rosette in place by glueing a circle on the back (slightly smaller than the one you can see at the front). 

After this, I used my Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and Scallop Circle for the front of the rosette, cut a strip of paper and attached to the back to look like ribbon.  Finally, I finished off the rosette with another slightly larger circle at the back to cover the ribbon attachment and added dabs of glitter glue on the rosette peaks and around the scallop circle for a bit of bling.


At party, when my friend was presented with the rosette, she absolutely loved it!  So it was a job well done :o)