Rosettes are versatile and great fillers for scrapbook pages, cards, mini-albums, and even home decor. While I was as the National Stationary Show last week, I spotted a few companies selling the rosettes pre-scored. They were beautiful, but you can make your own customized rosette with ease.
The red, white, and blue one I made consists of 6 pieces of 6"x12" card stock. Each strip of card stock is scored at 1" increments. Five strips was almost enough, but the paper pulled just a little bit too much.
Don't forget you can use a border punch on the outside potion of your rosette too. The border punch adds a nice element to the rosette.
You can score at any increment you want depending on how deep you want your fold.
If you are using a glue gun, you will have to work quickly, because the glue dries fast, but it holds great.
1. Score your paper at the increment that you want. Ensure you score at at that measurement the length of the strip.
2. Cut into the strip width that you desire. For the Red, White, and blue rosette above, I used 6" x 12" paper for the blue and 3"x12" for the red portion.
3. Fold where the score marks are, accordion style. Add the adhesive to one of end of each strip. I used Scor-TAdape, so it would show up on the picture, but you can use your adhesive/tape runner.
4. Adhere the ends with adhesive to an strip that has no adhesive. The fold up should fit over the fold up that you are attaching to.
5. Adhere the last loose end to the beginning of the first paper strip. You should have a circle at this point. You can also see in this picture, where the ends meet to get a better idea of how to adhere the ends to each other.
6. Gather the paper towards the inside center, and push down the center part. The opposite side will flair out to make the rosette. If you do this a couple of times, it makes the glue process a bit easier. The paper shapes easier after it has been formed into the rosette a few times.
7. Apply a generous amount of hot glue to a scratch piece of card stock. You need to work fast. The scratch paper should be half the size of the width of your rosette. For example, for a 3" strip, you will end up with approximately a 6" wide rosette, make the scratch piece approximately 3"x 3".
8. Quickly assemble the rosette over the hot glue (don't burn yourself on the glue). You should have a few seconds to shape your rosette. If you feel like the rosette is not attached to the scrap piece of paper, turn it over, and add more glue to the scrap piece of paper that is facing the rosette side. Hold in place, don't burn yourself.
9. I fill in the center of the rosette with additional hot glue. If you do this, it takes a little while for the hot glue to set because it is pretty thick in the center.
Back side of the rosette.
10. You can place an embellishment, sticker, label, etc. over the whole where the center meets in the front of the rosette. I sprayed the red, white, and blue one with some silver glitter. I also added some ribbon with a hot glue gun to the back side of the rosette to be used for a wall decoration.
Here are a few more samples.
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