Handmade Foam Rose Flower Tutorial

Handmade foam roses

As most of my friends correctly commented in my last post ,my current craft obsession is  home decor projects! And since I get only snatches of crafty time nowadays flower making seemed the best outlet for creative cravings!!Sharing my experiments in making handmade foam roses.

Handmade foam roses

Making the foam roses was rather easy and in fact a bit addictive so I ended up making a whole bouquet of foam roses!And yes sharing the handmade foam flower tutorial.

Foam rose tutorial

Materials required

Foam sheets- thin ones are easier to shape and look better as roses

Glue gun- this is indispensable unless you want to spend hours trying to stick slippery foam!!

Scissors- to cut and shape your petals

Petal template-My foam roses are made from tear drop shaped petals the width of my fingers.

Foam rose petal template

You can use your finger tip as a template for the petals and no need to make the petals all uniform as after all its a rose you are making and petals do differ in size and shape!!

Foam rose tutorial

Since I have a die cutting machine [bigshot],I die cut some pointy tipped flowers[Sizzix sizzlit die set 3 flower layers],rounded off the pointed tips, cut them up into petals .I didnt like the jagged edges so used the scissors to round off sharp edges.Please dont despair if you dont have a die cutting machine as its even more easy to hand cut the petals of your foam flowers.

Foam rose tutorial

To make a rosebud as shown above ,I used 1+2+4 = 7 petals.

To make the center of the bud roll a petal from the pointed tip as shown and apply a bit of hot glue to secure in place.

Foam rose tutorial

Glue this central roll atop another petal as shown in the picture of the foam rose tutorial

Foam rose tutorial

Glue one more petal as shown .Apply the hot glue only in the lower part as shown in the pic of the handmade flower tutorial

Foam rose tutorial

For the outer layer of the bud I used just 4 petals--your number may vary depending on your petal size and how you glue the petals of your foam rose

Foam rose tutorial

The trick in gluing the outer petals is to just apply a dot of glue at the lower half of the petal and press just this lower part onto the central bud using your fingers as shown in the picture of the foam flower tutorial.

Foam rose tutorial

If you put too much glue on the petal it will seep out and burn your fingers when you squeeze so err on the safer side! This tutorial actually is in many ways similar to this clay rose tutorial shared earlier.Here is the completed handmade foam rose.

Foam rose tutorial

Keep adding more petals to this bud and you get a fuller foam rose flower.

Handmade foam flowers

Also sharing how I made the bouquet of roses.I initially handcut the sepals of the roses from green foam sheets but I somehow didnt enjoy that so later used a Sizzix star die and cut out some stars and reshaped them into sepals for my foam roses.

Foam flower tutorial

I inserted thin metal sticks into the foam roses and secured the sepals in place using the glue gun.Finally wrapped floral tape around the flower stems and twisted on some fabric leaves to make my bouquet of handmade foam flowers.

Handmade foam flowers

Wondering what are those huge cream flowers...? Well they are handmade flowers too ...from a peculiar material called sola wood! Will soon be sharing a tutorial on how to make sola wood flowers.

Sola wood flowers

I have seen foam roses on sale at many shops and online too and for those crafters who like to save a penny /craft for business ..making your own foam roses is super economical..I made the whole bouquet of roses using just a single A 4 sheet of pink foam[cost less than 10 rupees!!]

Do tell me how you like my handmade flowers and about your own experience with foam.
Supplies : Foam sheets[Auchan,Mantri mall],Dies:Sizziz Framelits Star die,Sizzix layered flower 3 [Itsy Bitsy],Big Shot[Itsy Bitsy],Floral tape[local fancy store],Metal wire[Itsy Bitsy]
Edited : This tutorial was featured at Totally Tutorials
Here are links to some "non paper" flower tutorials.

• Sospeso Transparente Bouquet tutorial 
• Foam Cala Lily tutorial
• Styrofoam /Thermocol Flower tutorial
• Crystal Flowers Tutorial
• Playdough/Clay/Mseal/Marzipan Rose tutorial
• Spoon flower tutorial
• Sponge flower tutorial
• Beaded Flower tutorial
• Aluminium foil flower tutorial
• Salt dough tutorial
• Easy No sew ribbon flower tutorial