Simple ribbon roses

These gorgeous and simple ribbon roses make perfect eternal gifts for loved ones. Once you’ve got the hang of them they’re really quick and easy to make – you can whip up a whole bouquet in an hour or two and unlike real flowers they last forever!

Here’s what you will need

Ribbon in your choice of colour, we will be using this ribbon from amazon
Green bamboo sticks
A glue gun
Fabric scissors
Optional – a lighter (to be used by adults only of course!)

How to make our simple ribbon roses

Start by taking your ribbon and cutting out around 16-20 equal strips. We cut our strips to around 8cm long. To hurry up the process you may wish to cut out a piece of card the same length as you would like the strips, you can then wrap the ribbon around the required amount of times and snip the ends open to make the strips quickly.

Now we’re going to make our first petal. At this point I usually take a lighter and just gently and quickly run the ends of the ribbon through the flame to seal them and stop them fraying. I then lay the petal out infront of me.

Now we take the top two corners and fold them downwards to touch the bottom and use a small dot of glue to secure them in place.

Now take the two bottom corners and fold them inwards to meet the two bottom points that you just folded. Glue them in place.

Turn your petal over so that the back is facing towards you. Add a small dab of glue at the bottom centre of your petal. Use the fold line that you can see in the top picture as a guide on where to pop your glue. Now pinch where you have glued to give your finished petal some volume.

Repeat these steps with all of your remaining ribbon strips until you have all of your petals

Now take two of your petals and turn them so that you can see the pinched section as you can see above. Glue the two petals together at one end.

Continue chaining all of the petals together In this way.

Glue your stick down inside the fold on the end petal.

Now flip the petals so that the pinch is facing towards you. Add a line of glue along the bottom of the petals and begun rolling all the petals around the stick, pinching the base of the flower every now and then to secure it.