Cupcake Liner Roses
Making cupcake liner roses is a delightful way to add a touch of charm to your baking creations! These whimsical decorations are not only easy to make but also bring a fun and colorful element to any dessert. By simply folding, twisting, and arranging cupcake liners, you can create beautiful and unique roses that will surely impress your family and friends. Whether you're decorating cupcakes, cakes, or simply looking for a fun craft project, cupcake liner roses are a sweet and creative choice that is sure to bring smiles all around!
Supplies
Here’s what you need to make cupcake liner roses:
Cupcake Liners: You’ll need 16 standard size cupcake liners for each rose. Check stores like Hobby Lobby or Walmart to find colorful cupcake liners in a variety of colors. Don’t worry if the liner is colored on the outside and white on the inside – that ends up looking really pretty!
Styrofoam Cup: You’ll use a cup to create the roses on, but you need to cut the bottom of the cup off first. I used a 16 oz styrofoam cup and it was easy to slice the bottom off. You could also use a paper cup; you just need to find a cup where the bottom is close to 2.5 inches in diameter.
Glue Stick: To keep this craft simple and kid accessible, I used a glue stick to adhere the rose together, and it works great. But you can use a different type of adhesive, such as hot glue, if you prefer.
Note: If you’d like to make bigger flowers, you could use large cupcake liners, but you will need to use a larger cup as well.
Styrofoam cup, glue stick, cupcake liners.
How to Make Cupcake Liner Roses
Prep the Cup
Use a sharp knife (a serrated one works best) to slice the bottom off the styrofoam cup to make an open circle or rim on which you’ll build the rose. You want the rim to be about 2.5 inches in diameter, so cut off enough to get a circle this size. Place the cup upside-down.
Slicing bottom off the cup.
Start Layering Cupcake Liners
Count out 16 cupcake liners. Flatten out the first cupcake liner, placing the colored side down. Pick up the liner and gently fold it over the rim of the cup (remember this is the bottom rim of the cup), pressing half of the liner down inside the cup and pressing the other half down outside the cup. Make sure to press the liners down in the center so they follow the curve of the cup.
Folding flattened cupcake liner over edge of cup.
Next, layer another cupcake liner over the first one, overlapping about half of the first liner. Before you do that, apply glue stick to the area that will be overlapped, then press the second liner down.
Using gluestick to adhere another cupcake liner.
Use glue stick to adhere a third cupcake liner where it will overlap both of the first two liners (make sure you only place glue on the other liners, not on the cup). At this point the bottom of the cup should be covered.
Layering a third cupcake liner.
Continue adding Liners
You’ll continue to add more cupcake liners to build your rose. Offset the liners a bit each time. It helps to look at the cup from the side to see where to add the next petal. I like to work in one direction for a few liners then go the other direction. The goal is to make it look a little bit random and organic.
Layering more cupcake liners, offsetting each one.
Continue adding cupcake liners, being sure to apply glue stick before each liner. As you work you’ll see that the hole in the middle of the cup is growing smaller. This is creating the center of the rose.
Creating the rose.
When you get to the last three liners (meaning you have used 13 already), you will flip the liners and add them with the colored side up, or facing you. Make sure to space the last three liners so they cover the entire flower.
Adding the last three liners.
Finish the Rose
Now you can tip the cup right side up and gently press the rose from the inside to slide it off the cup. You’ll see that the layers of cupcake liners create lovely petal shapes.
Tipping the rose off the cup.
Optional: if desired, use your finger or a pencil to gently loosen the first few petals that make up the center of your flower. Don’t pull too hard; you’ll need to handle the rose gently for 10-15 minutes until the glue stick sets.
Loosening the inner petals.
Add a Stem
If you’d like to display these roses in a vase, you can give them a stem. Glue 1 inch wood ball caps (wood beads that only have a hole on one end) to the ends of paper straws. Alternatively you could use small styrofoam balls and bamboo skewers. Then you can glue the flowers over the balls and position them in a vase. These roses would also look cute glued onto a canvas and displayed on the wall, or strewn loose across a tablescape.
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