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Learn how to make a beautiful and easy paper daisy to add color to a fun floral wreath!

This week I made a pretty summer wreath of paper flowers. I made my paper roses and carnations, as those are both summer flowers. But the peonies, magnolias, and tulips I’d designed weren’t quite right. So I decided to design a new flower: a Gerbera Daisy! This paper daisy is the easiest rolled flower I’ve made so far, and super fun to make. Let me show you how to do it!

Update: In August 2017, I reworked my Gerbera Daisy pattern so that each of the larger, outer petals was traced from real daisy petals. I think this makes for an even more realistic looking daisy.

Ready to make paper daisies? I’m excited to show you how! This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking a link I will earn a small commission but it won’t cost you a penny more. Read my full disclosure.

Materials to Make a Paper Daisy

Materials for making a paper daisy: paper, hot glue gun, quilling tool

How to Make a Paper Daisy

STEP 1: GET MY FREE PAPER DAISY SVG FILE

Get Design #32, the free paper daisy design from my free resource library (get the password to the library in the form at the bottom of this post).

STEP 2: CUT YOUR PAPER DAISY DESIGN

Tip: If you’re not sure how to upload an SVG cut file to Cricut Design Space, watch this helpful video training series I made. If you’re on an iPhone or iPad, here’s how to download and upload SVG files to the Cricut Design Space app.

You’ll note that there are two different colored layers — the yellow layer is the petals, and the black later is a small “eye” used for the inside of the flower (totally optional). If you don’t want to use the “eye,” just hide that layer. I cut my daisies on a blue LightGrip mat on the “Cardstock, Solid Core” materials setting.

Uploading the Gerbera Daisy to Cricut Design Space

STEP 3: COLOR YOUR FLOWER

Next, if you want two-tone daisies, as the inner set of petals on many Gerbera daisies have a different color, just cut your daisies on different colors of cardstock, cut each one where the small petals meet the large petals, and mix and match them. You can glue them together with your glue gun.

Mix and match colors to make two-tone paper daisies

Alternatively, you can use a marker to color the smaller petals before you roll it up.

STEP 4: ROLL YOUR PAPER DAISY

Once you’ve got your daisy petals all cut out, just roll them right up. I made a short video that explains how to roll paper flowers.

 

STEP 5: GLUE YOUR PAPER DAISY TOGETHER

After they are rolled, arrange the petals then glue the bottom edge of the rolled petals. Press the circle against the glue.

Press all the petals outward, away from the center — even the little ones. Real Gerbera daisies have splayed petals like that.

Here’s one of my daisies with a separate center and different colored inner petals:

A pretty paper daisy

Now wasn’t that easy? Go make something beautiful with your paper daisies!

If you’d like to see what I did with my daisies (and the roses and carnations I show in the video), check out thecraftyblogstalker.com — my tutorial on how to make a paper flower wreath is over there!

Paper Flower Wreath Tutorial

I’d love to see your project! If you make one, please share a photo in our Facebook group, or tag me on social media with #jennifermaker.

Here is a pretty-in-pink daisy made by reader Karen Sewell:

Paper Daisy made by JenniferMaker reader Karen Sewell

GET MY FREE PAPER DAISY CUT FILES

Love,

JenniferMaker.com

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View all my paper flowers here.

 

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9 Comments

    1. I cut some at 8″ wide and they are 3″ wide when finished. I also cut some at 5″ wide, and those are about 2 1/4″ wide when finished.

  1. Thank you for sharing your paper flowers, they are beautiful.
    I really want to know how to make the cricut cover.
    Greetings from
    Laredo, México.

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