A Dozen Red Origami Roses

A unique twist to the traditional giving of roses on Valentine's Day. Handmade origami roses are everlasting and inexpensive to make.

Step 1: Inspiration

Looking for a unique way to convey my love, the idea of paper roses popped into my head. A quick Google search and it turned out it wasn't such an obscure idea.

The first result returned Bloom4ever a company that specialises in hand-made roses, and they were even nice enough to include a How to fold origami roses guide. The site lists dozen rose bouquets for $80.

Comments

[fungus amungus]

Link is broken, here's an alternative:
How to Make Paper Roses

[star_empyre]

heh i'll probably try your 'ible for this year's valentine's!

thanks for the great ideas c:

[origami crane]

maybe use a pipecleaner.

[cutekitten]

 if a guy actually made this for me i would melt

[Rain For Me]

I was thinking the same exact thing, lol....these are better than real roses ten fold:)

[kirbygirl46]

they're right about the kittens LOL, have you ever seen "josie and the pussycats"? "PUPPIES TURN INTO DOGS WHO GROW OLD AND DIE!" but i agree, i would love these. it's beautiful

[pedla]

i hate cats and kittens are worse they will become cats.Still want me to make roses for you?

[codongolev]

kittens are awesome. especially when carried around in a teacup. 

[codongolev]

that would suck for the guy.... spent all his time making roses and now he's gotta clean up his girlfriend... 

[MadBricoleur]

HA HA HA.... i lolled.

[natsheh]

thanks, i made some, i love roses. this needs patience. it took some time making the roses so i just put them in a glass bowl. the next step is making stems and puting them in a proper vase.

[cwix09]

which rose pattern are you using on the bloom4ever website?

[=3]

I think he is using the standard rose.

[cwix09]

thanks equal sign three..
but valentines day was a couple days ago lol....
i figured it out though! :D

[=3]

Lol, I never look at the dates/times. I'm sorry D: But good job at figuring it out. Took me 6 months to finally figure out how to "Square off" the rose. O_O :D

[cwix09]

"O_O" is right
holy cow lol
i thought it took me along time to get it
like 4 and a half hours toiling away at it lol
persistence is key!

[Jeremia was a bullfrog]

Great instructable!

[brooklynlord]

Come on.....

It's not that hard (or maybe i'm just good at folding).

I did a jewelry rose:

http://www.bloom4ever.com/jewelry_rose.php

Didn't even need a video. Just follow the instructions

[jmorellini]

which rose is this for on the website? there are too many i am getting confused with..
please help

[x_lovely]

This is so kool i'm so going to try this, except i don't think it will turn out as good as these :P

[dkarczewski]

After a very long time and many failed attempts, came out pretty good.

Found this vid; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCN8_M5RAQ ; and How to fold origami roses (bloom4ever) from the instructable to be the most help in the end...thanks very much to thydzik for the idea :)

[fighter pilot]

made a bouquet for my girlfriend this valentine's day, and she loved it.
great 'ible, and thanks for posting extra resources.

[johnmueller]

 It took me FOREVER to figure out how to make the Kawasaki rose but after a couple hours of fiddling I figured it out.  You get better as you make them so some of mine look better than others.  Anyway, I thought I'd share my final project.

[johnmueller]

A little "tweak" I thought of while making these was that you can, with a scissors, round off the petals before you curl them back--it makes the roses look more realistic than with the square corners.  I had already made my dozen of them when I figured that out though :)

[hello_ondrej]

i spent ages trying again and again to do the twist, and kept getting it wrong until i finally worked out that the rose folds outwards rather than inwards. if you're having trouble at step 25, instead of bringing axis x up to axis y with the paper folding up towards you, try and do it so that the paper folds out away from you, and it works! i love these roses - thanks for these instructions!

[kineticg]

nice but i can't get the last part where u have to form the petals. the video's too fast.

[LeEk_LoVeR]

exacly the same. I've been trying for 2 days now and no results... I assume that making something myself is not for me. I looked at the written version too but step 25 is just impossible. I actually hate instructables I can't make.

[adamvan2000]

Ditto.  I get to step 30, and it's like the instructions skipped a step, as it doesn't make any sense.  The video's a completely different method of folding, too.

I'll pass unless someone can clarify.

[Splaxx]

That link also comes up forbidden.

[origami112]

How did you get the paper so tight around the wire? I tried several times but never managed to get it even remotely tight. Do you have any tips on that?

[kajin41]

for future reference origami is classified as just folded paper no glue multiple pieces should be joined by a friction fit. you may add that to your introduction.

[phalanx447]

My first turned out a little rough, but that's simply how oragami (or anything hand made, for that matter) goes. I expect my first 5 to be attempts to be just that- attempts, and then after that, they'll be good to go.

With a little creativity, I managed to get it to work. Thanks! A great idea for a gift.

[hoverfrog]

Well I now have a screwed up ball of paper.  Unfortunately I can't see how the paper is twisted at the 3 min 20 sec mark.  Oh well.

[SantaB]

Your "How to fold origami roses" link is broken or forbidden... just thought I would let you know.

[SRVfan59]

The link (http://bloom4ever.com/HowToFold.php) worked for me

[codongolev]

I personally like the magic box origami rose. pretty hard to make, but amazing result. 

[PyroMaster007]

well now..... only three days till valentines day, and im poor... haha thanks. but where did you get the plastic stuff to wrap atound them? i have known how to make these forever. i just wish i had some purple paper, or even pink...

[Colne Fawkes]

 dude, you are amazing!  i made a modified version of these for valentines day for my girlfriend and she loved them! thanks for the instructable! my version will be coming soon.

[frediojoe]

nyn made a mistry blob

[Wesley666]

I understand it up until you FOLD the paper!  This is overly hard...there are easier version that look just as good...I have never seen origami this hard before.