1) Scissors
2) Floral tape
3) A pencil
4) Floral wire or just green wire
5) Tissue paper; I'm using one sheet of white, one sheet of light pink, and one sheet of dark pink.
6) Wire cutters are nice, but a pair of old scissors will work.
Cut a piece of floral wire using your wire cutters. Make it about the length you want your flower's stem to be. If you are making this flower to go in a vase, 10 inches or so works well. If you are making it to go in a buttonhole, I'd say about 4 inches.
Now take a sheet of light pink tissue paper and fold it into a much smaller square.
Draw teardrop-shaped petals on the tissue paper. They should all be about the same size.
Now cut them out. You'll also want to save enough room to cut out a strip about 3-5 inches long along a single fold.
Now do the same thing to a sheet of white tissue paper and a sheet of dark pink tissue paper, except this time you don't have to cut out a 3-5 in. long strip. You should have a pile of petals.
Cut a long piece of floral tape. Start wrapping it around one end of your wire. You'll have to stretch it a little in order to make it stick.
If you run out of floral tape before you get to the end of your wire, that's all right. Just reel off some more and keep going. When you get near to the end, stop. Take the 3-5 in. strip of tissue paper and start wrapping it around the end of wire that is not covered yet with tape. But place the end of wire inside the fold. When you've wrapped it around a couple of times, poke the end of wire through the tissue paper fold and bend it over. Now continue wrapping until you run out of tissue paper. Wrap the rest of your floral tape around this flower center. Start attaching petals. First attach a dark pink petal.
Then attach another dark pink petal, directly across from the one you just attached. Every once in a while, you should stretch your floral tape down to the stem and wrap it around once down there to keep it attached to the stem. Once you have attached 3 or 4 dark pink petals, attach two light pink ones. Then do another dark one. After that, go on with the light pink petals until you have several layers of light pink.
Then add a white petal or two. Once again, add a light pink petal. Now only add white ones until you have several layers of white. The more petals you add, the better your rose will turn out.
You can do these in any colors you like. My favorites are the ones that fade from one color to another.
