Felt Rose Tutorial {Try New Adventures Thursday!}

I did it. I bought a glue gun.

Since Pinterest has opened up a new world of do-it-yourself projects to me, I have read tutorial after tutorial that sounds easy and doable, until I got to the part that said I needed a glue gun. Sounded like a high tech, expensive tool to me. But I trecked to Michael's, and lo and behold! They cost a mere three dollars. I was pleasantly shocked, and am now the official owner of a glue gun.

With a few burns to prove it.

Ready to see something fun you can make with a simple glue gun, felt, scissors, and (if desired) a bar pin?

Sweet felt roses! Like the two in the middle of this fabric flower arrangement on my newly made wreath...

Like I said, this is all you need. Felt in your desired colors, scissors, a low temp glue gun, and a bar pin.

First, cut a largish wavy circle out of your felt.

Then start to go around your felt circle with your scissors, cutting the circle into a long strip (about 1/2 in. thick). The bigger your circle the bigger your final flower will be (sounds logical, right? hehe).

When you get to the end of your piece of felt, leave a little bit of the circle at the end. This will be the back of your flower.

To start making the flower, go back to the beginning of your strip of felt (the end without the circle) and begin to wrap the strip around itself. I found it helpful to use a dab of glue from the glue gun periodically to hold the strip in place as I wrapped it around. This is what you'll have (approximately) when you're done:

Yay!

The last bit of the strip gets placed at the back of the flower, where you can glue it securely in place.

Next, I glued on a bar pin, so that I can wear this nifty rose!

I made a bigger flower in purple and added leaves to the back.

I also made some felt roses for this fun wreath that I put together yesterday. It's a burlap-wrapped wreath with fabric/burlap/felt flowers...and I'm quite proud of myself!! In this case, I just hot-glued the flowers directly onto the wreath.

Is there anything else I can hot-glue around here? It's kind of addicting to have so much adhesive power...
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I'm sure that while I've been gluing my fingers together, you've been having equally blog-worthy adventures...so link them up here! As always, don't forget to link back to Alicia's Homemaking. And it's always nice to leave a few comments on other people's links! Ready, set....go!

Felt Rose Tutorial {Try New Adventures Thursday!}