How-To: Duct Tape Roses

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2012/02/09 @ 6:16 am
Category Craft, Home

If you’re celebrating Love Day this year, and could’t make it to the Kwik-E-Mart before they sold out of Lord Huggington, you might consider going the handmade route, in which case you could probably do a lot worse than a dozen of these realistic duct tape roses from Instructables user DIYHacksAndHowTos.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go outside and assemble Love Land. [via CRAFT]

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BY Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I write for MAKE, serve as Technical Editor for MAKE magazine, and develop original DIY content for Make: Projects.

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11 Responses to How-To: Duct Tape Roses

Rhonda Johnston on February 9th, 2012 at 7:29 pm said:

Don’t know if I’m too sleepy, but I cannot find the directions for making these roses. My scout troop would love to make them….

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- Laurence L on February 12th, 2012 at 12:45 am said:
  
  http://www.instructables.com/id/Realistic-Duct-Tape-Rose/
  
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lizzaylizz on February 25th, 2012 at 11:44 pm said:

Reblogged this on lizzklein and commented:
Um, I’d like to try and make these, as they’ll cheer up my boring old flat room real quick!

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wouldntyouliketoknow on February 29th, 2012 at 4:04 pm said:

Very cool and creative. Don’t think I could make one as pretty though.

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chicksnmomsartsncrafts on March 28th, 2012 at 11:06 pm said:

I really liked the roses. I will try this my self. My hobby is wood crafts but I am wanting to try new arts and craft ideas and the duct tape looks like a good place to start. Thank you so much for the idea.

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Clover04750 on April 20th, 2012 at 7:11 am said:

I really love these roses! I’ve seen them done step-by-step on YouTube. FYI Walmart sells “Duck Tape” which is a big square of colored duct tape. I haven’t priced it out, but it might be worth it for convenience.

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Jon on April 22nd, 2012 at 2:51 am said:

just made half a dozen for my moms birthday with some old guitar strings, and I’d like to add the center peice should of course have a (stiff) wire, while the next 3-4 layers do not need anything at all. Also, I had trouble on some peices getting the tape to stretch around the base and stick, so I found if you cut the strip of tape into a small point (think like the top of a fence post) before you fold it over, it allows for more of an exposed underside to stick. This takes a bit more time but far quicker than if it rips or trying to use glue .

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