I thought this was neat. So im sharing it with you guys. Obviously most won’t bother to try this out becuase they could careless about making a leaf into a rose but it would be something I would give to a gf. Look, if you don’t have enough money to get her the real thing you could atleast show some effort to prove that you care just as much. Some girls… or guys? like this sorta stuff becuase it shows that you’re willing to do something you usualy don’t do and they take that as proof that you love them. Atleast thats what I think. The directions are inexact, but the general idea is enough to get you going. It’s an art, not a science, you know. Just keep playing until you make em look like roses. It might help to find some smaller leaves for the inside layers, and larger ones for the outside. In the images, it looks like the first two were about the same size but the last one was quite a bit larger. It evens out when you roll looser.
Many of the leaves on the ground will be too crisp. You’ll want to find colored ones that are still pretty soft, which may mean you need to shake them off a branch or even pluck them.
No thread handy? You can strip a leaf down to the stem and veins and use that instead. If the stem is too thick, you can peel it a little from the bottom.
It took 4 tries before I made one just as pretty as the pictures above. The making goes pretty fast. Gathering the “right� leaves took far more time, but even so the whole experiment took about 10 minutes.
Try clicking then dragging the image below to compare difrent parts of this pictorial instruction.
The best part about this is that it costs you nothing, and you can do it just about anywhere (providing you have maple leafs around you). So you could practicly suprise your gf and make this while you wait for her to get back.