So these are a sample of the flowers I made for the birthday party. I fell in love with the lotus flower after a visit to New York years ago. My Mum, a water colour artist asked me if I could pick her up a book at the Museum of Modern Art. I figured since I was there I might as well take a quick tour.
I was gobbed smacked and spent the rest of my weekend exploring the art museum. The best painting there is a huge mural of lotus flowers by Monet.
The only real difference from the original coffee filter rose et la Aunt Peaches is my version of roses are easier to make. The post is still under my DIY section if you want to refer to it.
For the lotus flower I changed the petal shape template and added a five point kirigami fold to create 10 petals per layer.
It took me forever to figure out the kirigami five point fold as all the instructions are for a square not a circle until I found this shamrock on Zakka Life. Yes my eureka moment: most kirigami projects are turning the square into a circle. Duh!! I will post the instructions for a five point fold (10 petal points ) in the DIY section on Saturday.
When I dyed the filters this time I used a combination of food colouring and acrylic paint. This can be very time consuming and a quicker way would be to use fabric dye. I was afraid of ending up with blue hands before our trip but I think if you have to make a lot of flowers this would be the route to take.
TIP I found 6 filters per lotus flower work better than 5 for the coffee filter rose. Since you are making deeper cuts to form the petals this gives the flower more volume but you will have one more cut per flower.
If you have any trouble understanding the kirigami folds hop over to Omiyage. Just so happens they have instructions for both 5 and 6 point cutouts to get you started.
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