Toilet Paper "Art"

Some months back, I came across this post on a children's craft site, and I thought this could be more than kids art.  From there I began with my first toilet paper/paper towel roll "art" piece, seen here:

I generally followed their concept. 

I'm working on a much larger project now, but here are the step by steps:
1. Use TP or PT rolls that are clean of paper remnants and flatten with your hands.

2. Measure out and mark desired width of petals.  For the above project I used .75", but pictured is about .5" petals.

3. Cut apart into petals.

4. Arrange petals into desired shape.  For the above project, most of my flowers were 5 petals, but some were smaller.  I used Tacky Glue to adhere the petals to each other.

5. I used bobby pins to hold them together.  I typically let whatever I worked on each day sit overnight, but I'm sure it doesn't require that long to set.

6. I made about a dozen flowers before beginning to arrange them.  I then filled in sparse areas with a petal here or there until I liked the design and began glueing the larger design together.  For this project, I used approximately 225-250 petals.



This is one part of an ongoing decorating project on the wall above our family room TV cabinet.  It was easy and free since I already had the glue and TP/PT rolls.  Since I started doing this, I've had a few people provide their rolls to me as well so I won't soon run out of supplies!

There are endless possibilities with shapes that can be created, painting the piece, etc.  I've started a Pinterest board of TP art ideas.  My current project is a take off of the turquoise project pictured there.