Cricut: How to Make a Paper Monstera Plant
Plant lovers will adore this new monstera plant project, perfect for brightening up your home or office! It's a wonderful decorative detail for anyone who loves the look of houseplants but wants a quirky, fun alternative that needs no watering.
This project shows you how to create the leaves using free basic shapes in Cricut Design Space. Follow the simple tutorial to discover how easy it is to create your designs. You'll just need your Cricut machine (either the Maker or the Explore Air 2 work for this project), cardstock, florist wire, florist foam, glue gun and a plant pot.
Project and instructions by Rebecca Marie Creative.
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How to make
In Cricut Design space, start a new project and head to the shapes area located on the left side bar. Select a heart shape.
Unlock the heart and stretch to create a longer leaf shape.
In the shapes area, select a circle.
Position the circle over the leaf shape like in the image below. We will be creating holes in the leaf shape. Select the circle and the leaf shape layers together and select the slice tool located at the bottom of the layers bar on the right-hand side. You will now see a hole has been created in the leaf shape.
Repeat this process to create holes in the leaf. Unlock the circle shape and create an oval for some of the holes on the leaf and place as desired.
The leaf should now look like the below. Remove any cut out pieces so that you only have the 1 leaf layer remaining.
Duplicate the leaf shape and resize. Keep doing this until you have lots of leaves in different sizes for your plant. You could even have different coloured leaves! For my plant I cut out 20 leaves in total.
Follow the on-screen instructions and cut out the leaves. I am using Hobbycraft's green A4 160gsm green cardstock pack for my leaf shapes.
Take each leaf shape and some florists wire. Using a glue gun, glue the wire to the back of the leaf shape. Use the cut out circles from the leaf shapes as a backing to hide the wire on the leaf and secure to back.
Once you have secured all the leaves to florist wire, take your pot and florist foam. Place the florist foam into the pot. Place the first leaf in the centre and bend this forward.
Take your smaller sized leaves and wrap this wire around the wire of the leaf you have placed into the foam. Continue to do this securing to that original wire that was placed into the pot as this is the main stem. This will create leaves tumbling downwards from the pot.
Once you are happy with the amount of leaves on your downward stem, use the remaining to place into the florist foam and bend over at various levels so that the leaves create a full looking plant.
Take decorative stones and place them into the pot covering up the foam.
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