How to Make a Duck® (Duct) Tape Rose

Michelle (mdscoggins),

It's nice to meet you. Thanks for reading my article and posting your comment. I've published two other Duck Tape® craft articles, one for making hair bows, and the other for making wallets.

Nithya (Vellur),

Thanks for reading my article and posting your comment. The duct tape rose is a fun craft project. I'm glad you're going to make a rose.

Patricia (pstraubie48),

It's nice to "see" you again. Thanks for reading my article and posting your comment. I hope your daughter enjoys making the roses.

Chitrangada,

Thanks for reading my article and commenting in it. The rose was a lot of fun to create. I stopped frequently to take the photographs and jot down some notes. I didn't want to wait until I had completed the project. I was afraid I wouldn't remember all the steps.

Dianna (teaches12345),

Thanks for reading my article and posting your comment. Creating roses to use as décor at your tea party is a great idea! Please let us know how your table accents turn out.

Rebecca,

It's nice to "see" you again. I wish I had more time for craft work and publishing "how-to" articles. There doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day for me.

Mary,

Thanks for visiting again. Thanks, too, for sharing and pinning my Hub. I even see the tape in colors in stores such as Home Depot, rather than just the rolls of silver-colored tape.

Maria (marcoujor),

Thanks for stopping by again.

Creativity takes many forms...craft projects, painting, photography, poetry...

Maria (marcoujor),

Thanks for reading my article and commenting in it. If anyone would have seen me making the rose, they would have had a few laughs.

I did a little bit of the project, wrote what I did on a pad of paper, took some photographs, did some more of the project, wrote what I did, took more photographs, etc.

Have you read my Duck® Tape wallet project instructions? Making the wallet is another fun project.

Anamika,

It's nice to "see" you again. Thanks for reading my article and posting your comment.

Making 50 rose petals was time-consuming. I was tempted to stop at 25 and have each petal represent two articles, but that just didn't seem honest.

I wanted to do something meaningful for my 50th article. Every time I see the rose on a display shelf at home, I think of HubPages.

Willette (kellyteam),

Thanks for reading my article and commenting in it. Thanks, too, for sharing my Hub. I appreciate your very kind words.

Dahlia (livingsta),

It's nice to "see" you again. Thanks for reading my article and adding your comment. Thanks, too, for sharing my Hub.

Linda (Sunshine625),

Thanks for sharing that anecdote. A roll of Duck® Tape goes a long way. Your cousin's daughters must spend hours on their craft projects if they're using a lot of tape.

Mahua,

It's nice to meet you. Thanks for reading my article and adding your comment. If you like to do craft projects, I hope you'll have time to read some of my other "how-to" articles.

poetvix,

It's nice to meet you. I'm so glad you found my article helpful and that you're going to use my project with your students. Please post another comment after your students have made the flowers.

Ish (ishwaryaa22),

Thanks for reading, commenting in, pinning, and sharing my article. I appreciate your continued support of my work.

I have some other craft project ideas for using the tape. Perhaps I should write another Duck® Tape "how-to" article.

Jeannie,

Thanks for reading my Duck® Tape Hubs and commenting in this one. I'm glad you've enjoyed my articles.

If you buy just two colors of Duck® Tape, you'll have enough tape for a few wallets and hair bows. You can give them as stocking stuffers for Christmas.

Keith,

Thanks for reading and commenting in another of my Hubs.

A number of Hubbers have written articles to commenorate the publication of their 50th Hub. I thought that making a Duck Tape® rose with 50 petals would be a different way to do it.

Angela,

Hopefully, my next Duck® Tape project will be published before your dog destroys...or is covered in...your tape!

Angela,

Thanks for stopping by again. Making a bouquet of long-stemmed Duck® Tape roses is an ambitious undertaking...especially if you have a dog that wants to help you.

Instructions for making a Duck® Tape wallet are on my "to write" list. We made the wallets while I was teaching classes at a Michaels arts and crafts store. The kids had a lot of fun with that project.

Angela,

I think it's absolutely wonderful that you followed the instructions in my article and created a Duck® Tape rose! Did you make than one rose? What color tape did you use?

Cara,

I think it's great that you are going to make Duck® Tape roses with some of your students! A *tape fight* wouldn't be so bad...it would be a lot worse if it was a painting project.

Please let everyone know how the project turns out.

Cara,

Thanks for visiting again. Are you going to make a Hello Kitty bow? Or did your daughter choose a different tape?

Please let us know how the bow turns out.

Angela,

Thanks so much for letting everyone know how your Duck® Tape project with your kids turned out. It sounds like your children and you had a lot of fun.

Cara,

Thanks for reading another of my Hubs and commenting in it. I wanted to do something special for my 50th Hub, something a bit unusual.

A yellow rose bloomed in my garden today that looked similar to the HubPages Rose. It surprised me, because I don't remember seeing a rose in my garden before today that looked like that one.

Rebecca,

Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you liked my HubPages Rose.

Deb,

Thanks for reading and commenting in my Hub. I can't decide which of my Duck® Tape projects I like better...the hair bow or the rose. They're so different from each other.

In my photograph at the top of my article, the HubPages Rose is in good company...it's in a Wedgwood vase decorated with a ribbon from a basket of Godiva chocolates.

Aurelio,

Thanks for commenting in another of my articles. I'm glad you liked my unusual idea for a 50th Hub. I wonder what I'll come up for my 100th Hub.

Jamie,

Thanks for reading and commenting in my Hub. I'm so glad you like my HubPages Rose.

I've created craft flowers in several media, and have used Duck® Tape in a number of projects, but this was my first Duck® Tape flower.

Cindy,

Thanks for commenting in another of my Hubs. I appreciate it.

I wanted to do something special for my 50th Hub. Judging from the comments I've been receiving since I published it, it looks as though I've succeeded.

Sunshine,

Thanks for your good wishes. A Duck® Tape rose is, as you've said, a unique way to commemorate the publication of my 50th Hub. What makes my rose even more special is that there is one petal for every Hub that I've published.

India (K9keystrokes),

Thanks for your very kinds words. I spent a lot of time deciding how to commemorate my writing and publishing my 50th Hub.

I wanted, as you said, to do something *classy.* I hope I've succeeded with my HubPages Rose.

Lesley,

Thanks so much for commenting. I'm glad you like the rose.

Cyndi,

Thanks for your kind words and for consistently reading my newly-published Hubs. I appreciate your support very much.

ChaplinSpeaks,

Thanks very much for commenting. I thought for a long time about what to use as the subject for my 50th Hub. Since I've been writing "how-to" craft Hubs recently, I thought I'd try to create a rose with 50 petals.

Angela,

Thanks for reading my article. Are you going to make the Duck® Tape rose? If you do, please post another comment after you finish the project.

wordscribe43,

It's nice to meet you. I taught arts and crafts classes at a Michaels store for a number of years. Both the children and adults in my classes liked using Duck® Tape as a craft medium.

Have you seen my article describing how to make a Duck® Tape hair bow? That's another fun project.

If you use my Duck® Tape rose project at your school, please post another comment.

Angelo52,

It's nice to meet you. I'm glad you enjoyed reading my Hub.

Have you done any craft projects using Duck® Tape?

Sushmita (sen.sush23),

Thanks for your very kind words. I wanted to commemorate the milestone in a special way.

Is Duck® Tape in colors available in Calcutta?

Mary (tillsontitan),

Thanks for reading my Hub and commenting in it.

There are so many craft items and items of practical use that can be made with Duck® Tape. I've already published a craft "how-to" article explaining how to make a Duck® Tape hair bow, and I'm planning one on making a Duck® Tape wallet.