What We Needed: Two blush colour A1 pieces of card (£2.05 each from Hobbycraft), 8 sheets of pink crepe paper 1.5m x 60cm, 1 A3 black card (.60p), and the trusty double-sided tape. How We Did It ...

He applied it to a crepe paper backing, which gave the tape the ability to stretch and adapt to curves and contours. In 1925, 3M released Drew’s invention, the Scotch brand masking tape.

Using the stretchy but solid structure of the crepe paper, Ms. Beaumont worked the petals into shape, gently tweaking or rolling them and curling their edges. She used florist tape to join them to ...