Pink and Posey’s kits include European crepe paper, wires, tape, and how-to instructions for making flowers like Juliet roses, peonies, ranunculus - even Pacific Northwest beer hops.

To make her flowers, Ms. Beaumont said she prefers to “start with a blank canvas,” using natural dyes to color small batches of white crepe paper, which she sources in Italy.

To speed up the drying process, you can give it a blast with a hairdryer. When the paper towel is dry, cut it in half to get two long strips. Both strips will be used to make one rose.

The 31-year-old real estate heiress posted a photograph to Instagram showing her two--year-old daughter, Arabella Rose, happily holding a bright bunch of flowers.

But it was not easy. Electric Tattoo: Love of art and 'forbidden fruit' drives Asbury Park studio First, she had to find the main source of the flowers — the crepe paper, which was limited.

While the techniques were similar, and each resulted in flowers that measured about 16 inches across, the biggest difference was in the materials: crepe paper, card stock and tissue paper.

Once all the pieces are cut, the flower is formed by misting the paper with water to make it more pliable and bending the pieces into petal shapes. Small petals are wrapped around a pompom or bit ...

The giant roses haven’t reached the Peninsula yet, says Jeff Kremp of Jeff’s Flowers in Newport News. Maybe that’s because a dozen costs about $250.