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Ok. Now that we have the back of our photo and all of our petals glued, we're just going
to slide that to the side and let that dry. And now we're ready to prepare our stems.
I've chosen a green striped piece of craft paper for my stems. You can use any color
you want. And, you're going to take one of your wooden dowels. You're going to flip the
craft paper over, and with my tacky glue, I'm just going to line the whole edge of this
piece of paper And these are tricky, because they're going to want to unravel on you, so
you're going to have to hold them very tight. Lay your dowel down on that line of glue.
Press it down firmly. And you want to leave a little bit of a lip of the piece of paper
still. We're going to begin to roll that. So, coming under your paper, you're just going
to start to pinch that along your dowel, so it will start to turn, and you're just going
to start rolling your dowel in the paper, an edge at a time. And once you get your first
edge rolled, you just want to hold that in place. And then, what I find works the best
is you're going to then take your hot glue and make a line all the way down your paper.
And that's going to allow that second layer to really adhere good. And again, just roll
it back up and into that hot glue, and you're going to allow that paper to crinkle, so it
will look like a natural stem.