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Paper Rosette Template

A fan medallion: a pleated strip joined into a ring and pressed flat into a disc, with a round centre on each side to hold it. Backdrops, walls, party tables and award rosettes.

Paper rosette — change shape

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Only here Your own design

Put a logo, photo or pattern straight onto the box — most free template sites give you the outline and stop there. Drag it where you want it; it is trimmed to the cut lines so nothing prints off the card, and it stays in your browser.

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Bigger than the paper? Each piece prints whole on its own sheet. A single piece is never split: pick bigger paper or a smaller size. More about printing

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Drop a picture anywhere on the drawingTap “Add a picture” below to print your own design on this box.

Print at 100% (“actual size”), never “fit to page”, or the box comes out the wrong size.

The paper rosette template, flat and folded

Paper rosette template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size
The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.
Paper rosette folded up from the template — the finished piece
The box it folds into.

What this template is for

A fan medallion: a pleated strip joined into a ring and pressed flat into a disc, with a round centre on each side to hold it. Backdrops, walls, party tables and award rosettes.

Also called paper fan medallion · paper rosette backdrop · pleated paper medallion · award rosette — all the same shape, and this is it.

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same paper rosette at the same size — only the format changes.

PDF printing at home
Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate
Upload, lock it in place and design your paper rosette on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity
Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters
Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly →

Printing it

  1. Type your size above, then download the PDF.
  2. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
  3. Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the paper rosette itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

  1. Cut the solid lines

    Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.

  2. Score every dashed line

    Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.

  3. PLEATS 1PLEATS 2PLEATS 3FRONTBACK

    Fold, glue and hold

    Crease every line, alternating — fold the first one way, the next the other, like a fan — all along the strip. Glue the end tab under the first pleat to close a ring. Lay it flat and press the middle down until the pleats fan into a disc, then glue the FRONT centre on top and the BACK centre underneath to hold it.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let the box dry standing up.

Questions about the paper rosette

How long is the strip?
About 1.3 times the distance round the finished disc — the length that lets the pleats fan flat without fighting each other. A 160 mm rosette has a strip about 650 mm long, printed in sections that glue end to end.
Which way do the folds go?
Alternately: the first crease one way, the next the other, like a paper fan. Every pleat count is even, so the pattern carries on across the joins.
Will it print at home?
Yes. The 160 mm rosette it opens with prints on three A4 or US Letter sheets: the strip in three sections and the two centre discs.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the paper rosette. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there. How printing your own design works.

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