Creating decorative elements, gifts and other useful things with your own hands allows you to show your imagination and craft a unique thing. You can make something interesting out of any material, paper, cardboard, beads, fabric are simple, affordable and popular. And yet - the newspaper, which sometimes useless piling up in large bundles, although they can make something really beautiful or even useful.
Flowers of the newspapers with their hands - it's an easy way to find applications they read magazines or newspapers, but also make their own unique and interesting decoration for your home or a gift.
Rose from the newspaper
There are several ways to create beautiful flowers from a newspaper with your own hands. We suggest you familiarize yourself with the master class, which will tell in detail how multiple sheets of paper can make rosettes, the most similar to the present.
To create flowers from a newspaper with your own hands, you will need:
- newspapers
- large beads
- glue,
- strong wire to the size of the bead hole,
- pliers,
- scissors and a pencil.
The bead in the product plays the role of the core. Take as many beads as planning to weave flowers. In addition, prepare a tape for a bouquet decorations, if necessary - acrylic paint, gouache and spray paint.
Petals
So, how to make a flower from a newspaper with your own hands? First, cut the petals. For one rose you will need 5 segments of different widths. The first is 3 cm, each subsequent 1 cm more.
Fold the paper cuts from the newspaper with your own accordion, getting a small square. On it, draw a neat, even petal with a pencil and cut it out. Set the finished petals aside.
So do with each segment, lay out the petals of different sizes in different piles.
Getting to the creation of roses. To do this, cut the wire 25-30 cm long. Put the bead on the wire and bring it to the center. Fold in half and make the beads in 5-6 turns, turning wire together and securing it in the center.
The smallest petals are glued first. Bend the bead, fixing the newspaper with glue. To be sure, you can use hot glue or “Moment” quick-drying glue.
Start to bend the next stack of petals to the side or twist a little on a pencil. So the rose will look more magnificent. Otherwise, the bud will not look very natural or closed.
Attach so all the petals, securing them with glue at the base. When the petals are over, you can begin to form the stalk and decor.
Rose stalk
For a flower from a newspaper with your own hands, of course, you need a stem. It is very simple to make. To do this, cut a long strip from the newspaper. You can use white fields, then the element will not merge with beautiful petals.
Coat the strip with glue and, having glued the tip to the base of the bud on the wire, start wrapping it tightly and firmly, in several layers, leading the segment lower and lower.
Add a few leaves to the rose to add realism. Fasten the strip firmly to the end.
Flower decor
Do-it-yourself flowers from newspapers and magazines can be slightly decorated. Firstly, the flowers can be bandaged with a ribbon and placed in a vase. Flowers like from magazines or from black-and-white newspapers look stylish. You can cover the paint products: roses stalks - green acrylic and petals - at its discretion. Paper roses painted with gold paint look very interesting. Some craftswomen at the same time sprinkle the product with sparkles.
Paper flowers to decorate as you like, solely on your taste and color.
As you can see, creating flowers from newspapers is not such a difficult task. Paper - malleable material, it is simple to operate, it bends and twists as you like, but it keeps excellent shape. You can use paper flowers as a separate decor, putting them in a vase, or add other compositions to them.