We suggest that you familiarize yourself with how to make a vase from a glass jar, from bottles. Leaves, old magazines and even caramel candies will also be used.
Original vases will make your home unique. In some of them you can put various goodies and fruits, inside others arrange compositions of flowers and candles.
How to make a napkin vase?
Previously, knitted napkins were fashionable. If you have one, try making a vase out of it. Take:
- knitted napkin;
- deep saucer;
- cement;
- water.
Dilute the cement with water until the consistency of thick sour cream. Put on gloves and dip a napkin into the solution.
Squeeze lightly, then stretch the napkin on the deep saucer to be turned over.
To make the edges of the future vase smooth, first place this container on a glass. Then the lower parts of the napkins will not touch the surface and will be neatly executed as a result.
Now leave the vase in this position until it is completely dry and hardened. After that, it can be turned over and used. Paint it if you like or leave it like that. Since this product is made of cement, you can even place a lighted candle inside here. This is how the photo was taken. But no one canceled the prevention of fire safety, so be careful with fire.
DIY bottle vase
This is one of the easiest ways to transform empty containers into original flower containers.
Take:
- glass bottles;
- twine or other tight rope;
- water;
- flowers.
To make a vase, wash the bottle, remove the label from it. Then tie with string, pour water inside and place flowers. Such graceful objects can be hung in the garden, thereby decorating the dacha.
If you want a long lasting composition then use:
- glass bottles;
- planks;
- metal clamps;
- wood stain;
- ears of cereals.
Cover the boards with stain, when it dries, attach the bottles here, securing them to the metal clamps. It remains to put in a container for 3 dried spikelets or decorative cereals.
The decoupage technique will help you make the next vase. Take suitable napkins or decoupage paper and glue the cut pieces to the front of the bottle. Decorate the top and bottom with a decorative cord, gluing it in a spiral to the glass.
If you wish, use a craquelure varnish, it will cover the glued napkin with a fine mesh, as if the surface has cracked from time to time.
You can decorate such a bottle with a string by attaching shells to the ends of this string. Also cover the string with varnish so that the finished vase shines. There is another container on the left, its neck is decorated with decorative stones, you can do the same.
How to make a vase out of wood?
See how to make a vase using this material.
Take:
- a container of a suitable shape;
- hot glue with silicone rods;
- wooden sticks;
- hacksaw;
- paint.
If you are using twigs, then remove the bark first. Put the resulting material in front of you, cut the branches into pieces so that they cover the top edge of the container in height.
Paint them white or another color. When the paint is dry, start gluing the branches on one side of the container first. Then move on to the next part.
You will also arrange all the outer walls of this jar exactly. In conclusion, you can rewind the resulting vase with a ribbon and tie a bow. You can make another piece of wood if you take ice cream sticks. First, they need to be filled with hot water for an hour to make them more flexible. Then you will get the ice cream sticks, go around the prepared container. Tie them here so that when dry, the sticks get a semicircular shape.
Keep them in this position until the moisture has completely evaporated. Then remove these blanks, wipe the vase from the outside and start attaching the curved sticks here using the heated glue gun rods. When the work dries up, you will have an original vase.
Another original vase is also created on the basis of wood. Take twigs and cut them into nearly equal lengths. Now paint them with white paint. When it's dry, glue these blanks around the container.
To do this, you need to use a glass cup or metal jar, previously painted white. Tie your creation with a brown satin ribbon. Inside you can put a composition of dried flowers and cones.
And here's how to make a vase of pencils. These items are also crafted from wood. To do this, you will need to glue them also outside of a suitable durable container, combining colors. In this case, place the pencils with the leads up.
Thus, you can decorate various containers. If you have accumulated unnecessary glass jars, you can transform them too.
DIY glass jar vase
Take colored paper and cut into strips. Create a fringe on one side of each with scissors. Now, starting from the bottom, apply these strips so that the edges of the top go over the previous one. Close the jars completely in this way.
Place light paper flowers inside for such a beautiful arrangement.
For the next masterpiece, you will need:
- glass jars;
- super scotch;
- sparkles.
Take clean dry jars, start gluing them with strips of tape. After the super tape, glue will remain on the cans. Therefore, you can pour glitter here that will be well fixed. You then simply shake off their surplus.
Create a whole collection this way. Now, knowing how to make a vase from a glass jar, you will make some of these adorable items.
Experiment, glue strips of adhesive tape not only horizontally, but also diagonally.
If you don't have glitter, use cereal instead. You can take one color or use several.
See how to make a decoupage vase. First, you will need to degrease the container with acetone and a cotton pad. Then paint the outside of this container with white acrylic paint. When it dries, glue the drawing you like on paper here.
Rewind the outside of the neck of the vase with twine.
You can glue the whole napkin in a circle or cut out a separate fragment, as the master class suggests. When the napkin is dry, cover the outside of the vase with acrylic varnish.
Do you want to get an original product that no one else will have? Then the next master class and step-by-step photos to it will help you.
To get this amazing effect, take:
- glass jar;
- acrylic paints;
- sheet of newspaper.
Cover your work surface with newspaper. Flip the can. Start pouring paint of a certain color here, trying to ensure that it spreads evenly. So use three types of acrylic paint. Let the jar dry completely in this position, after which you can fill it with water and put flowers here.
You can decorate an ordinary glass cup or vase in the most unexpected way. Nuts will help this. It is enough to first make a template, then, according to it, glue the nuts to get a certain figure according to the size of the top of the container.
You can place flowers in the hole in the washers. To keep them even stronger, four large nuts must first be glued down. It remains to fill the container with water, after which you will have a new vase in which the flowers will be fragrant.
If you like vintage style, decorate the jar for a cute look like this.
First you need to take a piece of rectangular burlap and glue it around the jar. Glue the white burlap on top. Use twine to make flowers. To do this, you need to take the tip of this rope and start twisting the twine in a spiral. Then cut off the excess rope and glue the end of it.
Make some flowers and glue them onto the white burlap. You can also make fabric flowers and fix them here too. Attach a sewing strip on top, after which you can definitely tell yourself that you know how to make a vase from a jar. But you can make this useful thing from other items.
How to make a vase-candy bowl with your own hands?
See another option for creating a vase. The first master class and step-by-step photos show how to form it from a cloth napkin.
Take it, bend all four corners to the center.
Now you also need to bend 4 new corners to the middle.
Then turn the resulting napkin over and bend the four corners to the center from the wrong side.
Then you will need to unscrew the corners. It is convenient to use a small glass for this. Turn it over and place the workpiece on the bottom. Now you can bend the corners. First bend 4, then the same amount. You will get such a candy bowl. Put wrapped candies or other sweets in it, and you can put such a treat on the table.
These items can be made from a wide variety of materials, such as cardboard. See what such a vase looks like.
You will make it from:
- red cardboard;
- white paper;
- double-sided tape.
You will also need a glue stick, scissors, a pen, and templates. Download them. One template will be with hearts, the other without them.
Cut out a template with hearts out of red cardboard, and place a blank without hearts on white paper. Then it needs to be cut into separate petals. Here's what happens for now.
Take a non-writing pen and use its tip to draw lines where the fold will be.
Using pencil glue, attach the white petals to the back of the red ones with hearts. Now take a non-writing pen and mark the fold lines for the petals. Take double-sided tape and use it to lift and fix them in this position.
Check out one interesting option that shows you how to make a candy bowl out of paper or old magazines.
First, you will need to cut strips of the same width from this material. It is more convenient to cut several pieces at once. Now you need to bend each in half, and then roll it up, gluing the ends.
Take a balloon and inflate it. Now attach the prepared blanks to this base, placing them close to each other. You can glue these elements or fasten them with double-sided tape.
When you cover the half of the ball in this way, you need to burst it with a needle and remove it. But do this only when the blanks are dry, if you used glue. And if you took double-sided tape, then this can be done immediately after the formation of the candy bowl. This is how it will turn out.
See how to make a candy bowl from leaves. This is a very original idea.
First, you will need to collect and dry the leaves by placing them between the pages of a magazine or book. Now take a bowl of a suitable shape, turn it over and cover the top with cling film. Then start laying the leaves here, first cover the bottom, and then go over the edges.
Once you have covered the entire bowl, you will need to let the glue dry. Then you will cover this product with varnish on both sides to make the vase even stronger.
This is such a beautiful and original candy bowl. But it can be made not only from this material. You will be convinced of this now. If you have confetti, you can also cover the base, but you will be using these materials already. Imagine, and you will be able to fasten various elements, thus making other candy bowls.
They can be made from salt dough or polymer clay. If you chose the second option, then roll it out first. Then, using special stamps and paint, apply the selected pattern.
Now put a bowl of the required size on top, cut off the excess and give the future candy bowl a semicircular shape. To do this, place the blank in the bowl of your choice. Now you can get the candy bowl out of there, and then bake, if you have this type of polymer clay. And if it is self-hardening, then leave it to air dry, following the instructions for your material.
In much the same way, you can make a candy dish from salted dough. Also let the workpiece dry. And then you take a brush and paints in your hands and paint it as you wish.
But not only the contents of the candy bowl can be sweet and edible, but also the candy itself. After all, it is so interesting to observe the reaction of guests when you begin to divide the vase that has been freed from sweets into parts and treat them. At first, guests will not know that this is a candy vase. But then they will understand.
See how to make such an interesting and edible thing.
- Take 19 candies, preheat the oven.
- Place the silicone paper on a baking sheet and spread the candies on it to form a flower. Put this creation in the oven, which has already heated up to 200 degrees.
- The lollipops should lie there for 8 minutes. After that, take out the baking sheet, let the sweets cool for half a minute.
- Then, along with the paper, start bending the candies so that they take the shape of a vase. This will additionally require a foundation. If the vase is small, then it is quite possible to use a glass. Place it in the center of the still hot composition, and then, taking the silicone paper, lift the edges of the candies up.
This technology is shown in a step-by-step master class.
And if you need to make a larger candy bowl, then use the appropriate shape. You need to take a bowl or deep plate. These vases are suitable for various compositions. After all, you can put fruits in this candy bowl, serve them to the table in this form.
You have learned how to make a vase from various materials. Now you can watch the process of creating such a thing. She needed a milk bag and putty.
And the next story is about how to make a candy bowl from plastic bottles.
