Check out how to make earrings, do-it-yourself panels from dried flowers. Learn how to make toys, volumetric paintings from natural flowers and succulents. The content of the article:
- Toys made of flowers
- Living volumetric paintings
- How to make dry flowers
- Dried flower arrangements
- Picture of dried plants
- How to make earrings, pendants
The life of flowers can be extended if you dry them and use them to decorate paintings, create designer jewelry. Find out how to decorate a snail or a bear with fresh flowers right now.
Toys made of flowers
Florists came up with the idea of creating not only bouquets from beautiful plants, but also such charming toys. To present such an original gift, see how to make figures from flowers yourself, and quickly get down to a pleasant and exciting activity.
Start simple. For example, make a funny snail like this.
For needlework, you need the following:
- floristic sponge piaflora - 3 bricks;
- bush yellow and green chrysanthemums, 4-5 branches of each color;
- large leaves of monstera, palm or others;
- round dish or plate;
- floral fixative or straws, sticks;
- knife;
- for the face: 2 buttons or beads, thread, paper, wire.
Before making such figures out of flowers, you need to decorate the plate. In this case, we decorate the leaves on it.
Soak piaflora bricks in water, letting them get wet without using your hands. Then we cut out several parts from it. For the case, we cut off the 2 upper corners of the brick, from the second we cut out the rounded part for the back and the head of the toy from flowers.
From the third brick we create her neck. Using a floral fixative or a straw, we fasten the sticks as shown in the photo.
Now you need to cut or trim the flowers so that a short stem 2 cm long remains on them.
Starting from the bottom of the snail's "house", lay it out with green chrysanthemums. We decorate the second part with yellow, from the top of the head.
Flowers should be placed as tightly as possible to each other so that the piaflora is not visible. If, nevertheless, small gaps are formed, close them with smaller buds.
After the whole body of the figurine of flowers is decorated, we take 2 yellow chrysanthemums, cut off its petioles so that the length remains 4 cm, we put these horns in their places.
To make a snail's face, poke one end of the wire into a hole in the button, remove it from the other, and poke a sponge in the appropriate places to attach the first and then the second eye in place. Cut out the mouth from the red paper, glue it.
Now you can give such a beautiful and original gift of fresh flowers.
You have understood the principle of this floristic idea, so now you can create other toys from flowers. You will need almost the same materials. If you have larger flowers, the figurine will be fluffier.
It is important to cut out the details of his body from the bricks of piaflore so that they turn out to be proportional, and then fasten them using hairpins. Wooden skewers, pencil. To do this, these elements need to be cut to a length of 5-8 cm. Stick one end into one part, and the other into the other. Thus, you will fasten 2 parts of the animal's body.
For this flower toy, first cut the following pieces out of the water-soaked bricks of a floral sponge for the body, nose, and head. Two for legs, paws, ears.
To keep the bear securely on the base, cut the sponges into the shape of the dish. To do this, cut a piaflora brick into 2 narrow parts, place them side by side, and place a dish on top. Press them on the lips to get an outline. Cut along it. Put the piaflor on the dishes, and on top attach the parts of the body and legs, and on this basis - the rest of his body.
Start decorating the base by attaching small green chrysanthemums to the face. Then use 3 of these flowers instead of toes, and one large at a time to decorate the feet and ears of a toy made of flowers.
Decorate the rest of the animal's body with large chrysanthemums. Then you have a fluffy bear. Tie a light bow around his neck, surround the dish with leaves, and drape the piaflor on it with small flowers, for example, gypsophila. Here is such a wonderful bear made of flowers.
Living volumetric paintings
If you want to create long-lasting beauty that will delight you for more than one year, then make a picture of unpretentious houseplants.
To create this little child, you will need:
- succulents;
- a wooden box with a plywood bottom or 4 bars and a fiberboard sheet;
- picture frame;
- plastic mesh;
- the soil;
- scissors;
- scapula;
- wand;
- dye;
- silicone gun;
- hammer;
- nails;
- brush.
Many adult houseplants produce babies. It is often a shame to throw them away, so use these small and unpretentious houseplants to create an original picture.
See in what condition they are, if there are dry sheets, remove them.
If you do not have a box that fits the frame, then saw off 4 bars and knock them down, giving the shape of a rectangle.
Cut a piece of the construction mesh using the same dimensions, attach it to the furniture bars.
Glue the picture frame to the same side of the blocks using a silicone gun. Now flip the work over so that the frame is at the bottom. Nail a sheet of plywood to the blocks. So that it does not get wet, it is better to first glue the mesh to it, and only then attach it to the base.
Paint the picture frame with varnish, let it dry.
Now pour the soil through the mesh into the tray, water it well.
Then plant your succulents to create a living picture of them.
Leave your creation flat for 2 weeks for the plants to take root. You can then stand the painting upright or hang it on the wall.
You can create not only living pictures, but also beautiful compositions of dried flowers. Before starting such work, find out how to prepare them.
How to make dry flowers
They can be bought or prepared from spring to autumn, collected in the forest, at the dacha. Donated bouquets should also not be thrown away when they start to fade, because they make an excellent material for creative needlework.
Flowers for compositions should be picked on a dry day in the late morning, when the dew has dried. Use fresh, beautiful, undamaged plants.
When choosing a scale, pay attention to the fact that when dried, red flowers become darker, light ones turn yellow. But the blue, pink, lilac, orange gamut of plants, when properly dried, is perfectly preserved.
The easiest way to dry flowers is in the air, but always in a dark place. Under the rays of the sun, they will simply lose their beautiful color. Large plants are laid out on paper in one layer. The same is done with individual elements, if, for example, you only need buds, leaves or flowers.
Medium-sized plants are tied in small bunches, turned over with the flowers downward, hung several on a rope, a stick. A dark room should be warm, dry and well-ventilated.
If you need to get dried flowers as soon as possible, then you can use the CB oven. The main thing here is to bring the plants to the desired condition without overdrying them. Therefore, turn on the oven at low power for a few seconds. Turn it off, see what state they are in, if necessary, dry it again, in the same way, turning on the SV oven for a few seconds, putting it on low power.
If you want the plant to retain its natural color for a long time, dry it in the sand for 3-4 weeks. Unlike air dried, these flowers will be less brittle.
You can also use silica gel, which quickly absorbs moisture. With this method, only the inflorescences are dried.
Dried flower arrangements
After you have been able to buy dried flowers or have made this material for needlework yourself, it's time to start amazing creativity.
Bouquets of dried flowers are in perfect harmony with stones. Therefore, in this work, we used this material. Here is a complete list of the essentials:
- dried flowers: amaranth and yellow craspedia;
- oblong (rectangular or oval) dish;
- scissors;
- large and small pebbles.
Cut off the exposed stems, attach the flowers to the container on which they will be located. See if they look good and if the stems need to be trimmed some more.
Put dried flowers on a dish, press them down with coarse pebbles, and put fine ones on top.
Trim the branches of 3 craspedia a little, put it in the upper part of the composition. For another 3-4, cut a larger stalk. Stick these plants into the pebbles.
The work is over, now you can admire enough of what a wonderful composition of flowers and stones you have got.
Picture of dried plants
You can also create such an interesting composition with your own hands. It will remind you of a colorful summer even in winter. For needlework, prepare:
- A4 paper;
- cardboard;
- masking tape;
- shells from pistachios;
- PVA glue;
- toilet paper;
- hot glue gun;
- acrylic paints.
Glue the cardboard with white paper, attach the tape around the perimeter, along the edges so that they are even.
You can tint the background a little in this way: use a knife to chop up the leads of colored pencils, and then rub the resulting colored powder over the sheet with a cotton pad.
Here's how to make a picture frame, take … toilet paper. Unwind a strip from it, smear that PVA, twist it in the form of a rope. Then lay along the edges of the cardboard, and when the glue dries, paint the resulting frame.
And here's how to make flowers from pistachios. Cut a circle out of lightweight cardboard. Using a glue gun, glue the nut shells to it so that each one touches the center and edge of the mug.
Now take dried flowers, arrange them in one corner of the picture, decorate it with pistachio elements and herbs. A painting from scrap materials is ready.
How to make earrings, pendants
Very interesting ideas are bestowed by dried flowers in combination with epoxy resin. As a result, here are some amazing designer jewelry you will get.
Such work will require accuracy, patience, and also:
- dried flowers (used here: Veronica Dubravnaya, heather, forget-me-nots);
- epoxy resin;
- files;
- pencil;
- paper;
- scissors;
- syringe;
- earring hooks;
- fine sandpaper.
Stir the resin according to the instructions and leave for 2-3 hours to make the mass more viscous.
At this time, put small dried flowers on a sheet of paper, outline them, giving them a teardrop shape.
Cut out the resulting stencils.
Next, you need to find a perfectly flat surface, check this indicator with a building level. Place the cut stencils on top of it and the files on top.
After the resin is infused, pour it from a syringe onto the workpieces with a layer 2-3 mm thick. If the outline is blurry, correct it with a toothpick. Let the epoxy dry a little for 20-30 minutes, then re-adjust the edging also with a toothpick.
To prevent dust particles from sticking to the workpieces, cover them immediately after pouring. In this case, it is better to isolate each one separately.
Leave the blanks to dry for a day, then separate from the files and sand their edges with a nail file or fine sandpaper. Attach dried flowers to the transparent elements. Prepare a new portion of resin in advance, after it has stood for 0.5-1 hours, fill the blanks with a small layer over dried flowers.
Let them dry again for 24 hours under cover. Turn the blanks over, fill them with epoxy (a small layer). After it is completely dry, turn the pieces over and fill the top surface.
After a day, make holes in their upper part with a thin drill, thread into each weld. Here's how to make your own earrings. If you want to make a pendant, thread a chain ring through the hole.
Here's how dry and fresh flowers will help you look beautiful, make unforgettable gifts and decorate your home.
And, as usual, at the end of the article we invite you to watch interesting videos in which the stages of work are clearly shown. This tutorial will show you how to make toys out of flowers:
This video will help you better understand how live paintings are made:
