Creating decorative elements, gifts and other useful things with your own hands allows you to show your imagination and make a unique thing. You can make something interesting from any material; simple, affordable and popular are paper, cardboard, beads, and fabric. And also newspapers, which are sometimes uselessly accumulated in large bundles, although you can make something really beautiful or even useful out of them.
DIY newspaper flowers are an easy way not only to find a use for a magazine or newspaper you read, but also to make a unique and interesting home decoration or gift yourself.
Rolled newspaper rose
So, for work you will need:
- newspapers;
- glue;
- paints;
- scissors;
- brush.
To begin with, you can make a large massive rose without a stem. To do this, the sheets need to be folded into long multi-layer strips. To do this, you need to fold the sheet in half along the long side, then in half again, and so on until the strip is about 1-1.5 cm wide. The longer it is, the more magnificent and massive the rosebud will be.
When the strip is ready, we begin to twist it. If it is perfectly smooth and uniform in thickness, the rose will turn out to look like an ordinary cylinder and will not look beautiful. Therefore, at small intervals the strip can be twisted, thus creating volume. After making 2-3 turns, the newspaper can be glued and then rolled further.
When the rosebud is ready, the end of the paper ribbon is also glued to its base. After this, the rose can be painted. Some people prefer to take a thin brush and carefully paint over the entire bud, even the innermost crevices, so that the color is uniform. Although careless painting with a thick brush, through which the text is visible, looks vintage and unusual.
You can try painting the rosebud in two layers. Then the colors will appear even more original and beautiful. This rose can decorate any composition or gift wrapping.
Simple
The technique resembles conventional weaving of fabric. As a basis, take several tubes along the planned width of the product and place them at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other. They are braided with working tubes, alternately passing over or under the guides of the base.
Weaving is done from left to right, lengthening the working tubes as necessary.
Rolled newspaper rose
So, for work you will need:
- newspapers;
- glue;
- paints;
- scissors;
- brush.
To begin with, you can make a large massive rose without a stem. To do this, the sheets need to be folded into long multi-layer strips. To do this, you need to fold the sheet in half along the long side, then in half again, and so on until the strip is about 1-1.5 cm wide. The longer it is, the more magnificent and massive the rosebud will be.
When the strip is ready, we begin to twist it. If it is perfectly smooth and uniform in thickness, the rose will turn out to look like an ordinary cylinder and will not look beautiful. Therefore, at small intervals the strip can be twisted, thus creating volume. After making 2-3 turns, the newspaper can be glued and then rolled further.
When the rosebud is ready, the end of the paper ribbon is also glued to its base. After this, the rose can be painted. Some people prefer to take a thin brush and carefully paint over the entire bud, even the innermost crevices, so that the color is uniform. Although careless painting with a thick brush, through which the text is visible, looks vintage and unusual.
You can try painting the rosebud in two layers. Then the colors will appear even more original and beautiful. This rose can decorate any composition or gift wrapping.
Tools.
To conveniently twist the tubes, you will need knitting needles or wooden skewers of various diameters.
You will probably have to use both thinner and thicker tubes for crafts. The thinner the tube, the denser it is. But thicker tubes are easy to flatten.
Naturally, when working with paper you need scissors. And for painting - brushes.
Stock up on clothespins to secure finished products.
Wreath of paper flowers
A wreath based on wire and decorated with paper flowers looks beautiful, original and unusual.
Making it will require more time and skill than gluing regular flowers, but the result is worth it. By allowing yourself to dream, you can make a very beautiful decoration for any interior. Flowers can be supplemented with a carefully cut cardboard core, depending on the interior you want to fit the wreath into.
In addition to a bead and a cut out flower, you can use a regular button for the core. Its size and color should be chosen based on your own preferences and further design of the composition.
Thus, it is clear that newspapers are a universal material for making flowers and decorations, by playing with which you can make something original, unusual and beautiful.
Using thin wire and a few folded pages, you can make another type of flower that will also look good in any paper bouquet.
Several such blanks, after careful manipulation, turn into beautiful flowers of unusual shape.
A few old magazines, imagination and inspiration – that’s all you need to create mini-masterpieces, delighting yourself and your loved ones with beauty.
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Crafts
Using different weaving techniques, different patterns, design ideas, decorations, a wide variety of products are obtained:
- baskets;
- flowerpot;
- caskets;
- panels, frames;
- topiary – Christmas trees, flowering trees;
- jugs;
- vases;
- trays;
- candy bowls;
- cups;
- flowers;
- voluminous souvenirs - bast shoes, hearts, mushrooms, berries, etc.
Several days pass from the idea of a serious product to its final implementation. But the result is worth the effort.
In the photo, you can hardly distinguish crafts made from newspaper tubes from real ones woven from wicker. If you are a creative person and love crafts, you can create beautiful and useful things from waste paper - old newspapers. Truly, imagination and hard work work wonders
DIY newspaper crafts: “Butterfly” project
Newspaper or junk magazine
Double-sided foam tape
* You can make butterflies in several sizes and shapes.
* If you want to make a butterfly of the same shape and size, you can use one stencil or buy a shaped hole punch.
1. Prepare a stencil.
2. Using a stencil, draw butterflies on different sheets of magazine or newspaper. You can draw a butterfly on one sheet, fold several sheets together and cut out several butterflies at once.
3. Cut out the butterflies.
* Each sheet can be cut into wide strips that can be folded together, draw 2-3 butterflies of different sizes on one strip and cut out several at once.
4. As you cut out the paper butterflies, fold them carefully on a flat surface. You can arrange them depending on the color scheme and/or size (shape).
Types of weaving
Crafts are woven from newspaper tubes in different ways. The choice of a specific technology depends on your skills and features of the design of the future craft.
Typically, the tubes are divided into a base - a frame or guides for the future product - and workers with which the frame is braided.
Works from newspapers: wall clocks
You can make this decoration without using a clock mechanism - you will get a beautiful decoration for your home, reminiscent of the sun.
Approximately 24 sheets of newspaper or magazine
Pencil or pen (to make it easier to twist the tubes)
Two plastic discs (like those that protect a large package of CDs)
* discs can be replaced with colored cardboard of any color.
Cardboard in the shape of a circle with a hole in the middle (optional)
Battery operated clock mechanism (optional)
Openwork
Particularly beautiful crafts from newspaper tubes are made using the openwork weave method. Unlike the solid one, there are gaps between the paper tubes in the openwork, which play a decorative role.
There are a lot of openwork weaving patterns - from simple ones, reminiscent of a picket fence, to very complex ones with an intricate multi-layered pattern.
rose stem
For a DIY newspaper flower, of course, you will need a stem. It's very easy to do. To do this, cut a long strip from the newspaper. You can use white fields, then the element will not merge with the beautiful petals.
Coat the strip with glue and, gluing the tip to the base of the bud on the wire, begin to wrap it tightly and tightly, in several layers, leading the section lower and lower.
Add a few leaves to the rose for a more realistic look. Attach the strip tightly to the end.
Fungus
- To make this craft, you will need to take 8 tubes and cross them two at a time. Additionally, two vines need to “hug” each tube from the base, extending them to the end.
- To get a semicircular shape for a hat, you need to weave it on a saucer. Having made several rows, the edges of the cap are secured by cutting the remaining posts and threading them inside.
- For the leg, 5 tubes are taken in a bundle, their ends are glued together. For a while, this whole thing is fixed with a clothespin. The twigs are spread in different directions, after which the weaving of one of them begins, bending the selected newspaper tube through the next two.
- From two intertwined tubes, you need to take one more and intertwine the next two. In this way, you need to weave to the end so that the leg is not very tight; you need to insert a stick with a diameter of no more than 5 mm in the middle.
- At the end of the weaving, the tails need to be tucked into the middle of the leg and glued with glue. After which the leg should be generously greased with glue and attached to the cap.
How to make a bouquet from newspapers
You can make any flowers from newspaper, but roses look especially romantic. In accordance with the desired result, you can select any scheme and algorithm of operation. In addition, we will analyze how to make stems and collect flowers into a lush and beautiful bouquet.
Required materials and tools
Before you make a bouquet from a newspaper, you need to prepare the necessary tools and materials:
- Newspaper. It is worth choosing copies with good quality paper. You can take foreign press - this will add some charm to the product.
- Paper scissors.
- A simple pencil with which you can prepare sketches of the petals.
- A thin copper wire that can be used to form the base of a stem.
If you need to glue the bud parts together during assembly, you can use not just PVA glue, but a glue gun.
To make the composition as natural as possible, other decorative elements can be used to create petals, receptacles and fix the stems.
Stage-by-stage assembly of the composition
You can make beautiful flowers from newspaper with your own hands within a few hours. In this case, the composition can be used to decorate gift boxes, photo frames (mirrors), vases, flower pots. You can make a bouquet of roses from newspaper with your own hands, using different methods of making the buds themselves - there are a lot of schemes.
How can you assemble a flower in stages, if we consider the general algorithm:
- You need to prepare the material and select an assembly diagram.
- Then cut out the petal blank.
- Assemble the buds by gluing.
The final stage may be assembling flowers into a bouquet, as well as decorating it.
Color schemes for folding newspapers
The easiest way to assemble a rose bud is to assemble petals of different sizes. Step by step instructions for assembly:
- First you need to prepare the petal templates using a pencil. You can draw a sketch directly on paper. Fold the sheet 6 times.
- Cut out 6 larger petals and 6 smaller ones. Another 4 parts for making the core are crown-shaped strips with 3 sections.
- Next you need to twist one of the parts to form the middle. Then glue this part with the remaining 3 elements. In this case, you need to ensure that the gear elements do not overlap the previous ones.
- Make a small cut at the base of each petal. Then glue these cuts together with a slight overlap. Thanks to this, a curved shape of the petals is formed.
- Then smaller petals are glued in a circle to the base of the core. And on top of them, larger petals are glued in tracking layers.
Then bend each element in the opposite direction. Thanks to such manipulations, you will get a neat flower, but as close as possible to the original.
Another simple option for assembling a bud
There is another completely simple way to make a rose bud:
- Cut out a circle of large diameter from paper. It is not necessary to use a compass to get a perfect circle. Then moving from the edge to cut the circle.
- Then grease the central part of the part with glue and begin to form the base - glue the central curved edge to the point greased with glue.
- Glue the entire length of the part in this manner. To give the bud the required shape, the strip should be collected like a roll. But it is not recommended to tighten the workpiece.
The result is a simple rose bud. To create a decorative effect, you can color the edges of the petals with paint or a felt-tip pen.
Origami rose
A flower made using the origami technique looks beautiful. Here is the simplest algorithm for assembling a rose using the origami technique from newspapers:
Method of weaving roses from newspapers
Roses made using this technique do not look very natural, but some compositions require such products. To weave flowers from newspapers, you do not need to use complex patterns. Algorithm for making roses by weaving:
- You should prepare the necessary materials and then get to work. Divide double sheets of newspaper in half. Then cut each sheet into 3 equal parts. Next, glue all these parts together, forming a wide, long strip.
- Next, you should fold the strip along its entire length. Straighten the fold, and then fold the edges towards the center line. Tape the folds. Then perform the same procedure again. Re-glue the folded strips. Roll the formed strip into a roll. It is recommended to do this so that it does not turn out too tight.
- The next stage will be the formation of the bud itself. Now you have to twist the strip tightly, lubricating the “web” on each tier.
House made of newspaper tubes
How to make a house from tubes? Let's look at it step by step.
You need to cut out identical hexagons from cardboard. The tubes are glued to one. The distance between them should be approximately 2 centimeters. Glue another hexagon on top.
We build the walls of the future house from thick paper around the perimeter of the bottom. We fix them securely. We braid this structure in several rows. We leave free space on each wall for windows.
It is recommended to weave the product using the “chintz” technique. The roof of the house is also made using the same technology. Before weaving the roof, cut out a circle of the required diameter from cardboard, and use it as a template to make the roof.
After completing the work, connect the walls and roof, paint the house and let it dry. Afterwards, varnish. Then the craft will be stored longer.
Video master class - DIY paper rose
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You can decorate the interior of a room or other decorative elements using flower buds. Even gift bouquets of this kind can be presented to acquaintances and friends without shame. To do this, you can make flowers from newspaper (newspapers are available and often on hand). Thanks to the unique “print” of the main material, the decorative decoration looks very beautiful and original. Thanks to the huge variety of assembly schemes, you can choose the production option that is suitable for the composition; we also provide step-by-step diagrams of simple and more complex flowers, and we will give recommendations on how to assemble a whole composition from them in the form of a bouquet.
Learning to make voluminous flowers
What kind of crafts are they made from nowadays? They even adapted egg molds for this work. It’s a shock to me how and when it could have occurred to anyone, but it came and conquered everyone. At first it looks unattractive, but then it turns out amazing masterpieces.
The sample is painted with paint and placed on a wire or stick.
A wonderful souvenir, as they say, made from improvised means, and how beautiful and funny it looks.
You will agree that with such voluminous flowers you can quite easily and quickly decorate any interior of a room or hall, making it irresistible and unforgettable.
You can also use this chic flower garland.
After this, put each workpiece on a fishing line or thread.
You can also make unforgettable creations from paper bags.
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Rose from the newspaper
There are several ways to create beautiful flowers from newspaper with your own hands. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the master class, which will tell you in detail how you can make a rose from several sheets of paper that is as similar to the real thing as possible.
To create flowers from newspaper with your own hands you will need:
- newspapers,
- large beads,
- glue,
- strong wire according to the size of the bead hole,
- pliers,
- scissors and pencil.
The bead in the product plays the role of the core. Take as many beads as you plan to weave flowers. In addition, prepare a ribbon to decorate the bouquet, and, if necessary, acrylic paints, gouache or a can of spray paint.
Flower decor
Hand-made flowers from newspapers and magazines can be decorated a little. Firstly, the flowers can be tied with ribbon and placed in a vase. Flowers from both magazines and black and white newspapers look stylish. You can paint the products: the stems of the roses - green acrylic, and the petals - at your discretion. Paper roses painted with gold paint look very interesting. Some craftswomen sprinkle glitter on their products.
You can decorate paper flowers in any way you like, solely to your taste and color.
As you can see, creating flowers from newspapers is not such a difficult task. Paper is a malleable material, it’s easy to work with, it bends and curls in any way you like, but at the same time holds its shape perfectly. You can use paper flowers as a separate decoration, placing them in a vase, or complement other compositions with them.
DIY paper rose
You can make this delicate beauty, a rose, with your own hands using special stencils.
The stencils must be printed (choosing the color you like from those presented: red, white, pink and yellow), then carefully cut out and following the photo instructions to create a luxurious paper rose. This rose is perfect for decorating items of clothing or hats, gifts and cards, creating floral panels and compositions.
Stencils for creating a paper rose:
Red rose - stencils
White rose - stencils
Cream rose - stencils
Orange rose - stencils
Petals
So, how to make a flower from newspaper with your own hands? First, let's cut the petals. For one rose you will need 5 pieces of different widths. The first one is 3 cm, each subsequent one is 1 cm more.
Fold the flower cuttings from the newspaper into an accordion shape with your own hands, creating a square. Draw a neat, even petal on it with a pencil and cut it out. Set the finished petals aside.
Do this with each segment, placing petals of different sizes in different piles.
Let's start creating a rose. To do this, cut a wire 25-30 cm long. Place the bead on the wire and bring it to the center. Bend it in half and make 5-6 turns of the bead, twisting the wire together and securing it in the center.
The smallest petals are glued first. Go around the bead, securing the newspaper with glue. To be sure, you can use hot glue or quick-drying Moment glue.
Start bending the next stack of petals to the side or twisting them a little onto the pencil. This will make the rose look more luxuriant. Otherwise, the bud will not look very natural or closed.
Attach all the petals in this way, securing them with glue at the base. When the petals are finished, you can begin to form the stem and decor.
We decorate a suitcase with newspapers and magazines
PVA glue, or even better decoupage glue
Scissors or utility knife
1. Cut out the images you like from your favorite magazines, which will then decorate your suitcase.
2. Apply glue to the suitcase and begin carefully placing magazine excerpts on it.
3. Apply glue again on top of the glued pages.
4. Decorate the entire suitcase in this way.
5. Using scissors or a utility knife, carefully cut off the excess pieces so that everything is even.
