The tradition of giving bouquets for the holiday has long roots. However, today you can create a modern and original version of such a gift without fresh cut flowers. Among young people, bouquets of fruits, chocolates and sweets are in trend, while among the older generation, more expensive gifts predominate, such as real works of art made from real money.
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In fact, you can put together an original bouquet from almost everything you can imagine. Therefore, do not rush to throw something away; perhaps you will be able to create an unusual flower from it.
Most often, compositions are made from:
- Paper and napkins. Perhaps paper flowers are considered the most popular among those made from unusual materials. They can be given to anyone, they are often used as interior decoration, and often they become the main characters in the bride’s bouquet.
- Plastic bottles and disposable tableware. Such flowers look quite original and often at first glance it is difficult to understand what was taken to create them.
- Food. Food compositions have been quite popular lately. Fruits and vegetables, candies, marmalade, drinks, dried fruits, nuts and even sausages are suitable for assembling them. If sweet exhibits can be presented to women and children, then a man will be happy with a bouquet with sausage and nuts.
- Toys. In florist salons you can find not only compositions made from soft toys. They are considered a great addition to the main gift for a child, but can also become a self-sufficient gift.
- Natural material. If desired, it will not be difficult to assemble a composition from the gifts of nature. Specimens made from leaves, cones, pine branches, stones, shells, etc. look original.
It is possible to assemble a composition of any shape from scrap materials. If the traditional one seems boring to you, then you will like the option with a basket or box.
Feathers
Feathers carefully selected in size are dyed by soaking in food coloring. After keeping the future flower petals in the solution until they acquire the required shade, the feathers are carefully spread on a woven towel to dry.
The easiest flowers to make are asters and peonies. They can be made by gluing feathers onto a cardboard blank in the direction from the edge to the center. Or you can simply glue the foam blank in the direction from the center to the edge. The outer rows are fixed with glue after the tips of the feathers are stuck into the workpiece.
Bouquet of sweets in the shape of a heart
A heart is an excellent shape for making a bouquet for a loved one for any occasion. A bouquet of flowers and sweets in the shape of a heart looks very original and interesting.
To create a bouquet you should prepare:
- Chocolates in red wrapper;
- Toothpicks;
- Red roses;
- Floral sponge;
- Stationery knife;
- Floral film;
- Red corrugated paper;
- Glue gun and rods for it;
- Scissors.
Step-by-step action plan:
- Cut out a heart of the desired size from a floral sponge and soak well in cold water.
- Place the candies on toothpicks.
- Trim roses to such a length that they are 3-4 cm higher than the floral sponge.
- Wrap the floral sponge blank with film and secure it firmly with tape.
- Stick roses around the perimeter of the heart so that there is no gap between them.
- Fill all the free space of the heart with candies on toothpicks.
- Wrap the bouquet with corrugated paper and secure with hot glue.
If desired, you can complement the bouquet with decorative ribbon, pebbles, a postcard, and decorative greenery.
Material for creativity
Handicraft lovers make flowers from different materials, using different techniques and techniques. The most popular materials for creating flowers:
- paper;
- textile;
- yarn;
- cardboard;
- beads;
- cotton buds;
- cotton pads;
- napkins;
- plastic dishes;
- felt, and much more.
How to use the tools
The most necessary tool for a flower girl is tweezers, which are not only convenient for taking small parts, but also giving them the desired shape, bending or straightening them. You can also use tweezers to make veins on petals and leaves if you hold the tool sideways, and with a wooden handle it is convenient to lubricate the work parts with adhesive.
The mortar and pestle must be smooth, without cracks or nicks, so as not to damage the material. In such a mortar, it is convenient to give a rounded shape to four petals at once: to do this, the petal blanks are placed in the mortar, their upper edges are left outside, and the pestle is drawn from the bottom to the middle of the petal, giving them a curved shape.
The same applies to balls - tools for squeezing out petals: the surface of the balls should be smooth and well polished.
How to prepare fabric for making artificial flowers
In order for flower petals to keep their shape well, the fabric must be starched.
Now there are many ready-made proposals that facilitate this process, but since... retro blog adheres to all the standards of ancient technology, then the process of preparing the fabric should be as follows: - for 2 meters of fabric, a paste solution is usually enough. prepared from 30 g of starch dissolved in two glasses of water. The starch is placed in a container, water is gradually poured into it and thoroughly stirred while gradually heating. When the composition has cooled a little, the fabric is immersed in it, wrung out, shaken well and pulled onto a frame to dry. Plush (low-pile), satin and silk fabrics are starched this way: lay the fabric flat on a board or stretch it onto a frame. From the wrong side, the material is smeared with paste using a wide brush, then very thin muslin is applied over the glue and smeared with paste again. When dyeing petals made of velvet, plush, satin and silk, they are moistened not in water, which spoils the material, but in alcohol. For corrugation, hot pellets are used, which are used for extrusion only from the underside of the petal. To squeeze out large petals, you cannot use a pillow or rubber pad: the heated boule is placed with the ball facing up, and the handle is held with your knees. The petal is held with both hands and slid over the ball, while simultaneously pulling the ends of the workpiece down (in case the entire petal needs to be elongated). For taffeta and sometimes silk, lubrication with gelatin alone is sufficient. In principle, a gelatin solution can also be used for fleecy fabrics (velvet), even without gluing with muslin - it all depends on the type of flowers being made. To make leaves,
the fabric is painted in the desired color - dark green, light green, light green, etc., then after drying, the material is coated with varnish, giving a natural shine, or a brush dipped in a starch solution is passed over the fabric - if the leaves you need to give it a velvety look.
And a very important point - the fabric, no matter what it is intended for: petals, buds, sepals or leaves, is always cut out or embossed with a shape on the bias
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Related for the bouquet
To compose any bouquet, you also need to prepare some materials that will make the work easier and give the product a finished look:
- Floral paper, mesh;
- Decorative tape;
- Frame for a bouquet;
- Floral sponge (not for all bouquets);
- Scissors.
Depending on how and from what the bouquet will be assembled, you may need:
- Wooden skewers;
- Basket;
- Scotch;
- Styrofoam;
- Glue gun and rods for it;
- Various elements for decoration.
Recommendations
We have already given the main advice - do not throw away anything that may be useful for assembling a bouquet.
- Do not collect too massive and heavy compositions if they are not intended for interior decoration.
- Before assembly, thoroughly wash and dry the prepared materials.
- Try to use elements that are in harmony with each other.
- For children, take bright and safe materials. Women can be given a bouquet of any color. Men prefer calm tones.
- Consider the tastes and preferences of the recipient. Kids will enjoy toys and sweets, women will enjoy flowers (including those made from paper, napkins, leaves), fruits and berries, men will enjoy practical components of the bouquet (things that can be eaten, used in everyday life, etc.).
Flower craft schemes
Every Internet site that teaches creative skills to everyone who wants to engage in applied arts contains diagrams for creating flower crafts. Even beginners can easily cope with simple types of crafts.
Schemes are necessary in order to create exactly according to the sample, without errors or deviations, the craft that you have chosen for creativity.
After printing the templates, it’s worth transferring their outlines onto the material from which you plan to make flowers. Cut out all the parts and arrange them as shown in the diagram. You need to assemble the flower composition in strict accordance with the diagram. Then the flowers will turn out neat and as similar as possible to their natural counterparts.
Gerberas
Such flowers remind you of bright sunny days. Gerberas will bring warmth and comfort to the room. The template can be printed directly onto colored paper.
To use the stencil many times, it is made of cardboard. All templates are stored in paper envelopes, which must be signed. Over time, craftswomen collect a large number of patterns of different colors.
A DIY bouquet of flowers looks beautiful in any interior.
Gerberas are collected from the bottom and finished with smaller petals. They are attached in the middle of the rim. The petals are then folded into the center to create a realistic flower.
