Creating decor 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, fabric. And also - newspapers, which are sometimes uselessly accumulated in large bundles, although something really beautiful or even useful can be made from them.
Diy newspaper flowers are an easy way to not only use a read magazine or newspaper, but also make a unique and interesting decoration for your home or a gift yourself.
Rose from a newspaper
There are several ways to create beautiful DIY newspaper flowers. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the master class, which will tell you in detail how you can make a rose as close as possible to the real one from several sheets of paper.
To create flowers from a newspaper with your own hands you will need:
- newspapers,
- large beads,
- glue,
- strong wire to fit the hole of the bead,
- 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, if necessary - acrylic paints, gouache or 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 - 3 cm, each subsequent 1 cm more.
Do-it-yourself cuts for flowers from a newspaper fold with an accordion, getting 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, arrange the petals of different sizes in different piles.
Starting to create a rose. To do this, cut the wire 25-30 cm long. Put the bead on the wire and bring it to the center. Bend in half and make 5-6 turns around the bead, twisting the wire together and securing it in the center.
The smallest petals are glued on first. Go around the bead, securing the newspaper with glue. To be sure, you can use hot glue or Moment quick-drying glue.
Start bending the next stack of petals to the side or twisting a little on a pencil. So the rose will look more magnificent. Otherwise, the button will not lookvery natural or closed.
Attach all the petals like this, securing them with glue at the base. When the petals run out, you can begin to form the stem and decor.
Rose Stem
For a flower from a newspaper with your own hands, of course, you need a stem. It is very easy to make it. To do this, cut a long strip from the newspaper. You can use white margins, then the element will not merge with beautiful petals.
Smear the strip with glue and, gluing the tip to the base of the bud on the wire, start wrapping it tightly and tightly, in several layers, leading the segment lower and lower.
Add a few leaves to the rose for a realistic look. Fasten the strip tightly at the end.
Flower decor
Do-it-yourself flowers from newspapers and magazines can be decorated a little. First, 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 cover the products with paint: stems of roses - green acrylic, and petals - at your discretion. Paper roses painted with gold paint look very interesting. At the same time, some craftswomen sprinkle products with sparkles.
You can decorate paper flowers as you like, only to your taste and color.
As you can see, creating flowers from newspapers is not such a difficult task. Paper is a malleable material, easy to work with, it bends and twists in such a way thatwhatever, but it keeps its shape perfectly. You can use paper flowers as a separate decor by placing them in a vase, or add them to other compositions.
