Decorate baskets of Easter cakes and colored Easter eggs with homemade paper flowers! Making them is very simple: you just need multi-colored three-layer napkins and a little patience.
Fold napkins in two contrasting colors as shown in the photo. Fold in half and tie with thread. Using scissors, trim the edges into a semicircle shape. Then peel back the layers of napkins to form petals.
To make it more elegant, you can trim one of the napkins at the very beginning of the work so that the yellow petals (the middle of the flower) are shorter than the pink ones.
Another way to make a flower: divide a three-layer napkin into separate layers, fold each layer 8 times and sew the middle with a stapler. Trim the edges of the napkin into a circle shape and make cuts about 1 cm deep. Then carefully, layer by layer, form the petals with your fingers.
To make flowers with pointed petals, use scissors to shape the edges of the napkin into the desired shape.
Making a rose from napkins is a little more difficult, but the result is worth the effort.
Motherhood wishes you a happy Easter and a festive mood!
It is no secret that paper is an invention of mankind for which it has been impossible to find a replacement for several millennia.
You can list its functional advantages endlessly, but I would like to dwell on the moment of making cute souvenirs from it.
Every housewife always has a strategic supply of napkins on hand. And if you have snow-white or pink napkins, then you can easily make a water lily. Agree, this is an interesting and touching gift for a grandmother, mother or friend.
This kind of “homemade attention” is completely easy to make. Take a square napkin, unfold it and place it horizontally. Fold all four corners towards the middle so that they touch each other. As a result, you will get a rhombus, the corners of which, in the previous order, also fold towards the center. Once again, do the same manipulations with the resulting diamond, turn the napkin inside out.
Then all four corners are folded towards the middle. Then take the napkin in your hands, holding all the corners with your thumb, and begin to straighten the future petals. Start with the corners of the bottom layer, which turn from underneath to the top, making sure that all four corners are neatly laid out.
Next, turn out the middle row of petal corners in a similar manner, while maintaining the integrity of the previous row. The last third row of corners in the same order turns into more graceful petals. Your water lily is almost ready; finally, you need to arrange the resulting petals and give the final shape to the flower. Note that such a napkin can be used as an independent decoration when setting the table. And if a paper lily is attached to a sheet cut out of green cardboard, you will get an unusual panel.
By showing your imagination, you can make other flowers that come out beautiful and natural from napkins. To make amazing carnations, daisies or roses, the only thing you need as material is high-quality napkins, because the key to a beautifully executed one is your desire and creative imagination. You can experiment with colors and create the most incredible bouquets of “napkin” flowers that look natural. If you place them in a decorative basket or vase, they will become an undoubted decoration of your interior.
Using paper flowers you can create entire compositions and applications. Such bouquets look very good in baskets, which are also made by hand. To create such a craft, you will need available materials, namely glue, scissors, colored cardboard and paper, paints and, of course, napkins, preferably multi-layer ones.
First you need to make a basket. It’s very simple: it can be made from a single piece of colored cardboard, or it can be made from strips of colored paper, like real wicker paper. A handle-rim made of the same material is attached to the finished basket. Imagination and fantasy will tell you how to color your basket so that it is in harmony with the future bouquet. For example, with a bouquet of lilacs. To do this, small pieces of napkins are rolled into balls, which are laid out in a twig, glued, and thus a whole composition is obtained. Add some green leaves from the same napkins and you will get a vibrant spring composition. The napkin lends itself well to painting, so your bouquet can be any color.
Recently, products made from newspaper tubes have come into fashion. The secret is simple - the low cost of the material and ease of execution allow even novice needlewomen to create beautiful products from almost nothing in the shortest possible time.
For example, a basket of newspaper tubes with paper flowers from scrap materials, made with your own hands from newspapers and ordinary napkins, can be a beautiful, original gift for any holiday. If you fill such a basket with balls of multi-colored threads, a practical gift for knitting lovers is ready for March 8th.
Using the same principle, you can make an Easter basket and fill it with dyes and Easter eggs.
Let's move on from words to action and bring to your attention:
Basket made of newspaper tubes, manufacturing process
To create a basket of flowers you will need:
- newspaper tubes - 33 pieces;
- newspaper tubes - 3 pieces;
- sewing threads;
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- paper napkins in white, yellow and green colors;
- glue "COSMOFEN";
- clothespins
Weaving a basket from newspaper tubes with your own hands:
To weave a basket we need to prepare. The bottom of the basket is laid out from eight newspaper tubes in a checkerboard pattern.
Take the ninth working tube, fold it in half and weave a checkerboard pattern in a circle, securing the bottom.
Without interrupting the weaving, the branches of the “chessboard” are bent, turning them into racks.
The walls are woven with a simple binding of 10 rows, after which the working threads are cut off, the ends are glued together and secured with a clothespin.
The weaving is closed by bending the posts behind each other.
Leave two posts to create a basket handle.
Add one more tube to each side and connect them together. Wrap the handle in tight curls with a soft newspaper tube, spread thickly with PVA glue and allow to dry.
Paint the finished basket made of newspaper tubes with varnish - an impregnation for wood in the color of oak.
You can paint the basket light brown with acrylic paint, and then open it with varnish. Then at the end we can get a basket that is completely similar to a basket made of straw.
Base for paper flowers
Several sheets of paper are crumpled into a ball and a tight thread is wound on top, giving it the shape of a hemisphere. Cover the finished form with pieces of green paper napkin.
Flowers made from paper napkins
Flowers in the form of roses are twisted from yellow and white napkins and secured at the base with threads. To do this, bend each napkin in half and fold corner by corner to form roses. You can also make paper flowers from candies - see.
The leaves are prepared from green squares, also cut from a napkin. The squares are rolled into a cone. Flowers along with leaves are glued to the upper part of the hemisphere using COSMOFEN glue.
A total of 9 flowers are obtained, now the flower arrangement is inserted into a basket of newspaper tubes:
This is the final result of a basket made from newspaper tubes, decorated with paper flowers:
A beautiful bouquet made with your own hands from absolutely ordinary paper napkins can be an original and pleasant gift. Choose the color and size of napkins as desired. In this case, it will be yellow flowers with green leaves in a ready-made basket. Type of basket.
Instead of a basket, you can use a regular plastic flower pot or any other vase that is not used for its intended purpose.
1. Inflate a regular balloon to the size you need. Dilute PVA glue with water (about 1 teaspoon of glue per half glass of water). Dip the napkins into the resulting solution and cover the balloon with them. The more layers, the stronger the bouquet will be. The tail of the ball must be left free in order to later pull it out.
2. While the ball is completely dry, there is time to cut out flowers and leaves. To do this, take a four-layer napkin and fold it in half, then in half again.
3. Cut out a circle and make many cuts along the edge. If you want a lush flower, then the cuts need to be made thinner and wider. Leaves are cut in the same way. The only difference is the larger diameter of the circle. The green color can be much brighter. In the example, the color is not saturated enough.
5. The next step is collecting the inflorescence. To do this, press each layer of the napkin, starting from the top, towards the center. The main thing here is to be careful, as thin napkins can tear. The leaves can also be bent, but not necessary. This will make the flowers appear more luxuriant.
The number of colors depends on the size of the inflated ball. Don’t be upset if there are a lot of flowers and it seems to you that there is not enough space for everyone. They will all fit in easily. To do this, the inflorescence must be pressed more tightly to the middle. If there are fewer flowers, then on the contrary, they need to be straightened out more and not glued tightly to each other, or additional new ones should be cut out.
6. When the napkins on the balloon are completely dry, carefully deflate the balloon and take it out. If desired, you can stick several more layers of napkins on the place where the ball was pulled out so that there is no hole. In this case, you will again have to wait until the napkins are completely dry. If the hole is small, you can leave it as is.
7. Using super glue, glue the ball to the basket and begin gluing the previously prepared flowers. You need to start from the highest point of the ball and gradually work your way down to the bottom. Try not to press too hard so as not to push through the ball, since there is emptiness inside. Of course, work on the bouquet can continue. It can be decorated with beads and various satin ribbons. In this example, red glitter is applied in the center of the flowers. To do this, apply a drop of glue with a thin brush, and then sprinkle with glitter with another brush. The final bouquet will look like this.
Modern table etiquette is not complete without beautifully designed napkins. It is difficult for a modern person to believe that eating food once cost them nothing, but it is true. People first began to use napkins more than 3,500 years ago, and this role was played by ordinary fig leaves, and in Rus', napkins first appeared only after 1729 - before that they used clothing sleeves or tablecloths. Previously, it was customary to serve napkins directly on the plate, but nowadays it has become very fashionable to fold them in the form of various shapes, and if on your table there is a beautiful and unusual bouquet of napkins that you make with your own hands, then even the most ordinary meal will turn into a real one. holiday.
The main purpose of beautiful bouquets of flowers made from napkins is to decorate a festive table, so they cannot be used for their intended purpose, so make sure that in addition to such bouquets, there are also regular napkins on the table that can be used during meals.
We make a beautiful bouquet of napkins with our own hands for table decor
To create flowers, you can use absolutely any napkins, either one-, two- or three-layer. For delicate buds, single-layer napkins are most often used, and if a more magnificent flower is needed, then multi-layer ones are used.
Flowers made from white napkins, colored along the edges with ordinary felt-tip pens, look very delicate, and the thinner the coloring line, the more delicate the flower looks.
We bring to your attention a detailed master class with step-by-step photos on how to create a beautiful bouquet of napkins.
This interesting bouquet can be a wonderful table decoration at a festive event or an original addition to a gift for a loved one.
Required materials and tools:
- A wicker basket or a regular flower pot;
- Balloon;
- Napkins in white, yellow and green (you can take any other colors if you wish);
- PVA glue;
- Stapler and scissors.
Before you start making a bouquet, you need to first dilute the PVA glue with water - about 1 tsp in half a glass of water. glue. Inflate the balloon to the required size (so that it fits in a basket or flower pot), dip white napkins in glue and glue them onto the balloon in several layers, leaving a small hole near the tail so that you can then remove the balloon. Leave to dry completely for several hours.
While our ball is drying, we cut out leaves and flowers from colored napkins; to do this, fold a four-layer napkin in half twice, cut out a circle and make many cuts along the edge. Moreover, the more magnificent the flower is needed, the thinner the cut strips should be. We cut out leaves from green napkins in the same way, but make a circle of a larger diameter than for flowers.
After this, the circles for flowers and leaves are straightened, folded together with the green napkin facing down and snapped with a stapler.
Now we begin to form the inflorescence; to do this, all layers one by one, starting from the top one, are carefully pressed to the center so as not to tear. The leaves can be left as they are, or they can also be raised, like flowers.
Now we glue the finished flowers to the completely dried balloon until about halfway up. If it seems to you that there are too many flowers, then simply glue them to each other more tightly; if, on the contrary, there are too few, cut new ones or glue them less often. Leave the ball with napkins until completely dry.
When our balloon with napkins is completely dry, you need to carefully burst it and remove it. If you want, you can cover the hole that was initially left near the tail of the ball with napkins and flowers. If it is small, then leave it as is.
Using superglue, glue the ball to a basket or flower pot and continue gluing the remaining flowers to make the bouquet more natural and realistic. This should be done very carefully so as not to leave dents, because we have already removed the ball and now it is empty inside.
The bouquet of napkins is ready. If desired, it can be additionally decorated with beads, bows, ribbons or sparkles.
This version of the bouquet serves specifically to decorate the table, but you cannot use the napkins from which it consists for its intended purpose. If you need to fold the napkins in such a way that they can be used, then we suggest making such a cute bud individually for each person or forming small bouquets of them around the table.
As you can see, it is very easy to decorate a table with your own hands in an unusual and original way; you only need free time, accuracy and imagination. And if you have children, then you can involve them in activities of this kind; as a rule, children really love this kind of creative work.
Video on the topic of the article
In conclusion, we invite you to watch several videos about what other flowers can be made from napkins, because at the initial stage, to achieve the best result, it is better to use clear and detailed instructions so that the result does not disappoint you.