Probably no element in scrapbooking is as popular as flowers. You rarely see a work where at least one small flower is not used. Apparently this is because floral arrangements add lightness and charm.

What types of flowers are there for scrapbooking?

First of all, they are divided into ready-made and homemade.

Now the market offers an incredible amount of creative products. From ready-made flowers and compositions to blanks for making them yourself. Of course, it’s easier to buy ready-made elements and use them in your work. But by spending a little time and using your imagination, you can get an individual product even from factory blanks.

Based on the type of material, ready-made flowers are divided into: three types - paper, from polymer clay and textile, including knitted.

Paper flowers come in a variety of colors, shades and shapes. This is explained primarily by the fact that paper itself is a very malleable material. It is easier to give it the desired shape, easier to paint it in the desired shades.

Flowers made from polymer clay are more often used for making women's jewelry and interior items. But products made from this material also find their place in scrapbooking.

With fabric everything is a little more complicated. Here we must take into account that most fabrics tend to “crumble”, i.e. The edge of such a product is much more difficult to process in order to obtain a delicate and airy product. When making factory-made textile flowers, the fabric is often treated with special compounds to prevent it from flowing and to impart rigidity to the fabric. The most rewarding material for textile flowers is felt. Doesn't wrinkle, doesn't crumble. But flowers and other elements made from this material do not always suit the chosen style of work.

Another type of textile flowers are products made from satin and silk ribbons.

Textile colors also include knitted items.

For experienced needlewomen who want to add exclusivity to their work, there is the option of making flowers themselves. Everything is the same here - paper, fabric, yarn, polymer clay, foamiran. The only thing is that this will require additional investments, both material - cuttings, tools and a drilling mat, wire, paints, irons, etc., and temporary. But, on the other hand, when making flowers yourself there are no limits to imagination and boundaries for creativity.

Homemade paper flowers.

What is the best paper for them? Basically, this is ordinary office, crepe or corrugated paper. exists on the Internet great amount master classes on making paper flowers (for example, in our group we have great selection master classes on homemade flowers: link). There can be a lot of options here - from flowers using the origami or quilling technique, which generally do not require any additional devices or tools, to multi-layer products, where you can no longer get by with just pens. It all depends on the author’s ideas and capabilities. And, if you approach this matter with all responsibility, then homemade flowers are often impossible to distinguish from store-bought ones.

Foamiran (FOM) – plastic material for creating accessories, jewelry, interior items, elements for scrapbooking and other handmade products. When heated, it takes any shape and retains it. Unlike polymer clay, foamiran does not harden after cooling.

Polymer clay (plastic) is a plastic material for making jewelry, accessories, and interior items. Plastic requires heat treatment, as it hardens and becomes rigid only when heated finished product up to 100-130 degrees.

Homemade textile flowers.

When choosing fabric for a textile flower, you need to take into account the flowability of the material. To reduce fraying of the edges of the product, the fabric can be soaked in a gelatin solution - 3 tsp. per glass of water, let it brew for 20-30 minutes, then heat over low heat until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Wet the fabric completely in the solution, let it drain without squeezing, and dry it straightened out.

The second option is to melt the edges of the workpieces over a flame, but this is not suitable for every fabric.

Basically, thin cotton fabrics, organza, chiffon, silk, satin, felt, as well as all kinds of ready-made ribbons and lace are used to make fabric flowers.

You can decorate your work with a knitted element.

Of course, no matter what option you choose to decorate your work with floral elements, it is advisable to adhere to the style of the entire product. Be it shabby chic, steampunk, vintage or something else.

How to make flowers for scrapbooking? Is it possible to make flowers from plain paper? What you need to make flowers self made? Many craftswomen have similar questions, and today we will try to answer them with the help of our video tutorials.
It turns out that making flowers for scrapbooking does not require a lot of costs for materials and tools. They can be made even from ordinary office paper, with only scissors (or a hole punch), a pencil and glue. Here, for example, gardenias:

Yes, and what are flowers without leaves? There are leaves too! They are made simply, using a “rose leaf” mold for foamiran.

Paper flowers are very popular in this type of needlework such as Scrapbooking. A flower can act as the central part of the entire composition, and also serve as a cute decoration for any postcard or scrapbook page in an album. Without a doubt, a huge assortment of flowers for scrapbooking can be found in craft stores, but if you want individuality and uniqueness in your work, then make paper flowers with your own hands!

When making flowers for scrapbooking, we will use three different hole punches. Each type of flower will need its own hole punch.

Flowers using a border punch

Prepare materials from:

• thin strips of colored paper
• flower cores
• paper toning ink
• some cardboard for the base of the flower

From the tools:

• curb punch
• paper embossing tool (crimper - from English paper crimper)
• scissors

From the paper of your choice, cut out two strips measuring 2.5 x 30 cm each.

Using your curb punch, go around one edge of each strip.

Pass strips of paper through a crimper - a tool that allows you to emboss different textures on paper.

If you don’t have such an interesting device, don’t be upset, continue working without it.

Cut a circle with a diameter of 2–2.5 cm from paper and coat it with glue.

The larger the diameter of the circle, the larger your flower will be as a result.

Take one strip of paper and start folding it around the outer edge of the circle. You won't need all 12 inches of strip, so just cut off the rest when you've finished the circle.

At this stage, you can go along the edges of the petals with a stamp pad soaked in ink.

Then add a little more glue to the middle of the first paper flower:

Take another strip of paper and do the same with it. To roll this paper flower with your own hands, you will need even less paper.

All that remains is to glue the core into the center of the flower (this can be a beautiful button, adhesive rhinestone or half-bead) and raise the edges of the flower to give it splendor.

Original master class

Flowers using a circular hole punch

To make these flowers you will need almost the same materials and tools:

• double sided decorative paper
• brads or some other flower cores
• ink, glitter (optional)
• circular hole punch (circle diameter about 2.5 cm)

To begin, use a circular hole punch (or just scissors) to make 6 identical circles from double-sided scrapbooking paper.

Bend 5 circles as shown in the photo (you can divide the circle into 4 identical segments, thus marking the extreme points for connection):

Add a little glue UNDER the petals and glue them one by one onto the 6th circle.

Before you glue on all 5 petals, make sure they are all perfectly positioned on the 6th petal of the flower. You may have to “adjust” the folds up or down.

This is what your flower should look like:

Add brads, a button or a rhinestone to the middle of the flower, decorate the petals with glitter, go around the edges with a stamp pad and get a very beautiful paper flower!!!

If you initially fold the circles in a slightly more complex way, the flowers will turn out even more magnificent and interesting!

Look carefully at the photo and you will understand how to fold the petals. Also notice the flower-shaped hearts that decorate these DIY paper flowers!

Original master class

Flowers using a figured “flower” hole punch

The materials and tools are as follows:

• double-sided cardboard
• wooden stick
• spray bottle with water
• semi-pearls, beads or sequins for the center of the flower
• ink (optional)
• figured hole punch with flower

For your flowers, you can use a hole punch available in stock. There is also a flower in the shape of a daisy.

You will need 6 flowers in three different sizes (large, small and even smaller)

You can try exchanging flowers with other needlewomen so as not to buy 3 hole punches with different sized flowers.

Lightly spray water over the paper flowers:

Use a wooden skewer to add volume to the petals.

For the smallest petals, use a thick needle instead of a wooden skewer.

One of the most popular decoration elements in are flowers. And not only in scrapbooking, flowers in general are very widely used in the most different types creativity. And although there are a great many of them on sale, sometimes you can make them yourself no less beautiful, and, most importantly, exactly what you want. To do this you will need the simplest materials and a little patience. In our master class (mk) we will show you how to make flowers for scrapbooking with your own hands.

Beautiful flowers for scrapbooking - master class

Tools and materials:

• watercolor paper;
• watercolor paints;
• simple pencil and brushes;
• colored pencils;
• scissors and awl;
• a bowl of water, a file for documents;
• stamens;
• tape for forming stems (optional).

Performance:

1. First, let's draw flowers of different sizes - they will serve as a pattern. You can determine the size and quantity yourself, I drew 5 pieces.

2. Next, we cut out and outline our flowers in sufficient quantities.

3. This is what the blanks look like.

4. Now you need to wet the flowers a little, put all the blanks of the same size in a bowl.

5. We wait about 5-7 minutes and begin: paint the flower in the color you like (saturation depends on your desire), and then apply paint to the document file with a brush - take the paint a tone darker than for the flowers themselves.
6. Squeeze the petals to create folds.

7. And after that we straighten it, twisting each petal onto a brush.

8. The next step is to give the flower a shape (I used a cap from nasal drops for this) - apply the flower to the cap and press it with a brush.
9. We will get a flower like this.

Once you have filled your hand, you can make 5-7 flowers at a time, the main thing is to not let the paper dry out.

So, we have prepared flowers of different sizes and it’s time to slightly shade them.

This is done like this:

Flowers can be made the most different colors and sizes, if desired, form stems and replace stamens with beads... In general, the main thing is desire and everything will definitely work out.

Scrapbooking is perhaps the first of all the areas of needlework that I came across as soon as I plunged deeper into the Internet. Therefore, it is not surprising that today it was decided to talk about my method of creating paper flowers for scrapbooking, which could be done with your own hands without large investments in the purchase of special tools, and the creation of which would not take much time. And the most important thing is that it is as simple as possible. So that even beginners can do everything very neatly and beautifully the first time!

In addition, I am sure that the skill of creating flowers yourself (at home) can help someone a lot and help out in a difficult moment, when there is no money to buy ready-made decor, or everything that is presented on the shelves in one single handicraft store in your area. The city is completely unsuitable in style, color, or quality.

This also happens often and I have seen this from my own experience. When you live in a small town, getting good materials for work can be very difficult. And there’s no need to talk about tools, such as embossing mats or buns. But let's get to the point and start working. Do we want to learn how to make paper flowers for scrapbooking with our own hands? Then let's get to work!

Paper flowers for scrapbooking - master class

From the master class you will learn what three ways you can tint paper when working using the scrapbooking technique, how to give a flower a shape and whether it is possible to replace the much-desired bulbs with something, how to make stamens and, finally, how to assemble all the details into a single whole.

As usual, we will start with an introductory word about materials and tools. To make flowers today we will need:

• glue (I chose PVA)
• figured hole punch (optional)
• ink pad for toning
• sheet of white office paper, A4 format (density 80 gm2)

I already mentioned above that a hole punch is not necessary. It is quite possible that at this stage you have not yet had time to purchase useful tools for yourself. If this is the case, then simply draw the outline of the future flower by hand. Choose a diameter that is not too large and a simpler shape. For starters, this will be just great!

Also, tinting can be done not only with a special pad. At first, I loved tinting my work with watercolor pencils. But I think that if there were no watercolors, then ordinary simple ones would do just fine. Just at the final stage we carefully shade everything with our fingers and get an excellent tint.

But let's get back to practice. We will need three parts with the petals of our future flower. Those. we either cut out the hand-drawn outlines or punch them out using a hole punch. You can, of course, make a larger number of blanks. Then the flower will turn out more magnificent. But we will do it easier. And faster.

We tint paper parts. Three easy ways

A paper flower will not be a flower at all if we give it some kind of shade or color. Therefore, the next step is to tint all three parts. If you are tinting with a pencil, you can try scraping some of the lead onto a piece of paper, and then apply this powder to the blank parts. And blend with your finger.

If you are working with a pad, then lightly brush along the edges of the petals to shade them just a little. If the color of the ink is quite bright or dark, you can use this trick - apply a certain amount of ink from the pad to a sponge (can be slightly moistened). And then, with light tangential movements, walk the sponge along the edges of the petals. This way we get a delicate, beautiful shade.

When all three parts are painted, we need to prepare them for further work. To do this, we carefully cut two of the three parts between the petals at a distance of approximately 2-3 mm. Paper is a very plastic material. But to achieve this plasticity, radical actions are needed. In this case, small cuts, thanks to which in the future we will be able to give a beautiful shape to the flower.

Another radical action that we must perform is moistening the workpieces. It's important not to overdo it here. A few presses with a damp sponge over the parts with petals will be enough to make the paper more pliable and the ink applied during tinting to apply even more evenly.

If you experiment a little with the degree of hydration in different parts of the petals, then in the end you can achieve completely natural and very smooth transitions from darker at the edges to a lighter color in the middle.

But again, I repeat that you need to do everything extremely carefully. Paper really doesn’t like it when people show force to it and can repay you with ugly “pellets”, which will then be very difficult to remove. Therefore, we do everything gently and carefully.

How to replace bulbs and how to shape a flower

The preliminary work has been completed and all we have left to do, by and large, is to add the required form petals and then connect them together. Let's figure out exactly how you can give paper parts the required shape. Usually in scrapbooking, special embossing devices, such as embossing, are used for these purposes. But we will do something that can replace this tool.

To do this, take a knitting needle and a bead with a hole of a suitable diameter. So that a knitting needle can fit into this hole. Ready! It's really great way when you don't have it on hand professional tools. Instead of a knitting needle, a regular toothpick can also work. And thanks to the presence of beads of different diameters, you can make a whole set of different buns.

We made an embossing tool. It's all about the form. We place our blank (the part with the cut petals) on the embossing mat. Again, you can use any other soft substrate, be it a thick sponge or a rubber mat, and roll the ball (in our case, a bead) over the petals, pressing lightly on them.

The petals should eventually become slightly concave, and the part as a whole will take on a guessable cup-shaped shape. All that remains is to fix this form. While the petals are still wet, this is quite easy to do. For example, you can use an officer's ruler and insert the part into one of the small round holes.

Of course, it will take time to dry. But if you work in the autumn-winter period, then simply place the ruler on top of the battery.

The workpiece has dried. But this is not enough. We need a bud. It will become the decoration and highlight of our flower. You can see how to make a paper bud from the following photos. We drip a drop of glue onto the edge of the petals and place them on top of each other in a circle. Thanks to the cuts that we made a little earlier, the petals easily take the desired shape.

After gluing all the petals together, we again send the part to dry. In the meantime, we take the second workpiece (also with cuts) and do the same with it as with the first part, with the exception of the very last point. We do not glue the petals.

After careful, light toning, moisturizing and adding volume, we send the second part to dry to secure the resulting shape. But in this case, we choose a circle on the officer’s ruler that is slightly larger in diameter than in the previous case.

Now we take the last, third, blank. Let me remind you that this is the only part where we did not make cuts. We must also tint it and then moisten it for a more even distribution of pigment over the surface of the paper. After this, we take our homemade boule in our hands and shape the petals.

The final step is to turn the part over and roll a bead in the center of the part. As a result, our petals turn out to be convex, and the middle of the flower is concave. The photo below clearly shows this difference.

The only point (it is noticeable in the photo) is that when we work with a bead, we may end up with traces like this one, in the center of the flower. In this case, this is not a problem, but in the case of petals, you need to roll the flat side of the bead, and not the part where the hole is located.

And we also send this blank to dry. Accordingly, we choose an even larger hole diameter on the ruler.

In order not to waste time while our petals are drying, let's deal with the stamens. And I propose today to master another skill - learn how to make them with your own hands. Because again, returning to the problem of acquisition necessary materials For scrapbooking in some regions, we may encounter that the stamens are not available or are too large.

Size, by the way, really matters. Especially when we create quite small flowers from paper. The creation process will not take much time and very soon we will begin the final assembly of the flower.

We make stamens with our own hands and collect the flower

These two processes will be intertwined, so I decided not to make the description of the creation of stamens a separate topic. First, let's prepare what we will need in our work. I will show you how to get very beautiful and neat stamens from very simple “ingredients”. But, of course, this is far from the only way to create them.

• semolina
• PVA glue
• needle with thread
• some wire
• saucer

This is the list that we will use. And the first thing we need to do is pour a small amount of semolina into a saucer. Then we cut the thread approximately 25-30 cm long, fold it in half and lubricate it well with glue. Twist the threads together and leave for a while until the glue dries completely.

At this time, we check our preparations with petals. Once you are sure that they have dried properly, you can begin assembling the flower.

How to make sure that the workpieces are really dry? Very simple. The paper should not be wet, and the glue between the petals should not be visible either. We have three blanks in total and they look something like this (see photo).

In order to collect all the petals together, turn the bud over and apply a little glue to its base in the center. It will be easier to do this if you insert a boule (or a knitting needle with a bead) inside the bud. Then the shape of the bud is not deformed.

After we have applied glue to the base of the bud, we “put” the second blank with petals on top of it. Wider in diameter than the bud, but less wide compared to the third blank. Using our device with a bead, we press one part to another and give a little time for gluing.

After the glue has set and the first two tiers of petals have stuck together, we turn the (already two-layer) flower part over again, apply a certain amount to the base of the second piece, “put” the third one on top of it and press it for better adhesion.

Again, it's a good idea to help yourself with the embossing tool we made ourselves.

Ready! Let's send the flower to dry and continue creating the stamens. We need to fold the glued thread three times. And then we intercept the threads in the middle with wire and twist its (wire) ends. This is necessary so that in the future it will be easier for us to stretch the stamens through the center of the flower.

We cut the loops of threads, straighten them and trim them at a distance of approximately 2-2.5 cm from the base of the wire.

We should get a small panicle. We straighten the threads so that they all look in different directions.

In a saucer we drip a little PVA glue and, one by one, dip each of the threads first into the glue and then into the semolina. The stamens for the flower are ready! And we made them ourselves - with our own hands, mind you. And besides, it’s quite easy!

Well, all that remains is to install the stamens inside the flower. By this time it should have dried well. Be sure to check if your glue is dry. Because if the middle turns out to be wet, then it can be dangerous to continue working.

If the glue has dried and everything is fine, then place the flower on the backing. I again took an elastic sponge for this. Carefully and slowly, pierce the flower in the center with a needle all the way through.

Here, perhaps, it will be important to make a reservation about the thickness of the needle. Don't choose a needle that is too thick. It is better to make several punctures than to immediately get a huge hole and then rack your brains about how to disguise it.

We cut off the excess ends of the threads and fix them with a drop of glue. Carefully press the ends to the calyx of the flower. A beautiful paper flower with delicate miniature stamens is ready!

You can see how it turned out in the end in the title photo of this article. You can decorate a postcard or a page in a scrapbook with these flowers. Or you can use them for decoration. For example, like we did with you from clothespins. I think it's very cute!

But if you think that everything is limited to albums and magnets, then you are deeply mistaken! In fact, not only are paper flowers used to make paper decorations, but they are also used as decorations. And the most real ones - rings, earrings, bracelets and even necklaces!

Today was a busy master class. We learned how to make a paper flower for scrapbooking with our own hands, learned how to give paper petals the correct shape and learned how to replace the bubbles. But I won’t keep you any longer today.

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