Diy handicrafts

DIY Handicrafts- this is an original home decoration. The foil itself looks interesting, and its metallic luster fascinates and captivates. Real craftswomen create foil from animals, candlesticks, cards, pendants, beads, flowers, models and much more. Skillful hands will use foil for decorating carnival costumes and decorating interior items.

Foil crafts

Crafts from foil with your own hands can be created in different techniques:

• Application
• Modeling - the creation of three-dimensional foil crafts.
• Drawing on the foil (decoupage).
• Foil chasing.
• Cramping
• Openwork foil weaving.
• Quilling

DIY foil crafts using chasing technique

Chasing- it is squeezing out drawings from a thin metal sheet. This technique was invented by the Chinese, who began to cut various figures out of dense foil.

Take a soda can. Cut the bottom of the can from both sides. The resulting tube cut with scissors. The foil sheet must be rectangular. Plots for coinage is better to take from books with fairy tales.

A great idea chasing from foil do it yourself there will be bright pictures (a firebird, for example, or a troika with bells). Put the picture on the prepared rectangle and gently squeeze the pattern on the foil with the help of some thin sticks. Where convex shapes are needed, you can work harder using a larger stick. For convex places, the foil is treated from the inside, for concave places - from the front side of the foil..

At the end of the embossing, the picture can be pasted on a velor or velvet background to make the picture look more effective.

Do-it-yourself foil crafts using decoupage technique

Many artists who prefer foil over ordinary paper work on this technique. Drawing on foil - this is real art. If you adapt yourself, you can make beautiful pictures out of foil that you would not be ashamed to give to friends for a holiday or hang at home.

Take an even piece of foil (the size of the foil depends on the size of the picture you want to draw), create a drawing and transfer it to the foil. Everything is elementary simple! To prevent the paint from rolling, when applying it to the foil, add a little dishwashing liquid or liquid soap to the paint.

If you do not get masterpieces of foil, put on the foil the top layer of a beautiful napkin and cover the surface with acrylic varnish. Like these ones Paintings can be made by hand with the help of foil.

DIY foil crafts: candlestick

The foil does not burn, which makes it suitable for making candlesticks. Foil candlestick can be built in the form of a house.

Make a rectangle out of a tin can. Divide the rectangle in width into 4 equal parts. Two parts through one are the future ends of the house. The roof of the ends is a triangle, and the roof of the other sides is a rectangle.

To make a candlestick made of foil with your own hands looked more interesting, make a roof of the house in the form of fish scales.

Seal the house. In the house, cut a lot of windows, then light will stream through the roof. Do not forget to do a hole in the roof under the candle. Put a round candle in the hole.

DIY Handicrafts: Lily of the Valley

You will need:

1. Silver foil
2. Glue
3. Scissors
4. Green thread
5. Wire
6. Green paper

Technology:

• Take the foil and cut out of it 7 small squares.
• Fold the squares in four and cut the edges. You should have a circle.
• The edges of the circle are cut figuratively - these will be petals. Expand the foil.
• To conveniently roll a circle into a cone, cut a small segment.
• Roll the bells from the foil.
• Attach a green thread to each flower.
• Wind the wire green. Secure the tip of the thread with glue.
• Tie bells to the stalk and tie a thread on the knot closer to the wire so that the bell can sway slightly.
• Secure with glue sticking thread.
• Cut the leaves out of green paper and attach them to the stem of the lily of the valley with glue.
• Lilies of the foil do-it-yourself! They can be put in a vase.

How to make other crafts with their own hands, read under the heading Crafts and toys.

You can make a lot of hand-made articles from foil, the main thing is to turn on your creative abilities. You can connect members of your family to creating foil crafts to take the evening into an interesting affair.