Making flowers with your own hands

Flowers bring joy, give a good mood and delight.

Today, hand-made gifts are especially appreciated, as they require effort and time. Usually, we don’t give a person whom we don’t really like, something we’ve done with our own hands. Because we feel sorry. It's easier to donate money or buy something in the store for the same amount. But a gift made by yourself will always remind its owner about you, your love for him and respect.

Making flowers with their own hands has recently become increasingly popular. Both adults and children can create flowers. Such a hobby develops imagination, artistic taste, imagination, perseverance and accuracy.

Making flowers with your own hands is an extremely good and useful thing, it does not require large material costs (and you can be sure of this). Such flowers, unlike living ones, will delight you for a very, very long time. So make up your mind! And we go further ...

Paper flowers

Paper is the most popular material for making flowers.. Almost all types of flowers can be made from it: roses, orchids, tulips, forget-me-nots, chamomiles and many others. Paper flowers can decorate cards, gift boxes, photo frames, various accessories, create panels from them, and various compositions. Paper flowers decorate holiday tables and banquet rooms.

Special skills for making paper flowers are not needed. Anyone can make flowers out of paper.

You will need:

• colored paper (plain, crepe, corrugated) or table napkins;
• glue;
• Scotch;
• stapler;
• scissors and thread.

Useful and wire, straw, used rods, beads, sequins, beads, rhinestones. Cardboard, hole punch, watercolors or gouache, wrapping paper, as well as silk ribbons can be used.

The easiest paper flower option

Draw a circle on colored paper about 15 cm in diameter and cut it. Then make several (5-7) circles, each time reducing them by 1 cm. They are necessary for the volume of the flower. After that, each circle is divided by the number of petals (from 7 to 12). Each petal creates a semicircular shape. Then bend the edges of the petals inside. When all circles are ready, they are folded one to one according to size. Then glue the circles. The flower is ready. You can use it without a stem (as a desktop decoration). And you can make him a stalk of wire. The wire can be wrapped with colored paper or dyed green.

Origami paper flowers

Do you own origami technique? Wonderful! Then you can make flowers using this technique. If not, do not be sad. You can buy any manual origami.

You will need:

• color double-sided paper;
• scissors;
• glue.

Other materials may be needed as needed.

Folding colored paper in a certain pattern, you can get very unusual, exquisite flowers. It is also possible to attach stalks to them.

Fabric flowers

You will need:

• the cloth;
• scissors;
• needle with thread;
• marker;
• round shape pattern.

Cut out 9 circles from the fabric. Each circle is divided in half. Then we put the halves in half outwards in half. These are blanks of petals. From the straight side we sew halves and turn it over to the front side. After that, fold them in half so that the seam was in the middle. The loose edge of the petals is collected on a solid thread (this is the base). Without fixing the threads, we connect all the petals in series one by one. The last petal is connected with the first. We decorate the center with a bead or a button. The flower is ready, it remains to attach a foot to it.

To learn how to decorate your wardrobe with fabric flowers, read the article Fabric Flowers - decorate your image.

Candy Flowers

You will need:

• sweets in bright wrappers;
• transparencies;
• Scotch;
• colored ribbons;
• wrapping green paper.

Putting candy on a stick, winding the wrapper around the stalk. Fasten with tape or colored green tape. The flower is ready. You can make a packaging for a flower out of a transparent film. You can also make the candy center and the petals cut out of bright colored packaging paper.

Read also:

• How to make organza flowers?
• How to make flowers from fabric?

Making flowers is an opportunity to express yourself in creativity, to find harmony, to diversify the interior of your home, as well as the opportunity to please people close to you with exclusive gifts.