Bumps - universal, natural, interesting and very suppressed material, which also does not need to be bought - just go for a walk in the forest and after half an hour you will already have enough cones for any of your, even the most bold idea.
The cones are used both in the original form, and turning them into animals, birds, funny and cute monsters and even in flowers! Of the flowers created from cones, talented designers collect topiary, decorative panels or just bouquets. Such a jewelry for the house will delight your gaze for a long time and cheer up. In addition, this is a craft, the joy of which you can divide with children, while developing their motor skills, a sense of taste and interest in creativity.
In our master classes, we will talk about the most beautiful colors that can be created from cones, and about the ideas of beautiful crafts from flowers.
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Crafts from cones: chamomile
Depending on what idea you plan to carry out for the composition, cones of pine, alder and other conifers are suitable. But most often flowers are made precisely from pine cones. Choose cones corresponding to your ideas - for example, for daisies, more open cones are suitable, and for tulips - on the contrary. For delicate floral decor, take alder.
Depending on what style you have chosen for your crafts and what you want to make from flowers, you may also need beads, the basis for a wreath, fabric or chipboard (if you plan to make panels out of flowers), vase, moss, floristic foam, Photo frame - it all depends on the wealth of your imagination.
Prepare a well -lit workplace for yourself with all the necessary tools. The surface on which you will work better to protect against scratches and dirt with oilcloth or other available material.
The necessary materials and tools:
- 20 well -blossoming pine cones
- white water -based paint - 100 ml
- yellow paint - 1 unity.
- picking - 1 pc.
- universal glue or adhesive gun - 1 tube
- stem wire - 20 pieces of 15 cm
- colored adhesive tape - 1 union.
- shilo - 1 pc.
- chancellery knife - 1 pc.
- brushes - one thin and one wide
- scissors - 1 pc.
- gloves-1-2 pairs
Chamomile
- Cut off most of the scales with bites, leaving one or two rows closer to the base of the bump.
- The resulting core is trimmed with scissors.
- Then we cover our workpiece with white water -based paint, which will serve us as the basis, and wait until it dries or dried a hairdryer.
- Color the cones with a second layer of white paint and highlight the middle of the flowers with yellow paint.
- To make the stem, we make a bump at the base of the bump with an awl, drip there glue and fix the wire.
Crafts from cones: terry zinnia
The necessary materials and tools:
- 10 pine cones
- white water -based paint - 100 ml
- color paints - on the packaging of yellow, raspberry, red, purple and orange
- picking - 1 pc.
- universal glue or adhesive gun - 1 tube
- wire for stems of 10 pieces of 20 cm
- colored adhesive tape - 1 union.
- shilo - 1 pc.
- chancellery knife - 1 pc.
- brushes are one thin and one wide
- scissors - 1 pc.
- gloves-1-2 pairs
City
- Cut the cones of cones.
- Paint the bump with white paint-Osnovoy.
- Paint the base closer to the petiole with yellow, and the rest of the scales with the color that you chose for your flowers.
- After that, cut the top of the cone and fix the wire that will serve as a stem, if you need it.
Crafts from cones: marigolds
If you work a little, you can make real velvets from cones. The necessary materials and tools:
- 15 pine cones
- white water -based paint - 100 ml
- on packaging yellow and orange paint
- picking - 1 pc.
- universal glue or adhesive gun - 1 tube
- stem wire - 15 pieces of 10 cm
- colored adhesive tape - 1 union.
- shilo - 1 pc.
- chancellery knife - 1 pc.
- brushes are one thin and one wide
- scissors - 1 pc.
- gloves-1-2 pairs
Marigold
- Gently cut the upper flakes of the cones, leaving three or four rows of well -loose scales at the base of the cone and forming a convex center characteristic of marigolds.
- We paint the blanks with white paint-one.
- We cover the dried cones with yellow paint, and again we wait until they dry.
- After that, we take a bright orange paint and carefully stain the petals of marigolds in the middle. Thus, a colorful color characteristic of these colors will appear.
- We make an awl recess at the base of the cone and fix the wire with glue.
Crafts from cones: roses
Making a rose from cones will not be difficult, since the cones themselves are already similar to roses.
Roses
- To begin with, paint the blanks with white water -based paint and wait until it dries.
- After that, cover the bumps of pink, red or any other paint, depending on what roses you like.
- Attach the stalks from the wire with glue and awl to the base of the rose.
Crafts from cones: tulips
To make tulips, choose not yet blossomed cones. Then you will get delicate spring buds.
The necessary materials and tools:
- 10 pine cones
- white water -based paint - 100 ml
- packaging of pink paint or other color we need
- picking - 1 pc.
- universal glue or adhesive gun - 1 tube
- wire for stems of 10 pieces of 20 cm
- colored adhesive tape - 1 union.
- shilo - 1 pc.
- chancellery knife - 1 pc.
- brushes are one thin and one wide
- scissors - 1 pc.
- gloves-1-2 pairs
Unwinded cones will be required
- First, we carefully cover with white water -based paint so that the color of our flowers is bright and rich.
- Then we apply the color we need on top of white paint.
- And in the end, when everything dries, attach the wire stem with glue and awl to the base of the tulip.
You may not need stalks of colors - if your bouquet is now fashionable, you plan to put in a low box or if you make a wreath of these wonderful colors. If, nevertheless, you need a stem, just carefully wrap the wire with colored tape. As leaves and decor for the bouquet, everything is suitable - moss, artificial leaves, leaves from unprocessed fabric. You can also use dried heather or create a combined bouquet of flowers created by you, and live grass, leaves and twigs of trees.
Try to even do the same type of flowers, make them as different as possible in shape and shade. After all, nature is characteristic of diversity and not a single person can find even two identical tulips. In this variety - all the beauty of nature and its living energy.
Crafts from cones: Christmas wreath of flowers made of cones
In order to create a modern and stylish wreath, we will need:
- pine cones - 1 kg and alder - 20 pcs.
- the basis for the wreath is 1 pc.
- glue gun or one tube of glue, silver paint - 2 spray
- chancellery knife - 1 pc.
- brushes - one thin and one wide
- scissors - 1 pc.
- gloves for a pair for each participating in the creation of a wreath
You can take the paint both gold and pink with brilliance and mother -of -pearl. You can use various beads, branches and bumps of thuja at your discretion.
the beauty
- To begin with, we will make flowers from pine cones. We cut off the top, leaving two, three or four rows of scales at the base.
- Paint the blanks and the base for a wreath of paint in several layers.
- When the paint dries, with the help of glue, fix the flowers and decor from the cones of alder and twigs in random order so that the base is not visible. Let the glue dry - and your magic wreath is ready!
That's all! Autumn hope that our master class will inspire you to work.