Even if you love coffee, you shouldn't refuseenjoy using aromatic beans for slightly different purposes. For example, they can serve as excellent material for a simple, elegant and very effective craft - a topiary. Crafts for the interior have become fashionable now. Of course, some of them will require both time and a certain amount of skill from you. However, some "handmade" products are so easy to make that almost anyone can do it. Firstly, you will see in practice how easy it is. Secondly, you will be able to master the basics of making a topiary for the interior. And thirdly, you will be pleasantly surprised by the spectacular look of the finished craft. In addition, you will not need so many materials to make a coffee tree, and there are plenty of options for such a cozy interior accessory. So give free rein to your imagination. But first, find out how to make a coffee tree with your own hands. Let's try?
Materials and Tools
The production of coffee trees is actuallyanyone can do it. And it doesn't take much time at all. The longest part of this process is gluing the coffee beans. However, many craftswomen claim that this process is calming and allows you to collect your thoughts. The following materials and tools are required for the craft:
- The basis of the topiary is the crown. Any light round object will do, from a plastic ball to a newspaper crumpled into a ball and wrapped in threads.
- The trunk of a coffee tree.A regular branch, thick wire, plastic or cardboard tube. It all depends on how you want the trunk of your tree to look - branched or single, curved or straight, thin or wide.
- Capacity for topiary. It can also be any and depends on the size of the tree. A small flower pot, and a cup (mug), and a low vase are suitable. The main thing is that the dishes should be stable.
- Coffee beans. It is advisable to take immediately the whole package, so that the whole topiary of the topiary is enough.
- Filling filler. This is what you fill the tank with. They can be plaster, sand, foam, floristic sponge or ordinary garden soil.
- Brown gouache or acrylic paints. This is necessary for painting the crown. If you are not embarrassed that the surface of the ball will be seen between the grains, you can do without colors.
- Materials for decoration - beads, ribbons, twine, sisal, seed beads and other embellishments.
- A glue gun or any other glue that firmly anchors the coffee beans to a round base.
Well, that's basically all you need for this cute craft.
Manufacturing
As we have already said, any will do for the crowna small plastic ball. If you are using a ready-made ball, then you simply need to cut a hole in it into which the trunk will be inserted. If you have not found such a blank, make a topiary base from a regular newspaper. To do this, crumple a newspaper sheet into a ball of the desired size, and then wrap it with regular threads. Apply the turns randomly and tightly enough (but not too much!). The main thing is that the threads fix the shape of the ball. After this, also make a hole for the trunk in the newspaper base. And now we need to glue the crown with coffee beans. This is conveniently done by placing the ball in a container of a suitable size so that half of the sphere rises above the dishes. After this part of the crown is decorated, simply turn the ball over and glue the remaining part of the crown with coffee beans. How to glue the beans is up to you. Usually, a layer of beans is glued first, turning them convex side up. In this case, the grains are laid in rows, trying to place them in a checkerboard pattern in relation to the grains of the previous row. After this, the crown is decorated with a second layer of coffee beans, but they are turned over with the flat side up. In the second layer, the grains are laid much less often, covering the space between the grains of the first layer. While the glue dries, let's work on the trunk. If you have a plastic or cardboard tube of a suitable diameter, then simply cut it to the desired height. The trunk can also be made of wire by twisting several pieces together. Such a trunk can be easily bent, giving it the desired shape. You can use a branch of a real tree. This trunk can be completely unadorned. But trunks made of other materials are desirable to disguise. Usually, to decorate the trunk of a coffee tree, twine or ribbons are used, which are wrapped around the trunk, laying neat and tight turns in a spiral. After the glue has completely dried, we put the crown on the trunk and fix it with glue if necessary. Now we fix our tree in the container. The safest way is to fill the container with plaster, and the easiest way is to pour sand or soil into it. The container itself can also be decorated with ribbons or twine if the dishes look unpresentable. Additional decorations are already at your discretion. You can sprinkle beads or seed beads on top of the plaster (sand). You can also glue a few beads to the crown. You can "plant" decorative floristic insects on the tree. In short, here everything depends solely on your taste and your imagination.
Coffee Tree Options
The proposed version of coffee topiary for youis far from the only one. The first thing I would like to draw your attention to is the possibility of making a tree with several crowns. Then you simply make a branched trunk and put a crown on each branch. Just keep in mind that there should not be too many crown-balls. Their optimal number is three. It is advisable to make crowns of different diameters. Coffee trees (that is, their crowns) do not necessarily have to be perfectly round. For example, a crown in the shape of a heart or a cloud will look romantic. For such a craft, they usually use blanks cut out of foam plastic, and then also glue them with coffee beans. Another amazing idea is to sow a living lawn under the tree. To do this, fill the container with garden soil and sow the seeds of ordinary lawn grass in it. You will only have to water and mow your mini-lawn on time. Do not forget that topiary is is not just an interior decoration. It is also called a tree of happiness. And if you managed to make a coffee tree, you can thematically accentuate it depending on which room you are going to put this lucky talisman in. If its place is the kitchen, then decorate the crown, for example, with a cinnamon stick or a vanilla pod. If you want to put a coffee tree in the bathroom, then use sea pebbles or shells as decoration. By the way, you can make a coffee tree with your own hands as a gift. Just do not forget to take into account the habits and hobbies of the person to whom you are going to present this gift. In a word, fantasize, create and build. Everything is in your hands. Good luck!
