Making flowers from paper for many has becomefavorite hobby. After all, the paper was and remains one of the most accessible and surprisingly plastic materials. What kind of paper for flowers we do not use - and crepe, and parchment, and colored, and velvet and even ordinary office! And what extraordinary flowers we can make! Moreover, the techniques for manufacturing are also very, very different, ranging from all known origami to highly popular quilling. However, even without some special technique, and even with minimal skills in working with paper, you can make flowers of fabulous beauty with your own hands. The most grateful material in this case will be corrugated or crepe paper. Let's, for example, try to make your own punch. This magical flower is also called Christmas or Bethlehem star. He is really very handsome, but in paper version it turns out surprisingly similar to the real one. So we store green and red paper and make a punch with our own hands.

Corrugated Paper Poincette

The flower turns out simply as alive! By the way, the living flowers of poinsetia are not only red, but also white, pink or beige. To do such a miracle with your own hands, you need only patience, accuracy, materials and tools. To make a punch, we need:

• corrugated paper of red, yellow, and two shades of green,
• thin wire;
• scissors,
• glue (not water based).

Take a roll of light green paper and cut offlengthwise (along the corrugation) strip on the length of the roll and a width of three to four centimeters. Now from the strip begin to make the stamens of our punch. We fold the paper with a dense long bundle, and at the end we tie a knot. Excess paper on the bundle is cut. We cut off the end of the flagellum with the nodule by the length of the future stamen. In the same way, we make seven or nine stamens. Of yellow corrugated paper, similar to green stamens do about the same number of yellow stamens. We lay them aside and proceed to make flower petals. From the roll of red corrugated paper, we cut off the transverse strips (the cut line runs perpendicular to the direction of the corrugation). Its width should be about ten to fifteen centimeters, but in general, be guided by the desired size of the petals of the punch. Next, cut these strips into rectangles. In total, we need seven to ten rectangular blanks (by the number of petals). We make petals. The rectangular workpiece is folded in half along the corrugation and cut off the edges, giving the workpiece the shape of a petal (like an inverted silhouette of a mushroom). We curl the edges of the petal by rolling a paper with a tube, and we get a petal of poinsetia with a sharp apex and two sharp denticles along the edges. In the same way we make six more petals. Then cut off from the red roll one more transverse strip about four centimeters wide and a piece of wire about ten centimeters long. Lubricate the wire with glue and wrap it with red corrugated paper, simply overlapping overlapping the strands of wire with a cut strip. This we will have a petiola of a flower. We produce six more such petioles-twists. Now we glue the petioles to the petals-billet, leaving about a third of the wire free. The red petals are ready. It remains to make several exactly the same petals of dark green paper. So we repeat the whole process, starting with cutting out the green rectangular blanks and ending with gluing the cuttings to the petals. We take yellow and green stamens, we collect them in a bundle and connect them with a wire. Cut off the transverse strip of light green paper and wrap the bundle of stamens, forming one thick peduncle of this colorful bouquet. Cut off a long piece of wire and put it between the stamen foot and the free end of the green stripe of paper. Fix the wire with glue and make a couple of turns, hiding it under the paper. Continue to wind the paper on the wire around the stamens foot, gradually adding red petals and placing them around a bunch of stamens in two or three tiers. The first tier - four petals, the lower tiers - the other petals, located in staggered order with respect to the upper ones. We continue to wind the wire with green paper, adding already green petals. They are also in staggered order, but at a distance from each other along the height of the stem. We fix the end of the paper strip with glue and evaluate our creation.

Poincare from scrapbooking paper

Paper for scrapbooking is unique in its kind. You can do it yourself, but you can not replace it with something else. This paper differs in density and is labeled. To make a punch, we need:

• green and red paper with a density of 116 grams,
• cardboard for the pattern of petals,
• tweezers for scrapbooking,
• finished stamens,
• golden powder,
• pigment ink,
• glue,
• hairdryer for embossing.

We draw on the cardboard three simple petals of differentsize. Notice that the petal looks like an ordinary pointed leaf with a short and wide handle. Cut out the patterns and cut from the red paper into five petals of each size. From the green paper, we cut out leaves according to the shape of the leaves of the living flower of the poinsetia. We moisten the blanks of the red petals with water, achieving the softness of the blotter. We take each petal, add it in half in height and use tweezers to lay the folds, crimping the paper. The folds should lie down from the edge of the petal at an angle to its middle. Similarly, the green leaves of the punch are corrugated. We unfold the petals and leaves, give them shape, forming cracks and waves, and leave to dry. Dry flower parts will become stiff and will retain shape. While these details are drying, we make stamens. We cover them with pigment ink, sprinkle with golden powder and heat with a blow-dryer for embossing. Now that the stamens have become golden, and the petals and leaves have dried, you can collect the flower. Cut out a circle of red paper and paste on it in a circle the five largest red petals. The second tier glue the middle petals, placing them in a staggered manner with respect to the lower ones. The third tier we fasten the smallest petals, placing them in the intervals between the petals of the middle tier. We make a hole in the middle of the flower, insert a bundle of gold stamens into it and fix them from below. On the underside of the flower, we glue several green leaves. That's all, a punch from scrapbooking paper is ready. Now it can be used to decorate any crafts. It's so easy to make this extraordinary flower out of paper. So do not be afraid to try - you always need to start somewhere. Working with paper is nice and easy, so use it at the initial stage of mastering the art of making flowers. Poinsetia is really very beautiful and spectacular, and it will be possible to make it yourself with the hands of even novice needlewomen. Dare! And all of you will definitely succeed. We advise you to read:

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