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Flower Making

Flowers play vital role in decorations, weather it is home decoration or any event decoration, flowers have significant importance in our daily life. It gives elegant look to your decorations and enhances the beauty of your event. Flowers are not only used for decorations, it is also a lovable gift for the loved ones. People use real flowers as well as artificial flowers in different parties; both add beauty and give colorful look to the occasion. Majority people use artificial flowers in home decoration because they can go well with other accessories of house and can be used for long time.

Today I am going to tell you, how to make flowers at home in a small budget. If you are creative and have artistic fingers then you can make many things at home to decor and save lots of money. The things you needed are oil paints, flour, white glue, little bit oil, transparent bags, airtight jars, copper wire, floral tape and any cold cream. Let’s move to the method of flower making, which is the easiest way for the beginners and every one can adopt this method to décor their house. Even children can also make flowers by using this method and enjoy their holidays in a different way.

First, you have to make transparent smooth dough. Mix flour, white glue and oil to make dough smooth, again mix well to make it plain and soft. Add oil color of your choice in this doe and again mix it well, until color is blend evenly in the dough. Apply cold cream in the inner part of the transparent bag and put the dough into it, keep it in an airtight jar and leave it for rest about 1 day. Now your dough is ready to use.

Make petals, bud of a flower, join these petals one by one by overlapping each other on the bud to give a real flower look; you can use cutters for the proper shape of the petals. In the bottom of the flower attach copper wire as a stem and cover it with floral tape to give proper look of a real steam. Make different flowers by using different cutters and techniques. Put these flowers in a beautiful vase and place it on your side table, dining tablet etc. You can use it as a gift too for your friend and family.

Ribbon Flowers

Ribbon flowers are perfect decoration for all things from gifts to hat. They can be used as jewelry, and also look great on outfits, they can also fix on your hand bags, it gives new look to your bags and outfits and you can make several accessories, that can be used on hair and anywhere you can. In a little time and with few materials you can make a complete bunch of flowers. These flowers can be used for several purposes.

For the flower making the things you need are 1 inch wide ribbon, beads, needle and sewing thread.

Take a strip of ribbon of your own choice, about 1 inch wide. What you have to do is, just take the ribbon, start with the corner and make a fold from the left side of the ribbon outwards and keep rolling from left to right. Make long folds according to the shape of the flowers. Keep going on folding until the ribbon ends. Now fix it with glue or sewing needle and twist the center to make it more reliable and with the help of floral tape attach it with the green pipe and cover it with floral tape. You can fix these flowers on baskets or even on outfits. Some girls love to fix it on their handbags that look so cute.

Tissue Flowers

Flowers are the most important and most beautiful home decoration. Artificial flowers are the best way for home decoration. They are delicate, soft and colorful as the natural flowers. Today I am going to tell you about very delicate and beautiful flowers. Yes we will talk about the tissue flowers. They are very easy to make and looks wonderful. If you are going to arrange any dinner or lunch party then making tissue flowers are the best way to decorate the dinning table with these delicate flowers.

All the things are present in your home and the things are different color of tissue papers, pipe cleaner of green color for the stem and a scissor. The procedure is quite easy just make a set of different color of tissue to make different colorful petals of the flowers. Now place the tissues on the table and cut it into square shape. Now make folding on both sides and tie it from the center with the pipe cleaner to make the stem as well.

Now separate the layer of the each petal and give it the shape of the flower. You will see how beautiful it looks. Repeat the process to make several flowers and then make a bunch of different colors of flowers and place them in the vase. They look really good and elegant especially on the dinning table.

Mud Flowers

mud flowersThings are changing and old trends are replacing with the new ones. Art never die but changes its shapes with the passage of time. You can make things better by using your imagination and ideas. Home decoration is also an art which defines your aesthetic sense. It also tells about the personality of a person that how organized and manageable he/she is. Today I am going to share with you that, how you can make things of art and craft by using your creativity.

Mud 2Today I will tell you that, how you can make beautiful flowers by using mud. The things you needs are fine quality mud, oil colors, spray paints, glitters, cutter, floral tape and glue. Fine quality mud is available in the craft shops. The mud you buy is in the form of dough, so you can easily make different pattern of the flowers with the help of cutter. If you know the art of flower making then you can make flowers without the help of the cutter.

mudCut different sizes of the petals and let them dry. Then color these flowers, you can use oil color, poster color or simply spray paints. After coloring, place it to dry. And then make arrangement of the different petals of the flowers and fix them with the help of glue and you can use straw for the stem. Then cover the stems with the floral tape to give natural effect and to make it more beautiful and elegant. You can decorate it with glitter and different beads also. Now it is ready to place in your living room.

Fabric Flowers

Fabric flowerYou can make flowers from different stuff like fabric, paper, and organza. Artificial flower making is a fun and great way to use scrap and give a new wonderful look to it. They look so cute in your drawing rooms, living rooms. You can also place them on bag, on hair bows, on scrapbook or any where you want. There is hell of ways to make fabric flowers. The things you need are Fabric, scissors, thread, button, sewing needle. Only a little sewing is required in making fabric flower. You can make flower similar to rose or camellia blossom. Plain cotton or calicos are the best fabrics for flower making. You can make several layers of flower with the same fabric or use contrast to give fancy look.

FabricFlowers 2What you have to do is just cut two pieces of 4 inch square fabric, two pieces of 3 inch square and 2 pieces of 2 inch squares. Fold each piece of fabric in half and then folded the rest side also, then unfold the ends of the fabric in scalloped shape. Unfold the fabric and make cuts between the scallops toward the centre of the flower. The cut will make it simpler to fluff and make the flower three dimensional.

Arrange the large petals on the top and pull the petals of lower flower up the slit between the outer petals to give it fluffier look. Repeat the same process to make medium and small flowers. Make arrangement of the flowers in such a way that largest petal comes on the bottom and smallest on the top. Use few stitches to join all the layers of the flower from center. You can also use glitter to make it more wonderful and beautiful.