What can you do with autumn leaves? Topiary made of maple leaves. From dried flowers

Autumn is still a special time, when it even seems that the air is saturated not only with the barely perceptible bitterness of fading leaves, but also with romance. Delay this wonderful time of year in your home - make leaf crafts, A site site will give you the most extraordinary ideas.

If you look at photo of crafts made from leaves, then you can see that they do not have any particular practical value - they cannot be used to make a garden tool or some kind of contraption, but the mission of crafts made from tree leaves can rightfully be called beauty. From this original natural material you can make chic autumn compositions, wreaths and bouquets, and just look at roses from maple leaves! By the way, we will be happy to provide this master class to all visitors to our website.

Autumn charm will be fully manifested in leaves, rowan clusters, dried flowers and other gifts of this time of year.

By the way, with the help of such compositions you can make magnificent gifts - who would refuse to accept as a gift a fruit basket decorated with roses from maple leaves?

And what is it worth just such roses - but you can present it to your mother, grandmother, teacher with Best wishes. You can decorate with autumn leaves greeting card, a vase, a photo frame, as you can see, it opens very wide just for creativity and making a variety of gifts.

DIY leaf crafts can be divided into two types, because you can work with either freshly collected leaves or already dried ones. The website describes in detail what manipulations should be performed to dry the leaves.

From flexible “fresh” leaves you can make a variety of flowers - the same roses or some other types of flower crafts from leaves. Combine such “flowers” with other plants; for example, they will look very beautiful in a composition with branches of fern or asparagus. If you decide to make an applique together with a small child (many examples for children's creativity available on our website), then use recently collected leaves for this purpose, and then simply dry the finished picture.

Very common can be called crafts made from dry leaves. Please note that this material is quite fragile, so handle it with care. As for the variety, here you can find interesting ideas for realizing all your ideas. For example, you can decoupage candles with dry leaves, and then use other natural materials to create autumn composition.

Children school age will be happy to use dry material to create a variety of applications, ranging from animal figures to entire landscapes in which the smallest details created from leaves of different shapes.

As you can see, crafts from flowers and leaves may be unusually varied, but in all cases they delight our eyes and bring with them the joy of creativity and subsequent contemplation.

Collecting fallen leaves from trees different forms and shades - interesting activity. Unfortunately, there is no place to store a lush bouquet of foliage in the apartment. But you can find a way out of this situation by trying, for example, to create beautiful pictures from autumn leaves.

To create a small masterpiece, all you need is desire and a little imagination.

To do this, you don’t need any special professionalism; all you need is the desire to create a small masterpiece and a little imagination.

What techniques and options exist?

There are a lot of techniques that can be used to create real works of art from fallen leaves. We list the most popular options:

Three-dimensional paintings;
Floating leaves on the canvas;
Paintings made from painted dried leaves;
Landscapes with leaf prints;
Stamped paintings;
Flat paintings with dry herbs and leaves;
Landscape;
Portraits;
Application;
Graphic;
Paintings created using mosaic technique;
Bulk paintings made of leaves.

Execution styles in the photo

This picture looks like a real work of art

Original interior decoration

Painted leaves will help create a spectacular composition

Leaf prints can be any color

Painted leaves leave unusual imprints on paper

Combination different colors, leaves and spikelets will help create an incredibly realistic picture

Autumn landscape, “written” by fallen leaves

Mosaic technique allows you to create very unusual and stylish paintings

Such paintings will help diversify any interior.

You can “draw” a beautiful portrait from leaves

Painting “Autumn Girl”

Necessary materials

Fiberboard measuring 50x40 centimeters;
PVA glue;
Acrylic varnish (best matte);
Acrylic paints (in our example we used gold, white, bronze);
Yellow watercolor paint;
Wide brush;
Decorative materials for decorating the canvas: ears of wheat, autumn leaves, twigs, acorns, herbs, rowan or viburnum berries, etc.

Step-by-step instruction

Helpful tip: Before making a picture of autumn leaves, you need to dry them. To do this, place a few leaves between the pages of the book and leave them there for several days. This way they will dry faster and remain perfectly smooth.

Use a fiberboard sheet as a base. Front side make paintings on its rough side.
Mix dry glue with water to form a thick mass that will be easy to attach to. necessary materials. The solution can also be prepared in this way: mix dry glue with flour in a ratio of 6 to 3 and add a little PVA glue.
When the mixture reaches the viscous consistency we need, mix everything well and apply to the frame.
Generously coat the canvas with PVA glue along the entire perimeter of the frame. Let it dry a little. Then apply the pre-prepared mass on top (the layer thickness should be approximately 1 centimeter).
Immediately place ears of wheat on top of it and sprinkle with millet. Press them in as tightly as possible, but so that they remain on the surface.
Then lift the painting and gently shake off any excess grain.
After half an hour, mix PVA glue and acrylic varnish (in a ratio of 1 to 1), cover the ears and millet with the resulting mixture. Immediately after application, the color of the composition will be white, but after drying it will turn transparent.
After the glue and varnish are completely dry, paint the frame with gold paint. To do this, use a wide brush. Next, paint the spikelets with bronze paint.
Pour some white acrylic paint into a small container and add water. This way the paint will go on more evenly.
Also paint the surface of the fiberboard. Do this very carefully so as not to touch the frame. Your fiberboard sheet will look like a canvas.
Once the paint has dried a little, begin applying the background.
Make all strokes smooth. Paint the middle, closer to the top, with white paint.
Next, start darkening the background. The middle should be slightly lighter than the main tone of the canvas. The closer you move to the edges (the frame of the painting), the darker the base color. To do this, after painting the center, add a little gold paint to the white paint.
Then add a little yellow tone. Take yellow watercolor paint, first lightly mixing it with white so that it is not too bright, and paint over the white background a little. Set the workpiece aside until completely dry.
For decoration in our example, we used various autumn leaves, thin birch branches and various dry herbs. You may also need rowan berries, some acorns and flowers.
Take the already dried painting blank and start decorating it. Draw a silhouette of a girl on a landscape sheet. If you don't know how to draw, you can find finished sample. Cut it along the outline.
Next, cut the skirt from the outline and color it top part female silhouette in gold color. You can use the same paint that was used to paint the base. Cut several small strips from the remaining paper. These will be eyelashes.
Glue the top part of the workpiece onto the canvas. Then form a wreath of grass, leaves and rowan berries on the girl’s head. To fix it on the canvas, mix PVA glue and acrylic paint in a 1:1 ratio. You will use this mixture to attach other parts in the future.
Using the previously prepared layout, make a girl’s skirt from leaves. Glue them in rows, starting from the hem and going up.
Attach several branches with leaves near the girl’s hands. You can also use additional decorative elements.
Glue branches and leaves on both sides of the girl, laying them out in the shape of a tree. Glue them from the top level, gradually moving down.
In the lower left corner of the picture, glue several leaves, blades of grass, small flowers and acorns there.
If there is still free space left in the painting, you can fill it in the same way or simply paint it with gold paint.
After finishing the work, paint the entire picture with a mixture of varnish and glue. This will make it more voluminous and shiny.

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Large maple leaf

What do you need for work?

A sheet of plywood or thick cardboard;
Pencil;
Maple leaves;
PVA glue;
Brush or sponge.

Stages

Take a small sheet of plywood or thick cardboard and draw on it with a simple pencil outline of a maple leaf.
Prepare the collected autumn leaves. You can dry them in a book. This will take several days. You can also use more in a fast way drying: place the leaves on parchment and place in the oven for 5-10 minutes, preheated to approximately 120°C.
Place the dry sheets along the contour of the drawing on the plywood, gradually filling the entire sketch. Next, grease each of them with PVA glue and secure it to the base of the picture. Set the workpiece aside until completely dry.
Please note that after the glue has completely dried, the sheets will become very hard. If there are any excess edges left, you can carefully trim them with nail scissors.
Glue the dry blank to a sheet of plywood or cardboard. To make it stick better, use superglue.
To make the stem for our large decorative leaf, take a straight twig and also attach it with superglue.

Master class on making crafts

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Final result

Video: Application "Fish" from autumn leaves

Other ideas using photo examples

You will be interested in making this applique with your children.

Please note: varnished painting looks better quality

An original approach to the standard method

Exclusive relief painting

Leaves white will help to depict snow in the picture

Colorful leaves various shapes will help you create a portrait of a loved one

Autumn crafts and paintings look very beautiful and original. It’s especially fun to create them with little children. The work is, of course, painstaking, but in the end you will get a unique piece of jewelry that you can give to your family or, for example, use to decorate your interior.

Autumn evokes the desire to capture the play of colors not only in memory, but also in the house where for long winter evenings you will be able to see, touch, and breathe in such a beautiful charm of autumn with a slight touch of bitterness.

You can decorate your home, succumbing to the impulse inspired by autumn landscapes, by simply and unpretentiously collecting multi-colored maple leaves from the nearest park and placing them throughout the apartment one at a time (using tall narrow glasses or vases) or in armfuls, like flaming bouquets.

But if available small quantity time and a minimum of effort, you can build from them real works of art that will still for a long time will please the eye and serve as a real decoration for your home.

Other crafts from autumn gifts nature:

— Crafts from chestnuts, spikelets and other gifts of nature
— Crafts from acorns
— Pumpkin crafts
— Crafts from pine cones
— Crafts from twigs and twigs
— Crafts from dried flowers

Pendants and garlands made of maple leaves

You need to take two or three leaves, preferably different sizes, cover them clear varnish or dip them in paraffin melted in a water bath, and then tie them together with a thread, which can be decorated with beads to match the leaves and, making a loop out of it, hang it, for example, under the ceiling of a children's room.

You can complicate the task by collecting leaves treated in this way into a garland. From which it is easy to create an intricate pattern, fixing it on the wall, or around a picturesque branch placed in a vase, or placing it in a high-hanging pot of flowers and simply letting it hang freely along the wall. If you combine several of these garlands, you will get a bright curtain for the window.

Maple leaf wreaths

Another popular fall craft is maple leaf wreaths. You can either simply weave a wreath of leaves, just as you did with flowers in the summer, or you can do something more intricate. In this case, the wreath is made from birch or other branches, and leaves, acorns, ribbons, cones and other gifts of nature are used for its decoration.

Read also:

What else can be made from cones.

Decorate candles and candlesticks with leaves

Leaves dried under a press or iron can be pasted over glass jar, cover with clear decoupage varnish, and place a candle inside. The result is an original lamp that can decorate any romantic evening. Thick candles are decorated in the same way - the leaves are simply glued or tied to their surface. It looks very unusual, especially if you use candles of light, dim colors.

Roses and bouquets of maple leaves

Roses made from maple leaves deserve a separate theme, from which you can collect not only bouquets, but also tie them into wreaths, decorate wickerwork with them, and lovers of vintage style can easily fit such decorations into their interior by covering flowers made from maple leaves with gold or silver paint.

It is very easy to make roses from maple leaves, which you then collect into one large bouquet. These flowers will delight you all winter. Plus this interesting idea For little surprise girl from guy. These roses are made in an easy way - just fold maple leaves and wrap them around the workpiece. Don't forget to bend the edges, like a real rose. Here's the detailed one step by step wizard class on making roses from maple leaves and a bouquet of them:

And here are some more craft ideas made from these roses. You can use them to make a topiary, which you read about below, a wreath, decorate paintings and much more, and even bouquets of dry leaves can be quite varied:

An autumn girl was walking, teasing with her outfit,
Warming in the velvet light.
And with that girl, having met the gaze,
We suddenly forget about summer...

Svetlana Efimova 2

D Good afternoon, my dear friends!

Today, I share with you my new experience in needlework. It will be a picture of autumn leaves, I wanted to call it: girl - autumn. Actually, I didn't plan to do this job. But, at work, there was an annual crafts competition, from autumn materials. The boss asked me to make some crafts from natural materials. As a boss, would you refuse a request? And I wasn’t going to refuse this request, it’s handicraft! And I really like handicrafts. This is what I ended up with.

Painting of autumn leaves: girl – autumn.

For work I took:

Fibreboard – 50 x 40 cm;
Natural materials - ears of wheat, a bunch of autumn leaves, twigs, acorns, rowan berries, flowers, grass, millet;
PVA glue;
Acrylic matte varnish;
Acrylic paints - gold, bronze and white;
Watercolor paint – yellow.

As a basis for the painting, I took a piece of fiberboard measuring 40 x 50 cm. I chose the front side for the painting wrong side Fiberboard, i.e. not smooth))) There was a scratch right in the middle, but it doesn’t matter, I’ll decorate it.

I decided to decorate the picture frame using the terra technique. For this, I needed a mixture into which I would press ears of wheat and millet. Usually putty is used for this, and I was sure that I had it. But during the whole break, I didn’t find it, it turned out that it was over, but I didn’t want to go to the store... But I had dry glue for tiles and I decided to experiment. Let the glue be the basis of the mixture. I needed to get a medium-thick mass into which wheat and millet could be pressed. In this case, the mixture should eventually harden and stick firmly to the frame. And I did this, mixed: tile glue (6 parts) + flour (3 parts) + PVA glue. I actually used PVA instead of water. That is, as soon as the mass became the consistency I needed, I stopped adding it.

Frame mix

First, I generously coated the canvas with PVA glue along the entire perimeter, in the place of the future frame. After letting the PVA dry a little, I began to apply the experimental mass, in a layer of about 1 cm, in advance.

Applied the base for the frame

And she immediately began to press ears of wheat into this mass, and then sprinkled it generously with millet. She pressed everything in so that the wheat and millet were pressed in, but at the same time were clearly visible.

Pressed wheat and millet

Then, she put the picture on its edge and shook off the excess millet.

After about 30 minutes, I mixed PVA glue and acrylic varnish in equal proportions and covered the wheat and millet with this composition. When you apply this composition, it is white, but after drying it becomes transparent.

Covered with a composition of PVA glue and acrylic varnish

When the mixture of glue and varnish had dried, I painted the frame generously with gold paint. I painted with a wide brush. And after drying, I went over the ears of wheat with bronze paint.

Now, finally, the picture itself of autumn leaves. I want to say right away: I am not friendly with drawing, and especially with painting with paints! I painted it as I thought.))) I poured white acrylic paint into a separate container and diluted it lightly with water, so the paint would be applied more evenly. Then, I painted the surface of the fiberboard (without touching the frame). Thus, I prepared the canvas by lightly priming it. By the way, in the end, it looked like the painting was made on canvas. When White paint dried, I began to apply the background of the picture. I made all the strokes smooth, semicircular or something (I don’t know what artists call it). In the middle, closer to the top, I painted it with white paint again. Then she began to darken the background, bringing it closer to the edges. To do this, in a container with white acrylic paint, gradually, began to add gold. The further to the edges, the more gold I added, making the tone darker.

Painted the fiberboard while making the background

After looking at the result, I wanted to add a yellow tone. Acrylic yellow paint, I didn’t have it, so I took it watercolor paints. Mixing white and yellow watercolor paints, I went right behind the edge of the white background. That's it, I put the painting aside until the paints were completely dry.

For this work, I collected a few different autumn leaves, thin birch branches, and grass. Also, twigs with rowan berries, acorns, flowers from narwhal flower beds (luckily they weren’t fined))). But my husband found the highlight for me. While helping to collect acorns, I found a sleeping dragonfly (it’s good that it was no longer alive).

I placed the leaves and flower petals between the pages of the books, so they stayed with me for about two days. I had them in my work, only slightly dried out.

But first, I drew a silhouette of a girl on paper (I found it on the internet) and applied it to the picture to determine the size.

I drew a silhouette of a girl

Then she cut off the skirt and painted the girl with gold paint. It could have been acrylic, but I had gold spray paint))). From the waist, I cut off a small pointed piece, these will be eyelashes.

Painted the “girl” with gold paint

Then, she glued the girl to the place that she had decided on in advance. I didn’t take pictures of my further steps, because... I'll tell you in words.

She formed a wreath for the girl from grass, leaves and twigs with rowan berries. Everything was glued using a mixture of PVA glue and acrylic varnish (in proportions 1/1). In the future I used this composition. Let me explain why I used exactly this composition. Before I started making the painting, I scoured the Internet in search of how to preserve the color of autumn leaves. And I found information that the color and elasticity of autumn leaves can be preserved, including with the help of this composition. Other options did not suit me (I won’t write about them).

I continue. The skirt was made from leaves. I glued it in rows, starting from the hem, going higher.

The bodice of the dress was made from flower petals.

Since, initially, there was a scratch on the fiberboard, I glued a twig with leaves in its place. And she glued the dragonfly, spreading its wings. I really liked this dragonfly.

I made a girl, glued a dragonfly and a twig

On both sides of the girl, I glued twigs and leaves, trying to imitate trees. I started gluing from the top level, then, going lower, I glued the next branches and leaves.

And in the lower left corner I glued panicles, small twigs of flowers and a few acorns.

And further! While examining the work, I discovered that there were unpainted areas on the frame. Therefore, I once again went over the frame with gold paint.

Glued grass and acorns

Then, I went over all the leaves, twigs and flowers again with a mixture of glue and varnish.

That's all. My painting of autumn leaves is ready. Of course, this is most likely not a painting, but a panel... But let it be a painting, I want it so bad)))

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