Today we want to offer you a master class in which we will tell you how to make cherry flowers from corrugated paper with your own hands. The step-by-step instructions with photos and detailed descriptions below will teach you how to easily make such wonderful cherry flowers yourself.
Tools and materials Time: 2 hours Difficulty: 4/10
- corrugated paper in pale pink or ivory (for flowers);
- pale green crepe paper (for leaves);
- ready-made stamens for flowers;
- watercolor or gouache paints;
- dry cherry branch;
- white or pale green floral ribbon;
- hot gun or polymer glue;
- scissors;
- brush.
Do you love fruit trees that bloom in spring? What about cherries? We believe many will answer yes! Then our master class is for you. These crepe paper cherry blossoms look so cute in any home, no matter the decor!
Unfortunately, cherry blossoms bloom for a very short time, lasting only a few days. But don't be upset! Using crepe paper, scissors and glue, you can create a gorgeous cherry blossom branch that will delight your eyes all year round!
Step-by-step instructions with photos
Well, let's start our master class on making, and to be precise, we'll start making cherry flowers from corrugated paper.
Step 1: Cut out the petals
- Fold a strip of corrugated paper in a soft pink or pastel shade like an accordion into 5 layers. Make sure the strips of crepe paper are vertical.
- Cut out the petals as indicated on the template. Thus, you should end up with a connected segment of five petals.
Step 2: make the stamens
- Take two ready-made double stamens and fold them in half.
- Cut out a small thin piece of light green crepe paper and fold it into quarters.
- Insert a folded piece of green crepe paper between the stamens. Secure the craft with floral tape.
Step 3: Collect the Flower
- Squeeze the base of the petal segment.
- Wrap the petals around the stamens.
- Give the petals a delicate shape. Secure the base of the flower with floral tape.
Step 4: Make the Leaves
- Using the template above, cut out small oblong petals from pale green crepe paper.
- If you couldn't find the perfect shades of green crepe paper, additionally paint the petals with diluted watercolors or gouache.
- Wait for the petals to dry.
Step 5: Collect the Branch
Using a glue gun or polymer glue, glue the flowers and petals evenly onto the dry cherry branch.
We continue to make voluminous fruits and berries. This time it’s a voluminous paper cherry.
Craft materials:
- Red and green colored paper;
- Glue stick, scissors, simple pencil.
Volume cherry step by step
Cherries are created from circles of paper. For one berry you will need 9 circles. Since we are making a branch with two cherries, we need to cut out 18 circles from red paper. Size is determined by personal preference.
Let's make one berry. Set one circle aside and bend 8 in half.
Glue 4 circles together, one side to the other.
And then 4 more. This is for one berry.
In exactly the same way, make two more blanks, from the remaining 8 circles, so that you get two berries in a bunch.
Cut out a V-shaped stem and one or more leaves from green paper.
Glue one part of the folded circles glued together on this side. At this stage, the cherry can be applique if you glue it to a piece of paper and then add a green leaf.
But we need a craft, so we will continue working and glue the two remaining pieces to the back of the circles. The cherries are already ready and, due to their volume, can even be placed vertically.
Master class on making a cherry branch from velor fabric
Author: Margarita Aleksandrovna Grishina, teacher of additional education, Central Children's Center "Globus", Sovetsky district, Ufa, BashkortostanTarget:Introduction to the secrets of making crafts from knitted velor for various purposes.
Tasks:
1.Educational: study the purpose and features of knitted velor, study the technology of working with knitted velor: correct cutting, cutting and sewing.
2.Developmental: develop ideas about the possibilities of crafts from knitted velor, develop skills in sewing technologies, creative imagination and ability, cognitive interest.
3.Educational: to cultivate the ability to cut economically, neatness, perseverance, and the ability to finish the job started.
Purpose: I really want to please myself, family, friends, colleagues with something interesting and unusual related to the coming summer, with the wonderful time that we look forward to every year. The cherry twig craft I offer can become both a toy for a child and a pleasant souvenir, and a decoration for the kitchen, and if you enlarge the pattern several times, you will get a wonderful toy pillow for a child; it can also be used in kindergarten as a beautiful visual material.
Knitted velor materials are used in production, which gives the craft a sophisticated and original look. During classes, children enjoy making crafts from such fabrics, and at the same time they acquire the skills to use knitted velor.
Purpose This master class can be used by all lovers of applied arts, teachers and pedagogues in working with children from 8 years old, as well as kindergarten teachers.
Summer is standing and ringing. The June dawns have gleamed, the July afternoons have rolled in, and the August evenings are ahead. Everything comes and goes, remains only in memory. The days are wonderful, even the mouth feels sweet, dandelions are flying, birds are whistling all around, a light breeze is fluttering like an airy robe.
Summer is when it smells like smoke from the barbecue, raspberries, the sea. It’s when your swimsuit is covered in sand, there are more friends, and when it rains, there are always bubbles in the puddles and children run heartily without umbrellas. With the onset of such a wonderful time as summer, I want to do something with a summer theme. I had the idea to make a series of master classes “Gifts of Nature”.
It can be everything that grows and ripens, which we enjoy, use for food, enjoy beauty and even make creative crafts out of them. Today I dedicate my master class to our beloved cherries.
Some information from history and benefits:
Nature gives us gifts that we use for the benefit of health and pleasure. Cherry is a priceless gift, it is a guest from Europe. In ancient times, our Moscow was buried in cherry blossoms. In the Middle Ages, its healing properties were discovered.
Not only fruits, but also leaves, flowers, seeds and roots have healing qualities. Berries help maintain capillaries and cells youth, strength, elasticity, prevent aging, activate the correct functioning of the brain, fight cancer cells, can lower blood pressure, and the melanin contained helps with insomnia. It is beneficial if eaten for dessert, as it causes the secretion of gastric juice.
Summer is ripening and the cherries are falling
Scattering in the green grass,
The branches stretch higher and higher
Further than the sky in its blue.
The cherries timidly knock on the window,
Hiding my sides from the sun in the leaves,
And swaying on thin legs,
Suddenly they fall down from above.
Cars rush by indifferently
Drawing a crumpled footprint on the ground,
Sticky tires roll fast
By cherry broken fate.
They lie defenseless on the paths
Drops of scarlet juice of the earth,
A curious cat will run by,
A flock of sparrows scurry past...
In the spring the trees bloomed,
We took care of every leaf,
The birds were chased, dropping their feathers,
The night turned on the lanterns for them.
The entire window is covering us with branches,
There are a lot of cherries, a big harvest,
I take off the mosquito net
I just can’t get everything, which is a pity...
Sweet and sour intoxicating juice,
Expiring cherry pie
And the dog settled down sideways,
Waiting for the cooled piece.
(c) Lidia Kaplenkova.
Let's start making crafts:
Required materials and tools:Pieces of velor in brown, dark cherry, green, padding and lining polyester, burgundy and green sewing threads, scissors, needle:
To make a cherry twig you will need patterns of a cherry and a leaf.
Depending on the purpose of the product, we select the scale. If you want to make a pillow toy, everything increases proportionally as much as you wish. I'm posting the patterns:
We prepare templates for work: cherry detail and leaf detail:
We take dark burgundy fabric, secure the pattern with a needle, trace it with a pen and cut it out with a margin of 5 mm. We trace 10 parts. Cut it out. Each cherry will require 5 parts. We will get 2 cherries:
In a similar way, we make blanks for a sheet of green fabric, cut out 2 parts in a mirror image, that is, when cutting, turn the template over onto the fabric and cut it out:
Cut one sheet from the lining padding polyester.
We take 2 cherry blanks and begin to sew them with a buttonhole stitch across the edge along the side. Sew them along the wrong side;
We sequentially sew all 5 parts of the blanks, in a similar way we make the second cherry, while not sewing the first sector to the last fifth:
We sew the last hole, but leaving about 2 or 3 cm unsewn, this hole is necessary for turning it right side out, we also do the same with the second cherry:
Next, turn out the stitched cherries:
We fill both blanks evenly with padding polyester:
Having distributed the stuffing evenly, we sew up the seams with a hidden seam: this is a seam like a basting one, only we grab the weave as we go, alternately on opposite sides of the parts being sewn.
We cut out rectangles from the lining padding polyester: one pattern (12 by 2) cm, and two (7 by 1.5) cm
We twist each rectangle along its length and wrap it with a simple thread.
We cut out rectangles from brown velor so that it is enough to cover the resulting windings:
We sew to make cherry branches:
We sew both small ones to the long branch with a hidden seam in a circle:
We sew two parts of the sheet along the wrong side with a buttonhole stitch, leaving a hole for turning it inside out:
And not only cherries, but also bird cherry, plum and even aspen can bloom on New Year's Eve. Don't believe me? But what about the familiar thing from childhood “They say that on New Year’s Eve, whatever you wish for, everything will always happen, everything will always come true... You just need, they say, to make an effort!” So we will use them so that on the most magical night of the year you can inhale the smell of tangerines along with the aroma of spring flowers!
In the old days, girls cut cherry branches a month before the New Year and put them in water. If during the holidays the twigs were covered with soft white flowers, this was considered a good sign. Yes, in ancient times there were many customs and rituals that the ancestors could not scientifically explain, referring to “otherworldly” power, considering them miracles or indications of fate. Now we know that branches of the same cherry without any magic can bloom in our house not only for the New Year, but also for any other holiday or celebration.
Twig to twig
So, let’s go to the plot of land to get the “blanks” or explore the surrounding area near the high-rise building - “cultivated” cherry or plum trees must grow there. Trim the branches you like with a very sharp knife, but under no circumstances break them off. The fact is that at the fracture site or after cutting with a blunt knife, the conducting vessels that deliver water to the buds and leaves can be damaged. At home, the “amputated” branches should be trimmed again, this time under running cold water.
Flower to flower
If you brought cut branches from the cold, first place them in a bucket and take them to a cool place where they will slowly thaw. Then place the prepared twigs in a vase or jar of water and place in a warm place. Don't forget to change the water every day, otherwise it will rot. Now it remains to wait a week for the buds to swell and their tips to turn white and the petals to emerge. After another seven days, the branches should bloom. The buds will develop and open faster if the branches are often sprayed or each time you change the water, immerse them in slightly warmed (not hot!) water. Flowering can last for one and a half to two weeks, it depends on the cleanliness of the air. You cannot smoke in the room where they bloom - tobacco smoke will destroy the beautiful flowers.
Branches from almost any tree can bloom in a vase, the buds of which appear earlier or simultaneously with the leaves. But a pear or apple tree can be pampered with its flowering much less often, because snow-white or pinkish flowers, according to the law of nature, appear much later than the leaves.
Cold attack
In the old days, it was not without reason that girls cut branches a month before the New Year. And the reason here is not only the magic of New Year’s Eve - it’s just that the twigs of the fruit and berry trees could have frozen properly by that moment. The thing is that under the influence of cold, all active processes in plant life are significantly accelerated. This explains that their “spring” awakening can be caused much earlier after artificial freezing. Therefore, if we haven’t touched nature yet, we ourselves can give the future “flower garden” a cold attack. Place the cut branches (without water!) in the freezer. This way you will ensure that your house will smell like spring throughout the chilly autumn and cold winter! And on New Year's Eve, compositions of flowering twigs will perfectly decorate the festive table!
Narco-cold for flowers
"I noticed one day
What are the lilac bushes in winter?
They bloomed as if in May,
Do you believe me or not? -
It was sung in a once popular song. Experts in the flower business say that this is also possible. In autumn they are dug up and kept in pots in a cool place. As needed, the bushes are taken and subjected to etherization, that is, they are kept in ether vapor for some time, and then taken out into the heat and light. And now - in a couple of weeks the May bouquet is ready! Without this operation, under normal conditions (freezing and then a vase with water), it is very difficult to make this capricious shrub bloom, because lilacs placed in water without roots absorb the life-giving moisture very poorly.
To make this flowering twig you will need:
- corrugated paper in green, white, light pink shades;
- glue stick;
- scissors;
- wire;
- cotton wool
- a twig without leaves.
Make buds. Cut several pieces of wire 5 cm long. Wrap a piece of cotton wool around one of its ends (you can use cotton swab rollers instead). Cut squares with sides of 3 cm from pink paper. Wrap them in cotton wool, giving the shape of a bud.
Cut a strip of green corrugated paper and wrap it tightly around the wire. Make leaves. Cut the green paper into 5x3 cm rectangles, then fold them into a stack and cut them into leaf shapes. Wrap the leaf around the wire and secure the edge with glue.
Start making cherry blossoms. Take cream-colored corrugated paper. Cut rectangles measuring 7x3 cm, cut one of the wide edges into several parts, not reaching 1 cm from the edge and twist the resulting strips into flagella. Wrap the strip around a piece of wire. Cut out 5x3 cm rectangles from white paper and round the edges to create petal-shaped details. Glue 4-5 petals to the blanks with stamens and wrap the wire with green paper.
Combine 2-3 buds and several cherry flowers into a composition and attach them to the branch. Wrap the wire tightly around the base. Decorate the mounting location with strips of green corrugated paper.
apple blossom
To complete this craft, you will need the same materials as for making a cherry blossom branch.
Cut 5x5 cm squares from light pink and white paper. On one of them, draw a flower with five petals. Place them together in a stack so that the template with the drawn part is on top and cut out all the blanks.
Cut several pieces of wire and wrap a small cotton ball around the end of each. Wrap it in cream-colored paper. Then pierce the flower blank with the other end and pull it towards the middle of the flower. Lightly press the underside of the flower against the wire and secure with glue. Then tightly wrap this part with a strip of green corrugated paper, imitating a sepal.
Connect several apple flowers and twist the wire. Tie them to a dry branch. Decorate the attachment point with a strip of brown corrugated paper to match the bark.