Plastic suede, or foamiran, is a foamy material often used by decorators and florists to create attractive and environmentally friendly products, including jewelry and accessories for the interior. It is used by needlewomen to create artificial flowers indistinguishable from natural. The material is plastic, holds its shape well and is pleasant to the touch. In this master class, we will consider how to make flowers from foamiran on the example of hydrangea. There are many applications for the resulting product. For example, for making a wedding bouquet, hair clips or brooches.
Hydrangea Materials
Before you make flowers from foamiran, you need to prepare everything you need. You can buy a set for scrapbooking, which includes a thin plastic suede. It is not necessary to use natural tones to create a bouquet. If you show imagination and work out the details, the buds of any color will look natural. To create hydrangea from foamiran we will use a material 5 mm thick.
From the materials you will also need:
- transparent glue;
- iron;
- scissors;
- oil pastel;
- floristic ribbon;
- wire;
- brush;
- stamens.
Making Hydrangea Flower Petals
You can cut hydrangea petals according to the pattern or cut a foamiran leaf into 2x2 cm squares and make flowers of any shape from them. If you use two blanks to create flowers - with two and four leaves, then the inflorescence will look more voluminous and more natural. The fact is that in nature, a hydrangea flower usually looks like this: one petal at the top, then a pair of petals and another at the bottom. Another option is a pair of petals on top and two on the bottom. Such flowers for hydrangea from foamiran can be made if you want to get an inflorescence indistinguishable from the present, but the process is too time-consuming. Therefore, it is easier to collect an inflorescence from flowers with four petals or from two paired petals. If you combine both types, you get an option that is very close to a real inflorescence.
Foamiran Hydrangea: tinted petals
Choose the shade of colors yourself. In nature, the inflorescence of this shrub is most often blue, pink or white. If you take white foamiran for work, it is easy to tint with oil pastel and give hydrangea flowers almost any shade. Color is applied to the petals on both sides. To make the bud more natural, it is necessary to apply oil pastels of several colors on each leaf. When using blue material, we cover the middle of the flower with white pastel, crosswise drawing two thick lines along the petals, and then apply small strokes across them. We do this on all blanks, including double leaflets.
Drawing and repeated coloring of petals
To apply a texture to hydrangea from foamiran we will use a mold in the form of a sheet. If it is not, you can make a do-it-yourself mold from polymer clay or take corrugated paper with a similar structure.
- We heat the parts on the iron: we bring the petal to the tip of the sole and then apply it to the mold, making a print.
- Repeat on all the petals on both sides, turning them over. We apply the structure to all the blanks.
- Now we color the flowers again, but for this we use green pastel. We tint the edges of the leaves with it.
- We apply purple pastel, covering completely all parts of the workpiece, except the middle.
The coating makes veins on the petals more noticeable and adds to the inflorescence of naturalness. You can use dry pastel by applying and blending it with a brush.
Inflorescence assembly
When all the elements are stained, in the center of each flower you need to make a hole for the stamen with an awl or a burner. After processing all the blanks, we begin to shape them, cleaving the petals several times and twisting them between the fingers. Then we straighten the flower, heat it on the iron and bend the edges of each petal, folding in half and stretching. A sharp bend should result.
We start picking flowers: we put transparent glue on the tip of the stamen and put on it one part with four petals or two with a pair. You can do terry inflorescences. Then we fasten the finished flowers to each other, forming a bouquet. We fix it with wire. Cover the leg with corrugated paper or floral tape. Optionally, you can add leaves to the composition. They are cut from green foamiran and the structure is applied in the same way as on flower petals. To fix in a bouquet, a wire is glued to the underside of the leaves. Now the product is ready for use in floristic compositions or for creating jewelry.