Doing needlework for a long time, but never heard that you can make a flower from wire and nail polish? This is not difficult, and most importantly - cheap, and the varnish just needs to be used thickened, so if you still have not fully used colored bottles, it's time to start creating.
Materials
To make a flower from wire and varnish, you need the following:
- Thin wire for the frame.
- Pliers, pliers.
- Nail polish in various shades with a wide brush.
To work with wire, you can use scissors and a rod for winding instead of special tools. Prepare a flat surface on which to dry the workpieces.
How to make a flower from varnish and wire
These handmade masterpieces are actually not difficult to make. The point is that the previously created wire frame is covered with slightly thickened varnish, connecting the wire rings and forming flat internal "fillings" of the contour on their basis.
The frame can be created for each petal and leaf individually, and then assemble, and twist the flowers and twigs first, and then decorate them.
Details for coloring should be small, ideally such that the varnish brush covers them in one go. You can, of course, take any other synthetic brush of a suitable size. Only it will be problematic to wash when changing colors. At the same time, the varnish should be thicker so that it dries before it drains into your petal.
Flower of wire and nail polish step by step
If all the materials and necessary tools have been prepared for you, you can begin to work. The sequence is as follows:
- Take a thin wire (ideally special for needlework) and cut it with pliers or even scissors, although after your work they may become unusable. Pieces can be prepared so long that it is enough to twist one petal or the entire product. A flower of wire and varnish is made precisely on the frame and, starting with it.
- Using round-nose pliers, any existing rod, or other suitable tool, shape the wire parts into a ring (petal) shape. At the bottom where the petals will connect, twist the ends of the wire to secure the outline of the petal.
- If the flower is made on a common frame, proceed to twisting the remaining petals in sequence, and then immediately form a stalk from the two ends of the wire. To do this, you will first need to leave a longer edge at the beginning of the manufacture of the frame. If each petal is created separately, make as many blanks as needed. Assembly will be carried out last.
- Prepare the nail polishes of the right shades. They should be with standard brushes, and not thin for drawing on nails. Think in advance how you will dry the workpieces so that the varnish does not smear and does not stain adjacent parts of a different shade. Consider where you put the petals, or rather dry them by sticking them into a prepared solid, but plastic material (for example, a piece of polymer clay). After you need to gently wipe the frame of the stalk.
- Type varnish on the brush and cover it with a petal. Walk on the back side to remove excess so that there will not form a drop or too thick part of the petal.
- Perform the required number of blanks of the desired shades.
- Leave to dry.
- After drying, assemble the product.
- To complete the flowers made of wire and varnish, complement the decoration (if desired) with beads, beads or other details that harmoniously fit into the composition.
Products from flowers
Now you know how to make a beautiful flower from wire and nail polish. If you perform several of these elements, you can easily make an unusual decoration, for example, this:
- Brooch.
- Earrings.
- Pendant.
- Necklace.
- Ring.
- A bracelet.
- Hairpin.
- Hair band.
- Decor for bags, handmade caskets.
- Products for interior decoration.
There are many options. Connect imagination and create your own unique thing.
As you can see, it is not difficult to make a flower from wire and nail polish, and jewelry made in this way looks like real jewelry from the finest decorative material.