A variety of napkin crafts are very popular today. For example, flowers made from them can decorate your kitchen or living room. In addition, making them is not a big deal. All you need is a little patience and desire.
Cooking crafts from napkins. Create a peony
You will need such materials:
- multi-colored paper or napkins of several colors;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- stapler;
- felt-tip pen or marker;
- a tube for cocktails;
- double sided tape;
- paper glue.
Getting started making napkin crafts
Make some ordinary napkins in several colors. I advise you to take napkins in bright colors - red, pink, yellow, lilac, burgundy, fuchsia, white. Put products of the same color in a stack exactly on top of each other. With the help of a clerical knife, you can cut a circle immediately from the entire stack. If there is no knife, then you will have to cut one circle on a single napkin with scissors, then draw a outline on each subsequent separately. If you want to give the flower a more beautiful appearance, you can paint the ends of the stack with a felt-tip pen in a contrasting color. Now fasten all the napkins in the center with a stapler or a pin. If you make additional notches along the edges, the flower will look more elegant. Separately, separate each layer of the stack, lift and squeeze with your hands.
Attach the bud to the stem
As a stem, you can use a green cocktail straw. Use double-sided tape to stick the bottom of the bud to the stick. Such flowers will look great in a vase decorated according to such a principle as decoupage from napkins.
Decoupage technique for a vase or pot for indoor flowers
Vase decoupage is another type of napkin craft. To do this, take a product with a beautiful pattern. Separate the upper thin layer from the rest. You will need only him. You can cut out the application, or you can leave the napkin whole, depending on what kind of pattern you want to get in the end. Face side put the picture on the file. Then gently water the napkin with water or spray the water evenly with a spray bottle or soak it with a wet sponge. You need so much water that the napkin practically swam in a puddle. Straighten it so that there are no folds. This is easy to do, as the napkin is very wet and does not tear. Gently tilt the file and drain the water. Apply it to a flowerpot previously lubricated with PVA glue. You invite the application with your hands or with a small roller. Very, very slowly and carefully remove the file by the corner, leaving only a napkin on the surface. With your fingers (if the drawing is small) or with your whole palm (if large), you expel water and air bubbles from under the layer of paper. It may happen that the picture does not detach from the file. It all depends on what kind of paper towel production. Therefore, you must act extremely carefully so as not to tear the product. Did you manage to separate the file from the napkin? Excellent! Now cover the vase with a layer of glue diluted with water. Despite the fact that this process has been described for a long time, in fact it takes no more than 10 minutes.
Good luck in your new endeavors!