Oriental flowers from newspaper tubes

Flowers from newspaper tubes can become a non-standard home decor. To make such a decoration is quite simple if you know several technological features of working with newspaper tubes. To make a bud, you need to select the appropriate pattern for weaving and take some time to the procedure.

Preparing tubes for making flowers

You can make flowers from newspaper tubes only after the main raw materials, namely the tubes, have been prepared. For one flower, several newspaper sheets are enough. First you need to cut the sheets into strips, the width of which will be no more than 5 cm.

Further, the elements are twisted:

1. Attach a wooden skewer to one of the corners.
2. Start wrapping a strip of newspaper at an angle of 30 degrees.
3. Glue the last corner to the formed tube.

In order not to complicate the further decoration of the finished flower, it is better to immediately paint the workpieces in the required color and dry. Depending on the type of flower, the color scheme is selected. Gouache or acrylic paints can be used for coloring.

The process of weaving sakura from newspaper tubes

From newspaper tubes you can weave any flower. One only needs to know how to recreate the shape of the petals and collect the bud. Very beautiful and original look sakura flowers from newspaper tubes, which can be made in accordance with this algorithm:

1. It is necessary to superimpose on each other two tubes, forming the letter "x". The pink element should be superimposed on white.
2. From a white tube, form a loop, the edge of which is bent through a pink wand.
3. The short edge of the pink tubule wraps a loop around the white one, and the edge extends above the edge of the white tubule.
4. So that the tips do not stick out, it is worth fixing them in the formed loops, threading through the basics.
5. Next, a third tube is introduced, which has a blue color. It is necessary to wrap the already prepared structure with a blue tube, and thread the tips through the overlays of the pink and white tubes.

Such a flower from newspaper tubes at the end of work needs to be tightened well to get a small sakura bud.

Making Sakura Twigs

The composition will be incomplete without a twig, other buds and decorative finishes. First you need to make several sakura buds according to the principle that is presented above. It is not necessary to use tubes of the same color as in the sample. You can take monophonic elements in white or pink.

Flowers from newspaper tubes will look more attractive if you make additional decoration of each flower. Several pearl beads can be glued into the recess.

Weaving flowers from newspaper tubes involves preparing the base, namely the branch on which the flowers will be attached. So that there is no disharmony in the composition, it is necessary to make the basis of the tubes. Pre-workpieces painted in brown.

A branch will keep its shape if each tube is pierced by a flexible wire. The branches can be fastened together using a glue gun or by weaving tubes. Flowers are attached to the base according to the same principle.