Beautiful garden peonies attract the luxury of their buds and magnificent forms. Thanks to large velvety petals and a variety of shades from these flowers, you can create charming bouquets.
Artificial peonies can be so amazing that they are in no way inferior to the original. Such flowers can be used not only for decorating rooms, they can be a wonderful decoration for clothes or hair. Spectacular DIY crafts - what could be better? A piece of love invested in work will breathe real life into a peony.
Peonies from paper
Corrugated paper is often used to make a wide variety of crafts. It can make very beautiful lush flowers. A bouquet of peonies can decorate any room and will look no worse than natural.
To make such a work of art with your own hands is not so difficult. In this matter, it is very important to choose shades that are compatible with each other, which can make up a luxurious composition. Such work will appeal to children and adults.
Peonies made of paper with a candy core: step by step instructions
- First you need to take a candy, a green wire and make a loop on the tip so that it does not pierce the sweetness. On the one hand, you need to deploy a candy wrapper and wrap it with the tip of the wire with a loop.
- The base of the candy should be secured with duct tape.
- After that, two strips are cut from corrugated paper. One will be twice as wide as the other.
- The resulting paper tapes are cut into identical parts, in height they should be equal to the distance from the base of the wire to the tip of the upper edge of the wrapper, plus a few centimeters.
- Petals are cut from the resulting parts. From small parts, single petals are obtained, and from large parts, parts with several rounded notches.
- Each petal needs to be slightly stretched and given a convex shape.
- Now you should form a peony bud. To the base of the wire, one petal is glued one by one overlapping each other. To get a flower lush, paper does not need to be pressed to the candy.
- The first few rows need to be fixed with a wire and glued on top of the larger part.
- When all the petals are glued, they need to be fixed again with wire.
- Small leaves are cut out of green paper and glued over the wire.
- At the end of a strip of green corrugated paper, you need to wrap the stalk of wire, adding a few artificial leaves.
A ready-made bouquet can be presented for a birthday, and one flower will be a wonderful souvenir for a loved one.
Fabric peonies
You can make spectacular artificial peonies from fabric. This decorative element is able to turn an ordinary hat into a flirty accessory, a brooch in the form of a flower on a blouse will make the image more piquant and original, and a bright composition of textile peonies will make any room more lively and cozy.
To make flowers you will need a satin or chiffon of delicate shades, a candle-pill, double-sided tape, yellow floss threads and scissors.
Step-by-step instruction
Peony pattern is not at all complicated. You just need to cut 5 circles from the fabric. Four of them will be of the same diameter (about 8-10 cm), and the fifth should be made slightly smaller, while the contour should not be perfectly even.
Now you need a candle to help give the petals a more natural look. Rotating the edges of the circles near the flame, you need to ensure that they are evenly bent. This is done with all the details, but this should be done with extreme caution, since satin and chiffon melt very quickly.
To give the details the desired shape, they need to be cut, thereby creating petals. The cut points should also be held a little above the flame. When the petals are ready, proceed to create the middle of the peony. To do this, you need yellow mouline thread. They are wound around two fingers, tied in the middle, and then cut along the edges. A kind of pompom will be the middle.
Collecting artificial peonies from fabric is not difficult. The parts are glued together, placing a small part on top. In the middle you need to glue the yellow threads, but they can be replaced with beads. As a result, all the petals are spread out so that the flower turns out to be magnificent.
Artificial flowers or bouquets will become a worthy adornment of any interior, they can decorate clothes, hair, caskets, albums and a large number of other things. Artificial peonies can be a wonderful accessory at a party or decorate life with their unfading beauty.