Do you like to be creative? Looking for new opportunities? Learn to make paper lilies of the valley with your own hands! You can make these flowers in many ways. The executed bouquets are suitable as a spring gift, decoration of the interior or an element of design of a card, packaging, decorative panel.
Relief or volumetric composition - what to choose?
Paper is a very good material for creativity. It allows you to create completely different objects using different processing methods and types of surface textures.
First of all, it is worth deciding what you will make: decor for postcards, packaging, panels for the interior or a composition for a vase. A gentle origami lily of the valley is suitable as a spring gift, and it is interesting to make wall panels using the quilling technique. Although any method makes it possible both to work with relief and create applications, as well as to perform a three-dimensional object that can be viewed from all sides.
Manufacturing methods
It’s easy to create lilies of the valley from paper with your own hands using different methods. After all, this material lends itself to twisting, cutting, folding, gluing. All options are easy to combine. In addition, paper grades are very diverse. They use everything from thin crepe or corrugated to thick paper or cardboard and even ordinary office paper for the printer. All this gives completely different results and the appearance of the flower.
So, do-it-yourself paper lilies of the valley can be made in the following ways:
- in the origami technique;
- with quilling elements;
- in the form of an application ;
- the formation of parts from the corrugation.
Each option provides opportunities for creativity and involves several working methods.
Materials and Tools
If you want to try all the methods at once, you will need the following:
- paper (plain, crepe, corrugated, design);
- scissors;
- pencil;
- ruler;
- glue;
- material for stems (strips of cardboard, wire);
- a toothpick or a special tool for quilling ;
- basis for a panel or vase.
Above is a list of the necessary to work with different methods. If you will use any one, choose what is needed exactly in your version.
DIY lily of the valley: origami for beginners
If you have never worked in this technique, use the simple method of folding flowers. They have a conical shape, that is, not quite natural, but in the total mass they look beautiful on a branch. The main thing is to make them simple.
The sequence of work is as follows:
- Cut out of paper (preferably thin) the required number of squares of a suitable size. Make the first sample large, for example, 5x5 cm, to understand the technology. The rest will fit the scale of your composition.
- Take one blank and fold it in half, and then unfold. Do it twice to get two diagonals in the form of fold lines.
- Fold all the corners of the square to the center.
- Bend each element approximately halfway from the middle to the sides.
- Fold the resulting blank in half so that all the “cloves” are evenly spaced.
- Fold the cone out of the part made and glue the seam.
- Make stalks of paper, cardboard or wire wrapped in green ribbon or stripe.
- Cut leaves from green paper or fold them from square blanks.
- Assemble the structure with glue into a three-dimensional composition or embossed panel.
Spring gift is ready.
Bouquet using quilling technique
In this way, you can make both flat (for application) and bulk lilies of the valley with your own hands. A master class will help to realize both ideas. It is immediately worth noting that the assembly of elements occurs in all cases the same way - with glue. Make leaves and stems in any way (from wire, cardboard or also using quilling technique).
Consider how the flowers themselves are made. The sequence of work is as follows:
- Cut plain white, mother-of-pearl or metallized paper into strips no more than 5 mm wide.
- Take the first workpiece and wind it on a toothpick or use a special tool.
- Remove the part and slightly unwind, holding with your fingers so that the center is shifted to the bottom of the oval.
- Press in the middle of the upper part so that the element bifurcates. Pull out two petals and bend each one to the side with tweezers or fingers.
- Fix the received product with glue. You can also twist a yellow circle and put it in the middle between the petals.
Complete as many colors as you need. This is just one of the options for making flat lily of the valley.
It’s even easier to make a bulk blank using the quilling technique. It turns out not so elegant, but for children's creativity is quite suitable. Work as follows:
- Also wrap a strip of white paper on a toothpick and carefully remove from it.
- Pull the cone shape very carefully from the middle of the circle up.
- Secure with glue.
The flower is ready.
How to make a beautiful lily of the valley from paper with your own hands
Use crepe or corrugated sheets for this method. In this way, you can make not just flowers, but also a bouquet of sweets. True, you will either have to use very small sweets or make large lilies of the valley. The latter option does not look very natural, but decorative, beautiful and original.
The sequence of work is as follows:
- Cut the rectangles of the appropriate size from the corrugation.
- Take one blank and candy (or a ball so that the shape of the flower holds well) and wrap the base, gently deforming the paper where required. Corrugation or crepe sheets very easily change shape, are pulled out with the help of light movements with your fingers.
- Fix the rolled-up workpiece from the bottom and wrap it with wire. You can use it as a stalk.
- Wrap the wire at the junction with the flower with a green ribbon or a strip of paper in several layers, continue until the stem ends in one layer.
Make some flowers, cut leaves, make a beautiful bouquet.
As you can see, do-it-yourself paper lilies of the valley can be done in completely different ways. Choose the right one. Create spring gifts yourself from the available funds!