How to make a flower from a napkin with your own hands?

Of ordinary paper napkins, if you make a little effort, you will get peculiar and beautiful flowers. Thin, bright, pliable paper was loved by many needlewomen, and they create from it lovely crafts that decorate home and office interiors. The material has several advantages: it is inexpensive and easy to process. Even novice craftswomen admire others with their work. This article will tell you how to make a flower from a napkin with your own hands.

Features of working with paper napkins

The main purpose of making floral arrangements from napkins is to decorate the table when serving the kitchen or living room. The main task is to choose the type of plant. The color and size of the material depend on this. Large napkins are used to make large and lush flowers.

In other cases, standard sizes are used. A flower is obtained from any napkin, but experienced craftsmen recommend using dense, multilayer material for crafts, rather than translucent sheets. In this case, the shape is better maintained, the product wrinkles less, and the lush bud is formed much easier. Lavish buds consisting of several layers are excellently obtained from napkins. Flowers with smooth petals are well obtained from thick paper.

Red poppies

Composition of poppies will look beautiful when decorating the living room. To make flowers from napkins you will need:

• red napkins;
• adhesive tape (tape) narrow or green paper;
• wire;
• thin-pointed pliers or tweezers;
• compass.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Fold a napkin for a large flower in half, for a small one - four times.
2. Draw three circles, each 1 cm in diameter, with compasses and cut them out.
3. Fold circles on top of each other, starting with a larger diameter and ending with a smaller one.
4. Pierce the center of the workpiece with wire using pliers. Bend the end above the circles.
5. Tape the stem with tape or strips of green paper. At the base of the bud, make a small thickening. The stems are made straight or slightly curved to give a natural shape.
6. In the center, draw a different line length with a black felt-tip pen.
7. Shape the poppy petals in circles.

Similarly, you can make two or four poppies and put in a vase. Moreover, making flowers from napkins with your own hands, the step-by-step description of which is given above, is not difficult. A bouquet of several flowers on a dining table, window sill or shelf will remind you of summer in the winter.

Chrysanthemums and Peonies

The technology for making these charming colors is the same.

This will require:

• a paper napkin of yellow or any other color, the flower will look spectacular if you use a two- or three-layer material;
• scissors;
• threads
• PVA glue;
• wire for the stem.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Cut the napkin into four equal parts along the folds.
2. Fold the quarters into a pile and make an accordion out of them, alternately bending up and down through one centimeter.
3. Bend in half to determine the middle and tie with a thread.
4. To make a chrysanthemum, round the edges of the accordion, and for a peony, leave it unchanged.
5. Spread the accordion, peel the paper, lifting up. Get a lush flower from napkins.
6. Decorate the middle with thick threads, small pieces of paper or paint with a darker color.

In order to put chrysanthemum in a vase, use a soft wire instead of a string. In this case, the stalk should be wrapped with green tape or a strip of paper with glue. To decorate a table or decorate a gift, a stalk is not required.

Rose from napkins with straight petals

This is one of the most beautiful flowers, and it is not difficult to make it.

To work, you will need:

• single layer simple napkin of good quality;
• wire;
• PVA glue.

A step-by-step description of how to make flowers from napkins:

1. Fold the material four times.
2. Make one revolution on the index finger of your hand, then put the middle one and wrap them until the napkin runs out. Do the wrapping loosely. It turned out a cylinder, which will be the core of the flower, tighten its base with a thread.
3. Fold the rest of the napkins with a triangle.
4. Wrap the core with the free ends of the triangle. Give the resulting petal an appropriate shape and fix with a thread.
5. By analogy, the remaining details of the flower are made.
6. Cut paper out of paper.
7. Use the wire for the stem, wrapping it with strips of green paper, at the same time screw the finished leaves. Fix everything for glue.

Use the finished rose alone or in the composition.

Rose from napkins with swirling petals

There are several ways to make such flowers from do-it- yourself napkins. Let us consider in more detail one of them. This will require:

• paper napkins (for roses and leaves);
• threads
• scissors;
• wire;
• pencil.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Cut the napkin into 4 parts by folds.
2. Alternately wrap each square tightly to the middle of the pencil.
3. Squeeze the napkin to the center at both ends. The result is a rose petal.
4. The rest - perform the same way.
5. Twist the blanks in a spiral to form a bud.
6. At the base, fasten with a thread or ribbon.
7. Fold the green napkin with a triangle and wrap the bud.
8. Cut green leaves.
9. Wrap the wire with narrow green paper or tape, not forgetting to insert leaflets.
10. Fix the stalk in the middle of the bud.

The chic flower is ready, according to this instruction you can make a few more buds and put in a vase.

Large flowers from paper napkins

Do-it-yourself flowers from napkins (photo below) are suitable for decorating holiday banquet tables and creating various compositions.

For the manufacture of necessary:

• three-layer napkins of two different colors (white and red);
• threads
• scissors.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Cut a white napkin in half.
2. Fold accordion. Step to choose arbitrarily. It should be remembered that the smaller the step, the more magnificent the flower, since there will be more petals.
3. Fold the accordion in half, sharpen the edges.
4. Take a napkin of a different color and do the same actions, only round the edges.
5. Expand both wipes. Put white on top of the color.
6. Fold the halves together again already.
7. Find the middle and bandage with thread.
8. Raise the petals on both sides up.

The flower is ready, by analogy it is easy to make new ones using napkins of various colors.

Original carnations

From napkins of different colors you get a beautiful bouquet of carnations.

To make one flower from napkins you will need:

• two multilayer napkins;
• stapler;
• scissors.

Step by Step Instructions:

1. Cut napkins into folds.
2. Put all the squares together.
3. Fasten in the middle with a stapler or thread a wire for the stalk.
4. Cut a circle out of squares. Cloves will look even more original if you circle the circle with a felt-tip pen.
5. Make small cuts to the center along the entire circumference.
6. Spread all layers of petals, lifting them up, and the flower from the napkins is ready.

Flower bouquet

For manufacturing you will need:

• basis for a bouquet;
• napkins;
• scissors;
• stapler;
• felt-tip pen red;
• glue.

Production Order:

1. Draw a circle in the middle of the napkin without unwrapping it, and cut it out. Circle the contours with a felt-tip pen.
2. Fix the circles in the middle with a stapler.
3. Raise all layers of tissue paper up. The result is a flower.

Such blanks must be made in several different sizes, so that is enough for a bouquet. For the basis of which it is convenient to take a ball of foam rubber or make it from newspapers. To do this, they are crushed and bandaged with threads.

When decorating the interior, the bouquet is hung from the ceiling or wall. In this case, you must immediately make a ribbon to the base. The ball is pasted over with flowers. Such a bouquet will look beautiful in a pot. The composition of flowers from napkins in the photo above.

Conclusion

Peculiar and beautiful flowers from ordinary paper napkins can decorate any gift or apartment interior.

They are used for serving a festive table, decorating a gala hall where a wedding or anniversary will be held. Simple and affordable material can easily be turned into charming carnations, luxurious roses, beautiful peonies, dandelions, bells and other flowers.