Nowadays, hand-made products are becoming more and more popular. This applies to jewelry, and souvenirs, and any accessories and gifts. Winter came? Getting ready for the upcoming holidays? Make Christmas bells with your own hands. They look beautiful on the tree, on the wall, doors and just anywhere in the interior. Things made with love will be a great gift to friends, family and friends.
Interesting ideas
Listed below is what a Christmas bell can be made of:
- from beads;
- thread
- tissue;
- paper;
- plastic cup.
Accordingly, different processing techniques are used:
- Weaving.
- Sewing.
- Knitting.
- Application.
- Decoupage.
- Stained glass window.
- Quilling.
- Silhouette carving.
It is worth noting that the souvenir made can be either fully voluminous, or embossed or flat. All decorations will take their rightful place on the Christmas tree or other place in the festive interior.
Materials and Tools
If you decide to make Christmas bells with your own hands in different techniques, then the set of necessary tools will require different. A list of the groups is presented below.
To make a souvenir, prepare this:
- the cloth;
- patterns;
- pins
- a piece of chalk;
- scissors;
- thread with a needle;
- sewing machine.
The decoupage technique will require the following:
- The basis of papier-mâché or a plastic cup.
- Primer (acrylic white).
- Sponge (sponge).
- Themed napkins, rice paper or decoupage cards.
- PVA.
- Brush.
- Acrylic paints for drawing an additional pattern.
- Stencils (optional).
- Clear nail polish.
For beadwork you need to prepare only:
- beads;
- fishing line or wire;
- thin needle.
To work with paper you need:
- pencil;
- design decorative sheets;
- scissors;
- glue.
To tie the bell, it is enough to take the hook and yarn of the corresponding numbers. For quilling, in addition to the listed tools for processing paper and the sheets themselves, you will need a cutter (it is more convenient to prepare equal equal strips) and a torsion device (special or improvised, for example, a toothpick or knitting needle).
Additional decor for all methods can be used the same:
- satin ribbons;
- bows;
- beads;
- sequins;
- tinsel;
- snowflakes, paper stars made by a figured hole punch.
Papier-mâché or a plastic cup decoration
New Year's toy (bell or a whole garland of them) can be made using the existing framework or from scratch. Most often, ordinary plastic disposable cups are used as a blank. They have a similar shape and are easily decorated in many ways.
If you don’t have the plastic containers in the right quantity, you can use an alternative method - to make papier-mâché blanks. The meaning of the work is that on the existing form (you can definitely find one bell or a purchased bell), small pieces of thin paper prepared in advance are glued with pre-dried previous layer. Ordinary office sheets, magazine and even newspaper ones will do. For bonding, you can use PVA or prepared paste. The base should first be wrapped with cling film to make the made "shell" easier to remove.
We sew a toy
DIY Christmas bells are easy to make from the remnants of fabric that are in the closet of each needlewoman. The product can be double-sided and fully voluminous. For the first option, the pattern will simply be the shape of a bell; in the second case, you will need several details for the bottom, side surface and top. Templates can be developed independently. The sewing process itself is not particularly difficult:
- Details are stacked along the wrong side, leaving a hole for turning out.
- After this operation is done directly.
- The resulting form is filled with holofiber or other material.
- The hole is sutured.
- The souvenir is decorated.
Christmas bell made of beads
Such a souvenir can be both flat and voluminous. Usually do the second option. It looks much more spectacular. Both openwork and continuous weaving are used.
The simplest option is done like this:
- Make a triangle from the wire, first collecting, for example, 12 beads, and in the last row only 2 (it all depends on the number of rows and, accordingly, the size of the bell).
- Continue to execute on the same wire further the same form only in the opposite direction (mirror image), starting with 2 beads and ending with 12.
- Fold the resulting bow in half.
- Weave on the sides in one piece.
From several such blanks, combined into a single whole, a more voluminous bell will be obtained. Complex options, openwork and patterned, are woven in a circle using special patterns.
Crochet christmas bells
Such products can be, as well as beaded, solid or openwork. The latter look much more attractive. Knitting is performed in a circle - from the top of the bell, where the tongue and pendant are attached, down.
The shape is obtained due to the uniform distribution of additional loops and contractions along the ring. Openwork jewelry should be knitted according to a special pattern with a careful calculation of the pattern loops.
As you can see, there are many ways to make Christmas bells with your own hands. Even a child will cope with simple options. Sophisticated but beautiful will require the help of an adult. In a word, there are opportunities for creativity for everyone: for those who like to sew, knit, weave from beads, perform decoupage, stained glass or applications.