For fans to craft DIY crafts, the Internet offers a wide variety of options for using materials. This is junk and natural, as well as fabrics and paper, quilling strips and yarn, plasticine and much more.
One of the most affordable and inexpensive materials for creativity are tapes. Both satin and cotton can be used. In the article we will offer several options for making crafts from ribbons. It’s easy to realize ideas by creating a cute picture, or a hairpin or toy for a child.
Butterfly
To create such a butterfly, you need to pick up three ribbons of different colors. It is better to take dense material so that the product holds its shape well. We begin to collect the insect from the wings. To do this, the tape is folded in turn as follows: the first turn is 6 cm, the second is 8 cm, the last is 10 cm. The edges should be in the center so that the seams are not visible. When all three elements of green, pink and purple are made, we begin the design of the do-it-yourself crafts from ribbons.
A green ribbon is wrapped around the central part in several turns, leaving the edge free for subsequent work on the mustache. The tail also remains free by 5 cm. The cut edge is bent and sewn with a hidden seam inward. It remains to create a mustache. To do this, the front edge is cut in the center and each part is sewn along the ribbon.
Cat
As a do-it-yourself craft, you can create a cat's face from ribbons. Such work can be attached to a child’s hairpin or sewn onto a girl’s dress. It is better to take a black felt circle for the base. Tapes are cut into identical segments of 10 cm. The edges on both sides are cut with corners. Then all the pieces are folded across the center point of the base diagonally and stitched together. For the ears, you will also need a small piece of pink ribbon.
For their manufacture, two identical pieces of black and pink are cut and folded together with a horseshoe. Before you sew them in the area of the ears, you need to raise the ribbon of the muzzle so that the loops are under them. In order to make the ribbon crafts beautiful, we sew a red satin bow. It remains to draw up the cat's face. You can use purchased eyes or half beads. Mustache made of thread.
Peacock
The method of manufacturing the body of such a beautiful peacock resembles quilling technique. The body is made by twisting two black ribbons in a circle. The free segment will be the neck. To make the bird’s head, the edges of the ribbons are sewn together - a beak and a dot on the neck. In the resulting "window" insert a twisted small piece of tape. A purchased eye is glued to it. On the other side of the twisted circle, a peacock crown is sewn from three stitched segments of a green ribbon.
But what about the magnificent tail? It is made of colored ribbons folded together: green, blue and black.
Picture “Girl in an old dress”
Girls love to play with unusual dolls. Often they themselves love to draw characters and clothes for them. Our next do-it-yourself ribbon craft will be just one of these painted girls.
First, a doll is cut out from cardboard in silhouette. The face, hair, shoes and hand are drawn with felt-tip pens in advance. Further, an antique dress with a full skirt and a hat will be made of satin ribbons and lace.
Material should be selected carefully. When buying, see that the width of the lace is slightly larger than the width of the satin ribbon. What for? This is necessary so that when folding the two strips together, the lace tape is noticeable.
Getting down. To create such a skirt, you need to sew each strip of two ribbons along the top edge with stitches and at the end pull the thread. This way you get frills. Each subsequent strip is shorter than the previous one. The edges are wrapped inward and stitched on the back of the picture.
The hat and bouquet are designed in the same way. You can make roses for hats and a bouquet of thin ribbons yourself, or you can take purchased ones.
After reading the article and carefully considering photos of DIY crafts from ribbons, try to perform such simple work yourself. This is a very exciting activity.