How to make a flower from the cotton discs

Any crafts made with their own hands, looks very original and unusual.It keeps the heat of the author's soul.Style hand-made popular in various areas of creative activity.If you need new ideas for gifts such as gift mom or girlfriend on March 8, use the following guidelines.Make a flower from the cotton discs.It looks unusual and at the same time beautiful and stylish.

Tools and materials

to create such a gift you do not need something special and expensive.Perhaps all you need is in your home, you just do not know how it can be used for decorative purposes.Look at the photo.Flowers of the cotton discs (calla lilies, roses) look so natural that it is able to become a worthy decoration of the room.For their manufacture should be as follows:

  • cotton pads and sticks;
  • paint brushes;
  • scissors;
  • glue;
  • starch;
  • clay;
  • thread;
  • wire;
  • tape;
  • beads or other decorations (peas, beans);
  • paper, cardboard;
  • fabric leaves (optional).

In fact it is a list of the maximum, and what will you need in your case, is determined by the views of the crafts, its complexity and the manufacturing method.

Operating Principles

From cotton disc with your hands, you can make a flower or an entire composition: Application or volume bouquet.The starting material used white or paint it in any color, drawing streaks on the petals and making the transitions of several shades.

midway flowers and stems are made of cotton descended into the paint sticks.It is also used beads and wire frame.To make the green hue stalk used wrapping colored stripes, applying clay.The leaves can be cut from cotton disks, fabric, satin ribbon, made of salt dough, polymer clay or ready to take on artificial flowers.

with a cotton disk works quite simply.They can bend, fold, cut out the desired shape.Before starting the process, the material can be processed into starch.To connect the parts of the flower, its elements using a thread, wire, or Melt PVA glue.

Application of Cotton disk: flowers
(children's creativity)

This option is suitable as a lesson on making a gift to mum.Children can perform daisies, snowdrops or just abstract flowers.The work will consist of the following:

  1. Take foundation (colored cardboard, paper, plastic).It is better to put contours of the future of the bouquet.
  2. leaves and stems make from clay.
  3. To make the petals snowdrop, it is better to make a stencil out of cardboard and cut out the required number of disks of cotton flowers.So, they are all the same and accurate.Daisy even easier to perform.Suffice it cuts a circle cotton pad.
  4. middle, can be made of a cotton swab, the head of which is painted with gouache, a base coat with clay.The same can be done from the beads and wire.
  5. The cotton pads petals performing slot cotton swab and put it there.
  6. collect all the items on the basis of.As a decor create a pot or vase in the form of application of the bean, beads, sequins, plasticine.

original artifact: the flowers of cotton disks

Older children can easily cope with the volume and composition.They know more colors and will be able to make the petals form a complex.This bouquet of cotton disks can be:

  • calla lilies;
  • poppies;
  • daffodils;
  • rose;
  • Viola (pansy);
  • lily.

You can do a bunch of one kind or a combination of several.For bulk crafts require vase or pot.It's easy to do in papier-mache, or use unnecessary capacity, for example, a jar from the cream.All other principles of operation correspond to the ones above.

Calla

This flower is made out of cotton disks as follows:

  1. stained cotton swab yellow.
  2. Collapses white circle in the shape of a flower.You can pre-cut it, making sharpening.
  3. connecting rod with the workpiece from the disk.With the help of thread or wire fastening them together.
  4. Petiolus swathes of green tape or coated with clay.
  5. Leaves and decor do on your own.

Roses

crafts "flowers of cotton discs" can look very natural.The main thing - to try to mimic the shape of petals of the selected plants.Naturalness and gives the appropriate color.For roses suitable unpainted and cotton pads.It will take more time, patience and the circles themselves-the-blanks.They are in this case it is better to connect via Melt.Sepals can be made of cloth, thin decorative paper or satin ribbons.

Pansies

To make a flower of cotton disks, you first need to paint them in the appropriate color.The samples, take pictures with realistic images.To create a form will have to cut the material.It is better to do after joining the petals into the workpiece.

Daffodils

This flower of Cotton disk looks very nice and natural.For its production will require several white circles pattern photorealistic images, long strips of green paper to create leaves.Plasticine in this case is not suitable.Make him a lancet elongated three-dimensional shape of small thickness will be difficult.

Topiary

This is another original and trendy souvenir that can be made of cotton disc.It is a ball on a stick in a pot, and imitates the shape of decorative cropped dwarf trees.As the basis of a ball, a sphere made of papier-mache.To her stick made of cotton disc flowers.They can be done by simply twisting white circles cones, combining several pieces or take a sample of Cullen, but it did not make a single disk, multiple, stacked one upon the other.Another option - to make many roses and stick them to the surface of the ball.The discs can be pre-paint.Additional decor choose at will.

As you can see, to make beautiful flowers from conventional cotton is easy to drive.Such activity can be a great one for children's creativity or family interests.Try to produce any desired option.Are you sure you will be satisfied with the result of their work.