Flower workshop

What can a woman give for a holiday? There are a million options, but still the most versatile are the flowers. A huge variety of bright representatives of the flora is unlikely to leave indifferent at least one female. Flowers always cheer up, they can say something that, in fact, can not be expressed in words. By choosing the right floral arrangement, you can not only make a person a pleasant surprise, but also explain your feelings. But there is one drawback to fresh flowers. Like it or not, sooner or later all the flowers fade and lose their original appearance. Therefore, I propose to make a similar bouquet of flowers with my own hands, while it will delight the eye forever.
The best gift is one that is made with your own hands, so let's try to make a bouquet of paper multi-colored flowers from what every home has. For work you will need:
• color double-sided paper;
• PVA glue;
• old newspapers;
• threads;
• wrapper from a floral bouquet;
• desire, patience and free time.
The first stage of work - preparation of the basis
The basis on which the flowers will be attached can be done in two ways. Let's consider each of them.
1. Papier-mâché. The base can be done by applying paper pieces on a balloon. To do this, you need to inflate a regular balloon to the size that determines the size of our bouquet.
Next, take unnecessary newspapers and cut them into small pieces. Lubricate the surface of the ball with baby cream so that the paper does not stick, and begin to apply pieces of paper pre-moistened in water. When the surface of the ball is completely covered with a paper layer, you need to apply a second layer, only instead of water you need to use PVA glue. After the procedures, give 12 hours for drying, then pierce the ball and remove its pieces from the base cavity.
2. Take a lot of unnecessary newspapers and form from them a ball of the right size. After that, fix the shape by pulling it along the contour with dense threads for knitting. The form is ready.
The first method is quite time-consuming and takes a huge amount of time compared to the second, however, with papier-mache, the surface of the ball turns out to be perfectly smooth, which makes it easier to glue flowers to it. The base made by the second method is very easy and quick to perform, but the process of gluing flowers is complicated by an uneven surface. When the base is ready, you can make the flowers themselves. Making flowers is the most painstaking work that will require perseverance. The size of the flowers, their color and quantity depends entirely on the imagination. I take double-sided colored paper and first cut it into 3 cm stripes. The size of the flower will depend on the thickness of the strip, the thicker it is, the larger the flower. Further, using scissors, it is necessary to make fringe on the strips, without cutting it to the end. When the fringe strip is ready, it can be twisted into a flower with a match or a toothpick. The edge of the strip must be fixed with PVA glue to the bottom of the flower. According to the same scheme, perform other flowers.
The next step is gluing flowers to the base. To do this, grease the bottom of the flower with glue and attach to our base. Let the glue dry and proceed to the manufacture of the legs of the bouquet.
Twist the tubes from green paper and gently stretch them under the warp threads, you can additionally fix them with tape. After the flowers are firmly stuck to the base, they can be arranged in a bouquet, but before that you should make the core for the flowers. Cut small circles from different colors of paper and fasten them with glue to the center of the flower. To give the bouquet elegance, you can take the old packaging from the flowers and put our bouquet there, decorated with greens and butterflies. The bouquet is ready! Such a bright gift will always delight the eye and carry a positive.