Kansashi craft ideas

In the kanzashi technique, you can make not only charming bows, brooches and other jewelry, but also all kinds of crafts. Having mastered several simple schemes for folding pieces of fabric, you can begin to create amazing things. In this style, you can make interesting crafts in a kindergarten or school, gifts for the holidays, as well as original home decor.

For crafts, you can use almost any fabric that folds well, holds its shape and looks beautiful. However, for beginners it is most convenient to work with ribbons - they come in different widths and have an edge on both sides. The most popular types of tapes include the following.

• Satin - smooth, shiny, pleasant both in appearance and to the touch. It is easy to work with them, but to preserve the external gloss when handling products, you need to be careful. A wide color gamut allows you to choose the appropriate option for shade, gloss or pattern.
• Rep - unlike satin ones, they have a complex structure and surface with grooves. They can be either plain or with patterns.
• Kapron, chiffon - weightless, translucent, with a slight sheen. Of these, with some dexterity, airy, delicate flowers or bows for decoration can be obtained. This type of tape goes well with other materials.
• Fishnet - ribbons with complex lace patterns that are used as a complement.

In addition to tapes, a beginner needs to have on hand medium-sized scissors, a ruler, a crayon or a pencil for marking, pins, a needle with multi-colored threads, transparent glue (preferably a thermal gun), tweezers and clamps.To process the crumbling edges, you need a lighter or a candle, in the future it is better to get a soldering iron or a burner with a thin nozzle.

The most popular holiday is the New Year. This is a great occasion to make a craft that will decorate the interior. A so that the process is fun and does not take much time, it is better to attract all family members.

1. It is necessary to cut out squares from a green ribbon 5 cm wide. To make the Christmas tree live, you should take two or three shades of green and alternate them.
2. The basis for the Christmas tree will be a paper or foam cone. Its lower edges must be tightly glued with the same tapes.
3. From squares according to any convenient scheme, sharp petals should be made. For example, bend the square diagonally, then fold in half and repeat. It is superfluous to cut and solder.
4. You can start gluing blanks both from above and from below so that the petals of each subsequent row are staggered. It is better to stitch the upper row with thread at the base and only then glue it.

On March 8 everyone around is trying to congratulate mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters and other representatives of the beautiful half of humanity. For this, a beautiful and bright craft, symbolizing this spring holiday, is suitable. The instruction for implementation is quite simple.

1. From thick cardboard or plastic (many use CDs), you need to cut circles for the figure eight. The resulting base should be hidden under any colored ribbon - satin or satin. To do this, the tip is glued anywhere - you can start the winding.
2. After wrapping, you can start making decor. For spring crafts, flowers with green leaves of varying complexity are most often used. For example, you can collect a composition of multi-colored hyacinths.
3. A similar craft is hung on the wall - for this, at the very beginning it is necessary to form a loop from the tape or fasten it to the refrigerator by gluing a magnet from the wrong side.

Do not bypass your attention and Easter. On this holiday, it is customary to exchange beautiful, colorful eggs that are easy to make from colored ribbons. This craft will look good on the festive table, will not deteriorate and can be used as a souvenir. Step-by-step instruction.

1. A foam egg is taken as the basis (sold in hobby goods stores). In addition, it is necessary to prepare in advance pieces of tape 2.5 cm wide and 5 cm long in two or three colors as desired.
2. First, a small square is placed on the top of the egg, which will become a guide. It is convenient to pin all the details with pins, but you can also use decorative glue. Then triangles are formed from pieces of tape of a different color - for this, the lateral sections only need to be brought back and combined. These parts are pinned at the lower corners. The first row should be located symmetrically - so that when the vertices are closed, the triangles cover the upper square.
3. Each subsequent layer is located with a slight shift down and staggered to close the pins and joints. As the base of the egg, you can glue a square from a ribbon, a bow, or make a stand for jokes one or two rows of triangles, but in the opposite direction.

When talking about kanzashi, the usual ones come to mind jewelry for hairstyles, earrings, pendants. In addition, almost any holiday can be done a brooch or any other decoration in the desired subject. It can be small bouquets of flowers, snowflakes, autumn compositions. And Victory Day badges can be worn by absolutely everyone, regardless of gender or age.

As a souvenir or home decoration may act smart photo frames. They are easy to make yourself from simple materials. In the same technique, you can make panels on the wall, which successfully replace the picture. Of particular importance here is the decor, because products in the kanzashi style go well with beads, rhinestones, sparkles, shells.

By the same principle, you can make comfortable decorative caskets for storing jewelry or other trifles. Even an old or unprepossessing outwardly box can be glued or braided with ribbons. The final stage will be decoration with flowers. From ordinary tapes you can make completely different flowers - daisies, forget-me-nots, dahlias, callas, roses. If someone does not like the floral theme, leaflets, twigs, buds and even insects - butterflies, dragonflies, can act as decor.

You can learn how to make an Easter egg using the kanzashi technique with your own hands in the next video.