Kanzashi snowflake making ideas

Beautiful kanzashi snowflakes have become a popular element of the winter holidays. Perhaps this is due to the versatility of the product - a snowflake will decorate the home interior, become part of the decoration of the greeting package or even an element of the dress for the matinee. And the most attractive thing about it is that everyone can make a snowflake using the kanzashi technique with their own hands.

Make a beautiful volumetric snowflake from satin ribbons. But just ribbons to get an elegant decoration is not enough.

You will have to prepare the following:

• white satin ribbon with a width of 5 cm (total 2 m);
• white satin ribbon 4 cm wide (1.1 m);
• a white satin ribbon 2.5 cm wide (0.4 m);
• silver brocade with a width of 2 cm (only 2 m);
• blue half beads;
• golden thread;
• glue gun;
• tweezers;
• scissors and a needle with thread.

Some workshops additionally require several pieces of oblique beading, beads, felt base and a small piece of silver tire. Certain moments of product adjustment may occur to the author during the execution of a snowflake. If you learn to do the basic version, any experiments are welcome.

The work itself is built in several stages, elements are prepared alternately.

It is very convenient if the future product is used to decorate elastic bands for hair or stylish packaging for New Year's gifts.

A master class in making snowflakes using the kanzashi technique is presented in several stages.

The first stage of the work is the creation of triple sharp petals.

1. We need a tape 4 cm wide, one sharp petal is made up of it. With tweezers you need to align the edges of the tape, tighten all the layers, fasten the tip without cutting it.
2. Now you need to add 2 triangles - from satin and brocade ribbons. The central lobe is wrapped with two ribbon triangles. It is necessary to trim all layers of the tape, trim the tip and burn it with a lighter. Now the bottom of the petal can be cut off, the place of the cut is also burned.
3. The first six petals are ready - you need to fasten them with a thread. Pulling with a thread should be tight. The thread has to be fixed. To make the snowflake-flower dense, additionally the petals are fastened with glue.

The second stage of work is the manufacture of triple round petals.

1. The segments of ribbons for round petals are taken the same as for sharp ones. The tape must be folded into triangles, the brocade tape should be in the middle. The element must be clamped with your fingers from the top in the middle.
2. The lateral edges fold inward, the petal folds, the edges are trimmed. The tip and bottom of the petal are connected, fixed. Both bottom edges need to be put together.

The third stage of work is a twig with curls for the New Year's snowflake.

1. You need to cut 6 pieces of white tape 5 by 5 cm.
2. A sharp petal is being formed: all layers of the tape are aligned at the base, the tip is held together over the fire.
3. The petal is clamped with tweezers, cut off along the entire length. The place of the cut is held above the fire.
4. To make a curl, you need to warm up the place of the cut, holding it by the opposite side. Curls can be both dense and airy.
5. If suddenly the curl twisted badly, it needs to be straightened, heated over a fire and twisted again.
6. For one branch of a snowflake, 2 simple curls are needed that look in different directions. Brocade tape should be cut into squares 2, 5 by 2, 5 cm. Small sharp petals are made from small squares. The tips are burned over the fire. For each branch you need to make 7 petals.

The fourth stage of work is the formation of a branch.

1. It is necessary to glue 2 petals, between which 1 brocade petal is inserted. Next, you need to take another 1 satin petal.
2. 3 small brocade fabrics are glued to each satin petal - one from the side of the curl, the other from the opposite.
3. Curls are connected using hot melt adhesive.
4. Two satin curls need to be fastened with glue.
5. They are glued to the branch below. The branch is ready, only 7 of them need to be made.

The fifth stage of work is collecting snowflakes.

1. Between the petals of the flower you need to glue the round petals. They are glued inside round triple petals.
2. Using a glue gun, twigs are glued to the petals.
3. The snowflake flower needs to be decorated, beads fixed in the core are suitable for decoration.
4. A golden thread should be threaded through one petal, fixing it with a bow from a transparent or thin ribbon.
5. Now you need to glue the half beads. Under the blue beads, the junction of the curls will be hidden.

So with their own hands even beginner, completely inexperienced needlewomen can make an elegant snowflake. She can decorate a hairpin, brooch. Several of these products can make a full-fledged snowflake-crown.

In another embodiment, the manufacture of a decorative product inside a snowflake will be a large stone surrounded by beads in several rows.

The more people are kanzashi addicted, the more new ideas they have.

So, you can decorate a snowflake using the kanzashi technique:

• glossy foamiran inserts;
• classic New Year's tinsel (you just need to take high-quality, denser);
• rhinestones;
• red beads imitating scarlet winter berries;
• knitted lace fragments;
• silver threads that hold their shape well if sprayed with hairspray.

And these options are far from all the possibilities to improve a snowflake.

Kanzashi is a Japanese technique that allows you to make a real work of art out of ribbons.

Beginners will need some tips.

• You need to start working with lightweight fabrics, simple and inexpensive. Not so sorry for the marriage and the fragments that did not work out.
• Round petals are more convenient to do not from satin, but from silk. Of course, this is expensive material, but it bends more elegantly.
• The first products make sense dark fabricsince light material tends to darken when cauterized. And since proper attentiveness and accuracy in the first works may not be, it is better to hedge with specially selected dark material.
• Making sharp petals they need to be bent to one sideotherwise, the feeling of a living flower cannot be created.

Finally, about why make these beautiful flowers and snowflakes. There may be more ideas about the possible use of cute products than it seems at first glance.

Kanzashi snowflakes can be used in different ways.

• Like blanks for hanging over the bed. A stationary base with changing hanging elements above the bed in the bedroom now looks very fashionable and really interesting in the interior. A stationary base can be a branch, dried and painted, on which, depending on the season, holiday, mood, various decorative elements are hung - cones, photographs, paper hearts and, finally, kanzashi snowflakes.
• As an element of a wedding headband for hair. If you use natural silk, beautiful shiny materials, rhinestones, you can become the author of your own wedding decoration. Such a rim will be exclusive, and pride from needlework success to face any bride.
• As a decorative part of hairpins for curtains. Curtains, when they need to be assembled, must not be facelessly fastened with a special element. This embracing element needs to be decorated with something. If the owners are not against seasonal decor, then in winter just such snowflakes canzash can decorate curtains.
• Like snowflakes on the branches. If you want less New Year's store decor, but more of your own, you can simply collect branches of suitable length on the street, dry them, paint them white. Pour coarse salt or decorative sand into a beautiful transparent vase, put branches there. And hang snowflakes from ribbons on these branches. On the windowsill, coffee table, on the console in the hallway, such a cute decor would be very appropriate.
• Like a “clip” for a New Year’s bouquet. New Year's bouquets have already become, if not the traditional element of a gift, then a pleasant winter compliment to a woman. They use spruce and pine branches, artificial snow, tangerines, sweets and other elements of festive paraphernalia. In the place where the bouquet’s packaging is tied, you can plant a kanzashi-snowflake like a “paper clip” or a bouquet brooch. Elegant solution!

Christmas snowflake made of fabric and satin ribbons in the style of kanzashi in the video below.