Making flowers from foamiran for beginners

Foamiran is a relatively new material in Russia, which has already managed to win the love of many craftsmen and needlewomen. From it you can make beautiful and realistic crafts that can become an interior decoration or an original gift. In this article we will learn how to make flowers from foamiran novice craftsmen.

Foamiran is a modern velvety and malleable material that does not allow water to pass through and easily takes the form the master needs when exposed to high temperatures. At the same time, foamiran crafts are not “afraid” of either heat or severe cold. Today, on sale this material is presented in the form of thin sheets, which can have different colors.

No wonder Foamiran has become such a popular and sought-after material among needlewomen. It is very convenient and easy to work with him, because he is “obedient” and unpretentious. This is a great solution for beginners who have not previously experienced such work.

We will analyze the basic rules for working with foamiran in the manufacture of decorative flowers.

• For the manufacture of high-quality and beautiful flowers, it is advisable to use Iranian-made material. On sale there is foamiran from Iran and China. The latter is cheaper, but not of the best quality, so it is better to give preference to the Iranian product.
• Before starting work, it is very important to draw up a detailed diagram and templates of the future product. You can not neglect this stage, especially if you are engaged in the manufacture of artificial flowers for the first time.
• To connect different elements of the craft, you need to use not just PVA glue, but “Moment” or a special adhesive composition-gun. With classic stationery, it is not possible to securely fix parts from foamiran.
• Gluing different parts of foamiran flowers, always wait until they dry, and only after that proceed to fixing the following components. After using high-quality adhesive solution, it is advisable to leave the product for about a day. Continue further work is only after the specified time.
• For the manufacture of flowers, it is better to use foamiran, whose thickness is not more than 1 mm. From such raw materials, crafts turn out to be more realistic and tender.
• Work on the independent production of flowers from foamiran must be carried out carefully, accurately. Do not rush. In a hurry, you can damage the materials or make the craft less attractive. Be patient and act thoughtfully.

If you follow these simple rules, even a novice master can get very beautiful and effective foamiran flowers.

To make flowers from foamiran with your own hands, the master must prepare a number of necessary tools and materials. Consider the list of important components:

• several multi-colored sheets of foamiran (preferably buying Iranian material);
• high-quality scissors of figured type;
• hole punch (may be needed to make small parts);
• an iron (it will be needed to give the foamiran a certain shape);
• acrylic paints (pastel crayons can be used instead);
• winners and molds (with their help, the blanks can be given the necessary shape and a more natural look);
• sponges and brushes for applying the coloring component;
• special wire for floristry, with which the master can make stems for flowers;
• special tapes.

With his own hands, a novice master has the opportunity to make a variety of foamiran flowers. Not having rich experience and knowledge, it is worth relying on a master class with a step-by-step description of the produced creative work. Consider several relevant schemes for making beautiful flowers from foamiran.

It is possible to make very beautiful peonies from foamiran. First of all, the master should prepare the necessary templates, which will be needed in the future to prepare the pattern. Using the diagram of the necessary parts sketched or downloaded from the Internet, you can cut out all the necessary blanks.

Next, consider the action plan step by step.

• Cut all the blanks on the patterns.
• Tint the cut petals using a delicate pink paint.
• Carefully and carefully draw the leaf structure of future artificial flowers. Use green paint for this.
• To make the petals look more realistic, take a few blanks (marked A, B and C in the diagram).
• Fold the petal in a small accordion, twist, and then expand. Repeat this process for all items labeled A, B, and C.
• Next, take the petals D and E. Give them a neat concave shape. To do this, you will need to place your thumb in the central part of the parts and gently stretch the foamiran at the edges.
• Next, you need to bend the sheet in half, accordion, and then expand. It is permissible to tighten the edges slightly. Do this with each leaf.
• Roll the balls from the foil sheet. Make holes in them, fill it with hot glue solution, insert a dense wire - this will be the stem.
• It is necessary to put on a blank with a mark F in the shape of a sun on a stalk and tie up the rays with a thread.
• The ends of the rays can be painted yellow so that they look more like stamens.
• Stick 10 petals (A) with a glue gun. They should be fixed in a circle, fixing in a chess arrangement.
• Glue the petals B, then C, D and E. Glue the sepals L and K.
• Attach a thin wire to all leaves. Fasten the foliage to each other, fasten with a tape tape, constructing elegant twigs.

We will analyze in stages how to make chic orchids with your own hands from foamiran.

• The first step is to print the templates, according to which then you will cut the blanks of the petals. This must be done strictly along the contour.
• Paint each of the petals a deep yellow and purple. The upper half should be fuchsia, and the bottom at the edges will be yellow.
• After painting, complement the petals with dots.
• Preheat the workpieces on the iron, form flowers. For the manufacture of veins, you do not need to wait too much time - do the details while they are still warm. Take a hook or blunt tweezers, draw veins, or apply them by imprint.
• The tips of the petals are slightly pointed. Next, prepare sepals in the same way.
• To properly prepare the “lip” for home-made orchids, you should attach it with the front half to the surface of the iron, and then form a groove.
• Take a cotton swab. Put glue on it. Cut off the head with cotton and proceed to the wire. Bend its tip slightly, forming a small hook. Lubricate this part with adhesive, thread into a cotton head.
• Glue the “lip” of the flower to it, and then the lateral petals and sepals. As soon as the bud is ready, all other cotton heads will need to be painted in golden color.
• Wrap the wire with tape. Form the upper half of the wire with light green material, and the lower half with dark green.

On this homemade orchid will be ready.

Consider a detailed MK for the manufacture of foamiran poppies.

• As in previous cases, draw poppy petal patterns on a piece of cardboard. Cut them out. It is advisable to make several blanks having different shapes. Thanks to this, the flower will come out more realistic.
• Take a foamiran of a green tint. Cut out a circle with a diameter of 6 cm.
• Carefully insert the wire into the bead. Fasten by twisting it. So you prepare the stem of the future flower.
• Heat the green circle with an iron, wrap a bead in it. Fasten the edges around the wire.
• Wrap the resulting ball in black thread.
• Then gently cut the red petals into patterns.
• So that the petals have a natural wavy relief, fold them like an accordion and twist them with your fingers.
• Glue the scarlet petals to the prepared stem. Enough and soaring rows to make the product quite lush.
• Cut leaf blades from green foamiran. To make these components as realistic as possible, an incision should be made along the entire edge and twisted between the fingers.
• Cut off the head and fix the leaves.

Easy to make are foamiran tulips. A novice master who does not have rich experience can make such flowers.

• First, a tulip petal should be depicted on a cardboard sheet, the height of which is 6 cm and a width of 3.5 cm in the center. Carefully cut the resulting pattern.
• Then draw a piece of flower on a cardboard with a length of 25 cm and a width of 3.5 cm in the center. Cut the specified part as well.
• Circle the petal pattern on the base material using a toothpick. Cut 6 petals.
• Then you need to circle the leaflet template using toothpicks on green material and cut it out.
• Carefully tint the petals in the leaf of the future flower.Use a wet towel with dry pastel.
• Warm each of the leaves by placing them on the surface of the iron. Provide components with a natural structure, pull both in length and in width.
• Warm up a leaf of a homemade tulip, fold twice along.
• Stick 3 petals to the wire, completely covering it.
• Lock the 3 remaining petals in a checkerboard pattern.
• Glue a piece of wire for floristry into the sheet.
• Complete the wire with a tape wrapping, fasten the sheet.
• In a similar way, you can make a whole bouquet of artificial tulips.

Let’s figure out how to make cute daisies out of foamiran.

• First, cut 30 snow-white petals of the future flower.
• Cut a fringe from a strip of yellow sheet.
• Preheat the tweezers, pass them on each of the blanks.
• Form a neat flower core, heat it over a candle flame or iron.
• Glue the white petals in a checkerboard pattern.

First, we’ll figure out how to make a beautiful lily out of foamiran.

• Draw on the cardboard the contours of the lily petals, whose length is 6 cm. Cut out the details.
• Attach the resulting template to the snow-white foamiran, circle and cut with sharp scissors. Such items will need 6 pieces.
• Tone the petals from 2 sides. A lilac or pale pink light shade will look more natural.
• Now the petals need to be heated on the iron. While they are still warm, do the veins by pressing the toothpick. So the plant will turn out more textured and natural.
• Warm the edges of the petal so that it receives bends of a wavy shape.
• Draw the bottom and dots on each of the petals using a brown felt-tip pen. Try to make these details as close as possible to the elements of a living plant.
• Fix the prepared stamens on the wire with glue.
• On a green foamiran, draw 3 oblong-shaped leaves, then cut them out.
• Heated on the iron, give the petals additional texture.
• Now you can collect the flower. Around the stamens, first attach 3 petals, and the remaining 3 should be glued nearby, following the checkerboard pattern.
• The final stage is gluing green leaves.

Irises are made like this.

• Make flower blanks.
• It is necessary to circle the patterns using a toothpick, then cut, moving along the contours.
• For iris, you need to make only 3 petals of each of the patterns.
• Draw neat veins on the blanks. To do this, it is most convenient to use a toothpick.
• Toned petals. Use acrylic paint shade "ultramarine." Apply it with a sponge.
• Make the edges of the petals embossed.
• Then apply color. Add petals with snow-white paint.
• When the first coat dries, apply a rich yellow acrylic paint over it.
• Attach the petals to the iron. Squeeze it from the back. Bend the elements in half by heating the leg. So you have to do with all the blanks.
• Glue together 2 petals (the folds of the legs should “look” at each other).
• Combine 3 ready-made flower components.
• After fastening all the components, glue the bud to the stem, complemented by tape tape.

We will figure out how to make delicate roses out of compliant foamiran.

• Cut 2 types of rose petals from foamiran. They should have the same shape, but different sizes. Prepare 5 petals of each species.
• Gently attach each petal to a hot iron platform. Use your fingers to stretch the edges of the elements.
• Prepare a miniature circle from foil, attach to the wire.
• Glue a small petal around the ball.
• In a circle, attach along the petal, creating a bud.
• Cut leaves from green foamiran, attach them to the stem.

It's just that cute daisies are made from foamiran.

• Cut patterns.
• Make them thin by ironing.
• Make circles from the squares. Color the edges with pink pastel.
• Prepare the petals. Divide each circle into 16 parts. Gently cut them, making the tips rounded.
• Draw a fringe on the yellow strip.
• Make the tip of the wire like a hook. Fasten it with a fringe. Screw a strip of yellow on the metal - this will make the core of the flower.
• Spray the middle with glue, sprinkle with sand.
• String pink petals on a wire. Make a hole in the center of the circle, moisten with glue.
• Make sheet plates of green material. Cut through the workpieces using special scissors. Parts must be oblong. Color them with pastel, draw veins, wrap them with wire.

Step by step we will analyze the process of making apple flowers from foamiran.

• Make blanks of petals, buds, leaves and sepals.
• Cut 15 parts for flowers, 10 for buds, 3 large leaves, 2 small, 5 green sepals.
• Give the petals the desired shape, tint them.
• Make stamens.
• Attach 5 petals to each stamen.
• To make the buds, fold the different-sized pieces of wire in half. Wrap the loops with foil material.
• Attach the miniature petals to the foil.
• Fasten the bud and sepals.
• Attach leaf blades to the composition.

Crocuses are also easy to execute.

• Make blanks. Cut through the petals.
• Warm each component on the iron, press it against the corrugated paper sheet. Tint the outer half of the petals.
• From a yellow foamiran, cut a rectangle 2 cm wide and 3.5 cm long. Make a fringe on one side. Attach the yellow strip to the wire. 3 stamens should be set to 1 pestle. Collect the bud.
• Wind the stalk wire with a green ribbon. From green foamiran, cut 2 strips, the width of which is 2.5 cm, the length is 13 cm. Cut them in half. Bring all components to the iron, bend. So the crocus leaf will be ready.

A pale blue cornflower from foamiran is made as follows.

• Make blanks.
• Bend the wire. At its tip, set the edge of the blue strip.
• Make 1 turn. Glue the white straws to the blue tines.
• Wrap a strip around the wire. Lubricate with glue.
• After that, you can collect all the details of the flowers.

Consider a step-by-step MK.

• Draw on a paper sheet the petals with sizes 2.5x2 and 1.5x1.2 cm, as well as 2 sepals. In total, 15 large and 6 small blanks will be needed.
• Cut the petals. Tint with a pink component.
• Attach the finished stamens to the wire.
• Remember the green sepals in your hands.
• Around the stamens, fix the large petals alternately.
• Small components must be attached to the iron, and then glued to the wire without stamens.
• In the center, the sepal must be pierced with wire, and then pushed to the bud.
• Wrap the stems with a ribbon. Collect all the flowers in a single branch.

This flower from foamiran is made in several steps.

• First, cut out the petals and leaf blades of the future craft from foamiran. If this is necessary, the workpiece must be pre-toned.
• Attach each of the petals to a hot iron. Take a toothpick. Squeeze veins on the foliage of geraniums.
• Bend the sheet along large strips, work it on the iron, and then remember with your fingers.
• Thin the edges of the sheet plates. Such actions will necessarily “revive” them.
• Bend the wire at an angle. Attach the leaves on the back.
• Take a thin wire and bend it in half.Apply glue to the part where the loop is. Dip the part in the semolina, let it dry completely. After that, the stamen will be ready.
• Carefully put the petals on the finished stamen, fix it well with the adhesive.
• Sepals, processed with an iron, place on a wire under a geranium bud.
• Form an inflorescence using a few small flowers.

Before embarking on the independent production of artificial flowers from foamiran, it makes sense to listen to some useful recommendations.

• If foamiran needs to be painted, stable acrylic paint or pastel is most often used for this. The material can also be successfully painted using gouache, watercolor, colorful sparkles or watercolors. But it must be borne in mind that after painting the products become disposable - the dust cannot be washed off from them, because of this the paint layer will leak.
• The fastening of various applications can be carried out not only with the help of an adhesive composition, but also with needle threads. Carefully made stitches will be no less reliable as fasteners.
• It is possible to give a certain shape to parts made of foamiran not only with the help of a hot iron, but also with the flame of a lit candle. If you have chosen the second method, it is worth observing safety rules and acting as carefully as possible.
• You should not start work without pre-prepared templates and schemes, especially if you are a beginner. However, these basics can not only be downloaded from the Internet, but also sketched on their own - you can adjust the sizes and shapes of future elements of homemade flowers yourself.
• It is not recommended to use foamiran whose thickness is less than 1 mm. Such material will not make the most durable and durable products.
• You can decorate a variety of objects with foamiran flowers. For example, it can be photo frames for placement on a wall or a table, earrings and necklaces, panels and paintings, clothes and shoes, hairpins and headbands, interior items. With such interesting additions, many things take on a more interesting and attractive appearance. The main thing is to make a foamiran flower in accordance with all the rules - then it will turn out wonderful.
• To give a foamiran one form or another should be while it remains warm. Do not wait too much time. It is useless to process cold material.

A master class on making flowers from foamiran see in the next video.