
Christmas garland of cones
Decorating the interior for the winter holidays, perhaps,the most exciting part of the pre-New Year's bustle, especially if you decide to make some decorations and Christmas tree toys with your own hands. We suggest paying attention to New Year's garlands made of pine cones, which will allow you to quickly and beautifully decorate the New Year's decor of the room, filling it with a fabulous Christmas atmosphere, warmth and comfort. Contents:
An important advantage of creating a garland fromcones with your own hands is that it will cost you practically nothing, because the main element of the garland - cones - you can collect in large quantities yourself in a pine forest. The basic option is ordinary cones tied or glued to a rope. But even such a simple design can be diversified and make unusual, bright and elegant garlands.
Garlands of gilded pine cones
You will need:
- cones (the number of cones and the distance between them determines the total length of the garland) 4
- adhesive PVA or special glue for potali;
- Gold foil for decoration (potal - imitation of gold leaf);
- varnish or spray sealant;
- screws with O-shaped hooks;
- natural rope (twine twine, twine);
- sponge, tweezers, pliers, wide brush, scissors.
This option can hardly be called budget, becauseThe original master class uses gold leaf, an expensive material for gilding in the form of the thinnest sheets of gold foil. If desired, the gold leaf can be replaced with regular metal foil, gold spray paint or gold glitter. Clean the cones from soil, dust and dirt.If you are going to use gold leaf for gilding,It is better to buy a special glue. Apply a thick layer of glue to the surface of all the cones with a sponge. Read the instructions for the glue carefully. As a rule, you need to let the glue dry before gilding. Cones are conveniently dried in a cardboard egg tray. While the cones are drying, you can paint the hooks gold using spray paint.
Now we can get to gilding!Carefully take the first layer of foil and completely wrap the cone. Then, using a clean wide brush or sponge, go over the surface of the foil well. In places where there is no glue and emptiness, the foil will crumble in "rags".
With these pieces of gold foilcarefully sprinkle the other cones. In places where you applied glue, the foil should stick. This method of gilding with foil makes each cone more textured, as if covered with flakes of golden snow. If you use spray paint or glitter, the effect will be completely different.
After gilding, the cones must be covered with varnish or spray sealant and allowed to dry.
Using pliers, screw a screw with a hook into the center of the base of the pine cone.
Take a rope made of natural material, cut a piece of the required length and start stringing the cones.
It will be convenient to start from the central cone and move to the edges of the rope. Thread the rope through the O-hook and secure with a knot.
Next, based on the number of cones and lengthgarlands, add one cone at a time at equal distances, securing with knots. You can attach cones in groups of 2-3, alternating with single ones. The hooks can be decorated with ribbon bows or small pine branches.
Garland of cones with foil, spray-paint and sparkles
This version of a New Year's craft made from pine cones is very similar to the previous one, but in this case we will add gold and pink spray paint, as well as scattered pink glitter, to the pine cone decor.The workflow is identical, only first, aftercleaning the cones from dirt, we paint them with spray paint: half of the cones - gold, half - bright pink. Please observe all safety precautions when working with the spray can. Let the paint dry for 10-15 minutes, but not completely. We use the slightly damp surface of the cones instead of glue. In this case, we covered the gold cones with gold foil directly on the slightly damp layer of gold paint, and sprinkled the pink ones with pink glitter. You can see the process in more detail in the photos below.
Colored garlands of cones
Cones can be painted in any color usingspray paints from a can. We recommend applying a layer of white paint first, then 1-2 layers of colored paint will be enough for a bright, saturated color, otherwise, to achieve the desired shade, you may need to apply 4-5 layers of paint from a can.
After the paint has completely dried,Apply hot glue under the top row of scales at the base of the pine cone. Then pull a string through this area and glue the pine cone. Glue the remaining pine cones in the same way at equal distances.
Simple Natural Pine Cone Garland
A natural, simple garland of pine cones will dolook great even without gilding, glitter and bright colors. This natural decor is especially suitable for interiors decorated in eco style, Scandinavian style, country or loft. Minimum materials and effort! This garland can be made in literally ten to twenty minutes, depending on the length. You will only need pine cones, rope, a ruler and glue. The authors also used masking tape, on which they made marks of the distance between the pine cones.
Stick masking tape on the table and mark two segments on it — the distance between the cones. Instead of tape, you can tape a sheet of paper with marks.
Take a ball of rope, twine or woolyarn, leave a tail of 10-15 cm to tie the garland. Place the rope along the tape with marks. Apply a drop of glue to the base of the cone and press it firmly, for 5 seconds, to the rope at the mark. Do the same for the second cone. Move the rope and glue along the cone. But it seems to me that a more reliable method of gluing cones is described in the section above - under the upper scales of the cone.
Garlands of cones with a dense arrangement
The cones can be placed very tightly, especially if the garland is small. For this, you can use thin ribbons or ropes. Like this:
Photos of different garlands of cones
Of course, the four presented abovemaster class on how to make garlands of cones - this is not all that you can think of. You can experiment with the arrangement of cones and their color scheme, decorate the garland with Christmas tree decorations, tinsel, ribbons and rain, combine cones with pine branches, nuts and even fruits, for example, with apples. Give free rein to your imagination! And you need to get ready to make garlands now, slowly collecting pine and spruce cones in the forest on a walk.