
A beautiful tapestry of tapes can be made by yourself. A simple master class with a step-by-step photo.
In this master class we will make topiary from ribbons. To work we will need:
- a bowl,
- gypsum,
- brush,
- scissors,
- glue “Super moment gel”,
- rayon,
- grid,
- thread,
- needle,
- tweezers,
- candle,
- beads,
- beads,
- thin satin ribbon,
- tape from organza,
- newspaper,
- PVA glue,
- acrylic bronze paint,
- chiffon,
- glutinous glitter,
- rod for the trunk,
- stationery knife,
- glue "Moment Crystal".
1. From an ordinary newspaper, by crumpling it, we form a ball of the size we need, I have this ball with a diameter of 10 cm.2. We wrap our ball with threads.
3.We select a stick that is suitable in length and width. Don't forget that the bottom of the stick will be completely in the pot, so you need to take this length into account. I use dry poplar sticks; it’s easy to remove dry bark from them and, despite their small size, they are always very textured with different protrusions. We don’t throw away the husks from the bark; we will need them later.
4. Use a utility knife to dig a hole so that our stick can fit into it.
5. Fill the hole with Moment Crystal glue.
6. Insert the stick and wait until the glue dries completely.
7. Then coat the entire ball well with PVA glue.
8. Wrap threads around the top again to give it a more round shape. We wait for the glue to dry.
9. Pour plaster into the pot and insert our tree. We hold the trunk until the gypsum hardens a little, wait for the gypsum to dry completely (the drying time should be indicated on the packaging with the gypsum).
10.We paint the tree with bronze acrylic paint in one or two layers – See for yourself how the paint applies; if you do several layers, you must completely dry the previous one before applying another one. Then we cover the tree trunk with gley glitter with sparkles to match the color of the paint.
11. Now we begin to design the crown of the tree.We cut out a circle with a diameter of 6 cm from chocolate-colored artificial silk, from brown artificial silk a circle with a diameter of 6 cm, from white mesh a circle with a diameter of 6 cm, from light brown artificial silk 2 circles with a diameter of 5 cm, from brown mesh a circle with a diameter of 5 cm, from beige chiffon circle with a diameter of 3 cm, from milk artificial silk a circle with a diameter of 3 cm, from gold mesh a circle with a diameter of 3 cm. We will need this number of petals to make one flower, and for the whole tree we will need 17 flowers, multiply the number of petals accordingly and immediately prepare them for the whole tree. If your crown is more than 10 cm in diameter (and not like mine) then you may need more flowers.
12. Using tweezers, burn the edges of the petals over the candle.
13. We assemble the flower, first a chocolate petal and sew one or two stitches in the middle from a white mesh.
14. Then we sew a brown petal on top.
15. Next are two petals of light brown color and made of brown mesh.
16. Behind them is a petal made of chiffon, then milky.
17. And on top is a petal made of gold mesh.
18. Sew a bead and seed beads into the center.
19. Do this for all 17 colors.
20. Now we begin to tie a bow from a thin beige organza ribbon. To do this, we put a ribbon on the index and middle fingers, holding the tip with the thumb and ring fingers.
21. Wrap the ribbon around your fingers twice (you can do more, then the bow will be fluffier).
22. At the last turn, we thread the tape between the fingers.
23. We wrap this ribbon around the wound ribbons in the middle and insert the end into the loop.
24. Tighten the knot.
25. Cut off the tip, remove the bow from the fingers and straighten it, treat the ends with a lighter.
26. So we make 4 light bows and 4 dark ones.
27. We will make more bows from a thin beige satin ribbon.
28. We tie a bow in the usual way, but so that the ends remain long; it’s good if one is a little longer than the other.
29. This is how we make 4 bows.
30. We begin to collect the crown. At the very top, apply “Super Moment Gel” glue. glue one flower.
31. Glue the second one at the base, close to the stick.
32. Now we glue two flowers between them.
33. We do the same on the opposite side. We have a ring of flowers around the ball.
34. Now we make such a ring perpendicular to the existing one.
35. And we glue the four remaining flowers onto the free spaces.
36. Glue 4 light organza bows around the top flower.
37. At the bottom, around the flowers that are near the stick, we glue dark bows.
38. Glue bows with long tails on top of the dark bows.
39. Tie a fluffy bow from a dark organza ribbon.
40. Glue it to the middle of the trunk using Super Moment Gel glue.
41. At the base of the tree we glue the husks from the bark that we removed from the trunk and several beads.
42. That’s it, our topiary is ready!