Polymer clay is an amazing material, you can make crafts and beautiful jewelry with it yourself. This master class with photos describes the process of creating a hairpin with pink flowers.
Amazing flowers are obtained when working withpolymer clay. This unique material allows you to create flowers of any configuration in bright colors, close to natural. A master class with step-by-step photos will help you create flowers with your own hands, which can decorate not only hairpins, but also headbands, bags, etc.
Materials:– baked polymer clay in green, pink and light pink; – artificial stamens with yellow tips; – strong all-purpose glue; – a 5 cm long metal crocodile clip. Tools: – dotting tool with a 5 mm ball; – acrylic rolling pin or glass cylindrical object; – craft knife; – leaf texture mold; – all-purpose stack; – cotton wool; – paper; – medical gloves. Stages of work: 1. For the flowers of this hair clip, it is advisable to take two or three shades of pink clay so that the bouquet looks prettier. Take a small part of clay of different shades of pink and knead it so that the clay becomes pliable.
2.Make oblong oval blanks of at least 1 cm in length from pink clay pieces. You will need 12 such pieces of different shades. 3. Flatten each oblong piece with your fingers and pull one end down a little so that it becomes narrower.
4. Place the flat, tapered petal blanks on your palm. Then wet the dotting tool with water and press all the petals with it. Now they will have a characteristic concave shape.
5. Roll a piece of pink clay into an oval shape and stick three petals to its end, overlapping each other. You should end up with a closed bud.
6. Continue making buds in the same way. As a result, you should get three or four buds of different shades.
7. For open flowers, form petals similarly to bud petals, only slightly larger. The clip will hold about 5 flowers, each of which will consist of 5 petals.
8. Press these petals with a dotting tool on your palm, and pinch their upper edges a little so that they look slightly sharp.
9. Next you will need a toothpick, a narrow stack or an awl. Cover its end with pink clay.
10. Glue five petals to the end of the awl covered with clay so that they overlap each other and form an open flower.
11. Remove the flower from the awl and repeat this procedure to create several more flowers. Some flowers can be made half-closed.
12. Next, you need to roll out the green clay thinly. If you don’t have a special acrylic rolling pin, you can use a glass bottle or another glass vessel that has a cylindrical shape.
13.The size of the leaves should be slightly larger than the size of the flowers. Cut them out with a knife from green clay, you can choose the shape that you like, in this case the leaves are oval and pointed.
14. Also cut a strip from the green layer. Its width should be the same as the width of your hair clip, and make the length of the strip a little less than the length of the crocodile.
15. Place the strip on the pin so that the end of the pin, which you need to hold onto when using it, remains open. Pin the pin itself to the paper so that it does not fall to the side.
16.The leaves don't have veins yet, so you need to make them. You can use different methods here. The easiest way is to press each leaf to a special mold. But if you don't have one, you can press the veins on the leaves with a needle.
17. Keep in mind that the leaves should not be flat, in nature they are slightly curved, so your leaves also need to be bent a little and the edges stretched in some places.
18. Glue the largest leaves to the green surface of the hair clip, tightly next to each other.
19.Stick the buds together on the narrow end of the crocodile clip. Cover the tails of the buds with one or two leaves. 20. To avoid crushing the flowers when placing them on the clip, insert the stack inside the flower into its very core.
21.Carefully stick the flower to the pin and remove the stack from it. Repeating the same steps, stick the remaining flowers, forming a bouquet. Small leaves can be stuck between them. To ensure that the bouquet holds its shape well when baked, place pieces of paper napkin or cotton wool along the edges of the pin under the elements of the bouquet and send the pin to bake according to the instructions in the clay instructions.
22. When the flowers have cooled completely, simply remove the bouquet from the clip. It will come off easily, as it was not glued to it. Then degrease the clip and the underside of the flowers with alcohol.
23. Grease the crocodile with glue and place a bouquet of flowers on it in the same place where it was located during baking.
24.Make bunches of 10-15 artificial flower stamens, cut off the bottom to make them shorter, and glue the bunches of stamens inside the open flowers using any quick-drying glue.
Author: Ekaterina Starkova (Luna)
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