This detailed master class with photo and description will teach you how to make your own flowers from polymer clay for hair clips.
To make your own polymer flowersclay for the hairpin, you need to prepare the following materials: - Polymer clay (plastic) of yellow and green colors. Red color is optional - it will be used to make the decor. - Liquid plastic - Rolling pin - Textured paper (corrugated) - Base for the hairpin (automatic) - Stack with a ball - Blade - Acrylic paints, thin brush, pastel and varnish optionalWe form thin flat cakes from yellow plasticine.To do this, knead the polymer clay, divide it into small pieces, roll these pieces into balls and flatten each ball with your fingers. Place all the flat cakes on a piece of corrugated paper.Cover the flatbreads with paper on top.We roll the dough over the paper with a rolling pin so that the texture is imprinted on both sides of the flatbreads.Carefully remove the petals from the paper. If the plastic was well crushed and if it does not crumble, the petals will come off without effort or tearing.Place the petal on your palm and use a stack with a ball to give the petal a more natural shape. Try not to damage the texture.The petals are slightly curved, which will create volume when assembling the flower.We roll a ball from a piece of yellow polymer clay and form a droplet out of it.Take the smallest petal and wrap it around the droplet, making sure that the sharp part of the droplet is completely covered by this petal.We apply a new petal to the base. The middle of the new petal should be applied to the place where the parts of the first petal are connected.The next petal needs to be placed opposite the first one, and both should be wrapped around the base. The next row is staggered, i.e. the middle of the petals of the new row falls on the junction of the previous petals. Also, this row takes one or two petals more than the previous row.The petals are attached overlapping, i.e. the first petal is hidden under the last one.We begin to attach the next row, the first petal of the new row is again attached to the joint of the petals of the previous row.As you glue each petal, slightly stretch it and bend it towards the outside, so the flower will be more realistic.We continue to form the rose flower until it acquires sufficient volume; I needed 5 rows and 15 petals.I bend the petals outward so that the base of the bud is not visible. The stem by which we hold the flower must be tightly formed and not stretched. When the flower is formed, we correct its petals one last time – they should not be glued together.We cut off the stem, the flower should have a completely flat surface for gluing.We form a bud from two or three levels of petals.We roll out its leg and leave it for gluing.We also form an unopened bud from only three petals, and we also leave a stem for it.At this stage we have two buds and one flower.Roll out the green plastic and glue it to the base of the hair clip.View from above.The inside can be left smooth.Or poke it with toothpicks to add texture.We form droplets from green plasticine, flatten them and texture them with corrugated paper.We make several leaves in this way. Some will be wide, some narrow.We start gluing these leaves from the edge of the base. Of course, they should hide the base. We glue the leaves that are thinner than the others to the smallest bud with the sharp edges facing outward.We glue it to the hairpin.We cover the gluing area with new leaves.On the other side we do the same – first we glue several leaves, hiding the base, then we glue several green leaves onto the middle bud.And we glue the middle bud to the base.We cover all the free space with textured sheets.Instead of glue, pour a little liquid plastic into the center of the hairpin.Carefully place a large flower in the center, turn out its lower petals so that they hide the gluing place. If desired, you can tint the product with pastel or acrylic paints. Decor:roll a ball of red plastic, lightly press it to the work surface and bake. After baking, apply a symbolic drawing imitating a ladybug. After baking, you can glue the decor to a leaf or a flower. My hairpin turned out like this. Turnover.