~ Art & Craft ~

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Kundan Flowers

Materials Required
Different types(shapes & sizes) of kunduns
Fancy beads
Floral string – Gold
Green tape

Procedure
Fig 1: Cut the gold string to about 15cm. There will be two holes on the either side of the cone (thilakam)shaped kundans.

Fig 2: Insert the string to holes in a kundan.

Fig 3: Fold the string and twist it to make stem. This forms one petal.

Fig 4: Make more petals by following step 3/ fig 3.

Fig 5: Take another string and fold it to equal halves, now insert 10 fancy beads to it.

Fig 6: Use the beads string as pollen and arrange four petals (kundans) around the pollen without any gap. Now tie the stems with another string.
Fig 7: Under this, without any gap arrange 4 or 5 petals, tie it tightly with the string

Fig 8: Now stick the green tape around the stem part.

Fig 9: you will get a beautiful kundan flowers

Fig 10: Similarly you can use different colors of kundans to make these flowers

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Carnation Flowers Using Clay

Materials needed for this:

1. Any air dry clay
2. Oil colours… In this lesson ,Used oil colours are  no:8 (Cadnium yellow pale hue),no:6(Cadmium Red Deep Hue),no:49 (Permanent Rose)
3.Frilling tools
4.Cutters (Can use any round shape …like bottle cap )
5.Pasta Machine or  normal chapathi roller
6.Veiners for leaves
7.Glue
8.Wire
9. vaseline

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Felt Dahlia Flower Brooch



Materials Required
- scissors
- Fabri-tac adhesive
- two sheets craft felt, one for the flower and one in a contrasting color for the back
- needle and thread
- brooch pin (available in the beading section of craft stores)
- a bit of thin cardboard (a cereal box from your recycling bin will be perfect for this)



Also helpful, if you have them:
- pinking sheers
- a rotary cutter, mat and ruler
- a sewing machine



First cut a 3.25 inch diameter circle from your flower color felt. (Do this first to make sure you don't leave yourself too small a scrap at the end.)

Then cut three 1.5 inch strips, two 1.25 inch strips and one 1 inch strip of felt. In the contrasting color (here, the green), cut a 2 inch diameter circle and a 1.25 inch square.

 Cut a small indent into the square.

Finally, cut a 2 inch diameter circle from your cardboard.



Now cut your flower color strips into 1.5, 1.25 and 1 inch squares respectively. If you need more petals you can use the bit of leftover felt to cut more squares.

To form the petals cut each square into a rounded petal shape, with a wide base and a pointed tip as shown above.

 Put dots of glue in the lower corners and fold each side over so that they meet in the middle.



This is the most frustrating part of the project -- the glue can take a while to set and if you don't hold the petal shapes in place they will pop open.

Used a heavy stainless steel skillet to hold folded petals down while they dried, as shown above.



While the petals are setting you can prepare the back of the flower. Glue the cardboard circle to the center of the 3.25 inch flower color felt circle. Then dab glue on the overhanging part of the felt and fold it over the edges of the cardboard, wrapping it around to the back. You might need to put a saucepan on top to weigh it down while it sets. This will be the base for the petals, and the folded edges on the back will be covered by your contrasting felt circle at the very end.

Now grab your contrasting felt square and circle. Position the square at the bottom of the circle and stitch it around three sides to make a small pocket that opens to the side, leaving enough room at the top of the circle to attach the pin. You can put a few small dabs of glue on the pin before you hand stitch it into place at the top of the circle.



When the petals are set, it's time to glue them to the flower color base. Glue the 1.5 inch petals around the edge of the base, positioning them in about 1/4 inch. As you work be sure to snug the base of the petals as close together side by side as you can; the more you can fit on the base, the more dramatic the results. Next, glue a row of the 1.25 inch petals about 1/4 inch further in towards the center of your pin. Do the same with the 1 inch petals, leaving about a 1 inch circle in the middle.



To finish the center of the flower cut a 1 inch circle from the remaining flower color felt using the pinking sheers, or cut a wavy edge with scissors. Also use the pinking sheers to cut a thin strip from the felt; you can cut two strips if you think you'll need them. Glue down the small circle in the center of your flower to cover the ends of the smallest petals. Then curl the thin strip into a tight spiral and glue that to the very center.



All that is left to do is to glue the contrasting colored backing to the back of the flower, covering the back of the cardboard, and find a picture -- or write a little note -- small enough to slip into the secret pocket.

[MysteRy]

Butterfly Chandelier

How to Make a Butterfly Chandelier - Click on the Button Given Below

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Rose Using Plastic Spoon






Materials:

heavy duty plastic spoons
pin back (optional)
Goop glue (optional)

Tools:

candle
ceramic tile (optional)
garden clippers
pliers



Hold a plastic spoon about an inch above a lighted candle; bowl facing down. Heat for about 5 or 10 seconds until it starts to melt. Take it off the flame and gingerly (it will be very warm) fold it to resemble a rose bud. Make 2 of these.



Place them together and melt the handles just under the buds. Keep an eye on this so that you don't get too close to the flame or overheat and cause blackening of the plastic.



When the handles melt, pull them off of the rose bud and push the bud onto a ceramic tile to flatten the melted area.



Melt the rest of the spoons but this time heat the underside of the bowls. The bowl will wrinkle, melt and sag. Take the spoon off the heat and carefully pull on the tip and bend it backwards. Hold until cool and set.



Snip off the handles with garden clippers. When you have about a dozen petals, begin to assemble the rose.



Hold the tip of the petal with the pliers and heat the place on the spoon where the handle was until it begins to melt. Place it on the rose, wait until it cools and sticks.



Here you have a glossy, porcelain-looking rose.

These spoons came from Wal-Mart (next to the paper towels). You can spray paint them for a different color or buy bags of colored spoons at a party store.
Hot glue silk rose petals to the base of the rose if you wish.
There is a slight stinky melted plastic smell so you may want to open a window.



You can glue these roses to a box or adorn a wreath or do the Carrie Bradshaw thing and make them into a pin. Cut a circle out of a milk jug and glue it onto the bottom of the rose. Glue a pin back to the circle.

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Let's See That How We Make a Napkin Rose


To make a napkin rose, take a paper napkin and unfold it.
Then fold the top edge of the napkin (about 4 centimeters) over towards you.





Pinch the upper left corner between index and middle fingers of your left hand (alternatively, you can use middle and ring-finger or even ring-finger and little finger for more accurate and miniature roses).





Wrap the napkin around the index and middle finger so that the folded down portion stays on the outside.





Keep winding the napkin. Wrap securely but not too tightly





Take the corner of the napkin and pull it down and to the right.





Pinch the napkin together with your right hand just below your left fingers .





Twist the napkin downward from the point at which you pinched below the twist.
 Twist firmly and evenly to about half way down the lower portion of the napkin.





Take the lower outside corner of the napkin and gently pull it upward so it is above where you stopped twisting.





Pinch the napkin together just below where you had stopped twisting.
 Continue twisting the napkin in the same direction as before until you reach the end of the napkin.





To give your rose more natural look slightly twirl the center of the bud and bend down outside petal.







Here is what you should get: