If you want to make a brooch with your own hands, use beads for this. The same material will tell you how to decorate eggs for Easter, make a picturesque tree. Beads are an excellent material for creativity. You can create colorful trees, flowers from it. Such hand-made crafts will transform the house, add a touch of sophistication and sophistication to it.
How to make a tree from beads?
As a result, it will turn out to be so refined, iridescent. For creative work, you will need the following materials:
- wire;
- beads-cut or green bugles;
- beads are white and yellow or red and pink;
- floss or silk thread;
- floristic tape;
- PVA glue;
- brown acrylic paint;
- varnish;
- gypsum.
A suitable glass container, such as a vase, deep rosette or candlestick, can be used as a stand.
The first tree element we will create is a leaf. For him, you need to cut off a piece of wire, string green bugles on it, using the French weaving method.
How to weave from beads using it, the diagrams will tell you.
For our leaf, you need a piece of wire about 30 cm long. At one end of it, make a small loop and twist the wire in this place 3 times.
From the other end, string beads for the center of the sheet. In this photo there are 5 of them, and for our leaf you will need two pieces.
Begin folding the wire almost in half, but not completely. Insert three fingers of your left hand into the resulting loop and twist the wire in this place, as shown in the second figure.
As you can see, the example has two columns of images. The right one will help make a round piece of paper, and the left one will make a pointed one. Follow the element based on the left column hint, disregarding the numbering.
Now string 4 beads onto the top end of the wire for our sheet. This row is considered the first. Bend the working end of the wire at this point so that it makes a 45 ° angle with the center piece.
Now bend the working end of the wire as shown in the figure under number 9 in the left column. String 4 beads on this part of the wire, twist. Now string 7 pieces of beads, twist the wire in this second top row and do the second bottom, also stringing 7 beads.
Here's how to weave leaf beads. For beginners with diagrams, it will be easier to understand the intricacies of the process. After you have made 50-100 such blanks (their number depends on the size of the tree), start making flowers from beads.
They master using the loop method. You will need to make blanks consisting of two circles, in the middle there will be 5 beads. Will help you to make beaded flowers schemes.
Next, make a stamen for each flower. Cut a piece of wire, string 5–6 beads on it, twisting the wire under each and leaving a distance of 1–1.5 cm between them. Insert these blanks into the middle of the flower.
Assembling the product
We start doing this with the branches.
Assemble the trefoil by attaching one leaf to the top of the wire, and two on the sides, slightly stretching them out, pressing them on both sides with your fingers. Wrap the wire with floss or thread. Make 3 of the same elements, connect them and also drape the wire with brown thread.
You will alternate such blanks with a flowering branch. For her, you need to connect 2 shamrocks and 1 flower.
Now you need to collect the main branches of the tree from beads. To do this, twist the flowering branches and shamrocks in pairs. Then wrap the wire with floral tape.
Speaking about how to make a tree from beads, you need to tell that first you will compose all the branches. Dividing them into 2 or 3 groups, and then put gypsum in a prepared glass container and put branches in it.
Wait for the plaster to dry. To prevent the tree from tilting, place it for this time in a place where there is no strong wind, and no one will touch it. After that, you need to give the texture to the trunk. Add PVA glue to gypsum, mix to get a viscous mass. Apply it to the barrel, giving it realistic bumps and roughness. When this solution dries well, beaded trees, or rather their trunks, are covered with several layers of acrylic paint, and then varnish. Make sure that each previous one dries well, only then apply the next one.
Here's how to make a beaded tree. Now it can be put in the most prominent place so that it decorates the house and delights the family and visiting guests with its irresistible appearance.
Faberge eggs for Easter from beads
They can be made for Easter and thus decorate the house. This handmade creation will be a wonderful gift not only for this holiday, but also for any other joyful event.
Next, a simple beading of eggs is proposed. It does not require schematics. This method is perfect for beginners. For needlework you will need:
- egg;
- refractory ladle;
- candle;
- glue "moment-crystal";
- PVA glue";
- clip;
- needle;
- knife;
- beads;
- threads.
First you need to carefully remove the contents from the egg. To do this, make a small indentation in the center of its sharp end, for example, with a needle, and on the other side a little more. Holding the egg like this, blow out its contents.
Rinse the inside gently by blowing out water. Now cover the small hole with a piece of paper. Cut the candle into pieces and melt it in a ladle.
Pour the paraffin wax inside the egg through the large opening.
Please note that, as it solidifies, the paraffin decreases in volume. Therefore, after waiting, top it up to the very top to fill the Easter egg.
Since the glue does not stick to the paraffin, scrape off the excess mass with a knife and cover the hole with paper, which will adhere well to the wax that is still plastic, not completely solidified.
Use nippers to break off the curved top of the paper clip, thread the needle into a knot. Attach it to the center of the blunt edge of the egg, fix it with a staple from a paper clip.
Pour the beads on a flat plate, string them on this thread, 10 cm each. Pump the glue onto a small area of the souvenir egg and arrange the beads in a spiral.
When the thread comes to an end, cut it near the needle, glue it. Secure the end of the next thread with glue next to it and continue stringing the beads.
To create a symmetrical ornament, color from the middle of the egg in reverse order. This is how the beading of an Easter egg takes place. If you have materials left, make one or more souvenirs. To do this, you can mix the beads and string them in a chaotic manner, or make the upper and lower parts such, and the central one of 2-3 symmetrically distributed colors.
Here is another simple option for weaving from beads, for beginners and children it will not be difficult to make such a charming insect.
How is a beaded butterfly made?
To work, you need the following materials:
- wire, 30 cm long;
- beads of different colors;
- 2 beads of dark color for the eyes.
Good lighting is essential to work effectively. To keep your eyes from getting tired, periodically do gymnastics for them. You can pour small beads into an empty candy box with a fleecy cloth on the bottom. They will tell you how to make butterflies from beads of the scheme.
String one light brown piece of beads onto the center section of the wire. Then run the ends of the wire towards each other, put the next bead on them. It will help you understand how a beaded butterfly is made at this stage, a weaving pattern.
Thus, continue to create the torso down to the lower wings. In this place, separate two pieces of wire, string 18 pieces of colorful beads on each of them. Bend these areas in the form of a drop, as shown in the diagram, thread both ends of the wire through the fifth bead on the body, and the lower wings of the butterfly are ready.
String a light brown bead on both ends of the wire, it will be the sixth bead in the body. Now cut the wire in two again, string 24 beads on the 1st and 2nd edges, bend these sections in the form of upper wings, pass the ends of the wire through the sixth bead of the body.
Weaving a butterfly from beads will soon be completed. In the meantime, you need to create her eyes. On each end of the wire, string a dark bead, twist the wire, put one light brown bead on it. Twist the two ends of the wire together for the last time, bend their edges in the form of an insect's whiskers, which are 5 cm long.
How the weaving of a butterfly from beads is completed, the schemes also clearly demonstrate. When you have mastered such an easy way to create a beautiful insect, then you can move on to a more complex one. Patterns will also help you to weave such butterflies from beads.
DIY brooches
How this beaded butterfly is made, the master class clearly explains. For her you will need orange, red, black and yellow beads.
Cut a wire about 30 cm long. Find its middle, string a black bead here. Twist and string the next black bead onto the wire. Twist again, put on 2 beads, and then two more. How the torso of a butterfly is made from beads, the diagrams also clearly demonstrate.
Figure b shows how to start creating her body. The diagram "c" shows that then you need to tighten the wire so that the beads fit tightly to each other. Bring the ends of the wire up, and bend them in the form of insect antennae.
Look at diagram "d". This will help create the upper left wing of the butterfly. Also bend a piece of wire, string an orange bead on it, intertwine the two ends of the wire, string 2 orange beads in the second row. The third row consists of 3 pieces - red in the center and two orange beads on the sides. Also referring to diagram "d", you will create the left upper wing completely.
Then pass both ends of the wire through the body of the butterfly, bring them out through the other side and, relying on the diagram "d", create the upper right wing. Diagram "e" shows how to shape the upper wings. Now we will deal with the lower ones, we also begin to weave each of them from the corner.
For the lower right, string one red bead first, then in the second row - two red ones. The third row consists of red, then there are three orange and 1 red completes this row. After the lower right wing is created, bring both ends of the wire through the torso in the opposite direction and make the lower left wing.
If you want to turn a butterfly into a brooch, then attach a button-down pin on the back, and an elegant decoration for any outfit is ready. Another scheme will help create an insect of green or another color.
This is how a beautiful beaded butterfly is made. For beginners, diagrams, descriptions and photographs will help simplify this process, make not only insects, but also a voluminous tree, an Easter egg.
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