There are a lot of various jewelry and jewelry in stores, which means you can always look stylish and beautiful.
But handmade jewelry has always been highly valued.
And here you can safely call the leader kanzashi from tapes, with your own hands, which is very simple to do.
Let's try it together.
What do we need to make kanzashi from tapes with our own hands?
To make Japanese flowers using the kanzashi technique, you need to prepare:
• directly tapes of different colors and textures;
• tweezers;
• ruler;
• a pencil for a cloth or a bar of soap;
• scissors;
• threads in the color of ribbons;
• pins;
• thin needle;
• glue;
• lighter.
And most importantly, inspiration and some free time. Only with their presence will your hands create a masterpiece. Now let's look at examples of making some jewelry in detail. Having studied their technique, you will be able to do amazing handmade things.
Do-it-yourself rose-kanzashi from ribbons
To make it, you need to take ribbons of two colors - pink and green. Moreover, pink can be replaced with any color that you like, from it we will form a blossoming bud. But from green we will make leaflets. Prepare scissors, matching thread colors, needle, lighter and scissors.
Important! If you use a tape with a width of 2.5 cm, we get a flower with a diameter of approximately 6 cm.
Step-by-step instruction:
1. We measure from the tape 6 cm and cut it out. You will need 19 pieces of such pieces. These are future petals. Be sure to burn their edges above the fire so that they do not crumble.
2. Now proceed to the formation of the petal. For this:
• take a piece so that the wrong side of the tape is on top and fold it obliquely in the center;
• make sure that the ends that protrude make an angle of 90 degrees and have the same length;
• in the upper part of the segment you need to bend in the center;
• Now bend the opposite part in a similar way so that it lies on the lower segment;
• you get a petal, only on the wrong side;
• you need to fasten it, for this, pull the thread into the needle and lay a couple of small stitches as close to the edge as possible on the front of the petal.
3. The next two petals are formed in a similar way, but you need to connect them with the thread on which the previous petal is located. Be sure to ensure that there is a slight overlap on them. It must be sewn with a stitch to the middle.
4. And here we sew the third petal to the end and tighten the thread, collecting them in a tight ring. We fix it with several reverse stitches. The thread can be cut. Spread the petals slightly, density is not needed here.
5. In a similar way, we form rings of 5 and 7 petals. Leave small gaps in the ring. The next should be slightly larger than the previous one. Make sure that the petals are slightly raised up.
6. For the core of the rose, you need to take a prepared piece of ribbon and fold it, like the petals. But at the same time make folding at the most acute angle. Make the last turn of the tape slightly loose and stitch it with thread.
7. Collect the flower:
• put the core in the center of the center of the combination of three petals and sew them with a thread on the bottom;
• cut the lower seal with scissors and immediately burn;
• sew structures of 5 and 7 elements together in the middle and insert the core into them without breaking the thread;
• be sure to flash and glue them;
• We cut off the middle seal and burn it again with fire.
8. From a larger green ribbon, similarly form a pair of petals. Sew them together, but not tightly. After gluing to the flower bottom or side, as your fantasy tells. DIY kanzashi made of ribbons with your own hands.
It will look great like a brooch, hairpin, elastic or element of a hoop. To do this, on the back side you need to stick a circle of pink felt. And then a pin or elastic is attached to it, and also for this basis the rose is glued to the hoop.
Do-it-yourself kanzashi flower from ribbons
To make it, take tapes of the same size. You can make it colorful, but you can also plain. And also, a standard set for kanzashi and a bead-core.
This flower is made of two types of petals:
• round;
• sharp.
Having mastered the manufacturing technique, which, you can create amazing and unique flowers and not only. To do this, it will be enough to combine them in size and number of petals.
Do-it-yourself step-by-step instructions for making a rounded kanzashi petal from ribbons with your own hands:
1. Cut a piece of tape so long to make a square.
Important! The thinner the ribbon, the smaller the resulting petal and flower in the end. Therefore, for larger products, wide tapes must be used.
2. Fold it diagonally so that its angle is below.
3. We bend the left corner to the top. We do the same with the right corner. Now you have a rhombus in your hands, with a gap in the middle. Turn it over to ourselves with a smooth face.
4. Turn the workpiece slices to the right and bend the upper and lower corners of the figure in the center.
5. By folding the workpiece in half horizontally, you will hide the corners.
6. Now you need to flash the resulting corner and straighten it. The edges are fixed with a thread, and the slices are processed with fire. This can be done with a lighter or a burning candle.
7. The petal is ready. So form another 5 pieces.
DIY step-by-step instructions for making a sharp kanzashi petal from ribbons:
1. Cut the tape so that a square forms.
2. Add the segment diagonally. And the resulting triangle needs to be folded a couple of times vertically in half. Now you have a small triangle in your hands, the edges of which you need to flash with a thread, and cut the corner.
3. Expand the workpiece so that the point of the future petal looks down and is located on the left. We cut off the wide part of the workpiece, which is on the right. And you need to do this clearly along a line that is parallel to the left side. We burn the cut part.
4. The workpiece is ready. Now it remains to do the same in another 5 pieces.
We form a flower:
1. On a thread we string alternately round and sharp petals. After we pull them into a circle and fix it in this position.
2. Now you need to mask a not too beautiful core. For this we need a bead. If it is with an eye for a thread, then we sew. And if not, then you can put it on the glue.
3. Your flower is ready. Now it can be fixed on a hairpin, hoop or brooch. To make it reliable, use a piece of dense fabric or felt to match the flower. It will need to be cut in the shape of a circle and glued to the product, and after drying, apply glue to this circle and attach it to the hoop or elastic band.
The technique of forming a flower can be varied. And this will determine what output you get. You can make a flower only from rounded petals, but you can - from sharp. Moreover, it is not necessary that it be a flower. It can be an abstract figure or the same rainbow when the petals are collected in a semicircle. And each petal is similar to the coloring of the rainbow.
