In Russia, March 8 is considered a holiday of spring, flowers and awakening nature, and in Japan it is the Sakura Festival, which the Japanese spend in gardens and parks admiring the flowers. In our area, fruit trees will not bloom soon, but a branch of sakura with delicate pink flowers can be a wonderful gift for your mother, grandmother or sister on March 8th - and at the same time an interior decoration. We'll tell you how to make one unusual craft with your own hands.
You will need:
- corrugated paper in pink (or white), yellow and green
- strong branch beautiful shape(we have left over from a winter composition - that’s why it’s white)
- threads to match the green paper
- semolina
- PVA glue
- scissors
Blanks for flowers
Cut out rectangles from paper. For one flower you will need: one yellow rectangle (about 1.5×2 cm) for the stamens, one green (1.5×1.5 cm) for the sepals and 5 pink (1.5×2.5 cm) for the petals.
How to make stamens
- On the yellow rectangle along the long side we make several cuts reaching to the middle.
- We twist each piece of the resulting fringe.
- We have stamens.
- We roll the yellow blank into a tube and dip the tips of the stamens first in PVA glue.
- And then - into semolina.
- We are waiting for it to dry. Stamens with pollen are ready.
How to make petals
- Take a pink piece corrugated paper(size 1.5x2.5 cm).
- We cut off its upper part in a semicircle and carefully stretch the folds in the upper part of the petal so that it acquires a convex shape.
- We twist the lower part of the petal - we will attach the flower to it.
Collecting a flower
- Lay out the preparations in front of you
- We collect pink petals around the yellow center.
- On the outside, we wrap the junction of the petals with a green sepal and wrap it with thread for strength.
- We tie the thread into two knots, leaving two “tails” of 5 cm each.
- We straighten the flower petals.
- We tie the flower to the branch with the remaining “tails”.
The task may seem slow, but if you divide the operations between several people, you can get it done in an hour. This is what happened with my son and daughter: Katya made the stamens, and Vitya stamped the petals as if on a conveyor belt. All I had to do was collect it all together and tie it to a branch. In one evening, our room was transformed and began to resemble a corner of Japan! The result is a real cherry blossom - but you can create another tree with similar flowers - cherry, apple, pear.
To make such sakura branches for the interior, you will need a minimum of time, labor and expense. Sakura made from napkins is a great idea for decorating your home. Sakura is a symbol of youth and beauty. The Japanese are very sensitive to its flowering. In Japan there is such a holiday as hanami. Hanami is a tradition of picnics under cherry blossom trees. Sakura also symbolizes the transience of time, because it does not bloom for long. Let's make sakura branches with our own hands. Let them please the eye at any time of the year.
For work we will need:
- Branches of any bush - 9 pieces.
- Thin wire or glue.
- Napkins are pink and white.
- White gouache.
- Brush.
- Scissors.
- Needle and white thread.
First, let's prepare the branches. Shake off debris and remaining leaves from the branches. The branches must be dry and clean.
We paint the branches with white gouache to make them look lighter.
Decide how many flowers you want to make; there should be no more than 11-13 flowers on one branch.
Using a needle and thread, carefully sew 6 circles together. Sew in the center of the flower.
Attach a thin wire to the center of the flower. The wire is needed to secure it to the branch.
Then we take one layer of the flower and, lifting its edges to the middle, compress it. We do this with all subsequent layers. Next, slightly straighten the flower. We make as many flowers as needed for sakura.
We attach our flowers to the branch with wire. If the wire stands out and is visible, you can tint it with white paint. If you don’t want to use wire, you can glue the flowers with glue by a thread to the trunk.
Quilling "Sakura" will most likely interest lovers of Japan, where this tree comes from, as well as everyone who loves simplicity and grace. For many beginners learning quilling, a master class will be useful in terms of mastering the principles of work.
The sakura branch symbolizes life, youth and feminine beauty. From a botanical point of view, sakura is an ornamental cherry tree that does not bear fruit or produces small inedible fruits. The Japanese value this tree only from an aesthetic point of view and hold hanami - traditional picnics under cherry blossom trees.
A postcard with cherry tree flowers can become a good gift for a spring day, will help express the most tender and sincere feelings. The master class is devoted to the general principle of work and explains step by step how to make flowers, branches, design crafts, and also gives several ideas for creativity. For beginners, creating two-dimensional postcards and three-dimensional panels is suitable.
A composition with sakura using the technique of twisting paper - quilling - will be easy to create with your own hands, even for beginners. MK gives a general idea of what elements are needed and how to make a paper picture.
To create a composition correctly and beautifully, the easiest way is to use templates, for example, those presented below:
You can also draw several sketches yourself, adding silhouettes of birds, the moon or architecture to the flower branch. Places for flowers can be left for quilling elements, and everything else can be painted with paints or cut out of paper - make an applique. As a result, a whole picture can emerge.
You don't have to stick to the traditional Japanese style - a knotted branch with pink or white flowers against the backdrop of Mount Fuji or a red circle of the sun. You can show your imagination and add butterflies, birds, animals, and people’s faces to your work.
Before you understand how to make a composition, you need to prepare the following materials and tools:
- strips of colored paper in pink (white, salmon), green, brown;
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- thick paper (base for postcard);
- awl for quilling;
- tweezers.
General job description:
- prepare the basis for the postcard: draw and color branches on paper, mark flowers and leaves with a pencil;
- Twist the necessary elements from paper strips using an awl and glue the ends;
- glue all the details to the card;
- If desired, make a frame or decorate the card in another way.
To create all the necessary elements (flowers, leaves, branches), it is enough to rely on the diagram of basic shapes.
Inflorescences are usually composed of "drops", "spirals" or "arrows". Cherry tree petals widen towards the edges, so the base shapes need to be glued together at the narrow ends.
The center of each flower can be decorated with either paper or beads.
The leaves are made in the form of “droplets” or “eyes”.
When all necessary details will be twisted, you can start assembling the whole composition: stick leaves and flowers to the prepared places. It is better to use tweezers for this, especially if the parts are very small.
It is worth noting that sakura is distinguished by dense inflorescences and sparse leaves (or lack thereof). Therefore, it is worth distributing the parts so that the branches remain mostly bare, but close at the ends. The leaves are usually glued one per branch or two near the inflorescence.
Another option for creating a simple card: make sakura leaves according to the basic “eye” shape, and cut out the flowers using a figured foil hole punch.
Creation of volumetric panels
Panels with voluminous details made from tight spirals and cones look more interesting. To create such compositions, the following materials and tools are required:
- colored paper strips;
- tweezers and awl;
- base for panels;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- ball pen.
Step-by-step execution of sakura flowers:
Each cherry blossom can be decorated with stamens made from twisted fringe, fishing line and beads.
It is better to draw the branches on the base for the panel or make them from brown strips of paper.
Options for how to decorate a sakura panel are presented in the photo.
Video master class “Sakura using quilling technique”
Detailed and visual instructions for creating a decorative composition with sakura can be watched in the video; the master class describes the step-by-step implementation of the quilling technique.
Do-it-yourself decor will decorate the interior. Interesting crafts can also be given to loved ones. A blooming sakura branch is an ideal gift for a mother, grandmother or teacher for any occasion, including. Beautiful, handmade ones will bring joy to both the recipient and the giver.
Master class on creating beautiful crafts"Sakura Branch" is quite simple. This activity will appeal to three-year-old children, primary schoolchildren, and teenagers.
To implement this plan you will need:
- dry branch,
- 1-2 sheets of pink colored paper,
- yellow beads,
- scissors
- and pink threads.
Craft for the holiday - DIY sakura branch:
1. Slice colored paper small squares of different sizes. Fold each of them several times so that the front part remains inside. Trim the outer edge into a semicircle, then unfold the paper. You will get a flower. Its creation is reminiscent of the process of forming snowflakes.
2. Cut out many flowers of different sizes to fill the prepared branch.
3. Use beads to make a center for each flower. Using a thread and a needle, pierce the central part of the paper and thread the thread into the hole of the bead. Leave a small tail at the back to attach the flower to the branch.
4. Tie the flowers to the branch. Or you can sew or glue them. Place the largest parts at the base; it is better to attach smaller flowers to the ends of the branch. Then the craft will look more harmonious.
5. Fill the branch with the desired number of flowers and place in a vase.
Your DIY sakura branch is ready! It's time to give it to your mom, grandma or girlfriend.
Mysterious sakura and the romance of oriental exoticism attracts many. And today we suggest spending a little time with pleasure to create a few sakura branches with your own hands. And if you make a bouquet, you will get a wonderful element of interior decor, suitable for decorating a living room or a school classroom.
Considering the simplicity and accessibility of the technique used to make the flowering branches, children of middle and high school age can handle their creation.
To make sakura from paper with your own hands, you will need:
soft pink corrugated paper for creating sakura flowers;
corrugated paper of any green tone;
wire to create a branch frame;
gouache, acrylic or watercolor paints.
Paper sakura: master class
We start the work with the frame: the base of the sakura branch. For this, we take a long piece of wire and wrap it with a tape of small width, cut from corrugated green paper.
We cut two shorter pieces of wire: we also wrap them with green paper tape. We glue the ends with a pencil so that they do not unwind.
Give the branch a natural curved shape and attach smaller branches to it.
We fix them with a strip of corrugated paper, bandaging them in the right places.
The paper frame for the sakura branch is ready, and we begin to create the flowers themselves.
Cut a strip 2-3 cm wide from a roll of soft pink corrugated paper.
In order for the sakura petals to look natural, we give them a convex shape.
Glue the finished petals to the tips of the branch.
To create one sakura flower you will need four petals. We fix the base of the inflorescences with thread.
We process the receptacle of each flower with a piece of green crepe tape, masking the winding with thread.
We bend small branches, imitating the natural curves of sakura.
As you probably know, cherry blossoms occur before the leaves bloom, so there is practically no foliage on its branches. Here and there you can see small unblown leaves near the branching of the branches. We cut out such mini-leaves from crepe paper Green colour.
We place them at the base of each small branch.
We also decorate the receptacle of the buds with them.