Flowers from foil with their own hands: step-by-step creation of a beautiful flower from ordinary foil (93 photos)

Soft pliable material, distinguished by a noble shine - that's what distinguishes homemade flowers from foil from other handmade crafts from improvised materials. Handicrafts combine the basic principles of "hand-made", which are borrowed from different techniques.

In the process of work it is easy to see that much is familiar from weaving souvenirs from newspaper tubes, crocheting roses and making beaded lilies. By mastering simple techniques step by step, it's easy to make entire flower arrangements out of foil.

Properties of Foil

Flowers from foil - a great addition to bouquets of candy and dried fruit, as well as an unusual decor in modern interiors. In terms of beauty, many crafts are able to compete with their living counterparts.

Empty vases of some depressing lack of flowers, so they are filled with artificial roses, daisies and lilies. They do not wilt, thanks to the durable material, do not lose their shape and color.

The basic material for a floral bouquet is foil or metallized paper. It became widely used in the early twentieth century, wrapping Swiss chocolate. It comes in different colors and density:

• hard metallized;
• confectionery;
• food-grade;
• roasted;
• textured;
• wrapping;
• holographic.

Some varieties are used only in printing or in the textile industry. It is used to cover hidden numbers and codes when the protective layer is supposed to be removed.

Chocolate packaging foil remains the most accessible to the mass user, as well as food rolls for heat treatment in cooking.

Some other varieties may be used in part. Foil can be overlaid with cardboard, paper or plastic. Thin base without "backing" is best for making jewelry, crafts and artificial flowers.

Useful tip: If you find colored sheets in the candy wrapper, you should set them aside and save them for crafts. When you have time, use it for the creative process - making spectacular souvenirs or artificial flowers from foil, performed step by step.

Tools and materials for creating flowers from foil

Foil crafts do not require complex tools or time-consuming ways to prepare raw materials. Hands are the main thing you will have to work with, forming petals and flexible sticks of foil aluminum.

To "create" handmade roses and lilies, you will need silver foil and simple tools:

• scissors;
• a ruler and a pencil for marking;
• simple, double sided or silver tape;
• A thin needle for twisting the tubes.

Note! Some types of pastry foil have a matte and shiny side. Boxed sheets are found perforated, with printed lettering, and a reaped base. There are silver and gold colored wrapping papers.

You need to sort the foil carefully before rolling out shiny tubes or "metallic" rose petals. They should have the same surface - turned to the base with the chrome or matte side.

Step-by-step creation of a foil flower

In any kind of needlework, the final result is largely determined by the careful preparation of raw materials. In this case, we are talking about the blanks of flexible foil flower sticks.

The process of making parts for artificial flowers is carried out carefully and unhurriedly, so as not to tear the thin sheets. The greatest attention is required when forming petals from "reaper" and foil with a printed pattern - it is undesirable to deform it.

The easiest thing to do is to make a stem for the flower. For it you will need a piece of thin aluminum wire (there may be other options).

The wire is aligned and wrapped in a spiral of thin foil. At the end, where the flower will be attached, it is desirable to fix a styrofoam ball, around which the bud will be formed.

If the stem is planned leaves, they should not be a lot, so as not to weigh down the design. For a bouquet of roses, 2 leaves for 3-5 flowers will be enough.

Lilies can be surrounded by 5-6 leaves around the composition. If the flowers have a lot of petals, you can leave the bouquet without additional decoration.

Lilies in foil

The easiest flower out of foil is the lily. You can vary the number of petals, usually make 3, 5 or 6, like the living favorite of King Solomon.

The product is made of metallized twigs - the striped petals resemble beaded souvenirs. The process of making it is available even for beginners:

1. Connect the flexible twigs with a cross, then attach other elements to form a petal.
2. Repeat 3-5 times, according to the number of identical parts.
3. Blanks petals put aside - go on to the formation of the middle.
4. Stamens we do as well out of foil, but you can other colors (preferably gold). At the ends we form oval segments, something like snail horns.
5. Screw the stamens to a wire stem, spirally wrapped with a strip of foil.
6. Attach the lily petals one by one to the stem, securing them around the stamens. If you can't do it right the first time, you can use silver duct tape.
7. Cover the working part with a sepal, twisted in a spiral at the petals' petioles. Another option is to wrap a strip around the entire working part of the twist.

The beauty of the flower depends on the resemblance to a living plant. Therefore, you can slightly roll out the petals and give them a curved shape, like a blooming lily.

If there is enough foil, in the same way it is worth doing 2 more flowers. They can be differently opened, but the petals should be the same length.

Useful tip! Swap 2-3 vases to assess the overall aesthetics of the handmade. On a different background, foil flowers can visually lose or look great, especially with focused light.

Foil roses

Having mastered the step by step weaving of flowers from foil in the form of a lily, you can proceed to the manufacture of metallized roses. The difference is that they have a lot more petals than other flowers, which will have to be twisted into a bud.

Important: To make roses look like living flowers, make sure that the outer petals are a little larger and more voluminous than the fragments in the middle.

Roses are made in different ways:

1. You can cut several petals from a solid piece of foil, roll the middle up into a tube and wrap them up nicely. You get the central part, to which other petals are attached.
2. Each petal is made separately, then the entire rose is collected on a ball attached to a wire frame (stem).
3. Cut circles of different sizes - 3, 4 and 5 cm (you can slightly less). These will be petals of different sizes, which are attached one by one with a glue gun.
4. Cut a "snail" or spiral strip with small jagged edges to give it the shape of the petals. This base is wound on the middle of the flower, shrinking it with glue. The work must be done very carefully, because you have to glue the end part, slightly drowning the workpiece in the glue.

More about the different methods below.

Solid Rose

If you have little experience, it is better not to take on a complicated glue connection of each petal. Help strips of foil food film size 5x50 cm. This is the basis for the workpiece.

If the foil is too thin, it is suggested to roll a strip in half. The cuts will go down, under the sepals, and the fold is better placed on top. From this part later "mold" the rose.

Plastic material is easy to coil on the base (in this case the "stem"). You can do without a middle, but it is better to screw the material to a round or oval base on top of the stem.

Pay attention! The petals of the flower can not be cut out, and form them by hand after winding, using the plasticity of the material.

When the petals are securely fastened, it remains to cut a strip for winding on the working part or a circle, through which the stem is threaded. This will be the sepals, hiding all the flaws of attachment.

Separate attention is worthy of the leaves of the rose, although not everyone wants to tinker with them. These parts are made of foil of a different color or texture.

Five approximately equal fragments of almond-shaped cut "tooth" and fastened in the center on a thin copper wire, as with all artificial flowers. The finished leaf is attached to the stem above the level of the vase in which the bouquet should be placed.

Useful tip! For more decorativeness, the floral composition can be supplemented with garland, metallized or pearl beads (the middle of roses) and dried plants. They are thickly coated with a silver or gold spray. Drops of solidified glue can resemble dew on the flowers.

A rose made of individual fragments

It is a labor-intensive process to form each petal separately, but this product bears more resemblance to its natural counterpart.

A large paper clip, to which each petal is attached with a glue gun is the base of the artificial plant.

For the middle, four small circles are enough, which are spread on top of each other in a single line, shifting slightly to the side. Roll them up into a small roll and twist the tip with a cube to insert it into a paper clip.

To the resulting middle attach petal by petal medium - they are better to do not 3-4, and 5-6, so that the rose turned out more puffy.

The last row - the large petals, they should be 4-5. This is the final part of the process, so they are planted a little lower, covering the glue rod.

When the main parts of the flower are attached, it remains to seat the sepals and give the rose the shape of a blooming flower. It is recommended to equip the stem with green leaves and add dried vegetation to the bouquet - spikelets, dried sprigs of thuja or immortelle.

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