Beautiful crafts with their own hands: a collection of master classes for beginners with photo examples

In today's world, there are a huge number of solutions for creating a cozy, comfortable environment at home. The natural desire of any person is the convenience and functionality of the place where you are.

Things that surround you and often affect your mood and emotions. Beautiful handicrafts, will give personality to your home and leave a lot of pleasant impressions of your creativity.

Many people are now into needlework, using different ideas for crafts in their work. The main thing is that you have the desire and inspiration to decorate the room with interesting crafts.

Materials to work with

Many people, tidying up the closet, pantry or other place find a lot of unnecessary things that once left because they were sorry to throw away.

Now is the time when you can properly use everything, creating different handicrafts with your own hands.

Among the material with which you can create creative works can be colored paper, buttons, wine corks, old vinyl records, plastic dishes, pieces of fabric and leather, threads, beads and more.

A variety of materials to work with gives great opportunities for creativity and solutions to the problem of creating the comfort of your place of rest or work.

Working techniques

Not everyone can say that he knows how to work with all materials and knows everything. Everyone is learning, mastering new techniques of working with different materials. A creative person is always evolving. There is nothing wrong with knowing how to glue and model since school.

The main thing that was a desire, and learn new kinds of handicraft possible with master classes and video tutorials. Knitting, applique, macramé, embroidery, wood burning and many other easy to learn nowadays.

Do not be afraid that your first product will not look very pretty, practice and experience will help to create great creative work.

Paper Bouquets

A paper bouquet made with your own hands will serve as a beautiful decoration of the room and will last much longer than live flowers.

To work you will need:

1. Colored paper
2. Pencil glue or PVA
3. Scissors
4. A lead pencil

Before you begin, choose the paper you will use to make the flowers:

• Corrugated paper can be used to make beautiful, layered flowers. It lays down very well and looks beautiful. The wide range of colors allows you to make a bouquet like the real thing. It curls well and is easy to stretch and squeeze, which helps to make flowers like natural ones. To create a flower, you need to cut the shape of the petals. For roses, peonies, and hibiscuses, stretch the top of the petal slightly and twist with a rod or spoke. For chrysanthemums and carnations, cut strips and notch the entire length of the strip from top to bottom. The top of the strip can be twisted with a pencil or pen to give the bud a lushness. Connect all the petals using glue on a wooden skewer wrapped with green paper. Make the leaves on the stem. You can wrap candy in the middle of the flower, and the sweet gift will make your friends happy.
• You can make simple and voluminous flowers for a bouquet from a simple double-sided colored paper.

For simple flowers, cut out a daisy-shaped flower template and glue the middle on it. Attach everything to a skewer wrapped in green paper or painted green.

For voluminous flowers like roses, lilies and peonies, cut out petals and join them on the stem with glue.

Volumetric buds can also be made in the art of origami.

When you create a bouquet, you can combine different colors and flowers that blend into the interior of your room.

The panel from the buttons

The panel is a good solution to give personality to the room. It is beautiful and fits harmoniously into the design of any wall. Having gone through all the remnants of the buttons and deciding on the color scheme, you can create an interesting composition.

For work you will need:

1. Glue gun or "Moment"
2. Frame
3. Buttons

Work steps:

• Choose or make a frame for the panel. This can be fabric on an embroidery frame, photo frame, canvas or fabric stretched on a special frame, which can be any shape and any size.
• Choose a pattern for your composition
• Apply your design to the frame
• Glue the buttons to the picture, taking into account its color scheme.

If you can not think of what kind of panel will decorate the wall, as an option you can do a rainbow, sunset, sunrise, water surface. Bright and positive work will provide a good mood and positive emotions. Original crafts in the form of a panel can always be presented to friends.

A keychain from cardboard

A necessary accessory for any apartment is a keychain. Agree that it is very convenient, when you come home to hang the keys in place and then quietly take them without running around the apartment in search of keys, especially when you're late.

Materials needed:

1. Cardboard
2. Hooks
3. Heavy napkins
4. Scissors
5. PVA glue

Cut out the necessary size of the key ring from cardboard (preferably from a box) or plywood:

• From cardboard cut rectangles that will imitate bricks.
• Glue the cardboard bricks to the top and bottom of the keybox, leaving gaps between them.
• At the top place a beautiful picture, and in the center of the inscription with the names, quotes.
• Attach the hooks to the base and cover the entire remaining area with cardboard bricks.
• For a masonry effect, put crumpled tissues soaked in PVA glue between the bricks. Firmly press the tissues to the base.
• Paint the whole product with acrylic paint in the same color as the bricks. After it is completely dry, varnish the keybox for strength and durability.

Plastic canvass jewelry box

Lovers of needlework can please themselves and their loved ones by making a casket from plastic canvas:

• To do this, you need to buy plastic canvass of the desired perforation in a needlework store.
• Choose the size of the casket and cut out the pieces for it. Do not forget that the lid should be slightly smaller than the bottom.
• For structural strength, cut another set of parts, but 0.5 cm larger than the previous one.
• Connect similar parts to each other with threads, cords or braid using a pattern or composition.
• Assemble the whole box from these parts.
• Decorate it with jewelry: embroidery, beads, sequins.

Such a box will not only decorate your room, but will last for many years. The plastic texture will make it easy to take care of it.

Flower pot from paper bags

You will need:

1. Paper bags.
2. Wooden skewers
3. Plastic jar
4. A glue gun or Moment
5. Scissors.

Stages of work:

• Make blanks to assemble the product. To make the pot, cut paper bags into strips 7 cm wide and 30 cm long. - 8 pieces.
• Wrap these strips around wooden skewers, fixing the ends with glue.
• Wrap the plastic container with the same bags
• Glue the paper-wrapped skewers to the bottom of the pot, distributing them evenly across the diameter.
• Bend them to the sides of the pot
• Cut 7cm wide and 45cm long strips from the bags.
• Roll up the strips into tube-shaped braids.
• Braid the pot with the resulting tubes, following the basket weaving method.

You can make two holes in the top of the pot and, passing the rope, use it as a cachet. Such funny handicrafts can beautifully decorate the area of the suburban area.

Mat out of wine corks

In any bathroom will look harmoniously a rug from wine corks, made by hand. The complex elements of the craft consist of acquiring the necessary number of corks.

If you have your own supplies or you work in an area where you can take the corks, then wash them from the remains of wine, so that they have a uniform color did not have a smell.

If you want to make such a mat, but you do not have that many corks in stock, you can buy them through an online store. For a standard mat of 60×40 cm you need about 200 corks.

Cork is a very good material for making a mat. They are made of natural cork, which means they are warm, non-slippery, moisture-proof, easy to care for, the convex surface creates a massage effect for the feet.

To create a mat you need to prepare:

1. Cork
2. Sharp knife
3. Sandpaper
4. Base of the rug
5. Glue

Instructions for making a rug:

• You can take an old rubber mat, a sports mat, soft plastic or any non-skid surface as a base.
• Corks are cut in half lengthwise with a sharp knife, and the cut area is cleaned with emery paper.
• Finished parts are glued to the base. Parts can be arranged in any order you like: staggered, herringbone, perimeter, diagonally, using different colored stoppers.

Vinyl record clocks

Going through your closet, you found old vinyl records? Don't rush to throw them away. They will make a cool clock. You can make such a clock from a record in three different ways:

• The record disc is coated with primer, and after it dries, you cover it with a paper napkin in decoupage technique. To do this, take a three-layer paper napkin with a suitable pattern. The top layer of tissue is separated and placed on the disk. Using a brush, PVA glue is gently applied on top of the napkin. After drying, the numbers are placed on the disk, and the hands of the clock mechanism are attached to the center.
• Vinyl records easily change shape when heated, so you can heat the plate over a fire and give the disk desired shape: a flower, a car. To decorate the dial and attach the clock mechanism.
• With the jigsaw and stencil, you can cut out any shapes. It can be objects: a teapot, a chair, a flower, a jug or portraits of famous people: Vysotsky, Tsoi, Marilyn Monroe and others. Such work is truly jewelry and requires perseverance and skill, but by creating a masterpiece your creativity will not leave anyone indifferent. In the center of the disk is placed a clock mechanism. In this kind of clock the dial does not look appropriate, so the numbers either do not indicate on the disk, or decorate them with strokes.
• You can simply paint the plate with acrylic paints, creating a suitable pattern on it.

In any case, the clock, made by your own hands, will be a single piece and will give individuality to the room.

We have introduced you to a minor option of using handmade materials to create beautiful handicrafts.

Creativity and imagination of man knows no boundaries, so any idea you saw you crafts can be modified and varied depending on your desires and abilities.

The main thing is to create and be inspired by ideas. Such crafts will not only decorate any room, but they can be safely presented to family and friends.

Pictures of beautiful and original crafts for your home