Leaf Girl crafts: collecting and preparing the material, the choice of composition and step by step master classes (97 photos)
That's all autumn time is coming to an end, with its bright golden hues. It is replaced by a snow-white, frosty winter, with its fierce frosts and snowfalls.
And so you want to take this golden piece of autumn, to remember the sunshine, let it be cool, but still an autumn breeze on cold winter evenings.
Make it possible, here to help with handmade crafts of autumn leaves. For example, make an applique of a girl out of dried leaves.
Materials for creating the handicraft
To make a girl out of leaves as a handicraft, you need to prepare all the necessary materials, the main of which will be the autumn leaves, prepared in advance.
To select the natural material is to give preference to the smooth, solid, bright leaves, medium-sized, which are pre-dry.
It is better to take leaves not completely dried, as such material is easy to use. It will be less likely to crumble and break. In addition, you may need the following improvised means: dry branches, ears, acorns, red rowan berries, millet, moss, and grass.
If desired, any work can be changed a little, add something of your own, while making the product unique. Prepare all the necessary components for future crafts is best done in the summer. After all, at this time you can gather a lot of different natural material.
Collected material can be stored in semolina. It is poured into a container, the collected herbarium is distributed on it, and then everything is again covered with a layer of semolina. Such storage will keep the leaves and flowers in perfect shape, and the products will lose their natural color to a minimum.
Painting "Autumn Girl"
To make this handicraft, in addition to natural material, you need to take:
- a dense base of 50 by 42 centimeters (fiberboard, dense cardboard, etc.);
- Acrylic varnish, matte;
- acrylic paints in golden shades - yellow, gold, bronze;
- watercolor paints - yellow, beige;
- flour;
- paint brushes;
- glue construction;
- putty.
When all the necessary materials are prepared you can safely proceed to the creative process, For this:
- A sheet-base is taken, placed on the wrong side - this will be the working side.
- The frame is made using the technique of terra. For this purpose, putty is used, which is evenly applied to the contour of the frame, in which the seeds are pressed, grits. Instead of it, dry tile glue can be used, in 6 parts of which one part of PVA glue and three parts of flour are added. In this case, first the edge of the frame is dabbed with PVA, then the mixture is applied in a layer of about one centimeter. After that, grits and seeds of ears are pressed into it. As soon as all the ingredients are pressed in, the sheet is lifted vertically and the excess seeds and millet are shaken off. After thirty minutes, the varnish and PVA are mixed, and the mixture is applied to the entire frame. Once the varnish dries, it can be covered with paint of a golden hue. After drying, with bronze paint, you can highlight ears, seeds.
- Using acrylic paint, the background of the painting is done. It is best if the strokes are smooth, without unnecessary harsh strokes.
- Using a simple pencil traced the image of the girl for the leaf handicraft, later paint the silhouette with golden paint.
- The outfit is made of autumn leaves, which will form the puffed skirt of the girl. Glued leaves in rows. You should start with the lowest row, each subsequent row will be attached a little higher than the previous one. Mounting leaves are made with regular PVA glue.
You can decorate the skirt with rowan berries, dried small flowers and so on. To give the picture a finished look, a wreath is attached to the girl's head, which is made with leaves and rowan berries.
At each edge of the handicraft you can glue sprigs of rowan, birch, making it look like an autumn forest. At the bottom of the picture glued moss or grass. That's it Autumn Girl is ready.
Girl with a wreath of leaves
To make this handicraft you need to take:
- A drawing of the girl's face for the leafy handicraft;
- Autumn leaves of a golden hue;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- rowan berries;
- rhinestones.
After preparing all the elements, you can begin to perform the handicraft. To do this, follow the step-by-step instructions:
- a ready-made drawing of a girl is taken, glued to the base;
- the best leaves are selected;
- glue is applied to each leaf;
- Each element is attached around the head, so that in the future the shape of the crown is obtained;
- With the help of red rowan berries, beads are made around the girl's neck (fastening is done with glue);
- You can glue small rhinestones in the corners of the eyes, which will give the image expressiveness and realism.
That's all the picture is ready, the only thing left is to find a place where it will hang, and fill the room with comfort and warmth.
Panno Girl under an umbrella
For the panel, we will need:
- cardboard of white color;
- glue gun;
- PVA glue, you can pencil;
- black felt-tip pen, paint;
- Autumn herbarium of leaves;
- tree bark;
- scissors;
- dried grasses.
The first thing to start with is to draw a template for a girl for the leaf diy, holding an open umbrella in her hands. Do this on a sheet of white cardboard.
Once this step is done, you need to paint the silhouette of a girl in black, you can use a felt-tip pen or paint.
Now we proceed to decorating the drawing. On one side of the object is glued tree bark, twigs made from the same bark, with a glue gun otherwise they will not stick.
Using multicolored leaves, pre-shredded, the leaves on the tree are decorated. To do this, the leaf is smeared with ordinary glue, then shredded pieces are sprinkled on top. Grasses are glued to the bottom of the panel.
To create a leaffall effect, leaves are glued, which seem to fall off the tree. With a glue gun, you can create the illusion of rain. To do this, a few drops of glue from a glue gun are attached to the umbrella.
This concludes the work on the panel.
If desired, the work can be placed in a frame, hung on the wall or used as a gift.
Application "Girl in the garden"
For this piece you need to prepare:
- honey watercolor (gouache);
- brush;
- dry herbarium of leaves;
- black felt-tip pen;
- Petals from flowers of yellow, lilac shades;
- Ribbon, satin, yellowish hue;
- glue stick;
- scissors;
- white cardboard.
Then we do everything according to the instructions:
- A large sheet is painted red with watercolor.
- A print is made on the cardboard, for this purpose, the painted side of the sheet is pressed to the cardboard, a shrub is obtained.
- The second is made in a similar way, but yellow.
- An image of a girl in a lush dress, looking at the bushes, is drawn.
- From three oak leaves begins to form a skirt. Glued the first row with glue, only at the top, as under the bottom will be doklejutsya other leaves.
- Small five petal leaf is attached at the beginning of the skirt, right on top.
- Large yellow flower petals are glued at the very bottom of the dress.
- The procedure is repeated only with petals of lilac shade.
- A yellow or lilac satin ribbon is used to form a bow, which is then attached at the very top of the skirt.
- To complete the girl's image, a small needle-shaped sheet is attached to the hair.
Once the girl is ready, we proceed to the background. To begin with we dip the brush in red color and sprinkle it on the handicraft, then do the same with the use of yellow paint. At this point the work on the handicraft is completely finished.
Portrait of a girl made of autumn leaves
Of the materials for the handicraft will be needed:
- a herbarium of leaves and flowers (green, red);
- barberry (fruits);
- the needles of spruce;
- glue stick;
- felt-tip pen of black shade;
- white cardboard.
As in the previous crafts, to begin with a portrait of the girl is drawn. A red or burgundy leaf is cut to the shape of the lips and glued in its place on the portrait. With the help of a green leaf, shadows are made on the eyes. The tips of the needles of the spruce are cut off - these are the eyelashes, which are also glued in place.
Hair is made of oak leaves. They are glued under each other, creating the volume of the hair. A birch leaf is used to make a crown, which is glued on the head. For decoration you can use fruits of barberry, rowanberries.
With the help of sheets of red shade highlight the neckline of the dress. As an embellishment you can glue small flowers on top of these leaves. That's all the portrait of the girl is completely ready.
Application "Girl in a dress made of autumn leaves".
Take the following materials for this handicraft:
- an ordinary sheet of paper;
- Herbarium and leaves;
- glue;
- pencils - simple, colored;
- felt-tip pens - blue, red, black.
A silhouette of a girl is drawn on a sheet of paper, which is subsequently decorated with leaves of different shapes and colors. All products are glued with glue. Do not forget about the decor, to make the outfit brighter and more beautiful use red rowan berries, for their absence draw them with a red felt-tip pen.
The eyes are drawn with a blue felt-tip pen, the lips with a red one, and the whole outline of the girl is traced with a black felt-tip pen.
Such a handicraft can easily be made by a preschool child, if you draw a girl beforehand.
Three-dimensional handicraft "The Girl from the Leaves"
To work on a three-dimensional handicraft we will need:
- a doll;
- dried autumn leaves;
- PVA glue;
- cardboard.
Let's get to work:
- From cardboard is made a cone, the future skirt of the doll.
- The top of the cone is cut off, he glued himself, put on the doll.
- Glue diluted with water in a ratio of one to one.
- Leaves are glued to the cone with the resulting adhesive solution from the bottom up.
- You can make an ornament on the head with a leaf.
- At the bottom of the dress, decorative elements are glued - rowan or barberry berries, small flowers.
That's the result of such a beauty for young needlewomen.
In general, there are many other crafts that can be made of autumn leaves. You can take as a basis any one specific and complement it with something of your own, making it even more original, interesting.
The most important thing in time to stock up on natural material so that quiet, cold, winter evenings you can dive into creativity and bring to your home bright colors, warmth, coziness.