New Year's bells with their own hands: how and from what to do

Now more and more popular are goods in the style of hand-made. This applies to jewelry, souvenirs, and any accessories and gifts. Winter came? Prepare for the upcoming holidays? Make New Year's bells with your own hands. They look beautiful on the tree, on the wall, the door and just anywhere in the interior. The things made with love will be a great gift to friends, family and friends.

Interesting ideas

Below is listed, from what can be made a New Year's bell:

• from beads;
• Thread;
• Fabric;
• Paper;
• Plastic cup.

Accordingly, the processing techniques used are different:

• Weaving.
• Sewing.
• Knitting.
• Application.
• Decoupage.
• Stained glass.
• Quilling.
• Silhouette excision.

It is worth noting that the executed souvenir can be either fully bulky, or relief or flat. All ornaments will take a worthy place on the Christmas tree or other place of festive interior.

Materials and Tools

If you decide to make New Year's bells with your own hands in different techniques, then a set of necessary tools will require different. A list of groups is presented below.

To make a souvenir, prepare this:

• the cloth;
• Patterns;
• Pins;
• a piece of chalk;
• scissors;
• Thread with a needle;
• Sewing machine.

For the technique of decoupage, the following will be required:

• The basis of papier-mache or plastic cup.
• Primer (acrylic white).
• Sponge (sponge).
• Napkins with thematic drawings, rice paper or decoupage cards.
• PVA.
• Brush.
• Acrylic paints for applying an additional pattern.
• Stencils (optional).
• Clear nail polish.

For beadwork it is necessary to prepare only:

• beads;
• Line or wire;
• Thin needle.

To work with paper you need:

• pencil;
• Designer decorative sheets;
• scissors;
• glue.

To tie a bell, it is enough to take a hook and yarn of the corresponding numbers. For quilling, in addition to the listed paper processing tools and the sheets themselves, a cutter is required (it is more convenient to prepare even identical strips) and a torsion device (special or handy, such as a toothpick or knitting needle).

The additional decor for all methods can be used the same:

• satin ribbons;
• Bows;
• Beads;
• Patches;
• tinsel;
• Snowflakes, asterisks made of paper, made by a figured punch.

Papier-mache or decoration from a plastic cup

A Christmas toy (a bell or an entire garland of them) can be made using an existing base or from scratch. Most often as a stock use conventional plastic disposable cups. They have a similar shape and are easily decorated in many ways.

If the plastic packaging you do not have in the right amount, you can use an alternative way - to make blanks from papier-mache. The meaning of the work is that on the existing form (one cup or a bought bell you can find) layers are pre-prepared small pieces of thin paper with preliminary drying of the previous layer. Suitable office sheets, magazines and even newspaper. For gluing, you can use PVA or a prepared paste. The basis should be pre-wrapped with food film, so that the "shell" made easier to remove.

Sew a toy

New Year's bells can be made with their own hands from the remains of cloth that are in the closet of each needlewoman. The product can be two-sided and fully volumetric. For the first variant, the pattern will be just a bell shape, in the second case it will take several details for the bottom, the side surface and the top. Templates can be developed independently. The process of sewing itself is not particularly difficult:

1. The details are spent on the wrong side, leaving an opening for eversion.
2. After this operation is done directly.
3. The received form is filled with a holofiber or other material.
4. The hole is sewn.
5. The souvenir is decorated.

New Year's bell from beads

Such a souvenir can be either flat or bulky. Usually make the second option. It looks much more impressive. Used as an openwork, and solid weaving.

The simplest version is done like this:

1. Make a triangle from the wire, typing at the beginning, for example, 12 beads, and in the last row only 2 (all depends on the number of rows and, accordingly, the size of the bell).
2. Continue on the same wire on the same form only in the opposite direction (mirror), starting with 2 beads and finishing 12.
3. Bend the resulting "bow" in half.
4. Weave on each side into one product.

Of several such blanks, combined in a single whole, you will get a more voluminous bell. Complex variants, openwork and patterned, are woven in a circle with the help of special schemes.

Christmas bells hooked

Such products can be, as well as beaded, solid or openwork. The latter look much more attractive. Knitting is performed in a circle - from the top of the bell, where the tongue and the suspension are fastened, to the bottom.

The shape is obtained due to the uniform distribution of additional loops along the ring and contractions. Lace ornaments should be knit in a special pattern with a careful counting of the pattern loops.

As you can see, you can make Christmas bells with your own hands in different ways. With simple options even a child can cope. Complex, but beautiful, will require the help of an adult. In a word, there are opportunities for creativity for everyone: for those who like to sew, knit, weave from beads, perform decoupage, stained-glass windows or appliques.