Peony from corrugated paper with your own hands. How to make corrugated paper in stages

The beginning of summer is the time of peonies blooming, but they only fade very quickly. And so you want and dank autumn, and in the winter you can admire the delicate and refined colors! Everyone can make a small miracle and make a realistic, gentle and beautiful peony of corrugated paper with their own hands. Composed of such flowers, the bouquet will not fade and perfectly decorate the interior in any style.

A few words about peonies

Like tulips from the Dutch, chrysanthemum from the Japanese, and the peony for more than 1500 years is the favorite national flower in China. In our country this plant is as popular and quite common in orchards. There are several types of pions :

• Thin-leaved;
• drug;
• Milkflower;
• Wittmann;
• Mlokosevich.

If you make a peony of corrugated paper with your own hands, then, perhaps, will be useful information about the types of structure of flowers of this plant. They are:

1. Non-masonry (simple) - with a multitude of stamens and arranged in one row with five or more petals.

2. Semi-double:

• Anemone - with one row of wide petals, in the center of which there are modified stamens, painted in the same color as the petals;
• Japanese - consist of wide petals (which are from 5 or more), located around a dense disk with a lot of modified stamens, usually painted in yellow;
• Typically semi-double - are distinguished by a multitude of petals arranged in two or three rows, with a large number of real stamens.

3. Terry - a flower in such plants consists of many petals. The following subgroups are distinguished:

• Hemispherical - with narrow and strongly dissected inner and wide outer petals;
• Rozovidnye - as a rule, have flowers of a somewhat flattened shape, consisting of compactly assembled narrow inner and wide outer petals;
• Semidiose - very similar to the previous species, differ only in the presence of a small number of stamens in the center;
• Crown-shaped - the most complex in the structure of the flower pions: the first outer single row are wide petals, then narrow; The core consists of wide petals elevated in the form of a crown.

Material Features

Originally shredded or, as it is often called, corrugated paper was used as a lining for hats. Over time, this paper was used to make a variety of crafts.

There are several of its types, depending on the degree of contraction and the size of the folds. To make flowers from paper: peonies, hyacinths, roses and others - the so-called creped paper, velvety, soft and gentle, with fine corrugation, is best suited.

All you need

Before you start making paper flowers, you need to prepare the following:

• Corrugated paper of white color;
• Glass container;
• Food colors of the colors you need, for example, yellow and red;
• Wire or wooden skewers;
• scissors;
• double sided tape;
• Green ribbon or corrugated paper of this color;
• Hot-melt gun or quick-drying glue;
• Thread floss or any other for embroidery.

Preparatory work

If you decide to make a peony of corrugated paper with your own hands, for greater realism, it is better to take not color, but white. The last one can be painted, having received a naturalistic color of the petals. The food coloring must be diluted in water. For coloring the inner petals, you can take a more saturated red, and for the outer - to mix yellow and red. From white paper we cut out square billets and carefully immerse them in prepared dye. When the paper is impregnated, take it out and let excess moisture drain off. The resulting blanks can be dried, put on a saucer and dried for 20-30 seconds in a microwave oven.

Before you paint all the petals, try dyeing several blanks and see the correctness of the selection of proportions of dyes.

Making the core

While the prepared preparations are drying, we make a base on which we will collect the peony from corrugated paper with our own hands.

1. We collect the core of the flower: we make a ball the size of a walnut made of cotton wool or paper.
2. A wooden skewer or a wire prepared beforehand is wound with greased paper or tape.
3. On a double-sided adhesive tape we paste threads for embroidery, cut into segments of 3-5 cm.
4. The resulting workpiece is fixed to the core of the flower - as a result, you should get a small yellow brush.

Collect the flower

Before collecting voluminous peonies from corrugated paper, it is necessary to cut out heart-shaped lobes from painted blanks. Internal (3-5 cm) should be smaller than external (5-7 cm). To make the petals more realistic kind of fingers stretch the paper both crosswise and along and give the necessary round shape.

Around the finished core, starting from the inner core, we paste the petals until the flower is the right size. Carefully straighten them, so that peony from corrugated paper, created by its own hands, looked somewhat careless, like a real flower.

A simpler version

The above method requires diligence and accuracy, besides it is rather laborious, but there is an easier and easier way. This will require several different colored pieces of corrugated paper 25-40 cm long, depending on the size and color of the flower you want (for example pink, purple and orange). To make flowers peonies from corrugated paper, perform the following steps:

1. Put the rectangles on top of each other and carefully fold, as shown in the photo, five to six times.
2. The received accordion is bandaged in the middle with a wire.
3. Cut out the edges of the workpiece with the help of scissors "heart", "fence" or the way you like more. You can try to fold the part in half and cut the shape you want, but the beautiful and neat edges of the petals are unlikely to work.
4. Starting with the petals located in the center, lift and pull them up.
5. You can give them the right shape, stretching them both across and along the folds.

Doing with children

Let's look at another simple way of making a peony from a paper roll. It is suitable for joint creativity with children. Of the materials, only bright-colored corrugated paper, wire, scissors and glue will be required. So, proceed:

• We cut out from the rolled paper five or seven rectangles measuring 20-25x15 cm;
• Each of them is added by "accordion", for 5-7 folds;
• Folded "accordion" rectangle is collected in the middle;
• On both sides of the paper, with the help of scissors, round off the petals;
• We do all these procedures with each of the prepared rectangles;
• We connect them with each other by a thin wire;
• We paste a wooden skewer or a wire with green paper;
• On the resulting stalk attach the formed flower;
• Straighten the petals, arching their fingers inside or out.

Thus, it's quite easy to make flowers from corrugated paper in stages and decorate your house with them or give such an elegant bouquet to your relatives.