How to make carnations from paper napkins with your own hands?

A bouquet of flowers always pleases the eye and complements the comfort of any interior. Moreover, carnations are a symbol of love, freedom and grandeur, which will never “go out of fashion”. It is not always possible to find it in flower shops, it is better to make a bouquet of carnations from napkins with your own hands, which will never fade and will warm your eyes for a long time.

Necessary materials

For the manufacture of carnations from paper napkins will need the following:

• paper napkins of a suitable color to choose from (pink, red, white, burgundy, yellow, orange);
• green corrugated paper;
• colored markers or markers;
• a compass or a cap of the desired size (any round material of the correct form, even a glass);
• wooden sticks or wire;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• large clips;
• glue;
• stapler or plasticine;
• You may also need a needle with thread.

All materials are very affordable and do not require large expenditures.

How to make a carnation of napkins with your own hands? Consider a few simple ways to make a carnation of paper napkins do it yourself in stages.

First way

1. Put a few napkins one by one.
2. Fasten one side with a clip for stillness. Put a round lid on top or form a circle with a compass, cut out round shapes for a flower. Secure the other edge of the blanks.
3. Cut bonded circles.
4. You can make the product monophonic or with a highlighted edge by drawing it with a marker of the desired color.
5. Sew or seal the end of the wire with the end of the wire bud.
6. Start the formation of buds of the future bouquet. Remove the top layer, mash, pressing to the center. Do the same with all subsequent layers.

1. Wire or wooden stick wrapped with green corrugated paper (or any green, which is available). In some cases, green tape is used for this purpose.
2. Add leaflets to the stem, cutting them out of paper and sticking.

If the stalk is made of wooden skewers, then you can, after completing it, attach it to the bud with clay.

Second way

1. Step-by-step production begins with cutting a part from the edge of the napkin, no more than 1 cm, which is then useful.
2. Expand the workpiece, fold it in the form of an accordion. In the middle, tie a stripe in advance. It turns out the butterfly.
3. Alternately, on the top of the bow, separate and fluff each layer of napkin, forming the bud petals. Staple in the middle with a stapler.

Third way

The instruction for making paper carnations differs from the previous ones in that the petals need to be cut out separately, and then joined.

Consider in detail the step by step execution.

1. Fold the napkin in half until you get a small square.
2. Then fold diagonally, it turns out a triangle.
3. One edge is incised for the center of the clove.
4. The opposite side to round with scissors, make petals cloves, like a real flower.
5. Similarly, do these steps with the following 4-5 wipes.
6. Put the finished blanks on the wooden stick one by one, gluing it together so that the finished flower does not break up.
7. Cut the leaves, penetrate a thin wire.
8. Stalk wrap corrugated paper, attach leaves to it.

Masterpiece is ready. You can arrange the edges of the carnations, at the 4th stage, as indicated in the first method of manufacture.

Carnation of napkins for postcards

To make carnations from paper napkins on a postcard, you can use any of the previously proposed methods. But for children, there is a simpler technique that the senior master in the manufacture of paper products can illustrate.

1. Cut the prepared paper material into four parts (if it is a standard 12 cm, if more ─ into 6 parts).
2. Fold them together to match the edges, fasten with a stapler in the middle.
3. Cut corners, making a round shape.
4. Using scissors, we cut the petals in a circle, without cutting too much to the edge, so as not to completely cut off part of the bud.
5. Flush up the finished petals, randomly lifting and pressing them to the top.
6. Cut the stalks just out of green paper in the form of stripes. You can use the method of manufacturing with wire or wooden skewers.
7. Cut the leaves of the future product.
8. Prepare the basis on which you want to glue the flowers, all the necessary components (buds, stems, leaves) and proceed to gluing. First glue the stalks, buds, then the leaves. You can add to the composition any elements cut out of paper: a country flag, a plane, a tank, a ship, even a parachutist with a parachute.

You can make a romantic composition by issuing appropriate attributes.

With the help of the considered methods of creating a carnation flower from a paper napkin with your own hands, you can effortlessly create any colorful composition that will always look original.

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50 options of carnations from do-it-yourself napkins: