To create a money tree you need to prepare:
- a wooden board (or a piece of chipboard);
- decorative cloves (about 200 pieces);
- threads for knitting (gray, green, brown);
- hammer, pliers;
- pencil, ruler;
- coins and superglue;
- a stencil of wood.
Step 1. First, on the board with the help of a pencil and a ruler, determine the frame of the picture. Better to step back from the edge of about 5 mm and draw straight lines. On strips, it is necessary to make marks at a distance of 1 cm, then cloves will be driven into them.
Step 2. Use a stencil to draw a tree with a trunk. You can draw branches, but it’s better to simply convey the shape of the crown. Around the perimeter of the image, you must also mark the nails.
Step 3. Now begin to gradually drive the nails into the places where the points were drawn with a pencil. It is better to hold them with pliers, so you will not only protect your fingers from injury, but also drive the nails to the same depth.
Step 3. Next, proceed to the formation of the background of the picture. Take the gray thread, tie it to the outer nail and begin to bind the head of the carnations with it. This can be done in a chaotic manner, the main condition is that all the carnations are wrapped with thread (preferably two to three times). As soon as the entire space is filled, you need to tie the thread to the edge of the clove and cut it.
Step 4. Some masters already leave a picture in this version, where only the background is laid out with threads, and the image is not filled. But you can continue the picture. Green thread should braid the carnations that form the crown, and brown - the trunk of the tree. It is important not to forget to make the borders of the images. To do this, let the thread pass through the snake between the carnations along the edge of the picture of the whole tree.
Step 5. Now it remains only to glue the coins around the entire crown with superglue. Money of the same denomination looks more beautiful, but different ones can be.
Here is such a beautiful picture obtained from threads and nails. On the back of the board you can write a wish for the person to whom you are going to present it. For example: "I wish you that only large bills grow on your tree." Perfectly the same picture will look in black and white. To do this, you need to make the background with a white nylon thread, and the tree black. This will give the impression that the image is a tree silhouette.
By this principle, you can make a silhouette image. For example, a feline couple in love or a gentleman confesses his lady love.
