The main advantage of revelour is its safety; the material can even be used in children's creativity. In addition, it is very plastic and has “memory”. If it is given the required shape during processing, it will retain it. Products made from foamiran are quite light, durable, moisture-resistant, and do not wrinkle. Foam is used to make dolls and toys and is used in scrapbooking and artificial floristry. Craftswomen make unique accessories for women: hairpins, brooches, wreaths with flowers, wedding decorations. Thanks to the above properties of foma, namely its plasticity, flowers from it look as if they were alive, but at the same time they will never fade and will decorate a woman at any time of the year and in any weather.
Necessary materials
So, to create a flower clip made of plastic suede you will need:
• Pink and brown foam for making a flower. Green for leaves, sepals and pith. Foamiran thickness 0.8-1 mm;
• Scissors;
• Hot glue gun;
• Wooden skewer or toothpick;
• Iron;
• Paint for tinting petals;
• Accessories for hairpins;
• Super glue;
• Decor to decorate the finished product (optional).
All of these materials can be purchased at a craft store.
Stages of work
Nature has created beautiful flowering plants. Masters of artificial floristry, imitating nature, try to create no less wonderful accessories that are as similar as possible to real flowers. Of course, you need to start mastering this art with something simple. A gerbera flower is perfect for this. Gerbera is a flower that looks like the sun. It is a symbol of joy and goodness. In addition, there is a legend about the forest nymph Gerba, who did not like the close attention of others, and she chose to become a wild flower. Therefore, gerberas symbolize modesty.
The work of creating a hairpin with artificial flowers from revelour is divided into three stages:
1. Processing of plastic suede;
2. Flower assembly;
3. Attaching the flower to the fittings.
Foamiran processing
Processing consists of four steps: cutting, tinting, thermal and manual processing.
To make gerberas, you need to take foamiran in green and brown colors for the core and pink for the petals. It is necessary to take a strip of green foam 1.5 cm wide and 15 cm long and cut it with a very frequent fringe, not reaching the edge by about 0.5 cm. The second strip of brown color is also cut with fringe, only larger. Its dimensions are 2 by 15 cm. From pink foamiran you need to cut out petals 5 cm high and 1 cm wide according to this pattern.To create this flower you will need 30 petals. In addition, green leaves and sepals are needed. Their sizes are indicated on the pattern. It was by disassembling real fresh flowers into individual petals that masters of artificial floristry created patterns for their creations. There is no need to make the petals perfectly identical, because each of them is unique in any flower.
When foamiran is cut, it needs to be tinted. For this you will need any paint. In this case, acrylic is used. In gerbera flowers, the petals near the core have a lighter shade. Using yellow paint you need to carefully tint about a third of the petal and shade it evenly. It is best to do this with a sponge or a damp cloth wrapped around your finger. Gerbera flowers also have small veins on their petals; they can be made using any sharp object, such as a toothpick or nail scissors.
Next, you need to process all the prepared parts using an iron. To do this, a strip of green fringe should be applied to the iron set to wool mode (**). At the same time, it will become a little darker, and its edge will begin to curl. The second strip should be treated in the same way. Place the cut and tinted petals one at a time, preferably using tweezers (to avoid getting burned), against the iron for a few seconds. After this, the petal itself will take the desired shape: it will stretch slightly and acquire a smooth bend. The green leaves need to be applied to the surface of the iron for a few seconds, and then twisted like a candy wrapper and slightly straightened with your hands. Perform the same operation with the sepals. This completes the preparation of the foamiran.
Flower assembly
Wrap the green strip tightly around a wooden skewer in the form of a roll, gluing where necessary. Place the second strip over the green one. This turns out to be the core of the flower. Then the product is turned over and the petals are glued on. The first row, then the second and third in a checkerboard pattern. So that all empty spaces are filled. Following this, the sepals and green leaves are glued. The finished flower measures approximately 10-11 cm.
Attaching the flower to the fittings
In this master class, the flower will be attached to a duck hairpin 12 cm long. In general, the accessories can be anything. The principle of fastening is the same for everyone. To disguise the attachment point, you need to cut a circle of a suitable diameter from green plastic. A flower is glued to the fittings. It's better to use superglue. On the bottom side, the attachment point is masked with a green circle. The product takes on a neat appearance.
The hairpin with an unfading gerbera flower is ready. It will decorate any woman's hairstyle, making it unique.
