How to make a heart out of napkins with your own hands
As everyone knows, the best gifts are handmade things. Small things, cut out of cardboard and paper, made with the diligence of a loved one are most appreciated. Today's review is dedicated to such a product as a napkin heart. How to do it? What are the manufacturing methods? What material is right? Look for the answers further in the text.
What do you need?
To make a heart from napkins, in addition to the material, you will need some other things. It:
- scissors;
- pencil;
- glue stick, PVA glue or hot melt glue gun;
- stapler;
- wire;
- colored insulating or special decorative tape;
- satin ribbon;
- colored napkins, paper, cardboard.
All these accessories play an important role in the process of making a decorative heart. But for any one method, all objects are not needed. For example, to make a voluminous heart from napkins, the use of a glue gun, like a stapler, is not needed.
Such a gift as a decorative heart will appeal to every girl. There are many options. Choose multi-colored napkins, select the desired texture, density, pattern, design. Buy colored cardboard. Make a heart of any size. Such variability will satisfy the needs of the most capricious birthday boy.
Consider the methods of making decorative hearts, generously provided to us by experts in the field of design skills.
Manufacturing master classes
The choice of the method of making a gift heart depends on what materials and tools are required, as well as the appearance of the product. In modern times, coming up with new methods of working with paper is easier than ever, since there is the Internet.
In this review, we will highlight the most popular, easy and quick ways to make a gift heart at home.
But by what methods it is done.
- Heart-frame made of simple roses made from napkins.
- Volumetric decorative heart.
- A heart made by rolling balls from colorful napkins.
- Making a twisted rose from satin ribbon or table napkins.
- Heart using table napkins.
To understand each approach to making a decorative heart, each must be disassembled separately and in detail. So we will do it.
Heart-frame of ordinary roses
Before you make a heart from napkins in the form of a frame with your own hands, you need to buy colored square napkins. But what tool you need:
- scissors (nowhere without them);
- cardboard, thick paper;
- pencil;
- satin ribbon.
Design experts advise using the most common kitchen napkins, plain colors, without any patterns. Choose the right shade and get to work.
The order of work is as follows. First of all, we cut out the frame from a sheet of cardboard. The larger the sheet size, the more beautiful the heart will turn out.But also the overall parameters are selected based on the requirements for the final result. What kind of gift you are counting on, this size and choose.
Cutting to shape is not difficult. Fold the sheet in half and draw one half with a pencil. Next, cut out the layout using scissors. The base is ready. If there is no cardboard, you can glue two or three sheets of plain paper.
Roses are made in the following order. A two-three-layer napkin is taken, cut along the edges where it is connected into a whole. Next, each part must be individually screwed onto a pencil. This is done only halfway. After that, the twisted part, screwed onto a pencil, must be assembled to the middle with an accordion and removed. Next, the resulting blank is rolled into a rose with pressing the straightened part of the napkin.
To get a full-fledged rose, you need to roll up to two or three such blanks, and then connect them together. If you need a large flower, you need to roll up to 6-8 such blanks.
After assembling the required number of roses, they can be glued to the frame. If you plan to hang this frame on a wall or ceiling in the future, a satin ribbon in color is additionally attached to the back side.
For an interesting design, the colors of the roses are made different. With further sticking on the frame, they alternate, getting a unique product.
Bulky product
In order to make a voluminous craft, a whole heart is cut out of cardboard instead of a frame. After that, the roses are glued along the entire front perimeter. To give volume to the craft, roses can be made in a completely different way.
For this, all also need colored napkins. Take a whole, cut off the edges in the places where the sheets are connected. Next, you need to cut the leaf into four parts and put them evenly on top of each other. After that, a rectangular or square shape must be turned into a round one by trimming the edges with scissors. The resulting circle is fixed in the middle with one staple with a stapler. Next, you need to wrap the edges, crushing them from above. It turns out a voluminous rose. The quantity should completely cover the cut cardboard layout.
A volumetric rose can be made with flowers in the first way. The choice depends on personal preference.
Rolling balls
This method is not difficult. The heart mock-up is also cut out of cardboard as for a three-dimensional product. The balls will be attached with the same glue stick or PVA glue.
The process of rolling balls is a pleasant activity that you can do together with your children. Take all the same multi-colored napkins, cut them into four parts to get equal squares, with a side length of 2.5-3 centimeters. Next, roll the squares into balls.
For a beautiful result, choose multi-colored paper. It is better to glue such balls out of order. This will make it more original.
Twisted rose
In order to make a twisted rose, you need a satin ribbon, 1.5-2 centimeters thick. The manufacturing process is laborious, since each turn will have to be glued with a glue gun. To understand how to make a twisted rose, watch the video. In short, this is done like this: you take a satin ribbon and start folding it, twisting and gluing each turn.
After receiving the required number of roses, they are glued to a frame or to a solid layout.
Video: how to make twisted roses from a satin ribbon
