Corrugated Paper Crafts: Sunflower Paper

From corrugated paper, beginners and experienced masters make many beautiful crafts: postcards, appliqués, bouquet compositions. With their help you can please a loved one or give your home a unique look. Silent heat will give a sunflower made of paper, made by hand.

Symbolic meaning

Sunflower is a very bright flower with petals resembling sun rays. When you admire such beauty, the soul becomes warm and joyful.

Sunflower can rightly be called a sun flower. Its scientific name helianthus in Greek means "sun flower". In Russia it is called a sunflower, because its hat follows the light source during the day. That is, he always wants to be under the sun. When the sunflower grows to its maximum, it remains facing east. It is because of this peculiarity that this sun flower is credited with the significance of devotion.

If you want a loved one to make a gift with a sunflower, then be sure to beat him. Say it is a symbol of loyalty, happiness and joy. So, let's consider how to make a sunflower from paper by your own hands in many ways.

Sunflower corrugated paper

First we'll make a core. For this, we cut strips of black corrugated paper about 7 centimeters wide. The length of the beam will depend on the length. We overlap the strips on each other, make small incisions on one side. Now we twist them into a roll and fix it with wire from the side where there is no "fringe". Straighten the core with your hands.

Let's proceed to the petals. From the yellow corrugated paper, we cut rectangles (4 by 6 centimeters). We round one edge with scissors. Now the slices are rolling a little.

We proceed to assembly. To the core we glue the petals at a short distance. The second row is attached to the gaps. By the same principle, we make the third row. So we made a sunflower from corrugated paper with our own hands.

How to make a stalk for a sunflower

If you want to make a bouquet and put it in a vase, then the flowers should be made stems.

Of green corrugated paper, do sepals as well as petals. On the same principle do the leaves. But only different sizes. Sepals are glued in several layers to the last row of petals of the flower.

Wire cut into segments about 7 centimeters. We wrap it with narrow strips of green corrugated paper or with a tape tape. We glue to these pieces of leaflets.

We take a thick wire or a skewer, we wind with a green tap-tape or corrugated paper. It will be a stalk. We plant a flower on it, fix it with wire. All this is covered with green corrugated paper.

Apply the leaves to the stem and wrap it again with paper or tape. So we do with all the branches. Now a sunflower made of paper, made by hand, can be put in a vase.

Glade of sunflowers on the wall

Flower petals do the same as described above. From the black cardboard we cut out 2 identical circles. On one in 3 rows paste the petals. The second circle is attached from above. Now with the help of glue or plasticine on the core attach real seeds or coffee beans.

We make a stalk according to the method described above. Only the flower is not planted, but applied. To the back of the flower we glue the loop from the satin ribbon. For reliability, we will cover it with a piece of cloth or cardboard.

Now the flower can be hung on the wall. We spread our sunflower from the paper with our hands. The photo shows how interesting this flower looks in the interior.

Interesting cores for sunflower

The core can be made not only from corrugated paper. For this, a pompon made of thread, fabric or a usual circle of black cardboard is suitable.

The core of a sunflower from beads, a satin ribbon in Kansas technique or original natural materials: real seeds, buckwheat, colored peas, coffee beans will look unusual.

Application for postcards: use face-to-face

From the yellow corrugated paper we cut out 16 rectangles (5 by 7 centimeters). It will be the petals of the flower. You can add other shades. And made a sunflower from colored paper with your own hands, you can safely be called iridescent! The edges are rounded so that they resemble triangles. Scissors slightly bend the petals.

From black corrugated paper, we cut out two circles with a diameter of 5 centimeters. At one we spread the petals in several rows. Top glued the second circle.

Now we will make seeds in the technique of facing. From black corrugated paper we make about 30 squares (1 per 1 centimeter). Each piece is screwed onto the toothpick, and then removed from it. We cover the core with glue and fill it with "seeds". Now this lovingly made sunflower of corrugated paper (with your own hands) can be placed on a postcard and given to an expensive man.

Sunflowers and candies

For such flowers, candy can be the best as a truffle in a wrapper.

From black corrugated paper, we cut out a square with sides of 12 centimeters. We wrap him a candy and tie a string. From the golden floral net we cut out the same square, wrap the candy and fix it again. You can simultaneously wrap and that and other material.

Let's move on to the petals. Without them, it will not work. Sunflower with his own hands made of corrugated yellow paper we start to do with cutting a strip, the width of which is equal to two or three turns around the candy, and the length can be taken about 7 centimeters. Of course, it all depends on the size of the candy itself, and the parameters can vary in a larger or smaller direction.

We fold the strip several times, find one third of the width and draw a barely noticeable line with a pencil. Before this mark, we cut out the petals. Straighten the strip. Should get a "fence".

Now we are wrapping a strip of candy with a strip. We try to make the next layer of petals lie in staggered order with respect to the first row. In the process of winding, do not forget to apply glue. Now we take a tight thread, tightly tighten the base and tie it.

So the sweet sunflower is made of paper, made with your own hands. It remains only to twist the scissors petals.

Composition with sweet sunflowers

As a basis, take a small flower pot or basket. By the size of the bottom cut out the foam and put it inside.

We make sunflowers according to the method described above, attach a toothpick to them with a thread. We put the candy in the foam.

Now you need to fill the voids with leaves. We take green organza or corrugated paper. We cut the squares with sides about 11 centimeters. For one leaf, you need two. We overlap each other so that their corners are not in contact. It should be an octagonal star. In the middle we insert a toothpick, we pick up and fix with a thread or an adhesive tape. So do with all the leaves. We close them with foam plastic. We decorate the composition to taste.

Make a sunflower from paper with your own hands, and a piece of warm summer will always be at your house.