How to make a skeleton for a bouquet?

When making bouquets, needlewomen often face many problems. From time to time on the shelves of stores can not find the necessary accessories and accessories. In addition, often the prices for them strongly bite. The basis of the bouquet is, of course, the frame. Therefore, first of all, the skilled workers think about this element. The frame for the bouquet, made by hand, solves this problem. In addition, it can be made from all sorts of improvised materials. And which ones, you will learn from this article.

We make a frame from cardboard

Ordinary cardboard does not fit, it will not keep shape well. It is better to take the material thicker. For example, corrugated cardboard. Draw a circle with a circle of a suitable diameter or circle something round. Inside, you need to draw a smaller circle. In size, you need to focus on the future bouquet. As a template you can use improvised materials - a large plate and a small cup. With the help of scissors or a clerical knife, we cut the circles along the outer and inner lines. Harvesting the carcass will look like a flat bagel. By the way, such a frame for a bouquet of chocolates is quite suitable . It's not at all difficult to make it with your own hands .

We proceed to decorating the circle. For this purpose, you can use a satin ribbon or floral felt, but you will need to pre-cut it into strips. The width and length should be such that you can wrap a "bagel" with an overlap. For reliability, decorate the stripes with a double-sided tape, hot gun or glue (PVA, Moment or Titan). Wrap the strips until all the cardboard is closed.

The next step is to make a handle for the frame. Closer to the inner circle from opposite sides of the awl to pierce holes. It will be enough for two, you can do more, but without fanaticism. The main thing is that their number should be even. In the holes we pass a sufficiently long wire (preferably green), twist the ends together. The made skeleton for a bouquet by own hands can be considered successful if it easily lies down in a hand and keeps on weight. The handle of the wire is masked with corrugated paper, we tie beautiful bows from satin or floral tape.

We cover shortcomings with lace, brooches, organza and other ornaments. In the hole we insert a piece of foam rubber or leave it as it is. It all depends on the type of flower arrangement. The basis for the bouquet is ready.

We make a cardboard frame with a border

We do exactly the same round billet, as suggested above. We are not going to decorate yet. We make the skeleton of the frame from the same dense cardboard. Cut the strip. It should be quite wide (centimeters 10-15) with a diameter equal to the diameter of the "bagel". Pieces of cardboard glue the edge to the bottom of the frame.

We wrap the workpiece with a floral felt, fix it with glue or a hot gun. The handle for the frame can be made all from the same wire. If the flowers are alive, then the holder is not needed. Here, in principle, and everything you need to know about how to make a frame. For a bouquet decorated with your own hands, you can use organza, mesh, satin ribbons, bows, flowers and other elements as an ornament.

We provide a stable, but weightless frame for a bouquet

For the manufacture of such a blank, polystyrene foam, foam or foam can be used. Take the selected material and cut it with a knife circle. The size should be such that the whole composition could collect on the frame. The bottom of the workpiece is cone shaped, and the top is made flat or slightly convex. It is very suitable for such a frame for a bouquet of toys, made with their own hands . If we talk about cardboard, then it just bends under the weight of heavy decor.

Making the handle will be the next step. Here for imagination there are no borders. What is suitable as a material? A piece of pipe, a tight cardboard, a screwdriver, a pencil wrapped in foam rubber.

In the workpiece, make a hole, smear with glue and insert an improvised handle. Now you can start draping and decorating the frame. Again, you can use any improvised materials: fabrics, felt, tulle, lace and so on.

Frame for a bouquet of wire by own hands

We take the cut wire and put it into a bundle. Very good will look even number (from 20 to 30 pieces). We wind the beam up to the middle with another wire or a floral tape. This will be the handle for the bouquet.

From the rest of the wire we form the frame. Unbend the rays in pairs. The wire should be perpendicular to the handle of the bouquet. Now we will wrap the frame with wire, string or jute. This is the most painstaking part of the craft, and here you need to show patience. If the frame is made for fresh flowers, then the weaving should not be too tight, otherwise the stems simply will not climb through.

The wire does not need to be braided until the end, otherwise the "spider web" will fly off. Leave small tips (a couple of centimeters). We weave them individually with the same material and hide them in the weaving.

The skeleton for the bouquet is made by hand. Now you can start the most interesting part - decorating.

Bell-frame made of plastic bottle

Very original look will be a bouquet in the form of a bell. To make its frame, you need a normal one and a half liter bottle. Although its volume depends on the desired size of the bouquet.

We divide the bottle into three parts. It will be useful only one, from the top, the bottom is not needed. We cut it off with scissors or a clerical knife. Trim the edges.

The holder can be made in two ways. To the neck we glue a wooden stick, cut off a pipe or something else, similar to the handle of a bouquet. Or you can make a loop made of wire wrapped in corrugated paper.

Now we decorate the bottle with any material you like. To mask the sharp edges, it is very important to leave a few centimeters of allowances. We bend them inwards, fix them with glue. Inside the bottle we glue a sponge, foam or foam rubber, and then decorate.

How to make a skeleton for a bouquet with your own hands

We take the threads of the type of iris and impregnate them with PVA glue in a container (minutes 15). In the meantime, choose a round object. It can be a balloon, a ball, a plate, a vase. Tension the food film or cellophane on the mold. Now spread on it in an arbitrary order impregnated with threads. So do until until you get a hemisphere, and the skeleton does not seem complete. Leave to dry for a couple of days.

We remove the dried threads carefully from the mold. We make a handle and decorate it in a known way.

We make a skeleton-flowerpot for a bouquet

As a basis, you can take pots, a flower pot or any suitable jar. To increase weight and give stability, fill the shape with something heavy and loose: coffee beans or croup. Or the frame for a bouquet, made by oneself, can be poured with gypsum. Cut out of foam rubber, dense foam or floristic sponge piece, suitable for the diameter of the shape. Fix glue, let dry. Now you can decorate to your liking. Such a frame is well suited for making a bouquet of flowers, sweets or topiary.

As you can see, it's very easy to make skeletons for bouquets with your own hands. The photos in this article show how different the basis for floristic compositions can turn out.