Flowers from the skin with your hands - it's just

Flowers from the skin with your hands - it's just
 Pieces of leather or artificial leather in the economy can always be found. Old boots, worn belts, bags with a broken lock, overage jacket may be in the closet for years, waiting for the hostess had the idea to make them into something new. Of leather products can make original brooches, hair clips, the new belt and even a spectacular mural on the wall. First you need to learn how to make flowers out of the skin.

 To a new life need to prepare

Before placing the flowers from the skin, it is necessary to prepare the material. Products spacers, remove the thread and glue, clean, and if necessary, and touch up with special dyes for leather and suede. Traces of glue perfectly removed with a file or sandpaper. You need to work as cardboard, glue for skin or universal boot knife and a ballpoint pen. Take care of the fittings. It depends on what you will do. Belt buckle of flowers needed for hair clips - lock for brooches - safety pin. For leather panels need a hard cardboard and a rather large piece of leather or suede for the basics. Draw on your skin it's best ball-point pen, and cut out parts - a cobbler's knife on the pattern.

Wash skin with soap solution is best, not fully immersing the flap into the water. If after all this happened, spread the skin on a horizontal surface, gently pull and let dry.

 Belt of flowers

Of leather colors can make a belt. It will consist of individual motifs - flowers of apple. You will need another small ring, which motives are interconnected. These rings may be made of metal, but they can do and thin leather strips. Start with pattern making. Draw a flower apple tree, it consists of 5 round petals and midway. Cut it out of hard cardboard, and then move onto the skin. The number of blanks should be 2 times greater than the desired color, since the elements are glued together in pairs. Gluing the workpiece, align the edges. Give your product dry and then joined together in rings, punched holes with an awl. Those flowers that are on the outside of the skin stick midway of another color. Midway can be made of large beads or beads. Such a belt can be made necklace.

For all zones, which will be sewn buckle carve out 2 strips 6-8 cm long. The strips folded in half and stapled. Buckle is better to take such that consists of two parts.

 Brooches, pins, pendants

On some decorations look better bulk flowers. Nothing is impossible! The desired effect is achieved fairly simple way - be careful to warm petals. You can do it over a candle or a skillet. In the first case it is necessary to keep the petal tweezers over a flame, at a distance, he slowly began to change shape. Thus, for example, you can make dahlias, asters, carnations and rose. It all depends on the shape of the petals. In dahlia they are oval, slightly sharp edges have asters - also oval, but quite narrow, and they need a lot. To cut rose petals round or heart-shaped, and for carnations - elongated hearts jagged at the edges. After all the petals will be prepared, sew together those ends, middle, where it will be. Can make multiple leaflets - Same skin or other. Glue the flower on the base - the old hairpin or just a piece of cardboard covered with leather. Glue or sew a small safety pin.

Heat can be only natural leather. How to behave artificial advance is impossible to say, so it is better to do from a flat color.

 Leather panels

Before making flowers for panels, glue the base. Obtyanite large piece of leather, suede or fabric piece of cardboard. Along the edges of the frame can be made of leather strips. Make sure that the edges were cut perfectly straight. For panels fit both flat and three-dimensional flowers. They can stand in a vase, also cut from the skin. Better to make a flat bowl. To check how the composition will look, you can first make it out of colored paper, spread out on the basis of the individual elements. Schedule their place, and then for the same cut flowers from the pattern of the skin. Spend all the necessary manipulation, if you want to give it more depth, and then stick to the substrate. This leather bouquet perfectly complement the leaves of colored feathers and beads of the midway.

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