How to make beautiful flowers from ribbons with your own hands

Gone are the days when self-made artificial flowers were considered ugly and unfashionable, and owners were considered unable to buy them in a store. Today handmade flowers deservedly occupy one of the main places in interior design and decoration of evening dresses, as well as chic wedding dresses.

Graceful flowers, crafted with skill and love, decorate any item - from greeting cards and gift boxes to elegant bridal bouquets. Decorative flowers are used to decorate hairpins, headbands, and can be secured with elastic bands. Bouquets of ribbon flowers are fashionable - not only for weddings, but also simply for decorating a room. Practicing the production of flower arrangements and large paintings.

If you do everything according to the rules, the resulting buds will be of high quality and will not crumble after a couple of hours.

The nuances of making satin flowers

They are quite simple to manufacture; you just need to have the necessary materials on hand, know the manufacturing technology and do everything very carefully. What you need to make it yourself:

1. Important tools for craftswomen are tweezers and a candle. They help create petals of the desired shape.
2. Tapes for making are an affordable material, they can be found in stores in any area, the range is quite wide, there are always different colors.

This hobby takes a minimum of time; any modern woman can devote herself to an exciting activity.

If you are making a brooch, use bright colors to draw attention to it. If you are composing compositions, paintings or bouquets, select suitable shades; the source material should not cause disharmony.

By the way! There is ribbon embroidery. They are draped and embroidered with them. This method leads to quick results, looks very profitable and expensive, and is highly prized by amateurs.

What types of petals are there?

Satin ribbon flowers are a design of petals.

You can fold them in kanzashi style. Apply two common shapes - with a sharp end and rounded. Flowers with long narrow petals are made from sharp-shaped blanks. These are aster, chamomile, dandelion, sunflower, bell, gerbera. With rounded petals you can make a rose, lilac, peony.

There is another type of petals - melted. They are cut from satin and nylon ribbons according to patterns: flower-shaped, round, heart-shaped. More than 10 units need to be made per product. The edges are melted by placing the workpiece over the fire of a candle or lighter, resulting in volume. You should work using tweezers to avoid the possibility of getting burned.Long petals for daisies and sunflowers and blanks cut out according to patterns for roses, peonies and other large-petaled plants are also melted.

There is also a flower making technique from a whole tape by twisting the tapes in a special way in a circle, forming petals as you work.

Petals can be made in the simplest way: fold narrow ribbons 7-10 cm wide in half. They are good blanks for making a flower for a brooch. As a variation, tie a knot in the middle of the workpiece and fold it so that it is on the fold.

What flowers can be made from ribbons?

1. Almost all types of flowers found in nature can be made using different techniques and from a variety of ribbon materials. Most often they make roses, daisies, sunflowers, and asters. Less commonly - bells, daffodils, callas. Craftswomen even create dandelions and lilacs.
2. They also make different types of stars, seven-colored flowers, winter and snow fairy tales and other interesting products.
3. Flowers are also made from lace and propylene tape, zigzag braid, and packaging tapes.
4. Flowers that are very similar to real natural flowers, such as peonies, roses or ranunculus, require special skill.

Master classes step by step

The algorithm for making flowers is described in any master class of your choice. The main thing is to find everything you need: ribbons, thread and needle, glue, beads, flower bases and scissors. The first time the product may turn out to be clumsy, but mastery, as in any other business, comes with experience.

If you like this exciting activity, you can then decorate everything you need.

Quick simple flower

If you want to make a cute flower, choose this quick and easy method:

1. You need to cut out a circle of the required size from cardboard as a base, then start gluing the tape of your choice, making folds half a centimeter deep in centimeter increments, and do so in a spiral in several layers.
2. When you reach the center, cut the ribbon and fold the neatly cut end inside.
3. Then take glue, drop it inside and glue the beads. The product is ready. They can decorate anything.

Important! The glue gun should not be left on all the time. Very hot glue is dangerous to work with.

Rose from a whole ribbon

This version of manual production is not complicated, the main thing is to master the algorithm for performing the work. The size of the resulting roses depends on the width and length of the ribbon. It doesn’t matter which original ribbon you use – the flower will always be beautiful. In addition to the tape, prepare scissors, thread and a needle; instead of the latter, you can use a hot glue gun.

The rose is performed like this:

1. Place and fold the edge of the ribbon in half diagonally.
2. Make the centerpiece of the rose. Roll the ribbon a few times and glue or sew at the bottom.
3. Formation of rose petals. Fold the tape diagonally outward and wrap it around the finished workpiece, At the same time, hold it from the bottom; if necessary, glue it or sew it on the bottom.
4. Continue increasing the number of petal layers. Do this: bend the ribbon outward - wrap the bud - bend the ribbon outward - wrap the bud. Do not forget to secure the bud from below at the base with glue, you can sew. The task is that the tape must be secured and not unravel. Over time, you will learn to secure layers of tape only 3-4 times.
5. Once you feel the rose is ready, connect the end of the ribbon to the base and secure or glue it.

By the way! Make several roses of different sizes.Try changing the width and length of the ribbon, bending it at different angles, change the number of folds - everything in order to get the rose you want. You can find a video and hone your technique.

Photo example:

Chamomile

It is clear that chamomile, like any other flower, can be made using different technologies.

1. For this version of the flower, take a white ribbon with a width of 0.6 to 1 cm. Cut it into pieces according to your pattern. You will need a circle of felt with a diameter of 2.5 cm for the base.
2. Preparatory work. On one side of the petal we cut it off with scissors, giving it a sharp tip, like a real chamomile, first melt the sections with a lighter, then heat the tip from below until the tip takes on volume and bends down. We pinch the other side in half and secure it by firing it with a lighter.
3. Flower assembly. Glue the petals to the base around the circumference at a distance of 0.5 cm from the edge. Having glued one circle, we continue gluing further until we get 2-3 circles. The petal should be glued with the pinched side so that the other edge is bent down.
4. Design of the middle. The stamens of chamomile are yellow. You can glue a half bead. The second option is to make the middle from a narrow yellow ribbon. We bend it along the length, sew it along the edge with a thread using a “forward needle” stitch, tighten it with a thread and place it in the center of the daisy in the form of a spiral. Glue it carefully.
5. If desired, glue green leaves to the bottom of the felt base.

Almost a real flower

Making a real aster is quite simple:

1. Using colored tape of yellow or another suitable color, lay a continuous seam “forward with the needle”, the stitches should be 2-3 mm. The direction of the stitch is from one side to the other at an angle, looks like a zigzag.
2. Then pull the thread, roll up the flower and that’s it – you can sew or glue the aster anywhere.
3. If desired, add green leaves.

Melted petal flower

A very stylish bud is made from a satin or nylon ribbon. The main operating tool is a candle:

1. Draw the outline of the flower on the cardboard and cut out the resulting pattern.
2. Then cut off the tape and prepare 10-12 pieces.
3. Give them a three-dimensional shape; to do this, grab the workpiece with tweezers and, bringing it to the candle, melt the edges of the petals. The distance to the fire should be optimal; if you bring it too close, you can ruin everything.
4. Stack the voluminous petals, sew the stack together with thread and sew or glue a bead, button or other core inside.

This ribbon flower is used as an additional decoration, to decorate a gift and as a gift itself. It is worth making the effort, patience and free time to learn this interesting type of needlework.

Attention! Melted flowers should not be used to decorate a formal outfit. They look good with flowy silk dresses.

Simple flower made of petals

1. Cut 5 or 7 pieces of ribbon 8 cm long.
2. Take a thread and a needle, bend the workpiece lengthwise, face outward, and stitch the center together.
3. Then you need to fold the petal in half, making the ends sharp, and to secure it from the inside, attach the sides to each other with small stitches.
4. When all the petals are ready, all that remains is to string them on a thread, pull them into the shape of a flower and decorate the middle with a bead or a small button.

If you make several flowers of different sizes and fasten them into one, you will get an original three-dimensional flower. You can take ribbon of one or different shades.