In search of original accessories for a Christmas tree, it is not necessary to visit stores or online boutiques. It's much easier to make Christmas decorations with your own hands, using inexpensive and easy-to-use materials, understandable schemes and color photos of Christmas decorations.
Even from ordinary felt it is possible to create bright accessories for your tree, which will please you more than one year!
How to sew a felt toy for the new year with your own hands. Master class
Felt toys for the new year with their own hands. In addition to the fabric, you will need templates in the form of a wreath, a Christmas tree and a bell, a sewing needle and thread of a mulina( red color), synthetic filler, classic and zigzag scissors, a washable pencil, wet wipes to remove traces of paint and a paintbrush. As additional accessories, a miniature bell, light and green threads, as well as a small piece of felt of Christmas tree needles will be useful.
First we will manufacture fabric Christmas tree .Cut out its template, measure out a piece of felt, twice the size of the workpiece. Fold the patch in half, put a pattern on it and mark its outline with dots.
Fix the fabric with needles and cut out the fir-trees using a zigzag scissors. Sew both fragments with red threads, leaving the nodules on the outside of the toy, and at the top, make a noose. The bottom edge does not need to be sewn completely first, so that you have the opportunity to put the filler in there for the volume.
Master class for making toys from felt for the new year. Photo
Making toy in the form of the bell starts in the same way: we put the stencil on the folded cloth and cut out the figure from it. On the front side, you can embroider a red star( from the mulina).
Sew both halves of the toy, remembering to leave the filler hole, and at the end of the work, attach a small bell to the bottom of your decoration.
Toy in the form of a bell made of felt for a new year. Photo
Algorithm for making New Year decor with own hands - toys "wreath" - slightly different. The workpieces need to be folded in half, and inside them to draw a circle, which is cut with a stationery knife. Half of the figures need to be sewn along their inner part, using light threads for this. After half the work is done, enter the filler inside the wreath. Then from the green felt it is necessary to cut out miniature leaves and sew them into the hole left for the filler. Later in the same place make a noose so that you can hang a wreath on the tree or door.
Wreath of felt with their own hands for the new year. Photo master-class
Toy monkey for the new year from felt
Toys from felt to the Christmas tree. Photo of
Japanese balls for the new year with their own hands. Master Class
Many traditions of the country of the rising sun, which arose dozens of centuries ago, are adopted in other corners of the planet. So, temari, a decorative ball painted by hand, used to be a favorite kind of needlework for Japanese women, and today such accessories are widely used to decorate Christmas trees.
Balls on the tree with their own hands. Photos of
Want that on your holiday photos there were these Christmas decorations? For their manufacture, expensive materials are not required, it is enough to have at hand ordinary sewing accessories:
- pins with multi-colored needles;
- threads on reels and a sewing needle;
- thread such as mulina or "iris";
- scissors and multicolored flaps of knitted fabric;
- narrow( about 1 cm) strip of paper length of 20 cm
The basis for the decoration will serve as a small trim of knitwear, wound in a tight tangle. Then it is covered with coil threads, placing them evenly over the entire surface of the ball. For one temari, a whole coil is usually used. When it is finished, you need to leave the long end of the thread and use a needle to make a few stitches. This will reliably fix it and support the shape of the ball.
The next stage of creative work is marking out the temari. To do this, you need to pin a strip of paper to the ball using a colored pin. After wrapping the paper around the base, you should make folds in the places where it meets the pin, and cut out triangles on them. Then divide the strip into four pieces and wrap it around the ball, using for the second end one more pin. In the middle of each paper element we stick needles, which designate the "equator".
Making balls on the Christmas tree with your own hands made of thread. Photo master-class
Now you can proceed to the main stage - embroidering a pattern with a thread and a needle. The needle should be taken out as close to the pins as possible, pulling the thread stronger. We wrap it around the ball, go back to the starting point and start a new stitch, deviating from the original pin by 90 degrees.
How to make a ball on the tree with your own hands out of thread. Master class
In places where the needle and thread come out on the surface of the temari, you need to make several fixing stitches( crosses).After such actions are performed around all pins, they can be pulled out of the ball: they have already performed the "tags" function.
Now using a thread of a different color, we begin to make spiral stitches around our crosses until a square is formed. Do the same with the other control points, changing the thread color if desired. When the squares, started from different crosses, come into contact with their extreme points, Temari is ready and, therefore, you have mastered the manufacture of toys for the new year with your own hands!
Magic flashlight with your own hands for the new year 2016
Balls from the garland with your own hands. Photo
Using a traditional garland and several accessories, you can make a unique luminous decoration that will help create a festive New Year atmosphere. In addition, two semicircular suspension flowerpots, fine wires and observance of master class rules for decorations for the new year are required for this.
Suspended flower pots must be freed from decorative elements and connected with each other by wire. The resulting round frame should be uniformly wrapped in a garland, attaching it to the elements of the flowerpot with the help of straps. The end of the wire is left free, taking it to the top of the resulting decoration. You can hang it with the help of accessories, which are sold complete with hanging pots.
We make festive decorations for the new year with children
New Year's Eve is a great time to create family traditions together with the child. One of them may well be the joint manufacturing of New Year's toys with their own hands for a Christmas tree and a house from improvised materials.
Toy on the Christmas tree "lollipop" with your own hands. Photo
The first proposed version of a simple Christmas decoration - suspension in the form of candy .It will require a minimum set of materials and items: pieces of colorful felt, candy sticks, thin satin ribbons and a gun with hot glue.
Master class for making a toy on the Christmas tree
To make a Christmas decoration with your own hands, cut the fabric into narrow long strips( width 1 cm, length - 15 cm) and stack them on each other for 7 pieces. From each such stop, fold the roll, the ends of which are fixed with the glue of their pistol. To the resulting "candy left only to stick a stick and a ribbon, with the help of which the decoration can be hung on the tree. To hide the remnants of glue and the fixing point of the tape, a round cloth flap will help.
For the next craft, we will need color or white paper( preferably for scrapbooking), glue, golden threads and a figured composter.
Cut a napkin or a piece of paper into two rectangular pieces and fold each of them with an accordion( the optimal fold width is about 1 cm).With the help of a figured composter, make perforations on the blanks, and better entrust this work to the kid, because all children will be happy to participate in the creation of the New Year's decoration!
Fold the accordion and trim its ends to give the workpiece a rounded shape. Now bend each strip in half and connect them with each other using golden thread( you do not need to cut the tails, of which later loops will be made).Now your child can spread paper accordions, and you will only have to glue their edges together with a double-sided tape or glue-pencil.
Tie the loops from the tips of the threads so that the children can hang the ornament on the Christmas tree on their own! A garland of paper with your own hands. Photo by
Even less material and time is required when making the next decoration for the new year 2016 with your own hands. For garlands you will only need colored paper, glue and ordinary scissors.
Cut the colored sheets lengthwise into two equal parts. Take one half of the paper, unfold it on the table horizontally and make several vertical incisions, not reaching 1.5 - 2 cm to the end of the sheet. Now turn your workpiece over and do the same on the other side, dividing the already existing "tails" into two parts.
Having prepared all the sheets of colored paper in this way, ask the child to slightly stretch them to the sides, and he will see how they turn into a bright decorative garland. Glue several fragments together to get a garland of the right length, and your Christmas decoration is ready! Such an accessory is absolutely safe, so you can hang it all over the apartment, including ceilings, windows and walls, not limited only to the decor of the Christmas tree.
Give beautifully! How to beautifully wrap gifts for the new year
Packing gifts for the new year with their own hands. Photo
Original gift package can be not only in specialized departments of stores. With the help of traditional kraft paper and New Year decor you can create a beautiful and bright wrapper for souvenirs, books and other items that you have prepared for your relatives, friends, colleagues.
Regardless of which way you decide to use, the first step is always to wrap the gift in paper, the edges of which can be sealed with adhesive tape or glue. For convenience, imagine that the object inside has a rectangular shape( for example, a book, a photo album, a frame).
Make the stencil out of the remaining piece of paper, cut out in it holes in the form of hearts, flowers or fir-trees. Attach the workpiece to the package and paint the drawings with acrylic paints, pencils or a marker.
After that, you can tie a gift with a twine, under which to put a small feather or decorative cone. Lace ribbons will also look great instead.
With the help of thick yarn and wire, you can make the packaging even more original and personal. Wrap the metal with woolen threads, pre-lubricated with glue. From the thus decorated wire, you can add any shape, initials of the person to whom the gift or other significant symbol is intended. The last step: we wrap the present with kraft paper, drag it with a thread and fix a ready-made accessory on it.
Another idea of jewelry for the new year involves the use of an ordinary wand or branch( not too thick).Break it into fragments of dina 4-5 cm and fold them into a Christmas tree, fixing its elements with glue for wood. After the design dries up, wind it with colored threads in any order, using a PVA, which will not let the threads get tangled or sag. Our Christmas trees are ready, they only need to be glued to kraft paper.
If you have to make a lot of gifts, you can use a simpler and faster way to decorate them. Take colored paper, stationery scissors and a white thread, print out or draw a snowflake stencil.
With the blank to the multi-colored sheets, cut out unusual snowflakes from them and paste them on the kraft paper in which the gifts are packed. Each rewind rewind with a rope or a tourniquet, and work on decorating the package can be considered complete! Choosing the color of snowflakes and threads, you can use contrasting combinations or shades with which the astrologers associate the coming new year.
Gifts for close relatives and friends can be distinguished by using for their decoration joint photos. Attach the printed cards to kraft paper with glue or a decorative thread( satin ribbon), and your personal gift will certainly surprise the person close to you!
