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Little sun: original do-it-yourself sunflower topiary. How to make topiary "Sunflower" from coffee beans and satin ribbons

Topiary is the oldest art of landscape design, curly shearing of trees and giving them all kinds of bizarre forms: animals, geometric and architectural structures. Nowadays, topiary is made for decorating an apartment or as a gift. Just look at how many different design options for the "tree of happiness"! We have selected for you the most affordable and beautiful examples of handmade trees so that you can choose the option that suits you. Combine different ideas, complement them with your own details and let your products be the best!

As you already understood, in this master class we will look at making trees from satin ribbons. It will be a fragrant coffee sunflower, a slightly unusual idea for this technique, because usually topiary is a voluminous tree with a perfect round top.

See how unusual such a craft looks!

To create a sunflower you need:

  • Natural coffe.
  • Glue gun.
  • Clay pot.
  • Wooden stick.
  • Gypsum.
  • Computer disk.
  • Satin ribbons of 3 colors (red, yellow, green) 5 cm wide.
  • Pearl beads.
  • Scissors.
  • Candle.
  • PVA glue.
  • Decorative ladybugs.

Topiary from satin ribbons: master class

To begin with, we will make petals, for this we take a yellow ribbon and cut out petals with a width of 5 cm and a length of 6 cm, in total you need to cut 40 pieces. Fold one petal in half, cut off the corner, and use a lighted candle to glue the edges, thereby creating a sharp petal. On the other hand, we fold the petal so that a small ball can be shoved inside (that is, there should be a certain pocket inside). We take a disc, a glue gun and glue a petal on the edge of the disc. We make the next petals according to the same principle.

Take a green ribbon, cut out the petals 5–6 cm long. Then fold the petal in half, fold the left edge towards ourselves, and wrap the right edge away from ourselves. We make folds at the base, and glue the edges over the candle.

Thus, we glue the rest of the petals to the disk. Since this is a sunflower, we glue the yellow petals only in two layers.

Fill the void in the middle of the disc with coffee beans. To do this, you will need a glue gun again.

We pass to the stem. To do this, you need a stick, glue, and a green tape. We wrap the stick with tape, glue a few petals to the stem.

We glue the stem to the flower, insert the stem into the pot and fill it with plaster. We hold the flower for a while so that it locks in place. After the flower is tightly held, you can hide the gypsum with grains by gluing. This is done to brighten the aroma of the coffee.

Glue ladybirds on the petals. We make four petals from red ribbons. We make 4 smaller petals from the remaining yellow ribbon, glue them together and spread them on the coffee "seeds" in the form of a butterfly. Beads can be used to make dew on petals or seeds. This completes the production of the sunflower.

Now your room will be enveloped in the aroma of wonderful coffee! This topiary is perfect as a gift for a coffee lover. Feel free to experiment and create wonderful topiary. And let these wonderful examples of trees from satin ribbons serve as your inspiration.

Stylish and beautiful gift - topiary "Sunflower" made of coffee and satin ribbons. A master class for making it is simple. Even a person without much experience in needlework can make a composition. Dark, shiny coffee beans mimic seeds, and petals are made from bright yellow satin. Topiary in the form of sunflowers will decorate the interior and bring bright cheerful notes to it.

What you need to work

It is easiest to make such a topiary with your own hands using narrow satin ribbons. If they are not there, you can use rayon, cut and processed along the edges with a burner. To make the craft look beautiful, you need ribbons of bright yellow and dark green shades. The coffee beans must be large, intact and well roasted. They will not only decorate the craft, but also fill the room with a persistent rich aroma.

For crafts you need to prepare:

  • satin ribbons of yellow and green color or a dimensional satin of the corresponding shades;
  • roasted coffee beans;
  • a plastic or clay pot for the base;
  • glue gun;
  • scissors;
  • alabaster or gypsum;
  • newsprint;
  • lighter or burner;
  • CD-ROM;
  • dark brown paint;
  • instant coffee;
  • acrylic lacquer;
  • thick threads;
  • green sisal;
  • dry branches;
  • decorative elements in the form of butterflies or ladybirds.

Sunflower making

First you need to make blanks for the petals. Carefulness is important in the work, the petals should turn out to be even, neat and the same. A yellow tape about 5 cm wide is cut into 6 cm pieces, folded in half, a corner is cut off and the cut is glued with a lighter. After that, the workpiece is rolled up with a cone and again sealed with a lighter flame. In a similar way, petals are made from a green ribbon, only the blanks should be larger, 10 cm in length. To create a sunflower, you will need a lot of petals, it is better to make them with a margin.

Yellow petals are glued along the edge of the disc. The distance from the edge is no more than 1 cm. The petals are attached evenly, next to each other, with the wide end outward. The second row is glued in a checkerboard pattern. It is important that no glue drops are visible. Then the disc is turned over and pasted over with green petals. The first row is attached at a distance of 2.5 cm from the edge, the next are shifted closer to the center. The petals are overlapped in circles, there should be no gaps between them.

The center of the disc is coated with glue, a crumpled newspaper is attached to it so that a hemisphere is obtained. For greater strength, it is fixed with threads. After drying, the center of the composition is covered with two coats of brown acrylic paint. It must be applied very carefully so as not to stain the satin petals. A small hole is made on the back for the stem.

You can do without newsprint by laying out the coffee beans in several rows so that closer to the middle, the thickness of the layers increases. Such a topiary will have a richer smell, but the amount of coffee beans required to create a composition will increase significantly.

After drying, coffee beans are glued to the core of the future flower with grooves down. If desired, they can be attached in two layers and covered with clear acrylic varnish. A strong branch is processed with sandpaper and tightly wrapped with green threads. Alternatively, the branch can be covered with 2 coats of green paint. You will get a strong and beautiful stem for a sunflower. The flower head is fixed on the upper part with glue. After the glue dries, the junction of the stem with the head is completely covered by the remaining green petals.

Satin ribbon sunflowers (video)

Finishing touches

To make the composition look especially elegant, you can decorate the pot. Dry branches are cut into equal pieces. Then the resulting sticks are wrapped from above and below with a thin rope or cord, tightly attached to each other. You should get a kind of fence that is glued to the walls of the pot. A little instant coffee is added to the acrylic varnish, the mixture is applied to sticks. As a result, the pot becomes beautiful and shiny, it exudes a light but persistent coffee aroma.

If there are drainage holes in the pot, they must be covered with plastic wrap. Gypsum or alabaster is bred in a separate container. A sunflower is placed in the center of the pot and filled with liquid plaster almost to the edge (an indent of 0.5 cm is desirable). For the substance to freeze, it will take at least 10 minutes, all this time the flower must be held with your hands. After fixing, the upper part of the pot is decorated with green sisal, imitating fresh grass, it is attached to the frozen gypsum with a couple of drops of glue.

An additional decorative effect will be given to the work by a ribbon tied over the pot. She will turn the composition into a full-fledged gift. Before handing over, the topiary can be packed in transparent cellophane, which will not only keep the craft from dust and damage, but also highlight the beauty of the souvenir in the best way.

They will make the work even more elegant and cheerful. Butterflies and other insects made of wood and plastic are sold in souvenir and florist shops, and you can make them yourself.

Having learned how to make the simplest topiary, you can try to make more complex compositions. You should look for interesting master classes in needlework magazines, you can come up with original ideas yourself.

Sunflowers from ribbons (video)

To create a flower you need:

  • roasted coffee beans;
  • satin ribbons (yellow and green);
  • wire, stick;
  • computer disk or foam ball;
  • candle or lighter;
  • scissors;
  • tweezers;
  • instant glue.

Beads, figurines of ladybirds, butterflies or other insects are suitable for decorating a flower. A topiary can be made in the form of a single flower, but several sunflowers of different sizes will look much more interesting.

Step-by-step instructions will tell you how to make a flower based on a computer disk:

  1. Cut the yellow tape 5 cm wide into 6 cm long pieces. You will need about 40 such parts.
  2. Fold one end of the strip in half and cut a piece of fabric at an angle of approximately 45 °.
  3. Holding the slices with your fingers, burn the edges over the candle fire. Squeeze the melted edge with tweezers so that the slices are securely connected.
  4. At the opposite end, visually mark the middle of the cut. To this point, carefully fold the halves of the tape, making folds on each. In this case, one of the folds should be aligned with the edge of the tape, and the other with the fold of the second half. The cut remains straight. In general, the whole structure looks like a bow fold.
  5. Burn and squeeze the cut with tweezers. The petal will turn out like this. Make a lot of petals and glue them along the edge of the disk in 2 rows, overlapping the gaps between the lower ones with the upper parts.
  6. From the back side, insert a stick for the stem into the hole of the disc. A piece of a branch must be wrapped with green tape, inserting leaves between the turns. For reliability, grease the junction of the stem with the disc with glue.
  7. Make sepals and leaves from the green ribbon. To do this, the tape must be cut into pieces 11 cm long. Fold the segment in half so that one part is perpendicular to the other. Wrap the end, which is on top, away from you, aligning the edges with the edges, and the cut with a cut.
  8. Lay folds on the cut sides. While holding, melt the cut, pinch it with tweezers. Stick on the disc from the side where there are no petals. Sepals need to fill the entire lower surface of the disc, slightly releasing them over the edges and hiding the place where the stem is attached, as shown in the photo.
  9. Fill the empty space between the yellow petals with coffee beans. They will have to be glued in several layers to hide the surface of the disc and form a small bulge, like a real flower.

After the upper part of the topiary is made, you need to prepare a flower stand. For this purpose, a beautiful pot, vase or other container is suitable. A plaster or alabaster solution is often used to fix the flower in the container. These compounds quickly solidify and form a solid and rather heavy monolithic mass. The stem of the flower is well kept in it. Gypsum diluted with water, you just need to fill in 2/3 of the volume of the selected container and install the stem of the sunflower in it.

Once the plaster has set, the pot can be filled with coffee beans, artificial moss or grass, sisal, or ribbons. Decorate to your liking.

Sunflower made of coffee and satin ribbons (video)

Other ways to create a sunflower

When making a souvenir with your own hands, you can always find options. You can use a foam ball instead of a disc. To make the sunflower flower look like a real one, the ball needs to be cut in half. In this case, we fix the stalk in the center of the flat side.

The petals can be folded in the same way as described for making sepals in the previous version. You need to glue the petals from the lower side of the hemisphere; you can make 1 or 2 rows of yellow elements. Then decorate the rest of the space with green sepals.

Fantasy sunflower, made in a different technique. For the base of the flower, a foam ball is used here, completely pasted over with coffee beans. The petals and braid of the stem are made of gold-colored ribbon. The wire can be easily bent, giving the stem with your own hands the most bizarre shape.

For the petals, you need to cut the squares from the ribbon. If its width is 5 cm, then the length of each segment should be the same. Collapse the square diagonally, then again, aligning all the slices. Fold the triangle in half so that the sharp corners coincide. Make a slice as in the photo.

Melt it over the candle and pinch it with tweezers, passing one of its sponges between the layers of fabric. This will create a neat flat seam, and the petal will be voluminous. The lower corner (where the tape cuts) must be cut with scissors parallel to the upper, front edge. Refuse the slices, but do not join them. Decorate the coffee ball and stem with ready-made petals. You can arrange them arbitrarily. Glue a coffee bean or bead inside each element.

There can be many design options for flower arrangements in the manufacture of sunflower topiary. The master will be helped by imagination and accuracy in work. The sunny flower and the aroma of your favorite drink will accompany him all day, giving him joy and cheerful mood.