Hello dear readers,
Our winters are usually mild. The temperature, where I live, is never below zero. Nevertheless when it gets cold I am the first to have frostbitten fingers no matter what I do to prevent it.
This is what happened again and kept me away from miniaturing. Now that my fingers are almost healed (still blue and a little swollen), I'm sitting down to make flowers. Along the way I took photos to show you how easy it is to use a glue-stiffened crochet thread for stems and leaf vines.
Materials and tools:
White plastic glue
Green crochet thread
Scissors
Ball ended shaping tool
Pinch tongs
paper punches as shown
A soft rubber surface for shaping the flowers and leaves ( I use a regular rubber)
A tooth pick
Light yellow, darker yellow, wight and green paper.
Yellow acrylic paint (not shown in the photo).
For the flowers cut about 2.5 cms lengths of glue-stiffened green thread. Glue them as shown
to the punched green paper stars.
Let them dry while you make the flower heads.
Glue one punched out daisy shaped flower on top of the other in a way that closes the open spacing between the petals.
Glue the flower heads to the star topped stems. They stick perfectly well together. Paint a tiny acrylic yellow dot in the middle of the flower.
Now the flowers are ready for the leaves.
Glue two leaves to each flower stems.
Glue three leaves to a separate piece of thread and then glue this piece to the flower stem.
You can see how good they stick together when the glue dries.
I made enough flowers to fill a dozen vases in just a few hours.
The "glass" vases are beautiful clear plastic beads with a large hole.
This is a special tutorial for my readers who live in places where there are very little craft materials
to be found. Please feel free to ask me more information if needed.
Blessings to all my dear readers!
Our winters are usually mild. The temperature, where I live, is never below zero. Nevertheless when it gets cold I am the first to have frostbitten fingers no matter what I do to prevent it.
This is what happened again and kept me away from miniaturing. Now that my fingers are almost healed (still blue and a little swollen), I'm sitting down to make flowers. Along the way I took photos to show you how easy it is to use a glue-stiffened crochet thread for stems and leaf vines.
Materials and tools:
White plastic glue
Green crochet thread
Scissors
Ball ended shaping tool
Pinch tongs
paper punches as shown
A soft rubber surface for shaping the flowers and leaves ( I use a regular rubber)
A tooth pick
Light yellow, darker yellow, wight and green paper.
Yellow acrylic paint (not shown in the photo).
For the flowers cut about 2.5 cms lengths of glue-stiffened green thread. Glue them as shown
to the punched green paper stars.
Let them dry while you make the flower heads.
Glue one punched out daisy shaped flower on top of the other in a way that closes the open spacing between the petals.
Glue the flower heads to the star topped stems. They stick perfectly well together. Paint a tiny acrylic yellow dot in the middle of the flower.
Now the flowers are ready for the leaves.
Glue two leaves to each flower stems.
Glue three leaves to a separate piece of thread and then glue this piece to the flower stem.
You can see how good they stick together when the glue dries.
I made enough flowers to fill a dozen vases in just a few hours.
The "glass" vases are beautiful clear plastic beads with a large hole.
This is a special tutorial for my readers who live in places where there are very little craft materials
to be found. Please feel free to ask me more information if needed.
Blessings to all my dear readers!
