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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Crafty Bird Cage

Hello Folks!!! Today we are excited to make a crafty bird cage which you could either hang in your balcony this summer or keep it indoors & enhance your home décor! This cage has a rustic look. The best part about this is that this is a low or a no maintenance bird cage as it only has a mock bling bird!

Things required:

Chipboard 2mm

Bronze Colour- Acrylic paint

Flower making wire

Flower Stem with pollen

Pollen bunch

Scissor

Bling Bird model

Handmade Paper Flowers

Flower making wire- Thick

To make Bird Cage-

Step 1: Mark a circle on the chipboard (depending on the size of cage you want to make) and cut along the line.

Step 2: Paint the chip board in bronze colour, punch eight holes on the chipboard.

Step 3: Bend the wire at the centre to make U shape. Insert the U shaped wire to the opposite holes on the chipboard and twist it using a plier, to make a loop. You will need eight such ‘U’ shaped wires to complete the cage.

Step 4: Wind the flower making stem around the cage and on top of the cage to hold the cage together. Completed cage will look as shown. Paint the wire in bronze colour to give a vintage look.

Step 5: Place the bird in the cage

Step6: Arrange and wind the ready pollens and flowers around the cage, as shown. Tie a thread or wire to the top of the bird cage, to hang it.

Beautiful vintage Bird cage is ready to hang in your garden, room or balcony.

Link for supplies:

Bronze Colour: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/art-supplies/accessories/blenders/pastel-charcoal-blenders-maxx0011-7pc-mm

Chipboard: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/life-style/accessories/dressing/fashion-butti-paisley-52mmx43mm-dk-peach-5pcs-pbhc-ib

Flower making wire: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/flower-making/flower-making-accessories/flower-making-stem-brown-40cm-x-1mm-10pcs-pbhc-ib

Flower stem with Pollen: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/flower-making/stick-pollen/stick-w-pollen-hot-pink-40cm-2pcs-pbhc-ib

Rose Flower Bunches White: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/paper-flowers/handmade-paper-flowers/hand-made-paper-rose-medium-flower-bunch-w-stem-white-12pcs-pbhc-ib

Rose Flower Bunches Pink: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/paper-flowers/handmade-paper-flowers/hand-made-paper-rose-large-flower-bunch-w-stem-lt.pink-6pcs-pbhc-ib

Bird: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/modelling/modelling-accessories/bling-bird-brown-cd654-1pc-pbhc-mc

Flower making wire- Thick: http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/scrapbooking/paper/12inch-x-12inch/natural-premium-12x12-foil-des-18-1sheet-dcwv

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Anthurium Bouquet

Hi Folks! Hope you guys are doing great! A while ago we posted an image of Paper Anthurium Flowers on our Facebook wall. We got requests for a tutorial and as promised, we are here with detailed step by step instructions. These flowers are made with duplex crepe paper. Duplex Crepe paper has a lot of stretch and holds the shape beautifully on stretching, perfect for making realistic looking flowers.

(The image that we had posted is on the right.)

These flowers look very elegant and are great for a formal table decor, home decor, a corner table, or to make a paper flower bouquet. Because of the fantastic properties of the duplex paper, these are very easy to make. So let's find out how you can make your own bouquet.

You will need the following supplies:

Duplex Crepe Paper - (your choice of colours)
Floral Tape - Green
Floral wire
Craft Glue
A pair of Scissors

Instructions:

To make the petal, fold the crepe paper and draw an approximate shape on the folded edge as shown in the image. The length should be approximately 2” -2 ½” and the width (from the folded edge) should be approximately ¾ “ – 1”. Each piece will form the petal of a flower, so cut out one piece per flower as per your requirement.

Stretch, curl and shape the petals as shown (using a pencil or a dowel)

Cut a strip of crepe paper about 1”wide and 10” long. Wrap it around one end of the floral wire as shown and stick the end with glue.

Cut a small piece of paper and glue it around the wrap to close the top.

Apply glue to the base of the petal and place the wrapped wire as shown. Wrap the petal at the base as shown to form the flower.

Start wrapping the floral tape tightly, beginning at the base of the petal. Wrap the entire wire to make the stem.

Make a few flowers using slightly different lengths of wire for every flower. Arrange in a vase to display. You can also cut a thermocole ball in half, wrap it entirely with floral tape and insert the stems to display as shown in the image above. You can also make some long leaves cut out of green crepe paper to add some foliage.

Do leave your feedback in the comments below and send us images if you make these flowers.

Happy Crafting J

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Duplex Crepe Paper Rose Bouquet

Hi Friends, it’s Tuesday and we are back with another tutorial here on the Itsy Bitsy Blog. Summer is in full swing and it’s the time of roses. So here we are with a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a beautiful bouquet of roses. These flowers can be made with very limited number of supplies and will brighten up any room!

So let’s get started. Here is the list of supplies we used for making the flowers:

Duplex paper in your choice of colour
Floral wire
Floral Tape
Green Handmade paper for leaves
10-12mm beads

Note: You can also make these roses with crepe paper but you will get better results with Duplex crepe paper. Duplex paper is thicker than the regular crepe paper and has different colour tones on the two sides. This makes the duplex papers one of the most sought after paper to make realistic looking flowers. This paper has anywhere between 25 – 50% stretch making it possible to manipulate parts of it to give more realistic looking shapes to the petals.

Method:

Cut the duplex paper in heart shapes of roughly about 2”-2 ¼ “ dimensions. The hearts need to have somewhat flat base. These hearts will be used to make the petals of the roses

The easiest way to cut out hearts is to fold the paper, and trace half a heart (as shown) on the folded edge.

Cut out the heart shapes as shown. One flower will require about 8-9 hearts. Cut out as many heart shapes as you need.

Prepare all the heart cut outs by gently rolling the edges of the hearts as shown. The edges should be rolled away from the darker side of the paper and towards the lighter side. This is important for a realistic looking flower.

Take one of the hearts and wrap it around the folded floral wire.

Twist the paper as shown. This will form the centre of the flower.

Tightly wrap some floral tape at the base of the petal to keep it in place. Wrap a second petal in the similar way.

Keep adding more petals and wrap the base with floral tape.

After about 8-9 petals, your flower will look just like a rose bloom. Make as many roses you would like for your bouquet.

Thread a bead onto one end of a floral wire and fold back the end ( about ½ “) as shown.

Wrap the bead completely with floral tape. This will make the rose buds.

Cut 3 pieces of floral tape in the shape shown here. Line them at the base of the bud to simulate sepals.

Tightly wrap some floral tape to keep the sepals in place. The rose bud is ready!

Cut some leaf shapes with the green handmade paper and wrap them about an inch below the base of the flowers using floral tape.

You can add leaves in this way to all the flowers or just some of them depending on how much foliage you want in your bouquet.

Start assembling the flower bunches by arranging them in a staggered fashion and twisting the stems together.

Wrap the stems with more floral tape.

Your rose bunch is ready! Make as many such bunches as you want and in as many colours as you want.

As you can see in the picture below, we made them in different colours and they looked so beautiful together that we did not have the heart to segregate them by colours!

The last but not the least step - Sit back and enjoy the beautiful roses! :)

Hope this tutorial has inspired you to try it out. Do leave your feedback in the comments below and send us pictures on our Facebook page if you try it.

Here’s a handy link for the supplies.

Link for Supplies:

Duplex paper:

http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/flower-making/duplex-paper

Floral Tape:

http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/scrapbooking/paper/12inch-x-12inch/natural-premium-12x12-des-19-1sheet-dcwv

Floral Wire:

http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3000_3003

http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/jewellery-making

Handmade Paper:

http://www.itsybitsy.in/store/papers/handmade-papers

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Stocking Cloth Flower Bouquet

Hello People! Hope you all had a great weekend! Today we are going to show you how to make a beautiful bouquet of flowers with Stocking Cloth. It's quite easy and perfect to use for home decor, parties and other special occasions! Let us collect the supplies.

Supplies Needed:

Stocking Cloth in your choice of colours.
Green Stocking Cloth (For leaves and buds)
Floral Wire
Floral Tape
Some Beads
A dowel of about 1-1.5” diameter or a cylindrical object (e.g. A small bottle)
A dowel of about 1/4”-1/2” (You can also use a pen or pencil)
Pollen/Stamen, seed beads, crystals etc. (optional)

Method:

Wrap one end of a floral wire around the dowel or the bottle and twist the two ends as shown in the images above.

You will have a petal shape wire loop. Wrap the stocking cloth around the wire loop as shown in the picture above.

Bunch the cloth at the base of the loop as shown, twist the loop a few times to keep the cloth in place and trim off the excess.

This will form a petal of the flower. Work the wire frame of the petal to make desired shape of the petal.

Repeat the above steps to make as many petals you want in the flower. For leaves repeat the steps above using green stocking cloth. In this tutorial we are making three-petal flowers.

Hold three petals together and start wrapping the base of the petals with the floral tape (as shown above).

Adjust the petals to get the desired shape of the flower. Make as many flowers you want for your bouquet.

Take a floral wire and make a small loop at one end using the smaller dowel. This will make the buds.

Wrap the stocking cloth around the loop, bunch at the base and trim off the excess like we did for the petals. Start wrapping the floral tape tightly at the base of the bud.

Thread a bead at the end of a floral wire and twist the ends as shown.

Wrap the green stocking cloth around the bead and trim off excess. Tightly wrap the floral tape starting at the base of the bead. This will make the unopened bud.

Assemble the flowers, leaves and buds in a staggered arrangement, roughly in the following order from top to bottom – unopened bud, open buds, flowers and leaves. This will give you an arrangement as close to a natural inflorescence. Wrap the stems together with floral tape. Your flower bunch is ready!

You can use this technique to make different kind of flowers. You can also glue pollen/stamens, crystals or beads to the flower centre for a different look.

Here are some more ideas to get you started:

Please let us know what you think of this tutorial and do send us pictures on our Facebook Page if you try it.

Happy crafting!