How to make a flower from the skin with your own hands?

Leather products have always been considered a special attribute of status. Therefore it is not surprising that needlewomen, and not only them, are beckoned with masterpieces made of this material, especially if it concerns accessories or decorating of garments. Therefore, it is quite useful to find an example of how you can make a flower from the skin with your own hands.

About materials and schemes

Craftwork, in which the main material is the skin - it's an exciting, but at the same time extremely delicate process. The thing is that it's not enough just to take the skin and mechanically execute the instructions given in the master classes. One must be able to feel this material, especially when the center of the composition is a flower of leather, created by oneself.

For those who are just beginning to get acquainted with this kind of art, the best option for the first material will be leather, taken from old products. Speech in this case is about jackets, gloves or bags. Why them? The fact is that a flower made of leather, created by your own hands, requires a particularly thin and soft material. And in the production of these garments or accessories, the skin undergoes special treatment, which makes it particularly convenient to work with.

No less important and the process of preparing the skin. To do this, it is very gently wiped with a soap solution and stretched on a flat surface for complete drying.

But in order to make flowers from the skin, no special schemes are needed. More precisely, you can use both professional cuts, and create sketches yourself. The only condition: the circuit (it's the same stencil) must be. It is for her to cut the workpiece, which is then "collected" in a leather masterpiece.

Rings-flowers from the skin. How to make a fashion accessory?

In order to create a cute bauble, you do not need a lot of improvised materials: leather, a pencil to create a contour, a ring preform, acrylic paints, scissors and a glue gun.

First you need to determine the desired size of the flower. After that, on the skin with the help of stencils should be outlined two circles and cut them. On the reverse side, it is necessary to outline the contour of the star and, using scissors, to form the corresponding shape. It also requires a rectangular section, on which small vertical notches are made.

Then the front side of each workpiece should be painted in the desired tone and left to dry completely. After that on the star-shaped parts cuts are made so that petals form.

Now it remains only to collect a wonderful ring-flower from the skin with your own hands. To do this, using a glue gun put two star-shaped blanks so that they are connected by a cross. The rectangular preform is twisted into a ring so that the stamens form and are attached in the center. The resulting flower is glued on the workpiece under the ring.

The presented process is the simplest example of how you can create small masterpieces with the help of leather, scissors and glue. The main thing is to preliminary develop the design and clearly plan the pattern-stencil so that the work with the skin brings you pleasure.