Stamens for flowers by their own hands: step by step instruction, features and recommendations

Craftsmen who are engaged in artificial floristics and scrapbooking prefer to make stamens for flowers with their own hands. To make the flower realistic, this element needs to be given a lot of attention. In shops for needlework you can buy any stamens for flowers. With your own hands, you can create what is not in the shops for masters. In this article, you will learn the secrets of making realistic stamens.

Artificial stamens - a commodity that is not deficient, and it can be easily purchased in any store for needlework. Experienced florists are not always satisfied with the quality of the goods. Often the stamens are poorly starched and do not hold a shape, which is important, for example, when making a gladiolus, which has a dense middle. The stamens of this flower should be plump, beautifully curved, with neat anthers. But when making flowers of jasmine, apple, rosehip, strawberry, you just need thin and tender stamens, such it is difficult to find on sale.

Pros of homemade stamens

Advantages of self-made elements:

• Small material costs - stamens for flowers with their own hands to make cheaper than buying even not very high-quality goods.
• They allow you to create more realistic products, look elegant.
• If, with a large or urgent order, you have run out of items for the middle of the flower, then the line or thread, paint and glue will help you out.
• You can create anthers of any shades you need.

So, make stamens for this royal flower.

Stamens for gladiolus

For work, prepare:

• The wire is 12 cm long. It is better to have light shades, it's easier to paint.
• Emery.
• Round-nosed pliers.
• Acrylic paint, better white. Light stamens can be toned while painting the product.
• Glue PVA (clerical or white with plasticizer).
• Flat container for pouring glue and dye.
• An oasis for florists or a kitchen sponge.

The first stage will have to be given about 20 minutes. The lesson is not interesting, but necessary to get a high-quality result. We will need to process the wire with sandpaper. The easiest way is to fold the sandpaper twice, put the wire in the middle and pull it with force. This will greatly accelerate the process.

Advice from experienced masters:

Do monotonous work in parts, break the process into blocks. For example, today treated part of the wire for the stamens, tomorrow mold the leaves, then finish the process of making the middle for the flowers. This is especially important if you need a lot of stamens. For example, when working on bonsai, when you need to make several thousand stamens from a line for tiny plants.

Stain stamens

Pour a little acrylic dye into the container (as an option - titanium white). Add to it the same amount of PVA glue. Stir all. You should have a thick, uniform mass.

Hold the wire by the end and dip into the mixture. Wire must be densely covered. Take care that there are no lumps (they can be removed with a brush). Leave the unpainted tip (2-3 cm). This is necessary in order to stick it into an oasis for drying. Process all the blanks and leave to dry for 4-8 hours or until the morning.

Proceed to the next stage.

Materials for work

You will need:

• Ground cinnamon (flowers will smell sweet!).
• White floral tape.
• A small piece of plastic or cold porcelain brown.
• Any quick-acting transparent glue ("Moment Crystal" or "Second").

Cut 3 cm of florist tape . Cut it in half. Stretch it to secrete the glue. Take the three blanks for the stamens and fold them together so that the ends are at the same level. Now you need to collect them in a single "bouquet". To the tape does not stick out of the flower, leave free 5-6 cm. Now you need to patch the area in the middle with a small drop of a second glue. The top of the stamens should not be glued.

Free ends bend as it is in nature in the gladiolus. A pestle with three branches should come out.

Now you are holding an analog of a natural pistil. We proceed to the manufacture of stamens. From self-healing plastic we blind the brown anthers. Roll the microscopic sausage (thick with a rice seed). The length of the grain should not exceed 3 mm.

Take the wire. Attach the sausage from the plastic to it. Drop a drop of glue into the middle of the grain. Run the wire with plastic.

Make any sharp object a furrow along the anther. Allow the clay to dry. Dip it in PVA, and then in cinnamon. Blow off all the excess from the grain. The gladiolus has a pestle composed of three parts. Collect the "bouquets" with the help of cut in half and stretched in advance tape.

Curl the wire to make it look like the middle of a living gladiolus. The process of making stamens for flowers by oneself is laborious enough, but the result is worth it.

We make from the fishing line stamens for flowers by our own hands (master class)

For miniature delicate flowers of strawberries, jasmine, dogrose, apricot and many other gentle creatures of nature, you will need graceful stamens from a fishing line.

Materials for work:

• Leska (average thickness).
• Candle, gas ring, matches, lighter-any fire.
• Scissors.
• Acrylic dye is yellow.
• Yellow pastel chalk (dry or oily, it does not matter).

Take in the hands of a skein of fishing line and bring the tip to the fire, until it melts. Gradually cut pieces 2-3 cm long.

What will happen on the tip, and will be an anther of future colors. Do not wait for it to increase greatly. The size depends on how big a flower you want to make. The smaller the plant, the more elegant the anther should be.

Drop a small amount of yellow paint on the surface. Dip in turn all the melted heads. Acrylic is the quickest drying paint, which is why we use it. Oil paint in this case is not suitable. We are waiting for the drying. For one flower, as a rule, from seven to twenty anthers. Now zatoniruem anthers pastel, so we get more realistic products. This item is optional. If the pastels you do not have available, then before you start, make sure that the acrylic color suits you completely.

Here you saw how to make stamens for flowers with your own hands. Next we will talk about where to use the stamens.

Flower of ribbon with stamen

Where to use self-made means? You can make flowers from tapes with stamens. With your hands, you will create an interior bouquet, a brooch or an accessory for hair with an unusual decor. Next in the photo you can see in detail the process of a simple fantasy flower from satin ribbons with the addition of stamens. From the pattern shown in the photo above, cut out the petals and blow them.

Here are the blanks you should get. Collect the petals on the thread. Insert a bundle of stamens in the middle and sew together.

Attach a few petals to the flower and cover it around with felt. When we make stamens for flowers with our own hands, we try to make our products as realistic as possible. Improve your skills and give the world beauty!