Creating Topiaria do it yourself: Instructions for beginners
Creating Topiaria with your own hands for beginners is not easy task. Especially if there is no experience in needlework in a person, and his artistic taste has not received proper development. But when meeting such an elegant and unusual decoration of the interior, many people have a strong desire to try to make it alone. It attracts and its delightfully romantic name - "Tree of happiness". Such an unusual interior decoration and even with such a charming name is always nice and put in the house, and in a gift to present.
For inspiration, you can see or visit the lessons of topics. This will help make compositions, preventing errors. If you carefully examine at least one master class, the Topiary will definitely come out well. And if you see not one master class, the tree of happiness at beginners can turn out even better than professional designers.
Topiaria is extremely interesting. This is a very exciting occupation. Having plunged into creativity, you can completely distract from the everyday routine. The Topiary is not too large sizes stylized chip-off geometric shape, standing on the basis. Consists of 3 parts - bases, barrels and crowns. Therefore, step-by-step instructions for its manufacture consists of 3 sections. But before starting to do Topiaria, it is important to assimilate that it will be needed for this.
Tools and Materials for Work
Before starting work, it is worth stockwork to all that you need to make a craft. These are the necessary tools, and consumables. In order to determine what consumables are needed, you must first imagine what Topiary wants to do.
Ideas for creating Topiaria may occur when viewing various materials in the store or the same in the house. If there are materials in the house, of which there is a desire to do topiary, it will be necessary to buy them much less, and maybe it will not be needed at all. Some necessary tools will also be found in every home, while others can be held for the first time for the time of friends and acquaintances, in case the occupation does not have to do. When creating Topiaria, it almost always has the opportunity to replace one materials by others. This allows not to spend extra money. You just need to choose a way to manufacture certain elements from available resources.
Tools will need a little. It:
- Adhesive gun - with it to glue decor elements very convenient. But if it is not possible to purchase it or lend on time, you can do without it, using any quick-drying glue.
- The stationery knife (can be replaced by a well-sharpened kitchen knife) - for the manufacture of the base from the foam.
- Spatula or spoon - for stamping construction mixture
Required and non-replaceable materials:
- Quick-drying glue or glue for adhesive gun.
- PVA glue - to glue the base for crown paper or napkins.
- Fairly long branch for trunk
Replaced or not always necessary materials:
- Polyfoam - for the manufacture of the base for the crown.
- Egg tray - the same.
- Newspapers - the same.
- Napkins - to glue the base.
- Foil - for wrapping the base.
- Flower vase - for the manufacture of the base.
- Empty cans - for the manufacture of base.
- Plastic container of sufficiently thick plastic.
- Dry building mix - gypsum, alabaster, putty or cement with sand.
- Fabric - may be needed for decoration and for wrapping the base.
- A needle and threads - for making with your own hands of artificial colors and to wrapping the base for the crown.
- Captive sponges - for the manufacture of colors.
- Artificial flowers and fruits - for decor.
- Coffee grains, chestnuts, acorns, nuts or shells from them, bumps, branches, leaves - for decor.
Topiaria proportions and harmonious use of colors
Before the first time to do the Topiary, it is very important to understand what should be the proportion of its parts relative to each other. Because even perfectly decorated souvenir will look ridiculous when non-compliance with proportions. In order for the village to look exquisitely, its base should be 2-3 cm less than the crown, so at first glance, attention will be accentuated on Krone. The base should not be elongated. It should approach Cuba or a ball in shape.
The length of the trunk should be necessarily more than the diameter of the crown, so that the tree does not look squat. But, too, just a few centimeters, because a tree with a too long trunk will look awkward. The thickness of the barrel should be proportioned to the base and crown. The trunk should not be too thin, nor too thick. With a subtle trunk, the tree will look flawed, and with too thick - rude. Typically, the thickness of the barrel is 1-3 cm. For small topiarey, the trunk can be 1 cm thick, and for large - 3 cm.
Making a Topiary with their own hands, it is very important to follow the rules for decorating and competent use of colors.
When decorating the product, it does not need to use more than 3 main colors.
If you use more colors, the tree will look awesome. For a small accent, you can use 1 optional color. When the base decor needs to be used for 1 color less, in order for the Crohn to attract attention. Single-color topiaries with small accents of a contrasting shade are perfect. For the competent selection of color combinations, you can use a table of color combinations. Accessories from natural materials of different shades of one color look interesting.
Topicia for beginners (video)
Step 1: Make the foundation
The base is made from a vase, tin can or plastic container. You can decorate it with a cloth, and you can the same elements as the crown. It is necessary to fill it with a building mixture, diluted to the state of thick sour cream, not reaching the edges of 4 cm, then insert a tree into it and fix it until dried.
Step 2: We make the foundation for the crown and decorate
The basis for the top of the tree can be made by leaning the newspaper to the ball, wrapped it with paper in the tone of the decor or foil or shifting threads. You can form a ball from the operated egg trays and give it to dry. You can glue the cube from the foam, and then cut the ball from it and enclose it with paper or napkins. The elements of the decor are glued to the basis and the base by quick-drying glue. Spreads and artificial flowers first stick into the base, then removed, lubricated with glue and inserted back.
Step 3: We select and secure the trunk
For the Topiaria trunk with a round crown you need to take a smoothly curved branch. Choosing a length, it must be remembered that when fixing it will enter the finished crown with elements of the decor until the middle and at the base to the bottom, and be sure to take this into account. The perfectly smooth trunk is suitable for topiary with a cubic shape. To secure the trunk, you need to fix for the crown, take out, smear quick-drying glue and stick together. You do not need to place the decor elements on the trunk.