Table of contents:
- Combination of colors and materials
- Other materials and subtleties of the idea
- Making the base
- Getting Started
- Finishing
- "Sweet" idea
- Second stage
- Final stage
2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46
In relationships, attention is extremely important, especially for girls. Therefore, they are so fond of gifts by chance, albeit small, and completely trifling. And, of course, the intrigue takes a much greater turn during the holidays. Whether it's her birthday, Valentine's Day or Christmas, a girl always wants to feel special and be the center of attention. And no matter how beautiful gifts from shops are, what was made with your own hands, with your diligence and feelings invested in it, is much more valuable. Therefore, in this article, you can learn how to make a bouquet of bears or any other small toys with your own hands.
Combination of colors and materials
First of all, you should familiarize yourself with what materials will be needed for such a surprise. First, there are the toys themselves. You can choose the same, small size, or you can combine different ones with each other. However, it should be remembered that they should not stand out too much, that is, they should be of neutral colors: white, beige, gray or pastel shades, perhaps with small color accents. For example, you can make a bouquet of white teddy bears with pink skirts. This is necessary because we will decorate the bouquet with brightshiny paper, feathers, foil and other materials that, when combined with the same catchy toys, will look stupid and tasteless. Therefore, it is better to either think over the combination of flowers in the bouquet in advance, or stock up on a large amount and assortment of wrapping paper and decorative elements.
Other materials and subtleties of the idea
This is already a matter of your imagination, and therefore you can find and prepare for work artificial flowers, sweets such as "Truffle" or "Ferrero Rocher", ribbons, organza or mesh, feathers, beads, etc. Also, to to make bouquets of bears, you will need metal wire (preferably floristic) for attaching toys and a common frame (more on this later). But from the tools for work we need: strong scissors, a stapler, adhesive tape, a glue gun, a bag of thick polyethylene, wire cutters. To choose the general idea of the bouquet, you need to think about whether it will be dismantled. For example, if your girlfriend's family has children or she herself loves toys very much, then in the process of work you will need to try not to spoil them with wire or glue. If you know for sure that no one will disassemble your bouquets of bears, then you can work more carelessly inside and even put toys on wooden skewers.
Making the base
There are two main options for the frame. Firstly, it can be a basket filled with polyurethane foam (such bouquets of bears look very cute). And secondly, for the foundation, you cancut a large cone out of foam and glue it with tape or attach it with a stapler to a tube 35-45 cm long. It can be plastic or even cardboard, but care must be taken that it is quite rigid and can withstand the weight of the future bouquet. If you don’t have foam or you can’t attach it to the tube, a fallback option is suitable: wrap the tube in the form of a cone with paper and glue it from below and wrap it with tape, and fill the resulting cavity with mounting foam.
Getting Started
As the first option, a bouquet of Teddy bears in the form of a basket was chosen. So, we fill its cavity with mounting foam or cut out the foam plastic in shape, coinciding with the outlines of the bottom. Now we are preparing 11 bears: we cut out identical squares with a side of 10-15 cm from pink and green packaging felt, as well as from a golden mesh. colors. We bend the wrapping paper and fix the shape with a stapler so that it wraps around the bottom of the bear in the form of a cone with fluffy corners, this is called a “pound”. We need to make sure that our bouquet of soft bears consists of 6 on pink and 5 on green ones, or vice versa, that is, we will alternate them.
Finishing
Now we attach the toys to the bottom: before piercing the foam plastic with a skewer, drop glue on it, and also do not forget to place the bears with their faces to the outer edge of the basket. This should fit about 11 pieces, first we plant them inperiphery, and then fill the center. Now it remains only to fill in the empty spaces between the toys and arrange the basket itself. Bouquets of bears are usually decorated with the same cute decor elements, and therefore we make more pounds on a felt and mesh skewer, only now they are empty, and we also fix them with glue between the toys. At the end of the process, we attach a ribbon bow to the basket handle, or you can even pre-wrap it completely with satin or gold ribbon and fix everything with a stapler. And now our bouquet of Teddy bears in the basket is ready!
"Sweet" idea
To make our gift not only beautiful, but also tasty, someone came up with the idea of decorating bouquets of bears with sweets wrapped in corrugated paper so that they look like flowers. This is exactly what we are going to implement now. So, we prepare the base: we attach a foam plastic in the form of a cone to the plastic tube with adhesive tape, the top of which continues into a small cylinder, it will need to be inserted into the lumen of the tube for secure fastening. You can also use hot glue. Now we wrap 7 identical bears around the belt with a wire, and twist its free ends together and point them down. Thus, we can firmly "plant" our toys on the foam. We prepare sweets: we will arrange them in the form of flowers, and we will need about 5 of them.
Second stage
So, cut the corrugated paper into squares with a side of 15-20 cm, put the candy in the center, wrap it with paper and tie itribbon, the edges of which should be tucked up for beauty. You can also glue paper petals on the outside, so they will look more like flowers. Now we turn to the formation of a common idea. Bouquets of bears also look very cute with roses, which can be made from satin ribbons and used to decorate a gift. But if you do not own the technique of such creativity, you can do without them. To hide the wire on the lower back of the bears, we mask them with ribbons, tying them on the abdomen in the form of a bow. Now we pierce the foam with wire, turning the toys with their faces to the outer edge of the basket and placing them in 2 rows. We fasten sweets between them, and fill the empty spaces with wrapping paper cups or ribbon roses.
Final stage
Bouquets of bears, made with love, are very beautiful and original, so use all your imagination to decorate them. To begin with, in order to disguise our gift from the outside, we wrap it with corrugated paper in two layers: first darker, and lighter on the outside, fasten them together with paper clips along the periphery of the circle, and fix them on the tube and foam plastic with hot glue. At the same time, in order to hide all the shortcomings of the bouquet, the paper should recede from its edge by 8-10 cm so that you can turn it inside out and form waves. Now we similarly decorate with organza or a floral net, and in the center of the tube we tie a ribbon in the form of a beautiful bow. Also along the periphery, you can lay organza lace in several layers or matching in color.feathers. And now our wonderful bouquet of soft bears is ready!
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