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Foamiran flower: create amazing tenderness and fantastic realism with your own hands
Foamiran flower: create amazing tenderness and fantastic realism with your own hands
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The creation of artificial flowers and various crafts from them is one of the most interesting trends. According to historians, this activity began to be engaged in the III century BC. The first masters came from ancient China, Egypt and Greece. Today, the range of materials for creating artificial flowers is so rich that it can be listed endlessly! But still, new, affordable materials are constantly appearing, from which not only experienced craftsmen, but also beginners can create exclusive things.

New items for professionals and beginners, for those who want to create real masterpieces

flower from foamiran
flower from foamiran

Do you want to create artificial flowers that are not inferior in their beauty to real counterparts, or fantasy compositions? Or is your goal not only flowers, but also various decorations, decorative elements, applications, voluminous crafts, etc.? Then it's time to get acquainted with a completely new material, amazing in its properties. Products from itamaze with their beauty. We invite you to make a flower from foamiran yourself!

Foamiran is a material from which you can create real flowers

This material is amazingly soft and velvety. This is the reason why it is often called not just FOM EVA, Foamiran (FoamIran), Foam (Foam), revelure, but also soft, plastic suede or porous paper. It is non-toxic, environmentally friendly, not afraid of moisture and temperature changes, perfectly retains its shape and its original color. Foamiran is not only easily cut with various scissors and amenable to curly composters, but also shaped by hand - it stretches, crushes under pressure, easily remembering a new shape! Such elasticity and strength are due to its composition (ethylene and vinyl acetate). A palette of soft, pastel shades in combination with white and black allows everyone to find a color that is pleasant for the soul and the eye. But it can be easily repainted using acrylic, oil paints, gouache, crayons.

flowers from foamiran master class
flowers from foamiran master class

The first product was not a foamiran flower. The material obtained in Iran (today already in China) and transported to all countries of the world was first used as a soft constructor for children. Today, it is supplied to the markets of our country in the form of sheets, the dimensions of which can vary from 40 x 40 to 70 x 70. You can buy it at quite affordable prices and start creating at any time.

Foamiran flower - something that is easy to make even for a beginner

making flowers from foamiran
making flowers from foamiran

To create the most realistic composition, you will need foamiran of the desired color, a pattern of leaves (petals), scissors, a pencil, a glue gun. Also, if desired, you can take a composter with ready-made molds, a regular iron for warming up the material (you can warm it up and knead it manually), paints for coloring petals, special bulbs for artificial flowers and a base for the composition.

Making flowers from foamiran begins with cutting out a pattern of petals. At this stage, you can also tint the blanks a little. Next, apply the petals to a warm iron - they heat up, twist and fall off by themselves. Now the process of forming a real flower begins - they bend the middle of the petals, stretch and wrap, make a wavy edge. After that, begin assembling the flower with a glue gun. As practice shows, neither PVA glue, nor even "Moment" are suitable for such products.

flower from foamiran
flower from foamiran

Today there are a huge number of schools where they will teach how to create flowers from foamiran. A master class on creating compositions can be found not only in our country, there are even video sources from Iran.

Work wonders only with real materials

It's never too late to start creating something new and beautiful. Grow your flower from foamiran! But when buying raw materials, be careful - after all, there are not only foams on sale, but also its analogue foams. External difference can not benotice, but the second material is porous rubber, intended only for children's creativity!

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