How to make a do-it-yourself topiary. Master Class

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

To decorate the interior, various interesting items are used that fill the atmosphere with comfort and warmth. One of these items is the topiary, or the tree of happiness. This interesting composition always attracts attention and is becoming more and more popular among the needlewomen of our country. How to make a topiary with your own hands? It's much easier than it looks at first glance.

Topiary is a small tree with a rounded crown on a short curved trunk. Usually it is decorated with ribbons, threads with beads and bows. The crown is made from materials of various textures, it all depends on the imagination of the master. It can be pistachio shells, coffee beans, flowers from various materials and more.

Detailed instructions on how to make a topiary with your own hands can be found on any thematic forum dedicated to creativity and needlework. You can also watch video tutorials with step by steptips to help you create such beauty yourself. Topiary is not a copy of any particular tree, but a purely decorative element of the interior, which performs only the function of decorating the room.

Start with the crown. For its inner part, which often has a round shape, you can use small plastic balls, plasticine, crumpled paper, polystyrene, or any similar materials. Since it is not too difficult to make a topiary with your own hands, you can also involve a child in the creative process. But you should still start with simpler product options.

Let's make a tree of happiness from pistachio shells. Roll up a ball of plasticine. This will be the crown. For the trunk, we will use a simple twig of medium diameter. We wrap it with a simple twine, fixing it with glue at the ends. We put a plasticine ball on a branch and wrap pistachio shells around them, placing them with the convex side out. You need to fasten them very close to each other so that the gaps are as small as possible, since you can make a beautiful craft if you work very carefully.

Usually, the topiary is located in some container - a pot, a glass, a jar or something similar. Naturally, it is decorated in accordance with the idea. To keep the tree firmly in the pot, you can use sand, grits, but only if the crown is made of light materials.

In our case, it is recommended to use alabaster, as itvery quickly seizes, hardens and firmly holds the entire structure. We put the tree we made ourselves into the prepared mixture and wait until it dries. It will take no more than half an hour. The main work is done, it remains only to decorate the tree of happiness with your own hands, an example photo can again be found in magazines or on the vast expanses of the Internet.

We just glue the pot with beautiful paper or cloth. Inside we pour large white beads to hide the alabaster. We decorate the junction of the crown and the trunk of the tree with a wide satin ribbon, tying it with a bow. You can optionally add other decorative elements.

Thus, this little introduction to how to make a topiary with your own hands helped, in general, to present the whole principle of work in this example. I hope, thanks to this master class, you will create your first work, which will be followed by many other beautiful topiaries!