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Many people like to make things with their own hands. The Internet exhausts our desires, offering many options for crafts. We will tell you about several paper decorations that you can easily and effortlessly make with your own hands from available materials.
This decor will be able to decorate your home for any celebration, and it will be pleasant to look at it, proud of your own handiwork.
Fans and flowers made of paper
In childhood, everyone made fans out of paper, folding it like an accordion. Large fans that can be placed on the wall and flowers are made using the same principle. For them, colored paper is folded like an accordion; for a flower, the sides are connected into a circle. It is important that the sheet of paper has the shape of a long ribbon. A paper flower is glued to the center.
If you take paper with a pattern—you can buy it in craft supply stores or scrapbooking stores—the fan will look more impressive. You can apply glitter, and then under artificial light they will sparkle beautifully.
Huge flowers and pompoms are made from corrugated paper or thin tissue paper. The principle of creation is the same as that of a fan - the paper needs to be folded like an accordion. The width of the fold is approximately 3 cm. If you want to get a dense pompom, you will need at least 10-12 sheets.
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Carefully tie the folded accordion in the middle with strong thread. The edges of the future flower need to be aligned; you can give them a rounded shape. Now carefully, layer by layer, straighten each petal of the future flower, giving it shape.
If you are making a flower to hang on a wall, straighten the petals in one direction; for a pompom, open half in one direction, half in the other. All that remains is to fasten the pompom to a thread, and for the flower, glue a small circle on the back side for mounting on the wall.
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Snowflakes
Snowflakes are made from napkins or paper. You need to fold the square in half and do this until you get a triangle with 2 pointed ends. They need to be cut off.
On the resulting blank we draw a diagram. Cut it out. DIY snowflake ornament templates can be found below.
"Heart" decor
For Valentine's Day, you can make your own paper decor for your home using the main symbol - hearts.
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Garland of hearts
For a voluminous garland, you need to cut out a lot of hearts from colored paper (you can take bright scrapbook paper with a floral pattern). Fold them 2-3 together, sew them in the center with a strong thread, leaving 30-40 centimeters between the elements. Carefully bend the “petals”, giving the hearts volume. Having prepared several of these threads, attach them to the ceiling or doorway in the form of a curtain.
You can make the garland even more interesting if you take blanks of different sizes and fold them in this way: smallest - medium - large - medium - smallest. Further steps are the same: sew, bend, hang.
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Using the quilling technique you can make a bright and unusual garland. You will need scrapbook paper with a floral pattern, bright buttons and glue. To work with scrap paper, it is better to take “Moment” or “Titan”. They will not turn yellow over time. Glue two strips on each side to a small strip of paper (10*2 cm). Bend them one by one and glue the edges. You will get a heart, which can be additionally decorated with bright buttons. All that remains is to attach the hearts to the thread and hang the garland.
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"Flower" heart
You will need regular paper napkins and cardboard.
From thick corrugated cardboard (unnecessary boxes), cut out two heart-shaped blanks. Connect them together using a strip of thick cardboard (its width should correspond to the desired thickness of the decorative element). It turns out to be a voluminous heart.
Fold napkins measuring 20*20 cm (without unfolding) in four to form a square with sides 5*5 cm. Staple the layers in the center and cut out a circle. Layer by layer, peel back the petals of the paper flower. The result is a delicate rose.
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Having made many of these flowers, attach them to a cardboard “heart” blank. A spectacular result will be obtained if you take napkins of a delicate pink color or two colors - white and pink. The result will not leave your “other half” indifferent - a tender heart will decorate the room.
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"Love tree"
It’s very simple to make – place several branches in a beautiful transparent vase. Cut out several hearts from red, pink, white paper (you can make them voluminous, like for a garland), hang them on the branches. You can add thin beads.
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Origami crafts
You can’t do without diagrams and blanks when it comes to the art of paper folding. It is quite difficult to make a tiger or Santa Claus using the origami technique, but during preparation for the New Year holidays there is a place for other models - lantern boxes and animal figurines. The latter can become Christmas tree decorations.
Chinese lantern
Template for cutting parts
Another alternative decorative option is a Chinese lantern, which looks no less impressive . To make it, you need to use a diagram or draw the segments yourself (as in the photo). The length of one part will be on average 10 cm.
How to make a Chinese lantern
Further actions:
- Trace the template on colored paper
- Cut out the blanks - there should be six of them
- Form the bottom and top of the lantern
- Sew the lower segments with thread, then the upper ones
- Make a loop and that’s it, the flashlight is ready. Now you can decorate the Christmas tree with them
Paper garlands
The simplest thing is to decorate the room with paper garlands. All you need is thread and colored paper. You can make as many garland options as you like:
- from hearts - for Valentine's Day or the birthday of a loved one;
- Easter – chickens, rabbits, flowers;
- snowflakes and Christmas trees, openwork mittens - New Year's decor;
- a garland of triangles, circles with photographs - for a child’s birthday. It can be made in the form of a train, houses, and other figures.
Making a garland will not take much time. Figures are cut out and attached to a strong thread using glue. You can attach the garland elements using a sewing machine, stitching them in the center and leaving free areas between the decorative elements.
If you make double flags or hearts (cut them out by folding the paper in half), you can secure them by passing a thread or cord inside and sealing the edges of the flags.
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New Year's compositions
Everyone knows how to make openwork snowflakes from a paper napkin. Window decor can be made even more diverse. Elements of the composition are cut out of white paper using stencils - forest, houses, deer and Santa Claus's sleigh. You can come up with many stories.
These elements are placed on the window (you can glue them using paste made from flour or starch). If you want to create a completely magical atmosphere on New Year’s Eve, you can place small light sources nearby. They will shine through paper and glass, creating an unusual effect.
To make the interior beautiful, make the composition three-dimensional by cutting out another one of the same size and placing the lighting between the layers of paper. Add glitter to the interior arrangement.
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You can make voluminous Christmas tree cones from paper, decorating them to your liking, or Christmas wreaths. They will create a festive atmosphere in your home.
A wedding, birthday, New Year, and just a desire to do something unusual with your own hands are a good reason to pick up paper. With its help you can do the following things.
- Unusual curtains for the doorway - from long, triangular-shaped multi-colored ribbons, twisting them into a “tube”, starting from the wide side. The finished elements are strung on threads and attached to the opening. Such curtains can be made from colored pages of glossy magazines.
- Panel - laying out its elements from paper strips.
- Volumetric letters – having made a blank like a volumetric heart, you can cover them with scrap paper and decorate them with additional elements.
Show your imagination and come up with your own “paper” room. With such decorative items that keep the warmth of your hands, your home will become even more comfortable and filled with love.
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Complex techniques
Quilling, origami, decoupage are more complex techniques. They require a lot of time and considerable perseverance. In order to master them, it is better to purchase interesting and colorful creativity kits.
In such kits, materials, stencils and patterns are usually already selected, and clear and simple instructions have been created. With them, creativity will be truly exciting and you can be proud of your crafts.
Volumetric letters
A model of a certain size must be cut out of cardboard. It needs to be covered with pompom flowers.
The flowers are formed from small squares (make them from napkins) with a side of about 5 cm, which are fastened in the middle with a stapler so that their corners look in different directions.
Fluff the flowers. Glue it onto the layout using a glue gun. By the way, voluminous paper decorations will add luxury to the interior, despite the simplicity of the material.
Christmas tree-cone
To get a beautiful cone-shaped Christmas tree, you just need to select cardboard of the desired color (all shades of green are acceptable) and glue it into a cone. Afterwards, you can decorate the Christmas tree with a mini-garland, which can be made from thread and several glued triangles of paper or foil.
You can also sprinkle the decoration with glitter to make the garland more like the real thing. The garland can be replaced with glass balls glued with a glue gun.
