DIY carnations from napkins - master class

From simple napkins you can create magnificent plants that can decorate a table for the celebration, it is interesting to decorate a gift or just make a beautiful large bouquet and put it in a vase. One of the most realistic and delicate flowers that you can make is a carnation. And if you select the material in beautiful and bright colors, then the cloves will turn out to be very saturated and attract attention. Making them is very simple. So, let's see how you can make carnations from napkins with your own hands. A master class on this topic is proposed in this article.

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Security measures

If you have children, it would be great to attract them. A child in primary school can very well create such a flower, of course, under your strict guidance.

When working with a child, remember:

• Before work, scissors and compasses must be in the case.
• During work, you can not be distracted.
• Scissors and compasses should be used only for their intended purpose, do not let the child play with instruments, otherwise it can be injured.
• You need to cut on your own.
• Pass the scissors rings forward.
• For safety reasons, do not leave the scissors open at the edge of the table.
• The compass is folded blunt end forward.
• Do not leave the compass open, do not hold it upside down.
• After work, put the tools back in place.

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Creative Workshop

How to make a clove of napkins with your own hands? To do this, you need plain-colored paper napkins of bright, beautiful shades - pink, scarlet, red, yellow:

1. We take several pieces of cellulosic material, fasten them in the middle with a stapler.

Important! The more napkins, the more fluffy the flower will be.

2. We make a circle with a compass, a radius of about 4 cm.
3. Cut out the circle.
4. In the circles obtained, we color the edges with a marker.
5. We make a hole for the stem in the workpiece. This can be done with a compass or awl.
6. We insert a cocktail tube into this hole.

Important! If there is green paper, you can twist it into a tube and use it as a stalk.

7. We fix the tube with a piece of plasticine.
8. Carefully separate the top layer, raise it to the center.
9. We do exactly the same with all layers.

You can arrange a whole bunch of such carnations and put them in a beautiful vase.

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Greeting card with carnations.

How to make a carnation from a napkin with your own hands on a postcard? For a postcard it is better to take material in a red shade - it looks beautiful on light paper. Then we start creating, adhering to the points of the work in this master class:

1. We take a multilayer napkin, draw a circle on it.

Important! The circle can be drawn using a compass or a can cover.

2. Cut a circle with scissors.
3. We add all the resulting layers, first once in half, then again.
4. Fasten with a stapler.

Important! If there is no stapler, you can use a needle with a thread - you need to sew one stitch.

5. We make cuts using scissors. The workpiece is ready.
6. For one flower you will need two such blanks.
7. We take green paper and cut out the stem, leaves and sepals from it. For sepals, take a square of green paper, fold it diagonally and cut one edge off rounded.
8. Fold it like a fist and insert both blanks for a flower there.

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You can make several carnations on one card according to the same principle. If the card is for Victory Day, then you can supplement it with a St. George ribbon and a star. The main thing is to understand the principle and main idea of ​​doing such crafts with your own hands, then the whole process will go more interesting and faster.