Kanzashi craft ideas

Using the kanzashi technique, you can make not only charming bows, brooches and other jewelry, but also all kinds of crafts. Having mastered a few simple schemes for folding pieces of fabric, you can start creating amazing things. In this style, you can make interesting crafts for a kindergarten or school, gifts for the holidays, as well as original home decor.

For crafts, you can use almost any fabric that folds well, holds its shape and is beautiful to look at. However, for beginners, it is most convenient to work with ribbons - they come in different widths and have an edge on both sides. The most popular types of tapes include the following.

• Satin - smooth, shiny, pleasant both in appearance and in touch. They are easy to work with, but neatness is needed to maintain the outer gloss when handling products. A wide range of colors allows you to choose a suitable option for shade, gloss or pattern.
• Reps - unlike satin ones, they have a complex structure and surface with grooves. They can be both plain and with pictures.
• Nylon, chiffon - weightless, translucent, with a slight sheen. With a certain skill, they can make airy, delicate flowers or bows for decoration. This type of tape goes well with other materials.
• Fishnet - ribbons with complex lace patterns, which are used as an addition.

In addition to ribbons, a beginner needs to have on hand medium-sized scissors, a ruler, chalk or pencil for marking, pins, a needle with multi-colored threads, transparent glue (preferably a heat gun), tweezers and clamps. To handle crumbling edges, you need a lighter or a candle; later, it is better to get a soldering iron or a burner with a thin nozzle.

The most popular holiday is New Year. This is a great reason to make a craft that will decorate the interior. A so that the process is enjoyable and does not take much time, it is better to involve all family members.

1. Squares must be cut out of a 5 cm wide green ribbon. To make the tree look alive, you should take two or three shades of green and alternate them.
2. The basis for the tree will be a paper or foam cone. Its lower edges must be tightly pasted over with the same tapes.
3. Sharp petals should be made from squares according to any convenient scheme. For example, fold a square diagonally, then fold in half and repeat. Cut off and solder excess.
4. You can start gluing the blanks both from above and below, so that the petals of each subsequent row are staggered. It is better to sew the top row with a thread at the base and only then glue it.

On March 8 everyone around them strives to congratulate mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters and other representatives of the beautiful half of humanity. For this, a beautiful and bright craft is suitable, symbolizing this spring holiday. The instructions for implementation are pretty simple.

1. From thick cardboard or plastic (many use CDs), you need to cut circles for the figure eight. The resulting base should be hidden under any colored ribbon - satin or satin. To do this, the tip is glued anywhere - you can start winding.
2. After wrapping, you can start making the decor. For spring crafts, flowers with green leaves of varying complexity are most often used. For example, you can put together a composition of multi-colored hyacinths.
3. A similar craft is hung on the wall - for this, at the very beginning, it is necessary to form a loop from the tape or fix it on the refrigerator by gluing a magnet on the seamy side.

You should not ignore Easter either. On this holiday, it is customary to exchange beautiful, multi-colored eggs, which are easy to make from colored ribbons. Such a craft will look good on a festive table, will not deteriorate and can be used as a souvenir. Step-by-step instruction.

1. The base is a foam egg (sold in hobby stores). In addition, it is necessary to prepare in advance pieces of tape 2.5 cm wide and 5 cm long in two or three colors as desired.
2. To begin with, a small square is placed on the top of the egg, which will become a reference point. It is convenient to pin all the details with pins, but decorative glue can also be used. Then, triangles are formed from pieces of tape of a different color - for this, the side cuts just need to be brought back and aligned. These details are pinned at the bottom corners. The first row should be located symmetrically - so that when the vertices are closed, the triangles cover the upper square.
3. Each subsequent layer is positioned slightly downward and staggered to cover the pins and seams. As the base of the egg, you can glue a square of tape, a bow, or make a stand of jokes one or two rows of triangles, but in the opposite direction.

When they talk about kanzashi, the usual ones come to mind first. hair ornaments, earrings, pendants. In addition, for almost any occasion you can make brooch or any other decoration in the desired theme. It can be small bunches of flowers, snowflakes, autumn compositions. And the Victory Day badges can be worn by absolutely everyone, regardless of gender or age.

They can act as a souvenir or home furnishing item elegant frames for photos... They are easy to make yourself from simple materials.In the same technique, you can make panels on the wall, which successfully replace paintings. Decor is of particular importance here, because products in the kanzashi style go well with beads, rhinestones, sparkles, shells.

By the same principle, you can make comfortable decorative boxes for storing jewelry or other little things. Even an old or nondescript box can be pasted over or braided with ribbons. The final stage will be the decoration with flowers. Of ordinary ribbons completely different flowers can be made - chamomile, forget-me-nots, dahlias, calla lilies, roses. If someone does not like the floral theme, leaves, twigs, buds and even insects - butterflies, dragonflies - can be used as decor.

You can learn how to make an Easter egg using the kanzashi technique with your own hands in the next video.