Foamiran bows

Foamiran bows are easy to create even for novice needlewomen - working with templates and sizes is not particularly difficult, you can make an ornament for a hairpin on a stencil or an ornament on an elastic band with your own hands. The material holds its shape well, is easy to cut, looks spectacular with beads and other decorations. A detailed story about how to make bows from glitter and ordinary foamiran will help every craftswoman to create the first craft without unnecessary difficulties.

The variety of decorative materials allows needlewomen to discover new facets of creativity. Foamiran is a foamed polymer material invented in Iran. It is here that it is produced today in the widest range, and the quality of products from this country is considered standard.

The features of foamiran as a material for making decorative bows include the following points.

1. Wide range of species. Silk foamiran is the most tactilely pleasant and thin, its marshmallow samples easily take the desired shape, rather thick and soft. Glitter types added glitter, and textured ones have embossing or other relief.
2. Elasticity... The sheets are quite flexible and flexible.
3. Ease of cutting. The cut strips keep their shape perfectly, the edges do not crumble during cutting. You can cut the sheets with ordinary scissors, make holes with an awl, hole punch.
4. Porous structure. Due to this, the surface lends itself well to staining.
5. Plasticity when heated. You can easily shape the workpieces into the desired shape, keeping it after cooling.
6. Convenience of gluing. Foamiran reacts well to different compounds, and thin elements can be connected even with an ordinary stapler.
7. Moisture resistance... After getting wet, the foamed base simply dries without losing its color brightness and structure.
8. Low toxicity. The composition does not contain components that can harm human health.

Foamiran production is established not only in Iran. Korean, Chinese, Turkish firms also successfully produce this sheet material in various colors and shades.

To make decorative bows from foamiran, a novice needlewoman will need a simple set of materials and devices. The main list can be subsequently expanded, supplemented with various decorative elements. For most crafts, such a set of materials and tools will be enough.

• Foamiran leaf... Delicate jewelry for a headband or hair clip will turn out from thin. From terry - funny bows for children's hair ties. Festive decorations are best made from sheets of glitter foamiran.

• Glue gun with sticks or ready-made instant glue... They are needed to connect parts together.

• Stationery knife or scissors with sharp ends for cutting out elements, forming decorative cuts.

• Stencils... They are made independently, based on the design of the product. Can be drawn on thick cardboard, Whatman paper.

• Figured hole punch. Needed to create small details.

• Iron... With its help, foamiran is heated, giving it the desired shape and curves.

• Molds, toothpicks... Necessary to give a natural relief to blanks for flowers, leaves.

• Decor... This may include beads, buckles, rhinestones, artificial and natural stones.

Additionally, depending on the purpose of the product, various options for fastening bows can be used: pins, if you intend to wear jewelry in the form of a brooch, elastic band, hairpins. For quick assembly or short-term heating, staplers and lighters are used.

For multiple production of the same bows from foamiran, stencils are used - special patterns, according to which the workpiece is drawn on the material. In this case, there are no problems with dimensions, all products are homogeneous.

You can also create a stencil for cutting out a bow pattern from thick paper. The order of work in any case will be as follows.

1. Create sketch on paper... For each part of the bow, its own detail is drawn. The pattern is cut along the lines only. If desired, you can scale the workpiece by reducing or enlarging it along the contour.
2. Put the resulting template on the foamiran sheet. Transfer of the pattern to the workpiece is done with a pen or pencil. If leaving traces is undesirable, use a toothpick with a sharp end.
3. Cut out parts of the future bow. If more than one product is being manufactured, the number of parts must match.

Foamiran bows can be made flat and voluminous. In the second case, the workpiece is cut out so that it can be rolled into a ring by connecting the ends in the center of the product. Flat options are usually made multi-layered, decorated with carvings or overlaid decorative elements.

A beautiful and shiny bow for the holiday is a great addition for hairpins, elastic bands, headbands as an element of decor. It can be made from foamiran with a glitter effect, taking as a basis blue and white or red and green colors of the material. Glitter decor looks especially impressive in festive lighting. For a bow, you do not need a complex pattern. It is enough to prepare the material:

• a wide strip of foamiran for the base 15x4 cm;
• contrasting narrow strip 4x2 cm;
• instant universal adhesive;
• decor - rhinestone, bead, artificial pearls.

The bow is very simple to make. The wide strip is folded so that its ends converge in the center, closing into a ring. Sticks together. The dried workpiece is given the shape of a bow. A small strip is glued in the same way, fixed on top of a large one. It remains only to decorate the gluing place in the center, intercepting it with a narrow foamiran ribbon or decorating with a rhinestone or bead.

It is not difficult to make an elegant elastic band or hair clip for girls from foamiran. This material is perfect for creating original bows with a fashionable detail - cute ears. You can make a combined product with a rep ribbon up to 5 cm wide or use shiny foamiran in several colors.

To assemble the bow, you will need 2 base parts: wide (10x4 cm), narrow (8x2 cm), as well as 4 elements for the ears. Shades are selected individually. The ears are usually made with pink interior styling and a brighter background. From ordinary silk foamiran you will get stylish children's bows for every day.

The order of work will be as follows.

1. Cut out ear blanks from foamiran that look like a rabbit or cat... You will need 2 large parts (50x15 mm) and 2 small ones (33x8 mm).
2. Make a pattern for the base... Flat back, with bifurcated ends and voluminous - for the bow itself. The difference in the width of the blanks should be about 1 cm.
3. Glue the details of the ears together - smaller to larger, decor forward.
4. Collect the bow by bringing the ends together in the center of the workpiece. Glue by putting ears between these elements. It is important not to use too much compound to keep the material soft and supple.
5. In the center, glue a jumper or fluffy pompomthat looks like a hare's tail.
6. Attach the product to the base. Attach additional decor if desired.

To decorate a hair clip or a headband, you can make a laconic festive or neutral bow, suitable for a specific outfit or for everyday looks. In this case, the material can be taken thin, pastel - silk or ordinary. For a festive bow on a hairpin, a glitter version of 2 or 3 shades that go well with each other is suitable.

An elegant decor for a hairpin is made from 3 parts: a base (10x3 cm), a bow (2x8 cm) and a lintel no more than 1 cm wide. They are made in the form of a template, cut out, and transferred to the material. You can fold a bow from scattered elements according to the following scheme.

1. A drop of glue is applied to the center from the inside out on the bow. The edges of the workpiece are brought down here, fixed. You should get a voluminous bow.
2. Lay the flat base part (it must be larger) on a flat surface... Glue a bow on top.
3. Hide the attachment point with a jumper fixed in the center of both parts. On top of it, you can stick a bead, an imitation pearl.
4. Cover the prepared metal hairpin or clip with a cloth on top. Fasten the bow on its surface in the area of ​​the lintel.

Festive decoration can be decorated differently. In this case, the bow detail itself will become the basis - it is made voluminous, from a workpiece of 10x3 cm.In addition, from contrasting glitter foamiran - silver, golden - 6 strips no more than 0.5 cm wide are cut.They are laid on the surface of the volumetric bow so that loops are obtained with ends converging in the center of the decoration - 2 or 3 on each side. The finished product is decorated with a jumper, fixed on a hair clip.

Schemes for making more complex bows from foamiran imply a combination of materials with a rep or satin ribbon, an increase in the number of blanks. For example, you can fold an original product of a complex shape for a school-age girl with a fastener for elastic bands. Small bows from foamiran are assembled no more difficult than large ones; gift bows are usually distinguished from simple ones only by the choice of the type of base.

The most interesting models are worth exploring in more detail.

Stylish and unusual bow in the American style may well become a bright detail of the image. Such decoration for elastic bands, hairpins, headbands is made using a more complex technique, it involves the use of several materials of different texture. By combining beads and rhinestones, braid, lace, rep or satin ribbons, you can get an unusual product that can decorate the school days of any girl.

The work scheme will be as follows.

1. From foamiran, according to the template, make a base for a bow. Gather its ends in the center, secure with glue.
2. Cut 3 blanks 170x25 mm in size from the tape (reps, atlas). Cut out 2 of the same lace details.
3. Connect the ends of the ribbons and lace, alternating them in a circle. Gather on a string, forming a lush voluminous bow. Secure.
4. In the center of the back, glue a circle of felt. Sew an elastic hair band to it as a fastener or a jumper to fix the hair clip.
5. Attach the foamiran detail in the center of the bow on the front side. Secure with glue.

The place in the center on top of the assembled structure must be decorated. A large cabochon, lace insert or rhinestones will do. You can also use several glue-mounted imitation pearls.

Fashionable bows of a volumetric type look very impressive - lush, created from 3 or more layers. Having got used to working with foamiran a little, you can create them with your own hands in a matter of minutes. For assembly in this case, not 1, but 3 parts of the same size are used. Two of them can be made in the same color, the third - in contrast.

The procedure for making a stylish multi-layer bow for decorating a brooch, headband, hairpins will be as follows.

1. Create a pattern. The template is made with a length of 150 and a width of 35 mm, a 7 mm jumper with an arbitrary length is cut out separately - it can be shortened during assembly. You will need 3 base parts.
2. Transfer the template to the sheets of material. Cut the blanks with scissors or a clerical knife.
3. Assembling the base. For each of the blanks, the edges of the front side are brought together in the center of the wrong side. Are fixed with glue. It is important to use only a couple of drops so as not to increase the stiffness of the material.
4. All elements are sequentially fixed on top of each other with a slight offset - fan-shaped.
5. Place a jumper in the center of the resulting bow... It is made from the same material as the top bow.

The finished product can be provided with a jumper on the wrong side for attaching to a hairpin, headband, or simply glued to the base of the elastic.It is better to collect lush bows from the thinnest silk foamiran, well draped, soft, elastic. If one detail is made glittering, it diversifies the design of the product.

Foamiran bows are simple to make, beautiful products that are easy to create with your own hands. They do not lose the brightness of paints for a long time, hold their shape well, and can be easily glued. For a start, it is better to master the simplest foamiran bows without an abundance of details. When several colors are combined, they are taken no more than 3, inserts of metallic shades - silver, golden, are considered a universal solution. Solid patterns can be manually painted with bright acrylics and pastels.

When working with material, it is also worth remembering some of the intricacies of this process. To avoid mistakes, it is enough to take into account the following points.

1. When using quick-drying glue, you need to carefully dose it. The smaller the amount of this composition falls on the workpiece, the better. This avoids the appearance of unwanted stains and increases the rigidity of the material. Whenever possible, a thermal gun should be used for gluing.
2. The best sheet thickness for making bows is up to 1 mm. They are flexible and resilient enough to provide the necessary finesse to the garment.
3. Do not stretch the workpieces too much. For all its plasticity, foamiran has ultimate strength. Under intense tension, it can break.
4. If you need to change the shape of the workpiece, it is applied to the warm soleplate of the iron.... You do not need to heat it up too much. Marshmallow foamiran can even be crumpled with your hands, it even reacts to the heat of the human body. It is strictly forbidden to use a lighter, soldering iron or other sources of open flame.

Useful recommendations for working with foamiran will help every needlewoman to easily cope with creating beautiful bows from it the first time, without wasting time on correcting mistakes.