Making an angel from foamiran

Homemade jewelry looks very magical. The figurine of an angel will be a good decor for many holidays. The product made of foamiran can be decorated for any taste. It is interesting to make such toys with children, but it will take very little time to make them.

Foamiran is a decorative material, it is a flat sheet with a thickness of 12 mm. It is soft and pliable and easy to work with. The assortment is quite wide, so you can make any angel. A product made of glitter foamiran looks especially impressive, it shimmers and shines.

The material is also called plastic suede, revelor, foamed rubber. Foamiran properties:

• feels like suede;
• it is quite plastic, stretches and restores its previous shape;
• the material can be easily cut using a figured hole punch, a breadboard knife and scissors;
• foamiran can be stretched, twisted and slightly heated, as a result it will be fixed in the desired position;
• the material is glued together using a rubber compound and a glue gun (PVA will not work).

The foamiran angel looks attractive and sophisticated due to the properties of the material. Making decor is easy, you don't have to spend a lot of time. The angel will be a great holiday decoration that can be placed anywhere.

Making an angel is easy if you prepare everything you need in advance. Choose a suitable color for foamiran. Parts will have to be cut out of the material, so you need scissors... By the way, it is easier to work according to the prepared pattern... You can trace it with a simple pencil.

Glue gun will help to fasten all the details together. It will be easier to place the angel itself in the desired place if you make a loop from a thin ribbon.

Making an angel takes about 30 minutes. The process is so simple that even children can handle it. However, in this case, it is better to cut out the details in advance. DIY Christmas angel - instruction.

• Prepare a template and transfer it to foamiran. Cut from a sheet of material 9 rhombuses measuring 4 cm by 5.2 cm, 1 circle with a diameter of 2.5 cm, 1 triangle with sides of 1.5 cm and 1.9 cm, 1 semicircle 8 cm by 3.5 cm. Last detail will be the wings of an angel.

• Glue the diamonds together to fold the skirt. To do this, align the corners and apply glue on top. It is necessary to glue all 9 parts together. Now the workpiece must be wrapped, forming a skirt, and then glued.

• Glue the round blank to the bottom of the skirt. Now the angel can be placed.

• Take a bead of a suitable size and fasten a ribbon, string on it... The result should be a loop. Assemble the semicircular workpiece with an accordion in the middle. Foamiran will look like wings. This place must be glued with high quality. Glue the bead to the wings from above, it will be the head of an angel.

• Fasten the skirt from below. At the back, you should glue the triangle onto the wings so that the corner looks up.

If all sizes of the blanks are observed, an angel is obtained with a height of 7 cm.

You can also choose more intricate templates. For example, a skirt can be assembled from petals of different colors or simply additionally decorated. Angels with halos look spectacular. It is enough just to cut out an oval blank for the head and make a slit so that a rim remains on top. Step-by-step master class.

• First, prepare a template. The main blank looks like an angel's head and body (skirt). You can cut the product so that there is a halo on top. The second detail is the arms, the third is the collar. You should also make a blank for the wings. Circle the template on a sheet of foamiran using a simple pencil. Cut with scissors and work through all the details so that they are neat.

• Make a loop for decoration from a thin strip of material. Glue it to the wrong side of the main part. On the first blank with a loop, roll the dress into a cone. Glue the joint with hot glue.

• The arms should be attached to the back of the angel. The collar is also fixed there. The wings should be glued at the seam of the previous workpiece.

• Now is the time to decorate the product. To do this, you can glue a small snowflake as if an angel were holding it in his hands. Rhinestones of a suitable size look good on a halo. You can string the beads together and wrap them around the hem of your dress. In other words, there are no restrictions, the main thing is not to overdo it with heavy decor.

In this case, it is better to take foamiran with glitter - the easiest manufacturing option.

1. Cut from the workpiece sheet: circle; a part that can be rolled into a cone; 2 identical triangles.
2. All parts must be fastened. Glue the torso into a cone with a little glue. Fasten the head from above with a loop of a thin decorative cord.
3. The wings can be trimmed with curly scissors to make them wavy. Glue them to the body.

Foamiran angels can be used to decorate the table, curtains, room. Such toys are also suitable for a Christmas tree. A variety of themed decor options will make the products more airy. So, for Christmas, you can use snowflakes.For Easter, this decoration should be supplemented with toys in the form of baskets with food, eggs and other attributes.

For information on how to independently make an angel from foamiran for a Christmas tree, see the video below.