Original gum from foamiran

Elegant hair accessories, complemented by bright ornaments from foamiran, are now at the peak of popularity among fashionistas of all ages, and first of all among very young girls and even little girls. Elastic bands with delicate roses or air butterflies can be worn on a festive matinee in kindergarten or on September 1 at school, and modest, but very elegant dandelions or daisies will look great in everyday dress. In order to find out how to make hair rubber bands with your own hands, carefully read this article, and we will share with you the necessary basics of this simple and very exciting needlework.

Foamiran gum is quite simple to make... Even a novice craftswoman, having familiarized herself with several master classes on making various jewelry from foamiran, will be able to independently create hair accessories that will look very elegant and aesthetically pleasing.

Foamiran, or foam, is very plastic materialreminiscent of suede. It has a small thickness - about 1-1.5 mm - and has the beneficial property of becoming pliable when heated, therefore, products of various shapes can be made from foamiran. Another feature of this modern material, which is nothing more than foamed rubber, but very velvety and soft to the touch, is the ability to absorb moisture.

Thanks to rich colors of foam You can decorate your rubber bands for girls with bright flowers, small toys and colorful candies - whatever your fantasy tells you.

Foamiran is a material recommended for children's creativity, it is non-toxic and safe for people. Despite the fact that the new foamiran leaves have a rubbery smell, this unpleasant smell disappears very quickly and your hair ties will not smell at all.

Foamiran differs quite a lot in its characteristics depending on the country where it was made.

1. The best is considered Iranian Foam, which is distinguished by its subtlety and softness, but at the same time strength. It has a pleasant, velvety surface, is ideal for processing and perfectly retains its shape. In addition, Iranian foamiran has a rich color gamut, consisting of thirty different shades in pastel colors.
2. Turkish foamiran is similar in its properties to Iranian, it is the same plastic and velvety, has a thickness of 1 mm.
3. Korean Foam is also of excellent quality, soft and velvety. This material is highly elastic and has a very varied range of colors in bright colors.
4. Chinese Foam is the most dense and least processable material, it has an extensive palette, the colors of which are highly saturated.
5. Especially worth highlighting chinese "marshmallow" foamiran... It is soft and light, with a paper-like texture. The color palette differs from that presented by ordinary Chinese foamiran, as it is generally less bright. When heated, marshmallow foamiran quickly softens and can be severely stretched. Not suitable for every type of work, because it melts easily.
6. For the manufacture of some products, for example, original butterflies, a special decorative type of foamiran called glitter... The sheets of this variety are covered with glitter. To prevent them from crumbling, the surface can be treated with hairspray.
7. From plush foamirana can be used to make toys and other decorative items, the surface of this material is characterized by fine hairiness.
8. From silk Foamirana produces very delicate and shining flowers, for example, roses, as well as miniature leaves and other small decorative elements.
9. Thick foamiran is used in the manufacture of dolls, large flowers and, in general, larger and more voluminous products.

There are no particular difficulties in making products from foamiran, with which we can decorate elastic bands and other hair accessories.

Let's make a list of everything you need to make such fancy rubber bands.

1. Foamiran sheets of different colors - choose those colors that will be useful in creating your composition.
2. You may need molds - casts of leaves and petals - to add volumetric texture to the jewelry elements that you will attach to your hair tie.
3. The thermal gun is useful when assembling large pieces of jewelry; it is convenient for them to apply small drops of hot glue to the desired attachment point.
4. For smaller jobs, it is better to use a quick fix glue, such as Moment glue or any other super glue.
5. Scissors - regular and curly. The latter are used in order to make the product more realistic, for example, by creating a jagged edge when cutting out leaves.
6. Floristic wire of various thicknesses (20 gauge wire is used to make stems of plants, 22-28 gauge - for buds, 30 - for stamens) and adhesive tape, which is needed for decorating the wire.
7. Iron, lighter or candle to heat cut foamiran parts - this technique allows you to give the product a more natural look.
8. You will need velvet powder, pastels, acrylics and other products to color your items.
9. Toothpicks or skewers.
10. Ready-made stamens for flower decoration, as well as various ribbons, beads and braid.
11. Ruler and pencil.

Absolutely everyone can make a gum from foamiran with their own hands. To make your favorite model of an elastic band for hair, you can use the usual porous or glitter foamiran with sparkles... Often used templates and stencils for cutting parts of a certain size, for example, sepals for flowers.

To learn how to create simple products, you can view training workshops on the Internet, where the manufacturing scheme is explained step by step.

Let's look at such MK for making foamiran jewelry for beginners.

In order to make a beautiful rose from foamiran, we need to prepare: scissors, ruler, glue, thin green floral tape, floral wire, foil and foamiran in two different colors. We also need an iron.

Let's get started.

• First, we cut out 15 rectangles of the same color, size 3 by 4 cm, from foamiran.All rectangles must be folded in half and then round the corners with scissors. We turn on and heat up the iron. It is necessary to heat the foamiran to make the material more pliable for further processing. To do this, bring the cut out petals one at a time to the heated soleplate of the iron for about five seconds. Be careful and follow safety precautions.

• We knead the petals bent under the influence of temperature and stretch it with our fingers, we must achieve that they become thinner. We try to make the petals concave, and at the base we slightly squeeze each of them, so that we get a realistic fold.

• By crumpling the foil into a ball around the floral wire, we get the base of the flower. Glue the petals around the foil ball. We wrap the floral wire with green tape and get a stalk. From a sheet of foamiran of a different color, according to a previously prepared template, cut out sepals and glue them to the base of the resulting flower.

• A gorgeous foamiran rose is ready. It should now be attached to the elastic using a separately constructed foamiran base.

From glitter foamiran, simply magical butterflies are obtained, bright and shiny, shimmering in the light.

Having at hand a butterfly pattern, scissors for cutting out a template, superglue and a sheet of glitter foamiran of any color, it will be easy to create a beautiful hair ornament with your own hands.

To do this, we will transfer drawing butterflies on a sheet of shiny foamiran and carefully cut out the decoration. For the resulting template glue decorative elements (beads and sequins) and get a realistic butterfly.

The idea of ​​creating a bunch of flowers will be a good solution for decorating various accessories. Even for novice needlewomen, it will not be difficult to make a decoration for any children's holiday or by September 1.

Take stencils for flowers, foam rubber (foamiran) pink and green glitter, glue, scissors, glitter beads and an elastic hair band.

We outline the template and cut it out. It can be any kind of flower you like (rose, chamomile). We also make six leaves from glitter foamiran. The basis of each flower will be beads, to which we glue the petals.

There are many other ideas for creating decorative objects of incredible beauty from foamiran. Most of the ideas proposed in the master classes are very simple. Among the MK for the manufacture of rubber bands from foamiran, you can find a large number of patterns and stencils of funny toys of different sizes and shapes (even a doll or a unicorn can be made from foamiran).

Flowers in your hair will be a good idea to give the image a spring freshness, pay attention to the girl's hairstyle. A rose flower decorating an elastic band - a universal solution for all occasions.

Such a bunch of flowers attached to an elastic band for hair, reminds of a fragrant forest glade with chamomiles and cornflowers growing on it, casting a summer mood.

Unicornmade of glitter foamiran will take us into a fairy tale. If you make such an ornament and attach it to an elastic band for hair, then the image of a girl will become simply fabulous.

Butterflies in the hair will decorate any kind of weaving and styling.

How to make gum from foamiran, see the video.