We make original tulips from foamiran

A large bouquet of tulips made of foamiran is perfect for a gift to mom, grandmother, sister, friend or teacher on March 8. Such compositions retain their original aesthetic appearance for a long time, they do not fade and do not deteriorate when exposed to moisture for a short time. They look especially impressive in vases and baskets. In our review, we will give a master class that will teach you how to create beautiful tulips from foamiran with your own hands quickly and easily.

Tulips are very beautiful spring flowers that are loved by many of the fair sex. They symbolize love, tenderness and the onset of warm sunny days. This is probably why they are most often presented on International Women's Day. They are so beautiful and bright that it is simply impossible not to love them. Even when the tulips have faded, if you wish, you can always create equally spectacular flowers from foamiran.

A little about the material itself. Foamiran came to us from Iran, it is foamed ethylene vinyl acetate. On sale it can be found under the name of porous rubber, foam rubber, fom, as well as revelure. Foamiran is supplied in standard sheets of 50x50 cm, it is presented in a wide color palette. If desired, the material can be additionally mounted, giving it more naturalness and naturalness. Foamed flowers made of revelor are almost indistinguishable from real ones.

In order to create a tulip composition, you need to buy sheets of foamiran of creamy and green shades no more than 1 mm thick. In addition, you will need the following tools:

• sharp scissors;
• idle handle;
• glue "Moment", designed for working with plastic and rubber;
• glue gun;
• floristic wire;
• tape tape;
• pink crayon;
• acrylic paint in white and marsh shades;
• iron with the option of switching modes.

MK for the manufacture of tulips from foamiran includes two main stages - the preparation of the main parts and their subsequent assembly into a single floristic composition.

The step-by-step sequence of actions to create the main details of the future bouquet is as follows. To begin with, take a creamy foamiran plate. You can use ready-made templates for cutting, but if they are not there, it does not matter. With a pen with a non-writing stem, they carefully circle the bowl-shaped part of any spoon so as to exclude the stalk. To make one tulip, you will need 6 such petals; to compose the whole bouquet, make more petals.

Using a wax crayon, paint the resulting blanks, while the edges must be selected with pressure. Next, all the finished parts are cut out. The iron is set to a mode designed for ironing woolen items.

The petal is laid out on the heated surface of the iron. As soon as the edges begin to curl inward, remove the workpiece and gently stretch with your fingertips from the flat edge to the wide one. You need to act very carefully so as not to tear the material. In addition, you will have to draw out the petals twice along the side lines in order to give them the desired shape. There should be a bend in the wide part.

In this way, all the blanks should be prepared.

Tulip leaves can be cut arbitrarily - for this, the foamiran is folded 2 or 4 times, the upper part should be slightly narrower than the lower one. The workpieces are processed with an iron in the same way as the petals. Future leaves are covered with acrylic paint on both sides - it is best to do this with a sponge or just with your fingers. If the paint is too thick, you can thin it with water.

If you do something wrong, do not be discouraged. This petal can be put back on the iron and once again try to sell it the desired shape.

In general, working with foamiran is very quick and pleasant. In order to make the blanks more voluminous and realistic, you can use special molds - they apply the necessary texture to the blanks. If you don't have such a tool at hand, you can use ordinary ribbed or structured buttons, they very quickly and effectively create naturalistic veins on the leaves.

When all the blanks are ready, you can start assembling the flower. For this, a piece of floristic wire is carefully folded. After that, a circle with a diameter of 2-2.5 cm is cut out, greased with glue around the circumference, and scraps of foamiran are inserted into the inner part for maximum volume and glued to the wire.

Next, a finger is placed on the bent end of the wire and pressed - this way you can form a rounded tulip base. The edge greased with glue is pressed against the stem and wait until it grabs. The core of the future tulip is carefully wrapped with tape to cover the edges of the foamiran.After that, they continue to wrap the wire - in this way the stem is formed. The end of the tape is fixed with glue.

The first three petals of the base are fixed with an overlap, so that their lateral edges form a triangle. Next, you need to wait a certain time specified in the instructions for the adhesive and glue another petal so that its middle part overlaps the edges of the other two. In the same way, it is necessary to stick all the remaining elements.

All tulips for the bouquet are shaped in the same way. The leaves are glued by wrapping them around the green stem and placing them so that each next leaf is located slightly lower than the previous one.

The technique of making bows from foamiran does not require special work skills. However, great attention must be paid here to the selection of a working tool. Pay attention to a few key points.

• Foamiran. For the first time, it is best to take the standard color - as a rule, it is milky green or white. If you wish, you can use ready-made blanks of any other colors (for example, red or yellow), but they look unnatural. It is better to give preference to Iranian foamiran - petals of the desired shape are made from it a little easier than from the Chinese material common on the domestic market. Be sure to make sure that the thickness of the sheet does not exceed 1 mm, since you will find foam rubber in stores for creating dolls or children's art - it is much wider, the flowers from it turn out to be rough.
• Glue. Most often, needlewomen use small tubes of superglue, however, a hot hot gun with rods will be no less effective. Super-glue is more often used in situations where you need to fix a flower “tightly”, for example, to glue a tulip on a brooch or headband.
• Scissors. You can use the most common ones, but in any case they should be sharp.
• Iron. You can use any home iron to create tulips. But, as practice shows, small road models are more convenient - they are optimal for creating delicate petals and miniature details.

Foamiran tulips will be a great gift. Visually, they are almost indistinguishable from real ones; with all their appearance, they bring a touch of spring warmth of beauty and freshness to the interior.

• The floral arrangement in the basket looks especially impressive.

• Growth flowers will become a real decoration of the decor.

• And small tulips can be used to decorate headbands and rubber bands for children.

A master class on creating tulips from foamiran in the video below.