We make flowers from cotton pads with our own hands

Making decorative artificial flowers is fun. Such products can be made by hand from a variety of materials. Buds made from simple cotton pads will look original and beautiful. Today we will look at how to make these crafts correctly.

First, let's take a look at a master class that makes it easy to create unusual flowers from soft discs. First, you will need to prepare all the materials necessary for this:

• cardboard (brown and green);
• scissors;
• glue;
• cotton mugs;
• cotton buds;
• plastic cup;
• white threads.

One cotton pad is taken, it is carefully wound on a cotton swab. Next, a second such element is taken and wound around the first petal. All remaining petals are twisted in the same way. A total of six elements should be used.

After that, a strong thread is taken, it is necessary to rewind the lower part of the workpiece with it several times, while tying a strong knot. Then all the excess remaining threads are cut off, and the rest of the stick is cut off in the same way. In total, three such roses should be made.

Later, a small plastic cup is taken. All sharp corners are cut off from him. The processed blank is placed on the back of the brown cardboard sheet. It is outlined with a simple pencil along the contour lines and cut out.

The container is completely filled with paper material, and then the prepared lid is glued. Next, a stencil of a leaf blade is taken, it is applied to a green cardboard base, outlined and cut out. Several such elements should be made for the overall composition.

The finished leaves are attached to the lid of the cup. All buds are inserted there between the leaf blades.As a result, you should get a beautiful and neat craft from cotton circles.

Such a carnation-shaped craft will look interesting and beautiful. In this case, the following materials are prepared for manufacturing:

• cotton pads;
• corrugated paper;
• large black beads;
• wire;
• scissors.

To begin with, a round billet is cut out of red corrugated paper with scissors. You can use a cotton pad as a template. In total, you need to make five such parts and four cotton mugs.

Small teeth or waves are cut out on all elements, then the parts begin to be neatly strung on a metal wire. In this case, paper and cotton wool alternate. The last blank is additionally decorated with a large dark bead.

There are many other instructions that allow you to easily make different flowers from cotton pads, step by step. Let's consider some of the most popular options separately.

• Calla... To make such a flower, you need to take several cotton swabs, paint their soft end with yellow paint, then insert the clean end into the cocktail tube to the middle. The resulting product is wrapped with a cotton pad and securely fixed at the base with glue. It is best to use hot glue. If you wish, you can make a whole bunch of several of these white buds. You can also cut a corrugated paper stem for each finished product.

• Lily of the valley... To create such a flower, a cotton pad is carefully collected in the form of a small bag, then all this is fixed with a stapler. The resulting white buds are strung on a thread or on a thin wire. Scissors will need to make small cloves on the cotton wool along the edges of each bud. The resulting products are attached to the wire with glue. The flower stem itself should be pre-wrapped with corrugated or special double-sided colored paper, all this is also fixed with glue.

• Lily... When creating a lily, a sheet of cardboard of any color is taken, a petal is schematically drawn on it and cut out, while the size of a cotton mug is also taken into account. Further, according to the finished samples, the required number of petals is cut out from a cotton base, each of them is glued to a match. Plasticine is taken separately, a small ball is rolled out of it, it will act as the middle of the flower. Matches with petals will be inserted into it, forming a bud.

• Mimosa... In advance, the cotton wool is painted with yellow paint. You should wait until the material is completely dry, after which they start cutting out the stems and leaves of mimosa, this can be done from colored paper. This is best accomplished with pre-built templates. Then you need to divide the cotton wool into small pieces.

• Narcissus... In this case, for a start, they take a cardboard base, on which the patterns of three petals are schematically drawn. Two blanks of petals are cut out of a cotton mug, they are immediately painted with yellow paint. Then the lower ends are collected into one product and all this is fixed with glue. Later, the resulting blanks are glued to each other, thus forming a flower. On top it is worth adding a core glued from a small piece of corrugated paper. At the final stage, a thick wire is taken. It is completely wrapped in green paper.

• Dandelion... Corrugated green paper is prepared in advance. A dandelion stem and bud are cut out of it, you can use templates for this. The cut out parts are glued to a cardboard base, after which one cotton circle is fixed to the stem also with glue.When all this dries, you should remove half of the cotton and slightly fluff the rest.

• Snowdrop... When creating this flower, take a cotton circle, draw a bud on it and cut it out. It is better to make several such blanks at once. Then you need to take a sheet of cardboard, a stem and leaf plates are drawn on it, you can also cut them out of green paper and glue them. At the end, the formed buds are also attached to the cardboard.

• chamomile... A cotton pad is folded in half, and then five identical cuts are made on it with scissors, but not until the very end. The product is fully unfolded, a small even circle cut out of yellow paper is attached to its central part. These daisies will be an excellent option when creating a flower panel.

• Sakura... In this case, you need to take a sheet of plain paper, a circle is cut out of it, in size it should be slightly smaller than a cotton pad. It is folded into a cone and fixed with a stapler. The same should be done with a cotton base. The number of blanks must be equal. Next, the finished parts should be fluffed well, the paper is inserted into cotton wool, all this is fixed with glue.

• Tulip... A blank in the form of a tulip bud is cut out of a cotton pad, then it is divided in half and painted in a suitable color. Several such elements must be made at once in order to form a whole floral arrangement. At the same time, a sheet of cardboard and green corrugated paper are prepared, from which parts in the form of a stem and leaf blades are cut. All finished individual parts are glued one by one to a cardboard sheet.

• Pussy willow... In this case, the cotton circles are cut into small oval-shaped pieces. The resulting blanks are divided into two parts. At the same time, you need to take a sheet of cardboard of any color you like. A brown stem is fixed on it, it can be drawn with a felt-tip pen or cut out of paper material. The cotton pieces are divided into two equal parts, they begin to be glued to the twig, while the smooth side of the parts will be fixed to the base. If desired, the overall composition can be supplemented with various decorative elements (beads, plasticine parts, beads).

How to make roses from cotton pads, see the video below.