How to make a stem for growing flowers?

What is a holiday without flower decoration? It will decorate not only the hall where the event is taking place, or the area provided for unforgettable pictures, but also give vivid emotions to those present. And in a residential apartment or house, giant buds diversify the interior, add a particle of magic to the usual rhythm of life.

The growth flowers got their name because of the height, which reaches 2.5 meters and a large inflorescence. In order to make such beauty, you will need corrugated or decorative paper, isolon or foamiran. Any flower consists of a stem and a huge number of petals, and an artificial flower also has a support on which it stands. When creating picturesque trunks on legs for huge gifts of flora, they use: metal-plastic pipes, a steel bar, plastic pipes, a flexible hose, heat shrink materials.

The most popular is metal-plastic, it has a number of advantages over other materials:

• light weight;
• high chemical resistance;
• durability;
• great flexibility.

The most popular is the manufacture of a metal-plastic barrel; you can buy it at a plumbing store or in the departments of water supply accessories. A reinforced plastic pipe is a kind of long hollow structure with a metal base inside, which allows it to bend and hold its shape. When installing the colors of giants, tubes of different diameters from 16 to 20 millimeters are used.

To make such a flower with your own hands, you will need: rolls of green corrugated parchment, wire, glue gun, scissors and fishing line. The manufacturing process itself is as follows.

• With the help of wire, form the future stem, taking into account the future length of the composition.
• Cut off excess material.
• Then we carefully wrap the wire, the thickness of the wrapped layer should completely hide the original color.
• In order for the paper to be fastened stronger and not to break during work, do not stretch it too much, and it should also be treated with hot glue every 3 cm, and all the joints should be smeared with it.

Used for work: metal wire (the diameter is selected depending on the size of the future stem), PVA glue, green floral tape, paper towel, toothpick.

Stages.

• Before work, you need to prepare a piece of metal 40 cm, plain A4 paper or a towel.
• Using glue and a wooden stick, wrap the stem for growth flowers from the beginning to the end of the length by an average of 4 times to hide the original color.
• After complete drying, wind the tape over the paper layer, warming up its upper wax layer with your fingers and rotating the stem.
• Tape tape is wound very tightly in several layers.
• After that, the excess end is cut off and fixed at the bottom of the structure with hot glue.

You will learn how to use the tape in the following video.

For work, you will need assembly scissors that even a fragile girl can handle, a household hairdryer, a hot glue gun, floral tape and special plugs to hide the hole in the stands. In order to cut the tube to the desired length, it is important to know before work whether the flower will be on a separate stand or whether the stem itself will fulfill its purpose.

Before work, the pipe must be cleaned with fine sandpaper, to remove all inscriptions and roughness on the surface and give it a matte finish, then walk with a rag dipped in white spirit, to degrease the surface and ensure maximum adhesion to the tape.

Tape tape is a wax strip, when heated from the surface of the hands and further stretching, it activates its stickiness, the wax melts, and it fits snugly on the prepared surface. T

You will learn more about how to make a stem from metal-plastic pipes in the following video.

Initially, it is worth cleaning the pipe with medium-sized sandpaper (too large grooves remain from the large one) to remove the entire top varnish layer, and so that the paint lies well on the matte surface. It is worth processing carefully, if necessary, check the roughness by hand. Paint with green alkyd enamel, as it adheres well, and there are no scratches on the surface after painting.

It is not recommended to thin it in order to reduce the number of coats. Huge artificial flowers are a modern trend. As you can see, there are many ways to create it.

You will learn more about how to paint the trunk for growth flowers in the following video.