How to make Christmas trees with your own hands: master class and photo
New-Year tree toys with our own hands - a step-by-step master class for making crafts made of light bulbs, beads and paper
We all look forward to your favorite holiday - New Year. Of course, the main ornament of this event is the Christmas tree. Everyone tries to dress up a green beauty as bright and original as possible. In this difficult business, you can find useful instructions on how to make Christmas trees with your own hands, in this article you will also find a master class for making original jewelry for every taste.
In order for everyone to easily make a small New Year's miracle with their own hands, the process of making toys is accompanied by a detailed description with step-by-step photos. For our creativity we will use materials that are available to everyone.
Toy on the Christmas tree from the bulb
Very original look toys made of light bulbs, created with the help of decoupage techniques.
1) We take a conventional light bulb, degrease its surface with alcohol.
2) We treat the surface with any acrylic primer. For the application we use a small foam sponge. It can easily be made by yourself, taking, for example, a match and a piece of foam rubber. Let the soil dry. This stage can be skipped for lack of soil, but then the paint can be distributed unevenly and with gaps.
3) In the same way, apply a thin layer of white acrylic paint. Drying time is about half an hour.
4) As a picture on the toy you can choose any picture you like. Perhaps you already bought napkins for the New Year's table. In our case, we use them as decorations. Carefully tear off the inscription and apply to the widest part of the bulb, after which we cover with special glue for decoupage. Work with the brush from the center of the fragment to the edges, so that there are no folds.
5) After the glue has dried, we begin to tone the overall background of the decoration. Mix white paint with blue to get a shade in the tone of the fragment.
6) With the help of sponge, we put the resulting paint over the white base.
7) Circle the inscription with any brilliant glitter.
8) Using silver glitter, make small dots on the top edge of the decoration.
9) Gray contour draw fluffy snowflakes, and multi-colored glitter points throughout the background of the decoration.
10) Using a brush, cover our toy with matt acrylic lacquer to protect the decor elements from erasure and damage.
11) To the socle we tie any thread, better shiny, covered with acrylic lacquer.
12) Apply the contour vertically on the lamp base from the bottom up and let it dry.
Our toy is ready! And who now will be able to recognize the burned light bulb in it?
Ball of paper
No less impressive are the Christmas tree toys from paper. To make such a bulky ball on a tree can even a child. We need only glue and paper.
1) Take two-sided colored thick paper, or special for scrapbooking and cut out 10 circles( 8 larger and 2 smaller).The more details there are, the larger the decoration will be.
2) All the big mugs in turn, fold four.
3) Now glue the large folded mugs into small 4 pieces, as shown in the picture.
4) It remains to glue together the top, and then the lower quarters.
In just a few minutes, we get such a bright decoration for our Christmas tree.
Christmas tree of beads
Very simple to make Christmas toys of beads. Only wire, wire in braid, a thread of green color and beads will be required.
1) Take the wire and form a herringbone from it, starting from the bottom. At the top of the wire, cross and leave about 5 cm of loose cord. To work it was easier, you can use kruglogubtsy.
2) We release the ends from the braid.
3) From the stripped wires we will form the fastener for our Christmas tree. For this we bend one end in the form of a loop, and the other is wrapped at the base.
4) We bind the thread to the base of the toy and string the beads. Then again, we tie this thread, but already on the opposite side. Thus, as it were, separate sections are obtained.
5) It remains to wrap the frame of the ornament with a thread of green color. It is advisable to use thicker.
So our beauty is ready. If desired, sections with beads can fill the entire interior of the tree.
What else can you use in your work?
You can also make Christmas toys made of fabric. The basis is a normal ball, or homemade( made of paper, foam rubber, foam and other), is covered with a cloth and is decorated according to your desire.
Do not yield to the beauty and originality of Christmas toys made of felt. All that is needed is to carve out the decoration, fill it with any filler and decorate it with embroidery.
The main thing, remember, to decorate the New Year tree, it is not necessary to buy expensive toys, it is enough to show your imagination. In this case, your Christmas tree will not leave indifferent any guest.
The following videos will surely help you in your work:
We all look forward to your favorite holiday - New Year. Of course, the main ornament of this event is the Christmas tree. Everyone tries to dress up a green beauty as bright and original as possible. In this difficult business, you can find useful instructions on how to make Christmas trees with your own hands, in this article you will also find a master class for making original jewelry for every taste.
In order for everyone to easily make a small New Year's miracle with their own hands, the process of making toys is accompanied by a detailed description with step-by-step photos. For our creativity we will use materials that are available to everyone.
Toy on the Christmas tree from the bulb
Very original look toys made of light bulbs, created with the help of decoupage techniques.
1) We take an ordinary bulb, degrease its surface with alcohol.
2) We treat the surface with any acrylic primer. For the application we use a small foam sponge. It can easily be made by yourself, taking, for example, a match and a piece of foam rubber. Let the soil dry. This stage can be skipped for lack of soil, but then the paint can be distributed unevenly and with gaps.
3) In the same way, apply a thin layer of white acrylic paint. Drying time is about half an hour.
4) As a picture on the toy you can choose any picture you like. Perhaps you already bought napkins for the New Year's table. In our case, we use them as decorations. Carefully tear off the inscription and apply to the widest part of the bulb, after which we cover with special glue for decoupage. Work with the brush from the center of the fragment to the edges, so that there are no folds.
5) After the glue has dried, we begin to tone the general background of the decoration. Mix white paint with blue to get a shade in the tone of the fragment.
6) With the help of sponge, we put the resulting paint over the white base.
7) Circle the inscription with any brilliant glitter.
8) Using a silver glitter, make small dots on the top edge of the decoration.
9) Gray contour draw fluffy snowflakes, and multi-colored glitter points throughout the background of the decoration.
10) Using a brush, cover our toy with matt acrylic lacquer to protect the decor elements from erasure and damage.
11) To the socle we tie any thread, better shiny, we cover with acrylic lacquer.
12) Apply the contour vertically on the base of the bulb from the bottom up and let it dry.
Our toy is ready! And who now will be able to recognize the burned light bulb in it?
Ball of paper
No less impressive are the Christmas tree toys from paper. To make such a bulky ball on a tree can even a child. We need only glue and paper.
1) We take double-sided colored thick paper, or special for scrapbooking and cut out 10 circles( 8 larger and 2 smaller).The more details there are, the larger the decoration will be.
2) All the big mugs in turn we put together four times.
3) Now glue the large folded mugs into small 4 pieces, as shown in the picture.
4) It remains to glue together the top, and then the lower quarters.
In just a few minutes, we get such a bright decoration for our Christmas tree.
Christmas tree of beads
Very simple to make Christmas toys of beads. Only wire, wire in braid, a thread of green color and beads will be required.
1) Take the wire and form a herringbone from it, starting from the bottom. At the top of the wire, cross and leave about 5 cm of loose cord. To work it was easier, you can use kruglogubtsy.
2) We release the ends from the braid.
3) From the stripped wires we will form a fastener for our Christmas tree. For this we bend one end in the form of a loop, and the other is wrapped at the base.
4) We bind the thread to the base of the toy and string the beads. Then again, we tie this thread, but already on the opposite side. Thus, as it were, separate sections are obtained.
5) It remains to wrap the frame decoration with a green thread. It is advisable to use thicker.
So our beauty is ready. If desired, sections with beads can fill the entire interior of the tree.
What else can you use in your work?
You can also make Christmas toys made of fabric. The basis is a normal ball, or homemade( made of paper, foam rubber, foam and other), is covered with a cloth and is decorated according to your desire.
Do not concede on the beauty and originality of Christmas toys made of felt. All that is needed is to carve out the decoration, fill it with any filler and decorate it with embroidery.
The main thing, remember, to decorate the New Year tree, it is not necessary to buy expensive toys, it is enough to show your imagination. In this case, your Christmas tree will not leave indifferent any guest.
The following videos will surely help you in your work: