15 Elagant Wedding Reception Centerpieces Ideas
5-Minute Embossed Ornaments (Christmas Ornaments)
5-Minute Embossed Ornaments
Materials
- Chipboard or Cereal box
- Leaves or other shapes cut from chipboard– You can use something like this to create lovely shapes
- Aluminum Foil
- Jar lid
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Black paint like this
- Paintbrush
- Paper Towels
Instructions
- Step One Draw a circle on a piece of chipboard using your jar lid. Cut out the circle.
- Step Two Using a glue stick cover one side of the circle with glue.
- Step Three Pres your leaf or paper cut onto the circle.
- Step Four Add more glue on top of the leaf/paper shape.
- Step Five Cut out two pieces of aluminum foil, one slightly larger than your circle and one the same size as your circle.
- Step Six Cover the back of the circle with glue and press the circle sized piece of foil onto it.
- Step Seven Turn over the ornament and press the larger piece of foil onto the leaf. Trim that piece of foil to be roughly ¼” larger than the circle and fold the edges over.
- Step Eight Emboss it! Using your finger press down on the front of the circle to reveal the leaf lines. You will need to really press to see the details. It’s amazing to watch them appear!
- Step Nine Paint a layer of black paint over the top of the ornament. Then quickly wipe of the paint with a paper towel. It will make the foil look like it has patina. Apply more paint as desired and wipe off. If you have too much paint use a damp paper towel to wipe it off.
- Step Ten When you are done poke a hole in the top with a large needle, thread with embroidery thread, and hang it from your tree!
I really like the surprise factor of this project, especially burnishing the foil with your finger to reveal the image underneath. I also loved the way the leaf ornaments look like vintage tin.
Tips
- You will want to use FRESH leaves to get the best impressions. Leaves with some thickness are preferred but be sure remove any stems that are extra thick as they will poke a hole in your foil.
- An alternative to leaves is using paper cut shapes. We used this snowflake paper cut stamp
to make small snowflakes out of chipboard and then pressed those as well.
Embossed Yarn Ornaments
These are easy for kids to make and decorate!
Materials
- Chipboard or Cereal box
- Aluminum Foil
- Jar lid
- Scissors
- Our favorite markers
- Thin yarn or twine
- Glue stick
Instructions
- Step One Draw a circle on a piece of chipboard using your jar lid. Cut out the circle.
- Step Two Using a glue stick cover both sides of the circle with glue.
- Step Three Cut an 18” length of yarn. Start wrapping your circle with the yarn to make patterned blocks.
- Step Four When you are done wrapping add more glue on top of the yarn.
- Step Five Cut out two pieces of aluminum foil, one slightly larger than your circle and one the same size as your circle.
- Step Six Press the yarn wrapped circle down on the larger piece of foil then place the circle of foil on the back side of the circle.
- Step Seven Trim the larger piece of foil to be roughly ¼” larger than the circle and fold the edges over.
- Step Eight Emboss it! Using your finger press down on the front of the circle to reveal the yarn “lines.”
- Step Nine Color in the pattern with sharpies! Use the yarn to guide your pen and stay within the lines.
- Step Ten When you are done poke a hole in the top with a large needle, thread with embroidery thread, and hang it from your tree!
Conclusion
If you decide to make homemade Christmas ornaments this year consider trying a few finger embossed ones, either style or both! They make a lovely addition to a Christmas tree and embossing is a great way to explore the sense of touch.
How to make an oil lamp – Step By Step
For the manufacture of miniature oil lamps, Required Material:
match
copper wire
thick woolen thread
butter
tin tube
The thread will serve as a wick. The thicker it – the better. Any thread quite easily absorb any liquid, and the laws of physics raise the fluid to the thread up – and use it. First you need to make a foundation for yarn – a column on which it is wound. To do this, take a match and wrapped it tight ring of wire.
Gradually, winding spiral wire on the match, we get a basis for the future of the wick.
When we wrapped the whole most of the match, we remove it from the spiral. Leave the bottom of the tail – it is necessary for stability. Copper wire is best suited for such manual work – it is easy to bend, and quite beautiful.
Now you need to wind the thread on the spiral.
Bottom-up pulls the thread tight spiral, threading it between the little spiral rings. On top of the small end of the thread reserve, fluffed his fibers. If this structure to put the oil container at the bottom, the oil impregnated yarn end to rise up. That’s for this and need a tin tube. Put a little oil in it and put inside the wick.
Needless oil does not burn, but the wick, soaked them burn very well. Of course, it does not fit any oil – you need to buy in the store that is designed for aromatic lamps and candles. It remains only to burn!
It is not necessary to use a cork – will suit any metal container into which you can pour a spoonful of butter and put the wick, which we did.
How to make beautiful wedding bouquet of ribbon flowers
Required Material:
-Finish flowers (we have it rose)
– Wire (knitting better, it is not like the STI, it does not break!)
– glue
– wire cutters
– fabric or mesh
– tape
– bias binding
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we do loop
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insert the wire in the middle of the flower and dripping a drop of glue on the loop
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carefully so as not to stain the flower glue stretch wire
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that’s what it turns out!
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begin to collect a bouquet! Flowers slightly buckled, so that eventually turned the spherical shape
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when all the flowers are gathered, we fix them
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and form a ball
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You can add green or anything else
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cut the required length and anchoring tip
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little trick! so that when winding the handle are not tormented with the tip can make such a pocket
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make out on the taste and bouquet of our ready !!!)))
How to make glass christmas candlestick – Step By Step
To work you will need:
glasses, napkins to decoupage with Christmas motifs, glue for decoupage (PVA can be used)
two-step or other krekelyur KREAL krekelyurnaya couple, acrylic top coat, glitter, white or silver liner,
acrylic colors: black, ivory, blue,
brush with a foam tip,
glass cleaner, translucent gel pearl paint for decoupage.
Degreasing liquid glasses for glasses. Cut the cloth desired motif with a round object
Cut and separate the top layer of napkins
One of the lower layers of cloth glued to the glass, trying to avoid the formation of wrinkles. Liberally grease for decoupage glue or PVA glue, cloth must be completely saturated with it
With a sponge paint cloth translucent pearl gel. Because of this, our theme will be more pronounced, retain partial transparency
That’s how it should turn out
Cover the glass with acrylic lacquer. Now it is white in the picture, and after drying becomes transparent. Cover several layers, the surface must be absolutely smooth.
Gently and evenly applied 1 step other couples. After 15-20 minutes (must be a state of stickiness) is applied №2.
sprinkle with glitter
Dry the hair dryer for the manifestation of cracks
Glue cloth with the motif starting from the center. Top varnish and glue for decoupage
Mix acrylic paint to achieve the desired shade. The toothpaste can be used as a white paint
Glass does not paint,
At the edge of the motif spend liner to give a three-dimensional glass effect
Draw along the edge of the glass liner
Liner distinguish the outlines of certain motifs
Sprinkle glitter liner
Do not forget about the glass stem)
That’s all)
How to make beautiful garland of balloons
We need balloons with a diameter of 20-25 cm (10 or 12 inches)
Inflate balloons.
It is necessary to calibrate the balls at the same size. To do this, we need to make the calibrator with the required dimensions garlands (we homemade particleboard shny calibrator defined sizes 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 cm) Here is an example of manufacturing a garland of 25 cm. The calibrator can successfully replace any capacity (bucket, pot diameter require
Balls must be strictly calibrated by size. It is best to do the calibration on the long side of the ball – from head to tail.
Calibrated balls couples relate to each other
Better use of quality balls from Italy, Belgium, Colombia, Mexico and Portugal. Balls in China, unfortunately, are at a 50% defective. Quality balloons are made of natural rubber latex, thereby, tires easily stretched.
We need to get here are blank. An important point: floors must be clean, without shavings, sand and dirt. This photo shoot took place in extremely unfavorable conditions for the balls. Please take into account the remark about the purity of the surface, because It depends on the length of life of the balls
Twist resulting each other, in the end should turn out here is the link – the main components of garlands.
Like this.
To bind a garland, we need to prepare the rope. Suitable conventional underwear. Lesko and nylon thread used is undesirable because of the high probability of a cut latex pulling.
The end of the rope must be tied to anything.
Getting links from stringing balls on a rope. At the same time it is necessary to twist the rope between the balls, making one turn around each world.
Like this.
The next link is imposed against the first staggered. Thus we get a spiral pattern.
And since each other. It is important not to break the pattern sequence.
Like this.
Link by link are arranged in a beautiful garland.
Make a garland of the required length. When inflating balloons with a diameter of 20 cm to 1 meter garlands should be 7 to 4 units in the world. When inflating the balloons 25 cm respectively 6 units on 4 ball.
Street installation should preferably in calm weather by 2-3 assistants, trying to make mounting with less acute angles surfaces.
Remember, garland hung on the outside, live a lot less than the set indoors. During installation, it is desirable to have available spare balls in case of bursting of the ball in the chain.
Type of finished and assembled garlands
How to make doll umbrella
I hope I have not bored you. Just now, when I’m trying to make something, I take pictures of the process. Sometimes it works, sometimes more or less something out. So today- umbrella. Hopefully useful.
Required Materials:
- Air ball (pictured him there, the cat dragged after I took it out of the umbrella),
- PVA glue,
- toilet paper,
- brush,
- thread,
- paint,
- glitter,
- napkin for decoupage (not necessarily),
- the wire
How to make decoupage candle – Step By Step
We need the pages of a glossy magazine, wick, wax, scissors, tape.
Decided to form a cone-shaped. To do this from the magazine “kulechki”, after inserting the wick, the whole construction fix tape. Is melted paraffin and fill the blanks. We are waiting for complete solidification.
Here are our candles (wanted to make a series of different-sized candles, united by one pattern, but unfortunately my long candle fell during solidification, so I will digest it) chose to decoupage napkins with a floral pattern (tulips)
Cut along the contour drawing is applied on the candle so as we would like it (I like the flowers will grow from the bottom to the fetelku candles). For the most decoupage we need a candle and a spoon.
Heat up a spoon over a candle on the inside (note the spoon is smoked, so we will smooth the napkin convex side of the net), and gently begin to smooth circular drawing motion, starting from the middle. Under the hot wax begins to melt spoon and a napkin as if fused into the candle. Similarly, I am doing the back side of the candle
We get the result. In principle, everything is ready, but I wanted to give the amount of the drawing using a wax marker: the bottom of the candle and surveyed the contour color gold color.
It seems to be not a bad second candle melted down and make them even third – the baby. Result later
How to decore wedding candle
Let’s start:
Candle drained from the wax. Form – a big plastic glass of 5
We get here this form. Carefully cut and edge vyravnimaem
The candle is ready. Getting decor. I took a self-adhesive paper and drew a desired pattern (in my case – Hearts)
Cut, that’s what happened
Stuck on the candle
A white candle , and our hearts will not be seen, so its tint acrylic contours and candle marker
Next trick – we paint on this technology: take an ordinary plastic bag, drop into the paint our candle (get a rough outline of a divorce)
We reserve our candle dried.
Note: The main tear hearts before the paint dries !!!!! Then, drawing the edges are straight – otherwise the paint will last !!!!!
Meanwhile a plate – I have already pre-painted in the same way
We need: beads, pink, plastic (molded itself), the adhesive
So, paste the roses and large beads
Then add beads
And in the end all decorate loop, that’s what got. Skeet – ready !!!!
We return to our candle. We emphasize the contour of the figure wax marker
For decorative use the same rose and beads, pre-strung them on the needles (to our entire structure is firmly held, glue using a minimum). I took half of the pins, or just a hard wire.Roses strung still raw, and beads on the needle glued on the glue.
To the candle is not cracked, heat the needle before sticking
And decorate, first rose
Then the large beads
On the adhesive glue beads
Wax marker concludes decor
That’s what happened in the end
Thanks to all who looked!
How to make Bear of balloons
We have the best gift for that special someone, friend or family.Balloon Bear will bring a smile to the recipient guaranteed. It’s Easy, Tell us what you would like . We will create a custom design for you, so you can make that special person extremely happy.
Required Material:
– 6 ball 12 inch blue … or 5 balls and one linkolun (more on this later)
– 3 5 inch white ball
– one five-inch black ball for the nose
– 4, 5 inch blue ball
– 2 260 shdm pen
– a small ball sinker for any color
– permanent markers beads
– shdm pruning
– a pair of hands
