How to make a rose from maple leaves with your own hands step by step: master class
For those who love roses and crafts made from natural materials, tips on creating artificial bouquets from maple leaves . Their shape and structure lends itself perfectly to work. In addition, you can collect leaves completely free of charge in the park with your children - this is interesting and useful for spending time together.
For work, both fallen yellowed and still green leaves will be useful. You can twist them into such a beautiful bouquet that its beauty can outshine even real roses. In addition, a bouquet of leaves is durable . We can safely say that such a craft breathes “second life” into dry foliage.
Maple foliage is an ideal material for creating bouquets
Work step by step:
- Take a nice, smooth, clean sheet, place it in front of you and fold it in half. (see photo No. 1)
- Roll half the leaf into a tube. This should not be done too tightly, because the flower needs to be lush and voluminous. (see photo No. 2)
After the core of the flower is ready, you need to start creating petals from other leaves.
Work step by step:
- Take the second maple leaf
- Place the core inside the sheet
- Alternately fold the sharp edges of the leaf so that when folded you get petals (see photo No. 1)
- After you have completely rolled the sheet, you can secure it with thread. (see photo No. 2)
- In order for you to get a voluminous and lush rose, you will need to roll about five or six maple leaves into one flower. (see photo No. 3)
- Secure each new rolled leaf with regular sewing thread, and make several flowers for the bouquet. (see photo No. 4)
Step-by-step rolling of roses from maple leaves
To make a flower wrapper, wrap the bouquet in several maple leaves so that their sharp edges stick out in a circle.
Tube (wrapper) for a bouquet of roses made of maple leaves
Bouquet with three roses from maple leaves
Master class on making roses from maple leaves
For those who are interested in the idea of creating flowers from autumn leaves, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with step-by-step instructions and recommendations from master florists.
Procurement of natural material
The first thing you need to do is prepare the necessary material. It is best to collect fallen maple leaves on a fine day, when the foliage is clean and dry, not damp from dew, fog or rain. If it is not possible to collect the material dry, then at home before starting work, it is worth wiping (blotting) each sheet on both sides with a dry cloth. Also, for work, choose leaves that are not too dry, otherwise they may crumble during folding, and it will not be possible to make a pink bud.
Before work, maple leaves must be sorted: sorted by color and size. As a rule, medium-sized sheets without dark spots and dried tips are used. For each individual flower, material of the same shade is selected.
Step-by-step instructions for creating buds
- Take a maple leaf and fold it in half so that the right side is on top.
- Roll the sheet folded in half into a tube. When rolling, try not to twist the workpiece too tightly.
- The resulting detail will be the basis for the future flower. It is around this tube that the rose petals will be located in the future.
- Take a rolled tube and attach it to the sheet, as shown in the photo.
- Then bend the sheet back so that the fold line protrudes above the central part of the bud by at least 1 centimeter.
- Turn the protruding part outward, and wrap the side edges around the central part. This creates the first inner petal.
- Place the next sheet on the opposite side of the central part of the bud. Perform all subsequent actions similarly to those described above.
- If you need a larger rose bud, the number of leaves can be increased.
- After the rose reaches the required size, it should be secured with thread (adhesive tape). For individual flowers, trim off the excess parts of the leaves and protruding tails from the bottom.
- Attach the rosebud to a wooden skewer, pre-painted with green paint. If you plan to make compositions and bouquets from the buds in the future, then you do not need to cut off the tails of the leaves - the protruding parts are masked with leaves or wrapping paper.
How to make a bouquet of roses from maple leaves with your own hands?
Maple leaves in the autumn season are distinguished by a variety of rich color shades:
- green
- yellow
- orange
- brick
- burgundy
- red
- brown
- brown
The more colorful foliage you use to create a bouquet, the brighter and more beautiful your bouquet will turn out.
You can stick to one shade of foliage to get. For example, only yellow or red roses. But it is much more interesting to work with completely different marbled leaves.
Yellow roses from maple leaves:
- Take a small leaf and fold it in half
- Gently roll the sheet into a tight tube
- Take a large maple leaf and place a curled leaf in its center.
- Turn the big sheet back
- Start rolling the leaf so that voluminous petals grow around the core.
- Secure the product with thread
- Roll a large number of roses into a bouquet
- Wrap the entire bouquet with wedge foliage to make the product more luxurious.
Step 1: Rolling up the center of the bud
Step 2: Rolling the sheets around the core
Step 3: Rolling the Petals
Step 4: Adding Volume to the Flower
Step 5: Secure the Rose with Thread
Step 6: Creating roses for the bouquet
Step 7: Adding splendor to the bouquet
Flowers from tree leaves: master class
Roses made from rose leaves look most impressive and natural in compositions and simple bouquets. The process is quite exciting and very simple, so the whole family, including children, can take part in it.
Once you start making such a craft, you will understand that the stage of collecting leaves is much longer and more tedious than the creative process itself. The following trees are best suited, the foliage of which is preferable to use for making autumn roses: maple, ash and wild grapes. Try to choose bright leaves in colorful shades (yellow, red, maroon, green). If possible, use leaves from trees rather than those picked from the ground. They will not only be cleaner and less damaged, but more importantly, they will also be quite elastic due to the retained moisture, it will be much easier to work with them, and the composition using them will turn out to be more realistic. Collect leaves of different sizes. The splendor of the rose will depend on the number of leaf petals used.
So, the basic material is already in your hands, are you full of desire and enthusiasm? Then let's quickly look at how to make flowers from tree leaves with your own hands.
How to make flowers from maple leaves with your own hands?
The soft maple leaf lends itself perfectly to rolling. You can use it to make a lush rose or a thin bud.
Ideas for creativity, folding flowers from maple leaves:
Roses from maple leaves, option No. 1
Large round roses made of maple leaves, option No. 2
Red roses with a green stem of maple leaves, option No. 3
Multi-colored roses made from colorful maple leaves
Craft: maple leaf wreath
A wreath made of autumn leaves can be an effective decorative element.
You can combine a wreath of maple leaves with many other natural materials:
- Bunches of rowan
- Cones
- Spruce branches
Autumn wreath
Wreath made of autumn materials
Wreath made of maple leaves
To create such a wreath you will need time and perseverance, as well as available materials:
- Willow twigs, wire or any other available base for the frame
- Scotch tape or thread
How to make a wreath from maple leaves:
- First make a round base from willow twigs or hard wire
- After this, twist each maple leaf onto the base with its tail.
- To keep the leaves in place, secure them with thin wire or thread
- Add decorations as you weave the wreath
Step-by-step creation of a wreath from maple leaves
Another option for a wreath base is cardboard :
- Cut out a ring from cardboard
- Carefully wrap the circle with knitting thread
- After which you can start decorating the wreath with leaves, fixing them with PVA glue
How to make a bouquet of flowers from maple leaves with your own hands?
The secret of an elastic flower from maple foliage is soft leaves that have not yet dried out so much that they break and burst. Fresh green leaves also roll very well.
Maple leaves that are harvested in November are good for crafts - high air humidity and frequent precipitation do not allow the leaves to dry out.
Each leaf that you roll to make rose petals should be secured . This is done with ordinary thin sewing thread or tape . Just pull it tight without tying it in a knot.
Bouquets of maple leaves:
Colorful bouquet of maple leaves and barberry
Bouquet with lush roses from maple leaves
A bouquet of a large number of roses made from maple leaves. A bouquet of dry maple leaves.
Crafts from maple leaves: vase
In order to make a vase from maple leaves, you will have to tinker.
Vase of maple leaves
You will need:
- PVA glue
- Brush
- Balloon
- maple leaves
Preparation method:
- Inflate the balloon. Please note that the vase will eventually take the shape of your ball.
- Dilute PVA glue with water in a 1:1 ratio. Coat the ball with glue.
- Glue leaves in any pattern.
- Leave the ball to dry. When the glue dries, you can pierce the ball with a needle and remove it from the vase.
How to save maple leaves for crafts?
The well-known method of preserving a maple leaf by putting it in a book , unfortunately, is not suitable for preparing material for creating flowers. In this way, the leaf dries out and makes it quite brittle.
There are other ways to preserve maple leaves:
- Leaves can be waxed . To do this, melt the wax of one candle on the stove or in the microwave. After this, the sheet is dipped alternately into hot wax on both sides.
- The paraffin sheet should be left on the newsprint to dry and absorb excess wax.
- The sheet may darken, but will retain its softness, which is very useful for crafts.
- You can also “bathe” the leaf in a glycerin solution. To do this, dissolve half a glass of glycerin in a glass of water.
- The leaves are completely dipped and then tied and hung to dry. The sheet should be dried for about four days.
