Sorry, but I don't even know what to call them in Polish ;)
Anyways, there were many of them and I wanted to recycle them so much! They were waiting for some time, by finally, I've found my inspiration and will show you what I did with that.
Before I start my little tutorial I have to say that I am not the author of the flower idea. I've seen it a few times in the net (e.g. here) and decided to show how I've made it to have a step by step makeover. I'm only presenting an alternative material (waterroof!) that can be used to make them and some ideas to use them.
This is what I needed to make a basic flower:
- something that has a round shape (I personally recommend this kind of ruler)
- thread and a needle
- a marker
- scissors
The whole idea is very simple. You draw the circles on the sheet...
...and cut them out. You may want to cut them so that there are no black marks, as everything will be visible in the center of the flower. You may also want to leave the marks and have a colorful center. It's up to you :) I didn't care, because I was going to cover the center anyway in the end.
Then you fold every circle in a half......and once again in a half.
You thread your needle and sew through the wider side of your petal-to-be...
...and add more (I used 6 petals).
After adding the last petal you put the needle through the first one, secure the thread tightly and finish off.
You're done!
As I said, I was going to decorate the center of my flower and I used blue sequins and small black beads to do that. My flowers looked like that:
The last part was to take off the original plastic flowers from the flip-flops (one of them was already out, that's why they needed a makeover :)) and sew on my flowers instead.
The advantage those flowers have over fabric ones is that they're waterproof! You canSince making those flowers was a real fun I decided to decorate a plastic headband too.
What do you think?
clever you! ;)
ReplyDeleteif only the photos were bigger ... :P