Beautiful flower of maple leaves

Every autumn, numerous bright "feathers"trees fall to the ground, creating fertile soil for new shoots and giving birth to people's hearts a mournful sadness over the warm days gone by. But foreign craftsmen have come up with how to make a flower from maple leaves, which can be from orange-yellow to bright red. Making such a bouquet of natural material does not take much time, and it will be stored until next autumn and even longer.

Preparatory stage

To make flowers from maple leaves, you needto collect the suitable material. To do this, go to the nearest park or alley, where this beautiful tree grows. Leaves should be chosen as brightly colored as possible and preferably of different shapes. The already dried specimens do not fit, you may have to tear them from the tree. If the collection takes place in late autumn, do not be afraid to damage the tree - it is already asleep, the main thing - do not damage the branches. For one magnificent flower from the leaves of the maple will require a tiny copy of any color, two or three large red, orange or yellow, and the sepal is made from the maximum green natural material.

homework

That the flower from leaves of a maple has not cracked andit turned out bright, the process of making is not worth the delay. Natural materials very quickly dry in an apartment and become unusable after five or six hours of staying indoors. Choose green strings of natural shade or floral tape, sharp scissors and sorted by size and color of the leaves. Take one element, gently bend it through the finger and begin to twist to get the core of the future bud. The main rule is that the base should not fall apart, you can fix it with threads or make a couple of skeins with a tape tape. Then take a large sheet and twist in the same way, lightly pressing at the base to make a suitable shape. Gradually increasing the new elements, the rose is brought to the desired size and made sepal from the green billet. The flower from the leaves of the maple is ready, when the base is tightly wrapped with the last detail, and everything is fixed with threads or floral tape.

Make out the composition

Checking for strength all your windings tothe flower did not fall apart during the exploitation, it is possible to make a bouquet. For a beautiful composition you need to prepare from three to seven buds of different sizes, thin twigs to which all the elements are tied up, and additional leaves. One bouquet can be created in just one or two hours - it can be an excellent gift to a loved one or a souvenir at a bohemian party. Of the remaining materials, it is easy to make appliqués, flowers from leaves to decorate mini-vases or an album with herbarium in a vintage style.

That the bouquet was not destroyed more and hada festive look, the craftsmen recommend sprinkling it with the usual varnish (or with sparkles) for the hair. This process will be fascinating not only for adults - any child can easily cope with such work, and a walk in the fresh air to collect material will be useful for the whole family. Compositions can be supplemented with branches of hazel, rowan, acorns and small chestnuts. Such a gift would be nice to receive a grandmother, a child or a colleague with a good taste.