Beautiful Kanzashi snowflake: how to make a newbie

Preparation for the New Year holidays is always a matterexciting: you need to buy gifts, decorate the room. Very original variant - Kanzash-snowflake. It is made easy, but looks like a fairy-tale souvenir. With this product, you can transform the interior or use as a gift, additions to it.

New Year's snowflake-kanzashi

As can be seen from the photographs presented in the article,these products are very beautiful and effective look. To produce them you only need satin ribbons or fabric. Due to the bulk of the design, the game of light and shadow in the elements of the Kansai snowflake looks so beautiful. All the details are securely fastened, so you do not have to redecorate the decor every year, as in the case of paper ornaments that tear and quickly deteriorate. Another advantage of such crafts is the simplicity of production, because they are not complicated to make them than paper ones. Decorate with a satin ribbon decor can be a window, a Christmas tree, a New Year's costume, and even make a garland.

What will be required

Kanzashi snowflake should be performed neatly andconsequently, it is better to find everything you need in advance. While working, do not be distracted by the search for missing materials. So, prepare the following:

• Satin tapes of different widths (from 5 mm for carcass decoration up to 5 cm for making large elements).
• A fabric of suitable quality, color and texture (kapron, organza).
• Scissors.
• A lighter, a candle, matches.
• Tweezers (for easy operation).
• Needle with thread.
• Thermal gun.
• Cardboard.
• Wire.
• Decor (beads, beads, sequins, for example in the form of snowflakes).
• Tape or decorative cord for the manufacture of suspension (optional).

The list is presented to the maximum. In the minimum set, you can do with ribbons, scissors, a cigarette lighter and tweezers.

How to add a single petal

How is the Kangaroo snowflake made? The master class will teach how to collect simple blanks for its creation.

Work as follows:

1. Cut the tape or other prepared fabric into squares.
2. Treat slices above the flame of a candle or lighter.
3. Fold the square in half, and then twice in half. You can glue the layers with a thermo-gun, sew with threads or heat the place of docking over a cigarette lighter and squeeze with a pair of tweezers so that the parts fuse.
4. Cut the bottom corner of the resulting blank to make it look like a petal, like a ring.
5. After completing many such details, you can compose from them elements of rays for snowflakes and middles from the required number of parts.

How to make a double lobe

To perform beautiful Kanzashi snowflakes (photo below), you will need to make double petals.

The technology is as follows:

1. As for single, cut the ribbon into squares. You can create a double element from both identical and different sized blanks. In the first case, it is necessary to cut the bottom of the petal further. Colors and even textures are better to choose different. So it will be more effective.
2. Fold both squares separately to triangles.
3. Repeat the previous step again.
4. Put one triangle on the other (the smaller one for the larger one).
5. Do the third addition of both blanks together.
6. Connect, as well as a single piece, with a lighter, thread or hot melt adhesive.

Snowflake-Kanzashe: master-class

If you have mastered the method of manufacturing simpleelements (single or double), you can start creating a beautiful winter decor. To make you get the same beautiful Kansashe snowflakes (photo below), it's enough to combine the manufactured parts in different versions.

To form the middle of snowflakes, you canperform an element consisting of double lobes of larger size with pasted in the middle of smaller single or the same double billet. In addition, you can decorate the middle of each petal, attaching and fixing a teardrop-shaped bead-pearl. It is not difficult to create a huge number of options. It all depends on your imagination, assiduity and desire.

The snowflakes are assembled by two methods:

1. Without a skeleton.
2. On a wire-cardboard basis.

The second method is suitable for large products with long beams.

Small snowflakes can be made the first method. In the variant without a skeleton, a snowflake in Kansas technique is simply assembled by gluing the elements together. First, the blanks are collected from several petals, and then the large parts are joined together.

Assembling a snowflake on a frame

If you decide to work with a skeleton, the sequence will be this:

1. When the required number of petals is ready, cut out a circle around the diameter of the snowflake from the cardboard to close the joints of the parts. The same circle, only a larger diameter, made of cloth.
2. Put the cardboard blank on the fabric and pull the edges of the fabric along the inner contour of the cardboard circle.
3. Cut from the wire blanks for the rays (3 large and as small). The size is equal to the diameter of the snowflake (after the wire can be cut in half).
4. Wrap the wire with corrugated paper (or replace it with a tissue). Lubricate with glue.
5. Glue to the wires a narrow satin ribbon of suitable color (they will be on the back).
6. Cut the billets into two parts.
7. Proceed to assembly. Collect the middle of a snowflake, for example, from 6 petals. Glue the workpiece to a round cardboard-fabric base.
   Prepare the details of the rays to the wire of the frame.
8. Glue all the rays to the circle from the backsnowflakes. This can be ended, but if a more accurate back is required, make a second circle of fabric and glue it with the top layer. It is easy to attach a magnet to it. The circle can also be with a cardboard base inside.
9. Finish the front: decorate with beads, if desired, treat the corners of each element with gel with sparkles.

Thus, Kanzash-snowflake - a beautiful decor, which is easy to make, and there are many options for using it.