Sometimes you just need to revive the interior and at the same time keep within a couple of days. Usually this preparation is connected with the upcoming holidays. Some go to the store to buy unusual gizmos, while others make jewelry with their own hands, turning the whole process into a fun game to which you can connect all the home ones. Creating paper decor is perhaps the easiest and fastest option, as the material is accessible, malleable, and the technique for transforming it is massive. Consider a series of workshops on creating original interior decorations: temporary and permanent.
Paper decor has a long history. In different periods, this versatile material was used to create figures, masks, fans, crafts.Particular importance was attached to paper products in Japan. Residents of the Land of the Rising Sun, the process of creating crafts raised to the level of art. That is why the names of almost half of the popular techniques come from the Japanese language. In some cases, decorations become the result of such painstaking work when it is difficult for an average person to believe that this decor is made of paper. The most original methods of creating interior "crafts" include:
Collage. Usually this is a color picture, the image on which is painstakingly assembled from pieces of paper. A collage can be full and partial when only some accent areas of a photograph or picture are pasted with pieces of paper. For example, in the picture where the girl is shown, only her dress is decorated.
Quilling. A very old technique, whose age has already exceeded 500 years. Thin multi-colored strips of paper are twisted, giving them a shape, and then glued to the canvas.
Pergamano. This technique is popular for decorating postcards. Crafts are made from tracing paper by embossing or punching.
Iris folding. A relatively new technique, in which a sketch of a drawing is applied to the canvas, which is then filled with pieces of paper in different colors, laid out in a spiral.
Silhouette carving. According to researchers, the technique appeared in China at about the same time as the paper itself. We have a similar way to cut out paintings from a multiple folded sheet - a vytynanka. In Japan, there is a more painstaking Katagi technique. An authentic art in which full-size paintings are cut out of thin rice paper. For work, stencils (templates) and a special sharp knife are needed.
Cutting. Young technique remotely resembling quilling. Instead of strips, paper squares are used, which are wound on a stick, and then fixed on a canvas.
Decoupage. Although the technique has a number of ways to transfer the image to the base,paper pasting is considered the easiest and most affordable method for beginners.
Simple origami, modular, “wet folding” technique - these are all variations of creating paper figures without using glue or other fastening components. We'll talk more about origami below.
Papier mache. A simple technique that children often learn. Figures of any complexity can be made from papier-mâché, but masks are considered the most popular. To create a craft, you don’t have to glue or cut, just soak a roll of toilet paper in a paste and wait until the mass is slightly thickened, until the consistency of soft plasticine. After making the figure, it is covered with a primer layer and painted.
Kusudama. The technique is similar to origami, but to fasten the modules together, they can be stitched or glued together. Kusudama figurines most often have the shape of a ball.
Kirigami. In this technique, a three-dimensional picture is made from a single sheet of paper using glue and scissors. The method is a little easier than origami, since large-scale products are obtained. Kirigami reminiscent of children's panoramic books.
Pape Art. The “daughter” technology for papier-mâché, which was invented by a Russian woman only ten years ago. The strips of paper are wetted and twisted into tight flagella, which are then applied to the base (wooden caskets, chests, vases, bottles) and glued. After drying, they are covered with a layer of paint that simulates bronze, silver or gold. The decor looks not just beautiful, but authentic, as if the surface was really minted or decorated with forging.
From paper you can create a decorative Christmas tree for a New Year, a couple of wedding swans, garlands, fans or posters on the wall, “scary” Halloween decorations or Easter baskets from newspaper tubes. With the help of paper crafts, the design of the room will become “livelier” and more original.
It is impossible not to note the youngest, most modern Cubeecraft technique, in which angular figures of characters in films, books, and comics are made of paper. The assembly is carried out according to a single scheme, and the emphasis is on painting in bright colors.
Flowers
You can make lush, large buds from corrugated paper, neat topiary balls or luxurious, voluminous bouquets on canvas using quilling technique. Probably, everyone made origami flowers (tulips) as a child. This is one of the simplest options. With the help of affordable, pliable material, you can make a real exotic garden that will delight the eye in the winter.
Beautiful, large corrugated flowers adorn the festive tables. They are used as decorations for weddings, hanging from the ceiling or fixing on the wall behind the newlyweds. Also, the flower "wall" will be an excellent photo zone at the celebration. Consider the step-by-step instructions for creating a rose. To work, you will need:
Corrugated paper in two or more colors: green for the stem and leaves, white for the core and pink for the extreme petals of the bud.
Scissors.
Prepared petal template.
Wire for the stem.
Glue.
Using a template from paper, cut the blanks of the petals. During operation, it is not recommended to stretch the material, since the corrugation will not be collected back. To get a natural bud, the petals must be of different sizes. From the smallest, a dense bud is collected, laying them on top of each other and gluing from below. Then the flower begins to wrap with new petals, which are also fixed at the base. After the bud is assembled, they can be slightly stretched, giving the desired shape and volume. Now you need to cut a couple of leaves. The wire is wrapped in a strip of paper diagonally. Gradually, lateral short wires for leaves are “woven” into the stem. Fix them with new layers of paper strip. The leaves are glued to them from the "wrong" side. Finish the work by fixing the flower on the stem. To create a blooming rose, a ribbon of corrugated paper is cut from one edge with a wavy line, and then twisted. Such floral decor can decorate the house not only for the holidays.A bouquet or topiary of luxurious buds is suitable for any room: kitchen, bedroom, living room.
A similar decor, made in certain colors at weddings, will look original. Now it’s fashionable to arrange celebrations where guests come in clothes of pre-approved “shades”. For example, a zone for photo shoots with pink and white buds will look good as a background if photographed are dressed in red.
Fans
The fan mounted on the wall behind the back of the sofa will be a chic addition to minimalism or the Japanese, Chinese ethnic style. Making it is incredibly simple. The sheet is folded with an "accordion", and then each section is glued together on one side. To make the decoration look more solid, choose paper with a pattern or decorate it yourself. In the center of each fan, you can glue a button or a large bead. In complex models, two sheets of paper of different sizes are used, which are folded accordion with the same pitch, and then simply lay on top of each other and glued in the center.
Paper garland
Paper garlands are made of flat or three-dimensional figures, which are symbolic for the upcoming holiday:
Rabbits, flowers, baskets for Easter.
Hearts, butterflies, roses for Valentine's Day or just a romantic evening.
Fir-trees, balls, snowflakes, figures animals for a New Year's decor.
Pompoms, numbers for baby's birthday. Festive decor for a boy may include trains, cars, houses, flags. For the girl make delicate flowers, dolls.
Bows, ribbons, figures of the bride and groom for a wedding garland.
Pumpkins, spiders, miniature witches on brooms for Halloween.
Garlands can be used to decorate walls, windows, windowsills or doorways. Figures are cut out of thick paper or cardboard, which are fixed to the fishing line with glue or thread. You can “flash” the product string on a typewriter.Garland must be colored or pre-used with colored paper.
Curtain of hearts
A curtain of hearts adorn the door and window openings. Such decor looks beautiful against the background of a simple white tulle. Decoration is usually made for a romantic anniversary or Valentine's Day. Hearts are cut out of paper and glued to fishing lines, which are subsequently fixed on the cornice or on the slope. They can also be made from strips of the same length. Two such ribbons are folded into a heart and fixed with two staples using a stapler. Two more strips are immediately attached to the lower “sharp” part. They also add a heart out of them and collect a vertical garland by the same principle. They will need five to ten pieces to leave the whole curtain.
Quilling
To learn how to work in the technique of quilling, you need well-developed fine motor skills of the hands. It is with the help of fingers that each element is shaped, and there are more than thirty of them in quilling: tight and loose spirals, paws, arrows, horns, eyes, semicircles, ordinary and curved drops, sheets, triangles, curls, crescents, squares.
Since it is too long to cut colored paper into strips by yourself, it is easier to purchase a ready-made kit, which also includes tweezers and a special stick with a longitudinal notch at the end. The tip of the tape is inserted and fixed into this slot, which is then wound. If you need a tight spiral, then the tip is immediately fixed with glue. By the way, newcomers most often perform such elements. To give a different shape, the swirling strip is carefully removed from the stick and manipulated with your fingers to create angles or flatness. Then the element is glued to the canvas. In the technique of quilling, masters make complex modular paintings, where more than 20-30 colors are used.
Origami
Origami is one of the most complex techniques.Folding a crane, a boat, a frog or a tulip is quite simple, but this is far from the limit for the craftsmen. The main difficulty and the main rule in classical origami is that paper cannot be torn, cut, glued or fixed by any other method. The figure must be solid. Modular origami involves the creation of many fragments of a complex figure, which are "embedded" in each other again without the use of glue. In the "wet" technique, you can wet the paper from the spray gun to make soft bends. This is usually required when creating animal figures.
Panel and posters
To create a panel of paper, you do not need a complex, step-by-step instruction or a detailed guide. The technique can be any. The main thing is that the picture has volume. The easiest option is to use corrugated paper or folding the leaflet so that its edges protrude beyond the frame. It is difficult to draw posters on your own, so photo printing will come to the rescue. As mentioned above, they are additionally manually decorated with colored pieces of paper to highlight accent areas.
Conclusion
Paper is a fragile material, but its flexibility is hidden by its main advantage. You can give it any shape that can be easily fixed with glue or thread. You will not name durable paper craft, but the decor was created to reflect the mood of the owners. Decorations, like changing seasons, should periodically leave the interior to give new ones, which will help to look at the slightly boring decoration from a different angle.
Sometimes you just need to revive the interior and at the same time keep within a couple of days. Usually this preparation is connected with the upcoming holidays. Some go to the store to buy unusual gizmos, while others make jewelry with their own hands, turning the whole process into a fun game to which you can connect all the home ones. Creating paper decor is perhaps the easiest and fastest option, as the material is accessible, malleable, and the technique for transforming it is massive. Consider a series of workshops on creating original interior decorations: temporary and permanent.
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Paper decor has a long history. In different periods, this versatile material was used to create figures, masks, fans, crafts.Particular importance was attached to paper products in Japan. Residents of the Land of the Rising Sun, the process of creating crafts raised to the level of art. That is why the names of almost half of the popular techniques come from the Japanese language. In some cases, decorations become the result of such painstaking work when it is difficult for an average person to believe that this decor is made of paper. The most original methods of creating interior "crafts" include:
From paper you can create a decorative Christmas tree for a New Year, a couple of wedding swans, garlands, fans or posters on the wall, “scary” Halloween decorations or Easter baskets from newspaper tubes. With the help of paper crafts, the design of the room will become “livelier” and more original.
Flowers
You can make lush, large buds from corrugated paper, neat topiary balls or luxurious, voluminous bouquets on canvas using quilling technique. Probably, everyone made origami flowers (tulips) as a child. This is one of the simplest options. With the help of affordable, pliable material, you can make a real exotic garden that will delight the eye in the winter.
Beautiful, large corrugated flowers adorn the festive tables. They are used as decorations for weddings, hanging from the ceiling or fixing on the wall behind the newlyweds. Also, the flower "wall" will be an excellent photo zone at the celebration. Consider the step-by-step instructions for creating a rose. To work, you will need:
Using a template from paper, cut the blanks of the petals. During operation, it is not recommended to stretch the material, since the corrugation will not be collected back. To get a natural bud, the petals must be of different sizes. From the smallest, a dense bud is collected, laying them on top of each other and gluing from below. Then the flower begins to wrap with new petals, which are also fixed at the base. After the bud is assembled, they can be slightly stretched, giving the desired shape and volume. Now you need to cut a couple of leaves. The wire is wrapped in a strip of paper diagonally. Gradually, lateral short wires for leaves are “woven” into the stem. Fix them with new layers of paper strip. The leaves are glued to them from the "wrong" side. Finish the work by fixing the flower on the stem. To create a blooming rose, a ribbon of corrugated paper is cut from one edge with a wavy line, and then twisted. Such floral decor can decorate the house not only for the holidays.A bouquet or topiary of luxurious buds is suitable for any room: kitchen, bedroom, living room.
Fans
The fan mounted on the wall behind the back of the sofa will be a chic addition to minimalism or the Japanese, Chinese ethnic style. Making it is incredibly simple. The sheet is folded with an "accordion", and then each section is glued together on one side. To make the decoration look more solid, choose paper with a pattern or decorate it yourself. In the center of each fan, you can glue a button or a large bead. In complex models, two sheets of paper of different sizes are used, which are folded accordion with the same pitch, and then simply lay on top of each other and glued in the center.
Paper garland
Paper garlands are made of flat or three-dimensional figures, which are symbolic for the upcoming holiday:
Garlands can be used to decorate walls, windows, windowsills or doorways. Figures are cut out of thick paper or cardboard, which are fixed to the fishing line with glue or thread. You can “flash” the product string on a typewriter.Garland must be colored or pre-used with colored paper.
Curtain of hearts
A curtain of hearts adorn the door and window openings. Such decor looks beautiful against the background of a simple white tulle. Decoration is usually made for a romantic anniversary or Valentine's Day. Hearts are cut out of paper and glued to fishing lines, which are subsequently fixed on the cornice or on the slope. They can also be made from strips of the same length. Two such ribbons are folded into a heart and fixed with two staples using a stapler. Two more strips are immediately attached to the lower “sharp” part. They also add a heart out of them and collect a vertical garland by the same principle. They will need five to ten pieces to leave the whole curtain.
Quilling
To learn how to work in the technique of quilling, you need well-developed fine motor skills of the hands. It is with the help of fingers that each element is shaped, and there are more than thirty of them in quilling: tight and loose spirals, paws, arrows, horns, eyes, semicircles, ordinary and curved drops, sheets, triangles, curls, crescents, squares.
Since it is too long to cut colored paper into strips by yourself, it is easier to purchase a ready-made kit, which also includes tweezers and a special stick with a longitudinal notch at the end. The tip of the tape is inserted and fixed into this slot, which is then wound. If you need a tight spiral, then the tip is immediately fixed with glue. By the way, newcomers most often perform such elements. To give a different shape, the swirling strip is carefully removed from the stick and manipulated with your fingers to create angles or flatness. Then the element is glued to the canvas. In the technique of quilling, masters make complex modular paintings, where more than 20-30 colors are used.
Origami
Origami is one of the most complex techniques.Folding a crane, a boat, a frog or a tulip is quite simple, but this is far from the limit for the craftsmen. The main difficulty and the main rule in classical origami is that paper cannot be torn, cut, glued or fixed by any other method. The figure must be solid. Modular origami involves the creation of many fragments of a complex figure, which are "embedded" in each other again without the use of glue. In the "wet" technique, you can wet the paper from the spray gun to make soft bends. This is usually required when creating animal figures.
Panel and posters
To create a panel of paper, you do not need a complex, step-by-step instruction or a detailed guide. The technique can be any. The main thing is that the picture has volume. The easiest option is to use corrugated paper or folding the leaflet so that its edges protrude beyond the frame. It is difficult to draw posters on your own, so photo printing will come to the rescue. As mentioned above, they are additionally manually decorated with colored pieces of paper to highlight accent areas.
Conclusion
Paper is a fragile material, but its flexibility is hidden by its main advantage. You can give it any shape that can be easily fixed with glue or thread. You will not name durable paper craft, but the decor was created to reflect the mood of the owners. Decorations, like changing seasons, should periodically leave the interior to give new ones, which will help to look at the slightly boring decoration from a different angle.