Crafts from birch bark with own hands

Beresta, in other words, a thin, supple birch bark, is fertile ground for creativity. What can be done from birch bark? Anything, any products , from breadcrumbs and other household items and ending with costume jewelry. In the article, we will show a few examples with master classes for making simple but very beautiful handcrafted birch bark crafts.

How to prepare birch bark for crafts?

For those who have never encountered such creativity before today, one should know how to prepare and process birch bark for hand-made articles.

So, there are several basic rules:

1. Cut the bark from the birch for hand-made articles only in the period of sucking.
2. Further birch bark should be carefully dried in a natural way, without using radiators and fans.
3. After this, it is necessary to cut off all irregularities from the bark, making it as smooth as possible.
4. Next, bind the sheets of birch bunches and boil for 20-30 minutes.
5. Then we dry and the material for work is ready.

Master classes on birch bark

Souvenir magnets made of birch bark

Let's prepare this:

• birch bark;
• dense cardboard;
• good transparent glue;
• scissors;
• figured punch;
• a branch of birch;
• sharpener;
• acrylic paint;
• a sponge;
• birch slice.

1. On the birch bark we cut the shape of the base.
2. Using a punch hole, we make a drawing.
3. On the back side we paste the cardboard.
4. Immediately prepare the magnet and the cardboard substrate for it.
5. Using a sharpener and a birch twig, we make roses.
6. The edges of the base are treated with paint using a sponge.
7. We prepare the leaves and also process them with paint.
8. Well, finally, we glue the elements to the birch bark base and the magnet from the back, and get the first simple craft.

Similarly, other decorative magnets can be realized.

Rose from birch bark

To make this craft, we will prepare this:

• birch bark;
• a birch branch;
• glue time is transparent;
• scissors.

1. Let's start with making a bud. Cut out the workpiece in the form of a rectangle with one rounded side and bend the corner.
2. Twist, as shown in the picture.
3. We fix the bud on the branch and fix it with glue.
4. Next, cut out the birch bark for the rose petals.
5. We glue the petals in a circle, from the smallest to the largest ones.
6. Prepare the sepals and also glue them.
7. The flower itself is ready, it remains to decorate the stem with leaves. We cut out the blanks for foliage of different shapes and sizes.
8. We paste the leaves and get the second hand made of birch bark with our own hands.

For the manufacture of panels take the following tools:

• birch bark;
• dark woody bark;
• dense cardboard frame;
• paper for the sketch;
• scissors,
• pencil;
• wood beads;
• adhesive PVA and brush;
• transparent glue-torque;
• napkins.

1. First of all, crush the bark. It is better to use a meat grinder.
2. We prepare the bark for work. We remove several layers so that the material is thin, smooth and very pliable.
3. Next, we apply the base of the frame with glue and cover it with bark. Get the background for the composition.
4. On a sheet of paper, draw a sketch on the measurement of the frame.
5. Now, according to the sketch, we cut out all elements of the panel composition.
6. Then alternately glue all the decorative elements and get a beautiful wall panel.

Handmade birch bark pendant

What else can be done from birch bark? In the last master class, we show how you can make a beautiful suspension.

So, let's prepare this:

• birch bark;
• chisel;
• awl;
• transparent glue-time.

1. We cut the first flower with the chisel.
2. Then cut out the second flower and glue the first one on it.
3. The next layer is done in the form of a sun, take another nozzle.
4. So do a few more layers and glue, carefully centering.
5. We decorate the suspension with a self-made bead. Take a thin strip of birch bark, wrap it around an awl and paste the tip.
6. And in the end we do many more such beads, we'll string on the thread and make a suspension. Decoration is ready!