On the eve of the New Year, I especially want to decorate my home. This will help you snowflakes, cut from paper. In addition to the fact that they can be glued on the windows or decorate the interior of an apartment or a house, carved snowflakes can be used as stencils for drawing on windows. Create special New Year snowflakes with your own hands and fill the house with the atmosphere of the approaching winter.
How to make a beautiful snowflake?
Snowflakes of paper with their own hands to do very simply! The peculiarity of the technique is that the most important is the correct folding of the workpiece and the presence of sharp scissors. Instead of the usual white paper, color can be used, it is also easy to make snowflakes from foil, old packages from bouquets of flowers or any other wrapping paper.
Before you make a big snowflake, you will need to purchase a sheet of paper of the right size. Choose loose sheets, because you have to add them several times, and then cut out the holes in them.
A sheet of paper must be square, if you take an ordinary rectangle, then after it is folded the required number of times, the excess can be cut off. The simplest snowflake is a sheet of paper folded four times with different slots in the folding places. Depending on the desired number of beams, it is possible to fold the paper in different ways.
The first action is always the same: the sheet is folded in half. Then you can fold it several times in half, you can fold it three times, wrapping the corners to the middle, the main thing is that the point of the folded workpiece is the center of the sheet and the subsequent center of the snowflake. Then we arm ourselves with scissors and start creating. From the folds to the center of the workpiece, you can cut out a variety of shapes, then when you unfold the workpiece, you will get a beautiful snowflake with a symmetrical pattern. Be sure to process the edge of the sheet, it can be smooth, wavy, dentate or whatever you want.
How to make a three-dimensional snowflake?
To make a three-dimensional snowflake, you need six squares of paper, glue or a stapler. The essence of manufacturing in the cutting of the sheet and its further bonding in a special sequence. Six identical blanks can only be fastened together and decorated at their own discretion.
We decorate the windows
Another way to decorate your own home is to put "winter" drawings on windows' windows. In addition to the simple drawing of gouache, you can make a real frosty pattern using carved snowflakes. Armed with gouache and an old toothbrush, you can create the effect of the most real snow, but everything in order. Take a paper snowflake and glue it on the glass with plain water. Then dilute in a convenient bowl a gouache, pure white or with the addition of blue to get a light blue tone. After dabbing the brush of the toothbrush into the paint, sharply slide your finger along the head of the brush, trying to push it back