Plastic, paper, cardboard, fabric, even wood and metal - all these materials can be used to make snowflakes on the tree with your own hands. But a warm, soft felt for these purposes is ideal! It's easy to carry snowflakes-patterns, cut them out simply. In addition, made with their own hands snowflakes from felt are light, so they can decorate and windows, and curtains, and small Christmas trees. If you are interested in this topic, try to make such decorations, taking advantage of an extremely simple master class.
We need:
- felt;
- printed templates;
- scissors;
- fishing line (narrow ribbon, thread).
1. Cut out paper snowflakes-patterns, transfer them to felt. With markers and felt-tip pens, be careful not to stain the felt! Then cut out snowflakes with scissors or a clerical knife.
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2. The resulting snowflakes are already in themselves ready-made ornaments. However, you can connect fantasy and decorate them with a gift box, photo frames, walls. And if you use a thin fishing line, then from the delicate snowflakes you will get excellent pendants for decorating the tree, doorways or curtains.
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Having a sewing machine at hand, it is possible to sew two-layer snowflakes using a felt of contrasting colors. For this, we cut out patterns of snowflakes from felt of different colors (only two parts), we sew them with decorative stitch, we make loops. Then gently trim excess, remove the protruding thread. A snowflake pendant is ready!
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The monochrome felt of white color is a wonderful material, but there is no limit to perfection, so do not stop there. Felt is easy to paint, it looks great sparkles and sequins. Try to give the snowflakes a volume, experimenting with the filling of the middle or the symmetrical stitching of the rays.
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To create original crafts, you can safely attract and kids, which they will be immensely pleased! By the way, materials for snowflakes can be quite unexpected, for example, try to make them out of ... macaroni !