If before, artificial flowers were a sign of a bad taste, now, when the quality of manufactured products has improved at times, they began to be used everywhere. Beautiful and "eternal" flowers can be made with their own hands. About how to make wonderful flowers from Isolon, this article will tell.
Peculiarities
It is worth noting that it is usually sold in construction supermarkets, another source of polyethylene. It is used as a coating for isolation, most often placed under laminate. This material is sold in rolls, where the thickness of the sheets can vary from 0.2 to 100 mm. For colors, sheets are used with a thickness of 2 to 4 mm.
Isolon itself can be different colors, including foil. One of the reasons to use isolon for the manufacture of artificial colors is its property is easy to cut with scissors or a peer knife.
Let's talk a little about the properties of this material. It is not susceptible to fire, but only melts.
Another remarkable feature of the isolone - it is not amenable to staining with ordinary dyes.
Simply put, they practically do not hold on it, it is necessary to acquire a separate type of paints.
Next, we consider other characteristics of the isolon, which make it a good material for the manufacture of artificial colors.
Isolon is a safe material that does not excrete various carcinogens into the air. It is included in the list of materials used in the manufacture of toys. The temperature range for its conventional state is from -60 to +75 degrees Celsius.
Isolon has a number of unusual properties that give the crafts from it various advantages, unlike other materials.
The main advantage of colors from Isolon is the ability to give petals any bend. This is possible due to the fact that when exposed to the high temperature material, the isolon does not light up, but begins to melt, and later bent, as it has already been said. Thus, there is a slightly airing on the petals of a flower with fire, you can give them a slightly wavy kind or fasten any form. You can give the petals of waviness and simply stretch the material. Isolon is able to withstand heavy stretching loads, while changing its appearance.
Due to the subtlety of the sheets of isolon, flower petals look natural. They can be copping with each other under the influence of high temperature. Another method of connecting petals mechanical - with a thread with a needle or other fastening materials. It must be remembered that this material "remembers" the form. For this reason, it is impossible to mive flowers and store them in this form. On the petals will remain the chances.
However, the colors from the isolon can wet - they will be fine with it. But they cannot be directly exposed to sunlight. From this, their color can acquire a yellow tint. This is especially true of white isolon.
Necessary materials and tools
First of all, for the manufacture of flowers, we need a knife for cutting material. It can be both a mounting knife and ordinary scissors.
Another needed thing for fastening is a glue gun and a hairdryer. The latter can be taken both ordinary and construction.
Another set of necessary things is a thread with a stapler.
And, the last thing we need is acrylic paints. But you can also use paints from the canister.
It is worth noting that in the process of manufacture, a number of materials and items may be needed, but it is optional.
In the end, everything rests on the borders of your imagination and your skill.
Calculate the amount of isolon that leaves one flower, you can independently. To do this, you only need to fold the entire area of cut-cuts. Usually, small flowers leave from one to two standard Izolon's stores. On the growth of the same crafts can escape material meters.
How to do?
Learning to make artificial flowers from Isolon can even a child. Next, step by step is presented an instruction manufacturing a bud with a detailed description for beginners.
- The first thing to be done before starting the manufacture of a flower with your own hands is to determine the color. You are not limited to the choice of color scheme, but it will be best to navigate the shades of real colors.
- Another important stage is the choice of petals. Before starting work, you must clearly imagine that in the end you want to get. It is worth noting that the size of the petals can be the most different. For example, small roses may have dimensions from 1 to 12 cm or even more. If you want to make a big flower, then you need to purchase an insole, the thickness of the sheets of which will be more than 3 mm. This is due to the fact that the thickness of the isolone depends on how large flowers will keep their volume. In general, the number of petals for one flower is not limited. They can be bonded with each other until it seems possible.
However, the flowers made from the thick sheets of soles will look rather and unpleasant. For growth colors, the number of sizes of petals should be from two to five. For example, several 40x40 cm petals, as many as many 20x20 cm, 15x15 cm and so on.
- The next step is to prepare and cut the template. The pattern by tradition can be easily cut out of the paper, on which the schemes were pre-drawn.
- After you need to give the sheets the desired form. You just need to heat the isolon a little, and stretch the leaves with your fingers. But also petals can be adjusted only on the one hand. In this case, as when choosing a color, it is best to navigate the model in the form of a real flowering plant. If the petals of chamomile and chrysanthemums are practically no different from each other, then such orchids cannot be said. The manufacture of lilies petals also need to take more carefully.
Their petals are rather large, therefore their differences are quite noticeable, which is necessary to reflect in the manufacture of artificial analogues.
- The penultimate step - glue all petals in the flower with hot glue. It also needs to be taken into account how petals are located in real colors. The leaves of the isolon must be bonded in pairwise or alternately depending on the appearance of a natural flower. In general, all the flowers can be divided into two groups - on those whose petals are located freely relative to each other, and those whose petals are tight towards each other fit.
- The final, but not always the necessary step - painting the flower with aerosol paints. Craftsmen can even draw straws on the petals, which are mainly necessary roses, tulips and valley.
Any master classes include, in addition to the instructions, a number of useful tips for creating colors with their own hands.
Obviously, the flowers do not consist only of buds, they have more leaves, stalks, buds, spikes, and so on.
Stem
Sometimes it is missing, as the flower can be attached directly to the surface. If you plan to store flowers in a standing position, then in this case the stem is definitely necessary. Typically, a tube is used as a stem. The stem is used as a flower support. Therefore, it can be replaced by perflective. As an attachment, for example, on a panel or wall, you can use large paper clips. Especially for this in the panels make holes or hooks are installed.
Another concept of fastening on the wall is hanging the horizontal or vertical base, on which the blanks are attached.
In addition to punched, it can be eternity, and even ordinary fabrics.
Stem for bulk colors can serve a hollow tube with a diameter of 40 mm and more. It can be both plastic and metal, and metalplastic.
Leaves
The leaves on the stem are attached by the same technology as the petals. You must first cut them on a predetermined scheme and later adjust them or make wavy. It should be borne in mind that the leaves are required for growth colors.
Stand
It is also necessary for one or more growth flowers. The ideal option is the welded stands. To do this, the metal sheet with a thickness of more than 3 cm is welded low sixtes. Later on these poles, tubular stems of flowers are planned.
But there is another version of the homemade stand with their own hands. To do this, prepare a hollow tube or several tubes, as well as a floor pot for ordinary colors. Take one tube, install it in a pot, then pour the cement to a third. When it freezes a little and fixes the position of the tube, then add more cement.
If you make a stand for a composition of colors, then you need to do the same with several tubes.
After all the cement layers are completely dried, the pot is decorated with cloth or paints. Instead of cement, you can use gypsum, and the pot can be replaced by barrel, in rare cases, even a regular bucket. Need to remember that Capacity walls should be dense so that they do not burst during the cement will dry, expanding in volume.
It is best to choose wide hollow tubes in order to insert the stems of flowers inside, and not to plant them outside the tube.
Such supports are quite massive, therefore not only withstand a large weight of colors, but also practically do not turn over. By the way, such supports can be made of small pots.
Options for compositions
Most often, it is huge and outdoor flowers from Izolon used as a decor at various events. Typically, the color gamut is maintained in pastel colors. At the celebrations are also used wall panels and individual flowers as a supplement to the decor. Separate stores fasten large buds on the wall, thereby making thematic decoration to various holidays. Growth flowers are frequent details of the decor of the halls of celebrations, photo studios and shop windows.
Bouquets of flowers from Isolon will not tolerate a wide variety of bright colors.
If you still want brightness, it is best to stay on one shade, for example, red.
Such crafts are used not only for the decor, it can still be made from them. The best option in this case is the floor-bearing flower in a pot. It costs to take into account that for a homemade lamp you need to purchase only a LED lamp. It does not heat up, therefore, the melting of soles is practically not happening. But it will be best to be reinforced, and not too tightly glue the material to the lamp.
It is noted that the flowers from isolon are well combined with long curtains or other monophonic background.
Peonies look great as table colors. Placing a bouquet of them into a hat box, peonies can be presented as a gift. As a rule, table flowers from isolon are used as an ornament under the night light. Such desktop scaves looks spectacular, pleases the eye and fills the room with muted light.
Recommendations for care
Obviously, the best paint falls on white. Therefore, if you plan to paint flowers, then it is necessary to initially use white isolon. There are only three types of dyes that can be painted isolon.
- Rubber dye. It is distinguished by durability, resistance to temperature and humidity drops, uniform structure when applied. But after drying, it becomes matte, so more often on top of it also varnish.
- Acrylic paint or acrylic enamel. It is also distinguished by durability - can maintain its initial appearance over several years. It is possible to apply it only with the help of a collapse.
- Conventional paints from the canister. This is the most budget, affordable and fast option painting for colors from isolon. But with mechanical exposure, the coating can crack and fall. Such dyes have a very uneconomical consumption of composition. Simply put, for large-scale gluts, they are expensive.
- Automotive enamel. She goes well to the isolon and is also durable. This paint is expensive and is highly spending.
Conducting the theme with paints, it is worth noting that the finished product will be painted best with the help of a collapse. But if there is no such, then it will be necessary to tint every petal with rubber paint, and later collect buds from them.
A separate topic is cleaning such colors. It is clear that the wash them is categorically prohibited. Nevertheless, care for flowers from isolon must, as practically no terrain is distinguished by clean air with a lack of dust. It can be shaken with a brush of feathers or vile. Another way to get rid of dust - hair dryer. It is possible to use it only in cold air mode.
Assistant in this business can also serve can serve aircraft with air under pressure. They also blow dust or other trash.
Products from isolon need to be treated with antistatic. If it happened so that the products were dirty, then you need to carefully remove the flower from its stand, then rinse under a small jet of the soul. Water should be not hot, but moderately warm.
If you have seen stunningly beautiful flowers from Isolon in any room, then rest believe that a similar masterpiece can really do at home.
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