Copper wire is a rather comfortable material for needlework, which allows at home to create original crafts. Even children will be able to cope with the work in this case.
What is needed for work?
Before you begin to create a craft, you need to prepare all the materials that may be needed during operation. Material, of course, depends on the kind of crafts. In addition to the wire itself, we can talk about multicolored threads, beads, sequins, beads. And fabric loskutka with beautiful patterns, foil and colored paper can be useful. Additionally, it is worth prepare such natural materials like roots and branches of plants of unusual forms. It will not be extensive plasticine. In addition to copper wire, you can additionally use other types of wires with different thickness to be able to make a frame that is thickening, and the parts and connections are a thorough.
The nippers will be required to obtain wire pieces of the required size, and the round-rolls and passage will allow them to give them a beautiful bend. Quite often to create volumetric copper crafts requires a soldering iron to connect key details. Since it is not possible to keep the hot wire with bare hands, it is necessary to prepare tweezers, at least normal (medical).
Before starting to solder decoration or decorative figurine, it is better to practice on unnecessary trimming.
The combination of hammer and anvil will allow you to add the product the necessary flattened parts. The role of anvil is able to perform some kind of overall metal with a flat surface. The remaining tools required to work with copper wire include sandpaper, scissors, and reliable tape.
Interesting ideas
For beginners, acquaintance with copper wire is recommended to begin with the creation of simplest products, for example, contours of animals and plants, as well as geometric shapes. Contour (flat) crafts from copper wire are suitable for embodiment even with children's hands. Some sophisticated schemes are not required for this. It is enough just to start from the contour, then separately construct internal parts, and at the end to connect one with other thin wire. If there is a need, the gaps are filled with a dense winding formed from thick wire.
Volumetric crafts have a more complex three-dimensional design. It can be a key chain, stand, basket or any other decorative object. It is necessary for the creation of bulk work that the soldering iron is necessary.
Before the New Year holidays, you can make a decorative Christmas tree with your own hands. If the planned sulfur height ranges from 15 to 20 cm, then for the crafts will require no more than 1 meter of the main material. The exact amount is determined depending on the corner of the spiral lift. Such a Christmas tree is decorated with an ordinary garland or a hanging "rain".
However, it is important to remember that copper is well heated and acts as a conductor of electricity, so it is better to refuse to abandon the faulty garlands.
New Year's decoration can also be created with the addition of tinsel. In this case, the trunk will require such a wire length, which will correspond to the height of the crafts, and for each pair of branches - more by 1-1.5 centimeters. At first, each copper thread "dresses" in tinsel, slowing down gliding, and then the branches are screwed into the barrel with one or two turns or almost completely "wrapped" it.
To create a key chain in the form of God's cow, one long piece of copper thread and 4 short, possessing equal length. The first will serve to create an insect body, and the rest - for the legs. The head can be done separately from the wire piece of medium length. To create a caller, a long wire will have to twist so that a three-dimensional hemisphere is formed, resembling an externally egg. Taking advantage of red and black beads, it turns out to sharpen the basis of God's cow. Insect head is done by winding medium wire around the calf so that the free ends "left" forward. Thus, it is the ends that will form a mustache, and the wire lump will become head. Insect's legs are connected at the last moment.
Very nice looks heart from a wire piece, assigned on a wooden cube. First, the metal bended in such a way as to form the desired figure. At the base, the thread should be twisted, after which it is doubled to make a heart. The end of the piece is fixed in the lower part so that the leg remains. A hole is drilled in a wooden cube, after which the glue is poured and the copper handicraft is inserted.
To make from a butterfly decorated with curls, you must first learn how to work with forceps. Having mastered this technique, it will be fully constructed the elegant insect from one wire. A beautiful curl can become the top of the wing, after which it will be left in the form of one curl of its lower part and "Cutter" the wing. To complete the crafts, it will stay large beads in the center, the abdomen acting.
Pretty simply created wire spider: To do this, it is necessary to prepare 8 metal filaments of the same size and 2 beads. It is important that all materials have a similar color. Beads wear one of the wires so as to leave the minimum distance between them. The remaining wire pieces are tied at this point, after which they are bend to form the legs.
The stand under the hot is created from one thick piece of wire or two thoughts.
It is important to select metal fragments, the length of which is made up at least 1 meter.
Thick wire can be applied immediately, and thin must be twisted around each other for the formation of the spiral. In addition, it will take a fairly wide line of suitable length. First, the wire is wrapped around the line, and then the blank is bent in such a way that the rings began to look at different directions. If everything is done correctly, then there should be a kind of sunshine, the ends of which are additionally fixed.
Recommendations
Interacting with wire, it is better to stick to one of the main methods of work. For example, the material can be twisted with a spiral, or form different curls. Thin wire is suitable as a reliable base for weaving beads.
The technique of the ganutor allows you to create crafts from wire with the use of silk yarns, beads, rhinestones and pearls. Before starting work, it is better to draw or print a sketch for more convenient operation.
The following video presents a master class for making crafts from copper wire.