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Craft Blooming Beauty: Learn the Art of Making Stunning Foam Flowers

teacher avatar Betty Dalmi, Artist that specializes in Art and Craft

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction to the Course

      1:08

    • 2.

      Materials List

      0:35

    • 3.

      Foam Flower Template Creation

      3:15

    • 4.

      Creative Flower - 1

      24:17

    • 5.

      Creative Flower - 2

      17:07

    • 6.

      Creative Flower - 3

      11:49

    • 7.

      Creative Flower - 4

      8:50

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Craft Blooming Beauty is an exciting and immersive course that will teach you the art of making stunning foam flowers. Through this course, you will learn how to create beautiful and realistic flowers using foam materials, including foam sheets and floral wire. You will be guided step-by-step by instruction and learn the techniques and tips to create a variety of flowers such as roses and other three variety of flowers.

The course is perfect for beginners and enthusiasts who are looking to explore a new craft or hone their skills in flower making. You will learn how to cut, shape, and color foam sheets to make realistic petals and leaves. Additionally, you will learn how to assemble your foam flowers using floral wire and other materials to make them look lifelike and durable.

By the end of the course, you will have a collection of stunning foam flowers that you can use for various decorations such as floral arrangements, bouquets, and even home décor. With the knowledge and skills gained from this course, you will be able to create unique and beautiful foam flowers that will impress your friends and family.

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1. Introduction to the Course: Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of foam flag crafting. My name is Maeve, and I'm here to guide you through the process of making beautiful and realistic flower or the folds. Flat grafting is a versatile and enjoyable graph that allows you to create standing floral arrangements that will last a lifetime. You are a seasoned crafter or a break. Now, this graft is perfect for anyone who loves flop. Want to add a touch of beauty to the home deco, special occasion, or even as a gift. This course, you will learn how to create a form class Bye, shipping and loving form sheets together. With a little bit of creativity and patients. You can make a wide variety of Flask, such as roses and move in any color and size you resides. So get ready to explore the boulder form flag crafting, and let's get started on creating some standing glute. 2. Materials List: Hi everyone. In this video, we'll see what are the materials needed for creating the form floss. 0.8 M form sheets. Hot glue gun. Floral t lands. I invokes a heat gun. Seem rival. Guizhou. Reading farm. Let's get started. 3. Foam Flower Template Creation: Hello everyone. In this video, I will show you how to create a template of petals and leaves for making the phone class. Creating templates is necessary for grading form flat's because it helps ensure consistency and accuracy in the size and shape of each flavor component. Templates are essentially guided that can be used to trace and ketones four pieces in a precise manner so that they fit together to form a realistic looking flop. Start by drawing a flat template on a piece of thick. It can be a code book or book cover or Chaffey, but you can draw any shape you like, such as daisy petals, rose petals, or leaves. You can also take a printout of the petals and leaves and trees it using the carbon paper and cut it. Easy to create a template, you have to follow two-step process, draw the desired shape and size of your pattern and cut it. Teeny. Plants are typically made by cutting out multiple layers of various sizes and shapes and then assembling them together with flu. Each layer may need to be slightly smaller or larger than the previous one. Depending on the shape of your flap. Templates can help ensure that each layer is cut out karaoke and matches a corresponding layer. In addition, the blades can help save time by using templates that can easily trees and cut off the necessary shapes without having to measure and mark each pieces individually. This can help ensure that the pieces fit together properly and reduce the likelihood of mistakes that would require starting a war. Or without creating templates is an important step in the phloem plot. For the foam flower making process to ensure that each flat is consistent and accurately represent the desired shape and size. Yeah, we go, one of the flat end plate is steady now. Thanks for watching. 4. Creative Flower - 1: Hi everyone. In this video, I'm using this template for petals and leaves. For this flower. I'm using a pink formula sheet. You can select a formula sheet in the desired color for your project. Make sure it is clean and free of task. Please the petal template in the formula sheet. And use a tool like this to trace the petals sheep in the formula sheet. You can't use a pencil or pen because the pencil and pen will leave a permanent bark on the finished product. We wouldn't want that. But you can use some sharp edge spins are other tools to trace the shape of the template into the formula sheet. Make sure you press firmly enough to leave a visible light on the formula sheet. Likewise, do use a very sharp object like a paper cut up. It will pack the formula sheet. Once you have the petals, you need, you can stack cutting it. Now. It's time to cut the pedals. Use sharp scissors to carefully cut the formula and patterns along the line. To make clean and precise cuts. Amy Jack H will be visible in the finished product. When cutting the former and she used sharp scissors, scissors with Karsh, the formula sheet, rather than cutting it teeny. Make sure your scissors are sharp and use them one leaf or cutting for Medina to maintain the sharpness. Slowly. Formula sheets are thin and cutting them weekly column because the edges to become jagged, uneven. To get a clean cut, slowly and steadily falling the line you have drawn caffeine. If you are new to working with formula, it can be helpful to practice on a scrap piece before working on your final project. This will give you a chance to get a fee for the materials and adjust your cutting techniques as needed. Almost completed. The first one is ready, and we need four more petals. This same process has to be followed. Once you have all the petals, you need to make those black lung to the next step. Gently unfold the way I'm doing and drag the edges. In this way, the heat generated between the fingers to ship the formula. This will give you the buttons a more natural. You can create goods weight of folds by pinching and twisting the formula and with your fingers. Be careful not to all of the formula. Or it may become the ship and automotive texture. Once you have heap the formula of your desire, you have to allow it to pull and sit. This will maintain its shape and texture. The next method I'm going to show you is by using the inbox is one of the heat source. To warm up the formula. You can use a heat gun or hairdryer on a low settings. B-sharp. Just keep the heat seals in low settings and don't overheat to avoid melting. Yes. Too much heat can cause the material to melt. Once a woman has one, use your finger to shape it into the desirable. If you're creating a larger sheet, you may need to use a font or more to help support the formula. When it pulls and said. You can use objects such as balls or carbs as moles and create your own custom. More using the medieval such as why? Remember to walk slowly and carefully. Using agenda to avoid damaging the materials. Because from Iran is a delicate me to get that gamma or the phone that's exposed to pipe the breaches. User low heat settings on your hindgut or hydronium ion box. And keep moving. The heat source such as he'd good or hairdryer. Moving is to avoid overheating at one spot. Once you have jammed with all the five petals. Now it's time to expand it. Touch the edges of the petals. Please a finger below the edges and expand it a little bit. Repeat the steps for all the five petals. Do it gently and slowly. Make sure you're not adding the petals. Now, we're done with all the five petals. Look at the H's. It looked nice. Keep the petals. Now it's time to meet the needs for our flop. The green formula sheet and your leaf template. The same process has to be followed. Please watch the video carefully and notice how I'm doing it. And follow the same process for your project. I'm repeating myself again. There's different theories, the sheep into the formula and using that template, ensure the consistency in shape and size. Big each buttons and cool the ages. This will give the buttons are more naturally. Expand the petals a little bit in the center. Once you are done, keep the font and leave. Now it's time to be the center of the rose. I'm picking the aluminum puzzle. People. Roll off a small piece of aluminum for Xofigo and pressure pipe horn sheep flocks. The central federal makes you the size of the code as little smaller than the petals size. His finger and middle finger inserted into the cone shaped aluminium positive people and secure it. In the center. The blue to security type stuff attaching the petals and the center hub due to the bottom of the petal. And placing it on the center. You can add new, gradually, increasing the size until you reach the desired size. When adding details to the blank, then that's something to keep in mind to ensure that your flower look beautiful. Please stop. It attaches to the stem in the natural and staged pattern. The better should not be too symmetrical. As the scan week this blank look artificial. We can try reading the signs of the brush to create more realistic shape. Some petals should be larger than others, and they should gradually become smaller towards the center of the flower. Again, try to gently pull the edges of the petals using your finger. But offensive. To add diamond shapes and lift the flask. Look more realistic. Slightly overlap the bezels as you attach them to the step to give the flavor that I mentioned. Slightly rotate each petals as you attach it to this tab to create your more natural looking sheet. To make sure that the petals are similar in shape and size. To create a more realistic looking flat. Continue adding one on top of each other, slightly rotating them to create. Not sure. We have all the buttons. Now it's time to, please. Once you have added all the petals and leaves, user Waikato to gender Florida, What does that stand? This is a lot of people standing by cutting a piece of Florida to the desired length. The length, well depends on the size of the item. But typically 4 " is a good length to plug in one-half. And this Jeff, you are happening in the other hand, begin dropping the floor and I don't just stand starting into law, blocking your way. Reshow. To stretch the deep slightly. As you'd wrap, to activate the adhesive. As you wrap, overlap the slide so that it sticks to itself. Does it, you can do wrapping it until you have cupboards and then you read the UK that are conductive and precedence a good lead. Ensure that the team starts to slip off. Come loose. Price judging it more as you wrap to activate that Huizu. Floating big gaps in verity of Palace. So choose the color that matches of a beautiful rose black. Thanks for watching. 5. Creative Flower - 2: Hello everyone. In this video, I will show you how to create the second type of plot using a low formula sheet. For this, we need six centimeter circle template. Please. The circle template in the formula entries the circuit. Make sure you press firmly enough to leave a visible line on the formula sheet. Now it's time to cut them. Use sharp scissors to Catholic cutout of Homer and circle along the tracer blind. To me clean and precise cuts as any jagged edges will be visible in the finished product. Now the so-called form around she does really all the foam sheet in half, bringing two opposite edges together. Now the guide dog hop into quieter. Know that along the corners, I'm dividing the clutter up the circle into four equal parts. We have 16 pieces in this layer. Each part of the petal and curved the edges. First, do it in clockwise and followed by the opposite Zac. Cutting and shaping form floss, get done and require patients. Take your time and book gasoline to create the desired shape and look for your flower. Full Vlassa delegate. So handled them with GAD to avoid pairing them. Please watch the video carefully and do it the same week, please. This is in the center and cut curvy. Now the opposite side. There are many ways to create form floss. So don't be afraid to experiment with different techniques to find out the one that works best for you. Do not rush the cutting process as this can result in inaccurate. The first layer is ready. Likewise, we need for more layers to create a flower leaves via using phi layer of petals to create the slop. Heat edges of the petals using a heat gun RNAi inbox. Be careful not to burn the formula sheet. Just heat it enough to slightly curved edges. This way. It's also smooth. The edges. Next immediately plays the a in your palm and press it to make a code. Again, how to please a plateau in the sponsor phase and firmly press the center and repeat the process for all the petals. Make a note, you must set your ion to a low to medium heat setting. Do not use high-heat as the skin burn or melt the formula petals. Olga, phi layer of petals are ready. The green color formula sheet for this same process has to be followed. The lines are visible in this green color formula sheet. It's curved edges. That's the straight cut. Slowly and gasoline. That's the heat setting on a small piece of formula before starting the project. Strike the petals before it goes down. Novel lethal strategy. For creating the center five, we need white formula, sheet one plus 15 centimeter. And color the white formula using the black oil pastel color. You can select the oil phase, a color that you want to use to color your formula. You can use one color or multiple colors to create a gradient. Definitely. The color Jenny, at the one. Taking care not to press too hard or damage the formula. You can use oil, Faisal or soft paisley colors. Other color pencil, wax, crayons, or watercolor will either Dam is a material or will not blend properly. It just slightly and drill it to greet the center of the flower. Speaker, Florida string. Length. And I've asked the center part of the flower ruling though, white foam rubber sheet with a metal strip to grid center button. Now look center part as a rainy day shipping it a little bit to make a more natural look. Now it's time to add the petals. One big one, leading them on top of each other and slightly rotating them to create a more natural. Finally, add the leaf. Begin dropping the Florida. I don't understand. At the top and working your way down slightly as Euro. If the paint starts to slip or come loose, try stretching it. As you wrap to activate the adhesive. Floral tape comes in variety of colors. So choose a color that matches. So again, very flat, steady now, to decorate your home. Thanks for watching and see you in the next video. 6. Creative Flower - 3: Hello everyone. In this video, I'm using this template to make the third video flask using the red and yellow formula. And if you watched my previous videos, you will know the steps. For those who are watching this for the first time, you must follow the few simple step process. Trace the shape of your petal into the formula sheet using the template to ensure the consistency in size and shape. And use sharp scissors to carefully cut out the formula and patterns along the TreeSet lines. While making this type of law, you need at least when is it similar size of patterns to create the fluff? For creating the center part of the plan, you need to dig a little formula sheet. When putting inches crossed 1 cm, you can choose a phone ranching that matches the color of the center of the plank. You want to use sharp scissors to cut form around sheets because one will crush the material instead of cutting it neatly to keep the scissors shops made sure they are well blade and one Lee used for cutting formula. Before beginning your final project, it can be helpful to practice your cutting method on a scrap piece. If you are new to using formula, you can use this opportunity to get a fee for the substance and warfare you're cutting method as necessary. Now, cut a small strip of formula from the sheet using scissors. The size of the strip will depend on the size of your plant. I'm getting very smart. Once you have done cutting the end Berlin, please take of water by and folded and insert the foam sheep. As I'm doing in this video. By doing this week, The Florida and Florida will not separate lake loop and start drawing the form sheet to create the center part of overflow really tightly as possible. Once it is done to secure it, I'm cutting a small piece of circular formula sheet. And I've actually eat in the bottom of this center point. We have greed. The formula and stupas too long for your flower. You can trim it down to the desired length using scissors. Keep in mind that the specific steps for creating the center part of the formula and flop may vary depending on the type of law you are making. Your personal preference for shipping and detailing. Experiment with different techniques and tools to find out the method that works. Best point. Followed by the next step is to warm up the formula. Here, I'm using my inbox as a heat source to shape the formula. Make visible lines with the stool and expand the petals a little bit to give the better young naturally appearance. You can also use other tools to gently heat the former and stuff. This will soften the material and make it easier to shape. You can also use other shaping tool to add texture and details to the petals. Once you're satisfied with the shape and size of the centerpiece and the petals. You can attend the center of the flower with the kids are popular for making artificial flowers because they are lightweight, durable, and can be shaped to create realistic looking petals and Bloom's. They're also relatively inexpensive and easy to work with. Making the map a popular choice for practice of all skill levels. Keep in mind while layering the petal to the center part of the form flask Jager to place the petals evenly and some entity around the center of the flower. The petals should be phased out equally and overreact slightly to create natural looking clamp. Ensure that each pedals is securely to the center of the flower. Make sure that it has a set completely before adding the next layer. Gradually, lay the petals one-by-one, making sure to create a smooth transition from one layer to the next. Dried to avoid any gaps or an evenness in the petals placement. Next, add the leaf, the bottom of the flower. This kind of leads are readily available in the market. You can use them if you want, as you can create it using green formula sheet. Once all the petals and leaves are attached to the wire, you can start dropping the stem that the Florida as you spiral. So I overlap that beat so that in bonds to itself and form them. Continue wrapping until you have covered the entire stem. Choose a color of the Florentine that complements are matches the flask because it comes in a variety of colors. Finally, ival Flores, reading. Thank you for watching. 7. Creative Flower - 4: Hello everyone. In this video, I'm going to show the final flaw of this course using the red foam sheet and read Poland's. Use a tool like this to trace the battleship in the formula sheet. After placing the petal template, they be careful to press down firmly enough to leave a line on the formula sheet that can be seen along the lines drawn. Gently cut out the petals of the formula using a pair of sharp scissors. Since formula sheets are relatively thin, cutting them rapidly may result in Jack unevenly, just slowly, steady while paying close attention to the lines we have drawn to get the teeth. Again accumulate on the phone floss over time. So it's essential to keep them clean. You can use a soft bristle brush, cannot compose g and to remove the dust from the floss. Properly, keep your phone floss avi from dark sunlight in a cool, dry area when not in use. The first petal is ready. Now we need formal petals to make this flat. You must do the formula in order to molded. You can use a hairdryer or heat gun for few seconds. Hold the formula sheet over the heat tools to make it a little closer sensitive to heat. So a wide exposing them to high temperature or direct sunlight for prolonged period. This can cause the form to melt or default. Add some texture to the petals and stretch it. Once you have sheep the formula into the desired sheet, let it cool and set for few minutes. Use caution when handling heated formula. It can become very hard and make cost or other injuries. For beginners, I always suggest them to consider wearing gloves are using a dual to hold the formula while heating and cooling. The formula sheet with a low heat setting, a white overheating the material as this can cause it to melt or become deformed. A formula sheet before eating it by cutting a small sample piece and heating it to see how it responds. This will help you to get a feel for the heat settings to shape the formula without damaging it. All the five petals are ready now, this artificial polar as lightweight and durable, making an idle for use in Florida and making remove a leaf from the Poland and start attaching the petals to the Poland. In fact, artificial flowers can be an ideal option for people who are allergic to pollen or have other sensitivity. Natural class. Artificial flask also offer the advantage of being long-lasting and durable as they do not weld or die like real flowers to Daphne layer the phone plans or deleted and can be easily damaged if not handled gasoline, a wide banding or crushing the flower and be gentle when arranging them. Gradually layer the petals one-by-one, making sure to create a smooth transition from one layer to the next. Try to avoid any gaps or unevenness in the petals. Placement. Finally, attach the leaves at the bottom of the flower. Florida is ready now. Thanks for watching.