Handmade paper decorations - decoration schemes and templates for making the most beautiful decorations

How can you simply and quickly decorate the room for the holiday? The cheapest and most convenient method of making decorations - colored paper, scissors and a little imagination. Paper flowers, garlands, bouquets, balloons, snowflakes and other products transform a room, study, front hall or living room.

To create a decoration of the hall with flowers from paper, it does not take much time and effort, only a minimum of materials and care. Consider different options for making flowers and decorations that can create holiday entourage overnight. It's easy, quick, and very interesting! Children can be involved in the design work, the whole family is much more interesting to cut out and glue decorations.

Floral layouts

Perhaps the most popular option for decorating any room is to make flowers from paper with their own hands to decorate for the holiday.

Flowers are made according to a simple scheme:

  1. You choose the type of flower, a shade of paper or several tones. It is better to take colors of the same range, combining with white and green.
  2. Petals of different sizes are cut out, superimposed on each other.
  3. A heart is inserted, the parts are glued or fastened together with a thread or wire threaded through the center.
  4. To create a 3D effect, the edges of the petals can be bent and fluffed by pressing with scissors or a ruler, to give a curve, to create veins on the leaves
  5. Several flowers can form a three-dimensional composition, still life or landscape. Flowers are fastened in the corner, under the ceiling, by the mirror, in any place.

 

Tip: looks interesting flower arrangement, which is reflected in a large mirror - it creates a feeling of light and a large number of flowers in the room.

Flowers can be supplemented with ribbons, inscriptions, other decorative elements. They can braid and fill shelves, loose corners, disguise the pipes of communications. These are great decorations for summer windows from corrugated paper, which looks voluminous and harmonious, not as strict as flat smooth paper.

New Year's decor

The theme of the New Year is the most fruitful and disposing to paper creativity. In this case, there are many options for decorating:

  • Christmas trees cones made of paper. Making such a Christmas tree is easy. It is enough to roll up in a cone a Watman or a small sheet of thick paper, depending on the size of the future Christmas tree. The edges are connected with glue or stapler, then it is important to carefully decorate the base. You can decorate the tree with threads of different density, paint, glue small ornaments - balls, beads, fruit, stars and snowflakes. On top it is better to put a star or other symbol that will cover the paper and draw attention to the product.
  • Garlands of snowflakes. Making dozens of snowflakes by cutting folded circles and squares is easy. Here the principle of symmetry is used. The main thing - do not deny yourself the experiments. You can quickly and easily assemble a long garland of small snowflakes on string or fishing line. You can also glue individual objects on windows and walls with double-sided tape - they will echo the long compositions.
  • Letters and lettering. Cut out of colored paper huge letters and greetings to hang on the wall - an interesting approach to decorating the main room where they celebrate the New Year. The letters can be the same color, but there is an option to cut them in different shapes and colors. The letters are sprayed with metallic powder, glued with glitter or rain, as desired.

Any version of paper decorative crafts can be a great addition to the central holiday object - a dressed up Christmas tree.

Decorations for the living room

Your own room can become a creative ground where the boldest and brightest ideas are implemented. Decorate the room of a girl or a guy, children and parents can be to any taste:

  • Paper flowers, flags, layouts. Place a bouquet of paper flowers, a cluster of roses or poppies, daisies, dandelions in the form of a paper pompom is an original solution. This approach will immediately liven up the room, give it a fresh look. Especially teenage girls love this kind of decor. For boys will suit a more "masculine" version - models of cars or planes, hung from the ceiling, flags of the world, echoing the map on the wall. You can add a flag after each trip abroad.
  • Volumetric art compositions. In a large frame or no frame can create interesting panels of paper cranes, different origami figures, flowers, ships, scraps and beads. It can be a mandala - a concentric and symmetrical picture, creating an atmosphere in the room due to the combination of colors and details. Complement the picture can be plastic ornaments, souvenirs, badges or paint certain places.
  • Lanterns. Garlands of paper lanterns are made quickly and easily, and LEDs on wires can serve as illumination.

Wall objects

Beautiful decoration of the hall with flowers from paper can be complemented by other types of decor. For example, hearts, mugs, rings, flags and garlands of these elements are very popular. Their making will also take literally a few minutes.

Important: With the help of garlands you can conveniently zoned the space of a large room. Separately allocate a buffet zone or for games, distribution of gifts, the zone of rest.

Flags. These object are cut out in the form of rectangles, bent in half, put on strings. Glue or scotch tape both sides. To make the garland of flags brighter, it is better to take juicy, different colors. For aesthetics, it is worth observing an equal distance between the flags.

Hearts. For a romantic event, dinner or wedding, they often make a garland of hearts. The blanks are attached to each other in 2 pieces. The upper heart is better to bend in half, all fastened with a thread. Especially strong holds the product, stitched machine.

Rings and circles. This is a beautiful geometric plot, which consists of circles and rings of different sizes and colors. It is worth to cut out a large number of objects and fasten on the glue along the entire length of the thread - and the decor is ready. A variation is a chain of paper links made of strips 1-4 cm wide, with a length of up to 15 cm. You just need to put the rings into each other, glue and assemble the desired amount.

For garland of any shape you need thick paper, thin and flexible. It turns out airy, light decorations, giving the effect of space. Although thick paper is more reliable, it is not easy to work with it, it requires skill.

In connection with the future hanging on the wall, it is worth taking into account the weight of the assembled product - there should be hooks, ropes, fishing line. Also as a base you can take napkins, postcards - anything that is attached to glue or staples, stapler.

Paper balloons

To create three-dimensional spheres will need a set of thin colored paper, scissors, glue gun and a little patience. Here use the technique of origami or make pompoms.

The work algorithm is as follows:

  1. Sheets of paper are placed on top of each other, folded in an accordion. Depending on the size of the future ball made from 4 to 8 layers.
  2. The middle of the accordion is tied with string or wire. In order not to make a mistake with the center, you need to fold the paper in half, tie in a bend. Otherwise the ball skewed and will look ugly.
  3. Along the edge of the need to cut the entire accordion - a semicircle, a triangle.
  4. Each sheet of straighten, without damaging the paper, from the center to a separate layer. It is better to divide the mass of paper in half, this will simplify the task.
  5. The finished balls can be hung on strings or assembled into a garland.

Working with a paper base is not difficult, but very interesting. For children, this process will be a great way of entertainment, a source of positive emotions.

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