Yesterday you looked at how to weave in 5 minutes, and today I want to offer you another 5-minute craft! Only this time the main material will be paper. And I propose to make a cute lizard, which can serve as both a toy for a child and a decoration for a gift...
To make a lizard you will need:
dense colored paper, a breadboard knife and scissors, a hole punch to make circles (but you can do without it), glue, and a pen to write your wishes.
We start by downloading and printing.
Then cut out the lizard and carry out BACK side knife (or NOT writing pen) along the center line.
After that, you begin to decorate it - glue circles on the back, make eyes from 2-3 circles...
If you have zigzag scissors, then cut off 2 strips with them, these will be the lizard's teeth. If not, then skip this step and immediately make the tongue.
Sign your wishes by placing the inscription on the tail - where there are no circles.
And now - the most interesting part. The made lizard must be bent. You start, for example, from the head and move along the intended line.
Hello beads. Wrote new master class to your lizard instead of the previously removed one. Now we will make an incredibly beautiful lizard with such a complex name Phelsuma andamanensis. Seeing the image of this amazing creature, I couldn’t help but weave it. See for yourself what a royal creature.
To make felsuma we will need:
- 0.5 meters of thick aluminum wire (can be pulled out of any wire by first removing the insulation);
- a couple of unnecessary clean ones nylon tights;
- sharp household scissors;
- small scissors for cutting threads;
- wire cutters for thick wire;
- Czech beads 5 colors (size 10): lilac, turquoise, light green, orange, red;
-black bead 0.3-0.5 mm;
- nylon thread (nylon);
- wire 0.2 mm lilac;
- thin needles for beading.
- padding polyester or cotton wool.
So let's get started. I divided my master class into several steps. There are no exact diagrams, because the process is fantasy-creative. Here everything depends on the selected beads, as well as on the shape and size of the resulting frame. The proposed description helps to understand the principle of creation voluminous toys on the frame. So, go ahead smile
Step 1. Creating a “skeleton”.
In order for a toy to keep its shape, its support, like that of a person, must be a skeleton. I decided to weave a lizard in natural size (from the nose to the tip of the tail about 13 centimeters.)
And this is the pose of Felsuma that I liked the most. For beginners, I advise you to weave your lizard without bends, that is, straight. Because the complex shape of the body imposes certain difficulties in the work. This is the frame I got. To attach the future paws to the spine, I tied the wire with threads made from nylon tights. To make the threads, I first cut off one gacha and, using scissors in a circle, cut it into a thread 2 centimeters wide, then I did the same operation with the other gacha (that’s why we needed good, sharp, large utility scissors, because the scissors are bad this material will not be taken so easily).
Step 2.
Then we begin to form future form body, for this purpose I periodically place lumps of synthetic fluff under the nylon. We should get something like this frame.
Step 3.
At the next stage, we begin to braid our frame with beads. It is preferable to start with the thickest part of the belly, because in places where you need to reduce the number of beads in a row, you can feel it very well (the braid begins to dangle and does not fit tightly to the frame). It doesn't matter in which direction to weave. I went towards the breast. In the place where the braid is already close to the future paws, you should stop and start braiding the felsuma paws with a mosaic strand. In my case, this strand was woven with 13-15 beads in the front legs, 15-17 beads in the back legs.
Step 4.
After the pair of legs is ready, we fill the space between them with a mosaic canvas, both above and below. This is what should happen.
Step 5.
Repeat Step 4, but in the other direction. We carefully monitor the body pattern in the sketch and try to repeat it in our product.
Step 6.
Now we braid the tail of our felsuma with a mosaic strand. Where necessary, we reduce the number of beads in the row, do it gradually and smoothly, so that the tail does not turn out like a broken ladder, but is smooth and looks something like this.
Step 7
We weave heads. Where necessary according to the sketch, we expand the row. The difficult part is creating the eyes. So that they fit into the shape of the head as in the sketch, we carefully cut out the eye sockets in the frame, removing excess nylon and padding. Then we begin to carefully narrow the muzzle, reducing the number of beads in the row.
Step 8
We braid felsume fingers on a thin colored wire. All. Our lizard is ready
Tummy.
Now all that remains is to give our monster a name. This may be the name that was on the tongue during the creation of felsuma, or it may also be a derivative of the scientific name. Emerald day gecko is the Russian version of the name, it may well become Gekkosha or simply Gosha, in Latin - “Felzuma Andamanezis” easily turns into Filka. That's all, good luck in the creative process.
This pendant, 15 cm long, is made in the style of a coffee toy.
For production we take the following materials:
- white fabric"Calico."
- scissors.
- acrylic paints.
- thin brushes.
- PVA glue.
-instant coffee.
- a piece of foam rubber.
- thin lace.
- gel pen.
-paper.
- a simple pencil.
- sewing machine.
- any filler for toys.
- needle and thread.
Before work, we draw a template of a lizard, the length of which is 16 cm and the width is 8.5 cm. We outline the shape and location of the toy’s eyes.
Using the cut out template, use a simple pencil to outline the main outline of the lizard along the fabric folded in half. Secure with a sewing pin and cut with seam allowances.
Now on one side between the paws we mark the place for filling, which we will not stitch. And along the main line we make a line with small stitches. After everything has been stitched, in difficult turns we make notches with scissors, not reaching the seam. And now you can turn it out starting from the tip of the tail.
Place the template under the fabric and use a pencil to mark the shape of the eyes in the light.
The next stage of making the toy will be filling it. We take any filler (sintepon, padding polyester, holofiber) and through the hole left, we compact the toy well.
When this process is completed, carefully sew up the left incision with a needle and thread.
Next, for decoration, we make tightening threads on all the paws in turn. There are two folds on each paw and we will additionally tighten them with thread. We pierce with a needle and thread first in the first bend, retreating 3-4 mm from the edge. We make several stitches in one place, direct the thread over the fold of the fabric and tighten them. Then we move to the second fold and also form a drawstring. Each paw has three toes.
But we have 4 legs, we shape everything.
Now let's move on to the muzzle. We also use a needle and thread to tighten the spout. On the upper part of the muzzle, in the upper corner, we retreat 5 mm from the edge and make a puncture 1 cm long. In this case, the thread passes inside the toy, we make several stitches in one place and do not pull it too tightly, we get the shape of a nose with nostrils.
And on the edge of the tail we make a loop from the thread, which we will use when tinting.
Now we will prepare the coffee solution. Pour 1 teaspoon of instant coffee into a jar, pour in 3 tablespoons of boiling water, stir well and let cool slightly. Then add PVA glue to the warm solution, keeping the proportions 1:1 and mix thoroughly. We paint the lizard with this solution on all sides and hang it by the finished loop to dry for 4-5 hours.
The dried toy changed color and became denser. We draw eyes on it with a pencil, and then outline them with a gel pen. We also put dots on our fingers.
Now let's start coloring acrylic paints. Making a mixture of brown and yellow flowers. We take a piece of foam rubber and paint along all the seams with light movements. Then on the paws, head, nose.
After this layer has dried, draw the eyes. There will be black in the narrow part, then a stripe of blue and a little white on top. Give it time to dry. And then we put a white highlight on the pupil.
Now again, using a gel pen, we correct the contours of the eyes and draw eyelashes.
Everything is dry now and we can cut off the thread from the tail, but in its place we attach a beautiful lace. The lizard pendant is ready. Eyes can be covered clear varnish for nails.
Good luck to all. DIY lizard
There is something fascinating about these lizards. Sometimes I have a desire to make a lizard, I don’t know for what purpose and from what, but I really want to make it... And now I’ve found something that inspired me! This self-made lizard did not leave me indifferent and I will not rest until I have such a lizard. And then I’ll plant it in the garden, let it live there)))
The master of this miracle lives in the country of masters.
More precisely here: stranamasterov.ru/node/440535?t=451
To begin with, as in almost any work, it all starts with a sketch, drawing. So as not to lie in proportions and not deviate from what we want to get in the end. Next, we find a thick wire and bend it as required by the graceful body of the lizard. We wrap the wire in newspapers and wrap it with thread.
We make paws from thick and thin wire. They are glued to the body with glue (hot, instant, titanium...).
We glue the lizard with napkins and glue with water. We do the same with the paws. Those who are familiar with the papier mache technique will have no questions. We attach the paws, glue the eyes, outline the nostrils, ears and mouth.
For the eyelids, add volume from napkins.
We also make ears.
Another layer of napkins.
Paint with brown paint.
Then gold. Although, the coloring of the lizard depends entirely on your desire and taste.
A handmade lizard looks like it’s alive. I don’t know how long it will stay in the garden, but I think the effect will be amazing. I’m sitting like this, all dreaming... I’ll go make my dreams come true)))
