Roses on a ball – topiary

Handicraft techniques / Topiary 101 354 1

To begin with, we take the most ordinary napkins. I took snow-white ones, but you can take plain ones of any shade.

We lay them out on the table - you can stack them and cut them into 4 parts. This is the basis of our flatbreads.

Now we take one such piece of napkin and lay it on the table

Next, we take a kebab skewer and twist the edge of our napkin onto it. Do not twist too tightly, otherwise the next step will be difficult.

We continue to wrap approximately a little more than half of the napkin.

Now from each edge we squeeze the napkin-tube like an accordion towards the middle of the skewer - we get a corrugated edge.

We get these petals of our future rose. We need nine of them for one flower.

To form a flower, we make a bud from scraps of napkins and cover them with one napkin. We cut off the excess.

We begin to wrap the petals with threads.

Now we prepare the base for the tree.
First, let's prepare everything you need.

We place plasticine in a small flower pot to weigh down the base. We place a stick in the plasticine - maybe from wood (about 25 cm). We paint the stick with bronze-colored acrylic paint.

We attach a ball to this base.The ball is made of newspaper and covered with corrugated paper.

We have the base of the tree and the rosettes ready. Let's start assembling the topiary.

We attach roses to our ball starting from the top. Close together with hot glue.

We continue to glue...

Now our work is almost finished - add leaves made of green paper or satin ribbons. We make double loops from ribbons 10 cm long and also attach them between the flowers with hot glue.