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Decorative plate “Bees on flowers”

A decorative plate can be made from any item of suitable shape or, as in this case, from an ordinary disposable plate. The original composition will make the product beautiful and unusual. Will it be your own idea or borrowed

Icon Jesus Christ

An unusual master class will open to everyone who wants to master this type of art the subtle world of icon painting with its own orders and rules. Understanding this skill is not so difficult if you approach the matter with patience and love. For creativity

Unusual wall panel

List of required materials: - A sheet of paper. - Paints. Gouache is preferable, since when painting with gouache, less water is required than for watercolor, and therefore the paper will deform less. - Brush - Jar or glass with

Cold porcelain dog magnet

You can easily make beautiful magnets with your own hands. Polymer clay or cold porcelain are suitable for this. And in today’s master class you will learn how to make a “dog” magnet. Materials: - Stack for modeling - Magnet - Cold porcelain - Gouache

Garden sculpture of a cat

To make a waterproof and lightweight garden sculpture in the form of a cat from papier-mâché, you will need newspaper and gray toilet paper, flour paste, wire with a cross-sectional diameter of 5 mm, masking tape, construction plaster, alkyd enamel of various types.

Flower pot made from newspaper tubes

The selection of flower pots in supermarkets is very large. But every housewife wants to have an original pot without large financial investments. And the solution to this problem. You can weave yourself a cute pot for indoor plants using

Frame made of newspaper tubes for a baguette

Sometimes even the simplest fake, made with your own hands, is valued much higher than something bought from a store. Proof of this is a frame for a picture or photograph, glued together from ordinary newspaper tubes. In this master class we will tell you how

Composition of colored salt and artificial flowers

To decorate your home with an original composition, you don’t have to look for it in the store. DIY decor will definitely fill your home with warmth and comfort. Materials that will be required during the work: - transparent vase; - color

Terry violet made of beads

To make a terry violet from beads you will need: − Beads No. 10 of the preferred color, in this case blue, light blue, green and a little yellow; − Wire 0.2 or 0.3 mm thick; − Florenta or green floss threads; − Glue Moment and PVA;

Drawing a portrait with acrylic paints

It is better to learn to draw a portrait from a photo in black and white. Print the photo in black and white, it is advisable to print the photo the size you plan to make the drawing, but this is not necessary. After you have printed

Vase made using papier-mâché technique

We will need: Form for the future vase; Newspapers; White paper; PVA glue; Disposable gloves; Polyethylene film; Gouache; Glossy varnish for coating; Brushes for gouache and varnish.

Fish on a plate

The applique is made of pasta of various shapes on a plate. The base used is ordinary plasticine for children's creativity. What motivated me to create crafts was the huge assortment of pasta on supermarket shelves,

Picture of three flowers

Today we will perform a very simple and incredibly useful color science exercise. All professional artists have gone through this more than once, and I think no one regrets it. In art school, this exercise is performed in the first year

Angry Birds made from salt dough

Angry Birds have actively entered our lives. You won't find them anywhere. But what could be better than something made with your own hands? Today we will try to make two pendants on a satin ribbon with Angry Birds. This is what it will all look like in the end

Bottle decor “Golden sunflowers”

Beautiful things attract attention. And beautiful things made by hand are pleasing not only to the eyes, but also to the soul. There is no factory stereotypedness and facelessness in them, but there is always a place for creative imagination and a non-standard approach to the standard

Heart magnet

Valentine's Day is a wonderful and bright day for all lovers. According to tradition, on this day lovers should give each other valentines and all sorts of trinkets in the shape of hearts. But made with your own hands, it becomes even sweeter and more expensive. Try to do

Applique for clothes "owl"

Recently I decided to make applique on clothes. Actually, painting on fabric is easier and somehow faster, but if the intended design is not successful, the item can be thrown away. Therefore, I decided to tell you how to make an Owl applique. You will need: 1.gold and

Fridge magnet machine

After an interesting trip or memorable event, the collection of souvenir magnets on our refrigerators is replenished. Funny or themed, bas-relief or rectangular - they all remind us of pleasant moments in life. Sometimes it gets like this

Frame

From the simplest objects you can make interesting and unusual decorations for your home. Take, for example, cardboard rolls left over from paper napkins or toilet paper. From such a simple and seemingly absolutely unnecessary material,

Openwork basket

A standard idea and the most non-standard embodiment of this idea into reality, solving an ordinary problem in an original way - the life of a creative person. The made openwork basket can become a wonderful decoration for the kitchen interior and

Cheerful decor

New Year is a time of joy and fun.What could be better than a friendly company of friends and family, where you can have fun and relax? Of course, nothing. I want to share with you my idea on how to make New Year's Eve even more fun.

Salt candlestick

To create such a wonderful candlestick, ordinary coarse table salt is used. Of course, it only looks so mysterious by candlelight. It is worth admitting that in daylight it is not so spectacular. But we are going to use it

Plate with three-dimensional image

Antique styling: decorative plate with a three-dimensional image. I really like antique things. There is a certain mysterious charm of time in them: they once decorated the interior of the estate, witnessed the fate of its inhabitants, and then

Decoupage cutting board

The decoupage technique has recently become increasingly popular. It is a varnished applique made from napkins, postcards or various paper pictures. You can decorate absolutely any surface with decoupage - from furniture to

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