Polymer clay is used quite often to make a variety of products. For example, flowers can be made from this material. Try making a rose with your own hands.
To sculpt a rose from polymer clay is a rather painstaking business. But the result will surely please you - such roses are no worse than real ones.
Polymer clay rose
For work, you will need the material itself from which you will make the flower, and a thick green wire. It will serve as a stalk. The modeling begins with the petal of the very center of the rose. To do this, you need to roll a small ball and make a thin layer out of it, which is then twisted in the form of a petal. It is better to bend its outer edges a little to give the flower a natural look. Next, you need to make the next petal and carefully superimpose it on the previous one. You need to apply from below, attaching the parts well. When 2 petals are ready, you can put them on the wire. And then you should attach all the other petals, remembering to bend the edge of each of them. Sepals must be made from green clay, which are attached to the bottom of the rose. It remains to connect the parts, and the rose is ready.
Heart of roses
To collect a heart from roses, you will need the following materials and tools: polymer clay of different colors, an oasis base, thick wire, wire cutters or good scissors, tape tape (you can buy it in florist shops), round-nose pliers and PVA glue.
To make a heart of roses, each flower is first made separately using the technology described above. Rosettes are best made in different sizes. Then they start making leaves. To do this, take green clay and roll it into balls of different sizes. To apply veins, you can use special blanks with a characteristic relief. A green ball is rolled over this blank, shaped into a leaf, and the clay is pressed in to leave streaks. Now, using glue, you need to attach a piece of wire to the finished sheet. The length of the wire can be made any at your discretion.
At this stage, it is necessary to dry both the roses and the leaves. It is convenient to do this with an inverted candy box gasket. So the products will not wrinkle and will not spoil their appearance.
Now, at the end of the wire, you need to make a small loop with round nose pliers and insert the wire into the center of the rose, being careful not to damage the flower. The loop should be inside the petals. Thus, the wire is inserted into all ready-made roses.
For the stem, take a wire of the required length. To connect the stem and leaf, you need to wrap them together with tape. To begin with, it is cut to the same length as the stem and stretched at both ends so that it becomes sticky. The same procedure is carried out with the rest of the roses.
When assembling the heart, it is important to take into account that the flowers are evenly spaced and there is no empty space. Each rose should be stuck carefully into the oasis. Along the edges of the base, the flowers must be arranged so that they cover it with themselves. For better fixation based on the wire-stem, it is recommended to dip it in glue. Having placed large flowers in the oasis, now have smaller roses. As a result, you should get a beautiful heart of roses.
