Polymer clay or plastic is a versatile material for handicrafts, characterized by ease of processing, availability, a variety of colors, as well as a variety of techniques for working with plastic. With its help, you can make any crafts - dolls, jewelry, bijouterie, key chains, interior accessories, hair ornaments, and much more. In this article, we will tell you how to make a beautiful and realistic lily out of plastic with your own hands, which can be used in jewelry and hair.
Instructions
Step 1
Take white, yellow and bright yellow Fimo, wire and sepia brown pastels.
Step 2
Start by preparing and rolling out the plastic. Mix a small amount of white and yellow plastic for a light yellow shade. Roll a sausage from a piece of bright yellow plastic and place it on a thin cake made from a yellow ball.
Step 3
Wrap the yellow tortilla tightly around the sausage and smooth the seams. Then make the same cake out of a ball of light yellow plastic and wrap the resulting blank in it. Lastly, wrap the three-layer blank in a white plastic cake. Iron the seams, draw out the resulting thick sausage and cut it into three pieces.
Step 4
Chill three pieces in the refrigerator or freezer for five minutes, then use a sharp knife to carefully cut each sausage in half lengthwise. Manually shape each piece into an oblong, pointed petal. To do this, stretch each workpiece into a wide strip, and pinch its upper and lower ends with your fingers. The middle of each petal should be slightly thicker than its edges.
Step 5
Grind the dark brown pastels with a utility knife to a fine powder. Dilute this powder with water and apply an arbitrary number of brown dots of different sizes to the petals with a thin brush or stick.
Step 6
From a thin wire, twist three stamens with loops at the ends. Cover each loop with pieces of plastic, giving them an oblong shape of stamens, and then, until the plastic is dry, roll it in powder from pastels. Roll a ball of bright yellow plastic and stick all three stamens into it.
Step 7
Form a lily out of the petals - slightly bend the tips of the petals to make them look more graceful, and place the first three petals at equal distances around the center with the stamens, which will be the lower tier of the flower, and then, above them, place three more petals.
Step 8
Give the lily a shape, fix the petals together and, placing the flower on any base, put it in the oven at the right time. Once the lily is ready, polish and varnish it.
