Cute and functional gizmos for home and garden, made with their own hands according to our schemes and instructions, will be wonderful decoration items or gifts. Funny garden figurines and a bright wall basket for fruit you can make from ordinary plywood and foam, and the original containers for needlework – knit cotton yarn.
Frog princess
Two in one! A gorgeous decoration of your garden and a treasure trove with surprises. You can plant a frog in the garden, and you can several. In any case, they will not leave anyone indifferent.
You will need:
- balls of Styrofoam (1 with a diameter of 15 cm and a
- diameter of 2 4 cm; 1 with a diameter of 20 cm and 2 5 cm in diameter)
- 6 mm thick plywood sheet
- white, Golden yellow, red, light green and black acrylic paints
- green shiny paint
- waterproof thin black pencil
- white pencil with 3D effect
- mounting adhesive
- 18 yellow stones for crafts with a diameter of 11 mm
- 4 pieces of floral wire 3 cm in diameter 1.4 mm
- a brilliant clear lacquer, suitable for Styrofoam
- tracing paper copy paper
- simple pencil eraser
- jigsaw
- sanding pad
- drill
- drill with 1.5 mm diameter
- adhesive for Styrofoam
- transparent strong glue
- transparent shiny lacquer
- palette
Scheme-pattern: Princess-Frog (left) and Cats (right)
Job description
1. For both frogs with leaf motifs (in the left part of the diagram) increase until the desired size 2 crown and 4 claws, and two legs in a mirror image. Increased motives to transfer to plywood, cut out using a jigsaw. The edges of all parts are treated with a grinding pad and painted with acrylic paint of the appropriate color.
2. To solve both of the big ball of Styrofoam, as in the photo. On one half paste with the help of mounting glue two small balls in the form of eyes, and on the other half of the ball glue the paws, sawn from plywood.
Technology of work
3. After the glue has dried, make a sharp groove with a knife for the crown on the upper half of the ball behind the eyes. Then halves of balls to paint green acrylic paint outside and inside. After drying the paint, if necessary, apply a second layer. Pencils sketch sketch eyeballs, then, painting them with white and black paint, draw pupils.
4. Thin black pencil to strike on the head of the line of the mouth. Mix a small amount of red and white acrylic paint, take a little of the mixture on the sponge and draw cheeks. The resulting mixture to draw one of the frogs mouth. After drying the torso of frogs to paint the shiny green paint and white pencil with the 3D effect applied to cheeks white dots.
5. The peaks of the crowns and the fingers of frogs glued with strong glue, yellow pebbles for craft projects. On the lower edge of the crown drill a drill with a diameter of 1.5 mm two holes, they stick two pieces of wire 3 cm long.at the ends of the wire put a little glue and glue the crown on the back of the head in the prepared groove.
6. Open the body of the frogs, put in the recesses of small surprises.
Green Princess
Meow meow
One well is very curious, she just has to deal. And the second prefers to hide in a secluded corner. How good both cats are! Do you want to have such a house or garden? To make pussies out of the Board easily and quickly. Children will be happy!
Two cats
You will need:
- ntreated Board 24 mm thick: for the head-30 cm long, for legs – 2 x 10 cm wide and 8 cm long, for support-4 x 22 cm
- raw Board for the body thickness 28 mm 40 cm long
- dowels for wood with a diameter of 10 mm and a length of 6 cm
- black felt 3 mm thick
- 4 x 10 cm winding wire diameter 0.65 mm
- 1 m turquoise wool cord with a diameter of 5 mm
- 1 m of turquoise cord with a diameter of 5 mm
- white, Carmine red, green mint, cobalt, may green and black matte acrylic
- on 60 cm of wire in a braid from sisal for production of figures in diameter of 8 mm
- 2 halves of the black beads with a diameter of 10 mm
- black pencil with a thin pencil
- wood screws
In addition:
- soft simple pencil
- ruler
- scissors
- thin cardboard
- fillet hacksaw
- jigsaw
- sanding pad
- hand grinding machine
- wood rasp
- drill
- drill bits 1 mm and 10 mm in diameter
- wood glue
- sponge
Pattern diagram
Job description
1. Figures both cats to increase with leaf motifs, to be put on thin cardboard and cut out. Templates to impose on the Board, outline a soft pencil. Motives on one cut with a hacksaw, legs cut twice, one pair-in a mirror image. In addition to saw two supports.
2. Then, the manual sander grind the cuts of all parts and uneven surfaces. To finish a treatment pad for polishing.
3. Dilute with water the white acrylic paint, primed all parts and leave until completely dry. If necessary, clean the burrs with a sanding pad. According to the photo to paint with acrylic paints the figures of cats and stands. To color the head and torso, mix cobalt and mint green colors, then shade the paint with may green. After drying, paint with a mixture of white and Carmine red paint for the cheeks. Apply the paint with a sponge in a circular motion. A black pencil to draw the mouth and the eyelids. According to the motif cut out of black felt spout. Nose and half beads (eyes) to stick on the head.
Technology of work
4. Facing cat drill of 10 mm diameter to drill the hole to a depth of about 3 cm on the bottom side of the head and upper torso. Apply some wood glue into the holes. Then insert the dowel into the hole in the head and put the torso on the head. The second cat to glue the head directly to the torso. Additionally, the back of the head to attach the body with two screws. On the right and left side of the body to drill more through the hole. In the holes, thread a piece of wire to make figures and glue (this will be the tail). After drying glue tail wind with a thick woolen cord, the ends of the cord glue to the wood.
5. Drill 1 mm in diameter in the head of the hole for the mustache. From the winding wire cut pieces of the desired length and thread into the holes. Remaining slim woolen cord to tie to the cats neck. For resistance to figures of cats, you can back the screws screwing of the stand.
Place of honor
Functional and decorative: you will always find the fruit in the space assigned to them.
Cute lemon
You will need:
- 16 mm thick plywood
- glued plywood 12 mm thick
- white, yellow, dark yellow, light green, dark green, brown and black acrylic paints
- water-resistant Matt lacquer
- 8 x 38 cm wire netting
- jig saw or hacksaw
- carbon paper
- simple pencil
- sanding pad or sandpaper
- a small eyebolt
- 2 wood screws 2.5 x 35 mm
- wood glue
- stapler
- hammer
- wire cutters
- Combi-clippers
- sponge
- palette
- loop for hanging pictures
Pattern diagram
Job description
1. Lemon, leaves, and stand to increase from a sheet of motifs to the appropriate size. Using carbon paper to transfer to the plywood motif of lemon and a stand, leaflets translated into more than thin plywood, cut out using a jigsaw or handsaw. Use sandpaper or sanding pad to treat the cuts and rough surfaces.
2. All sawn parts should be primed with white acrylic paint diluted in a ratio of 1:1. Leave until the primer is completely dry. If necessary, remove rough fibers from the surface of the sandpaper. Then the lemons and the stand are painted a dark yellow paint. Add a little yellow and white acrylic paint to the wet paint with a sponge. Leaves painted with dark green acrylic paint, toning to add a little light green and brown paint.
Technology of work
3. Stick the stand on the lemon, as is done in the photo. On the back of the stand, screw in two small wood screws for added strength. While the glue dries, cut off the wire mesh detail size 38 x 8 cm Lemon with a stand wrapped with wire mesh, starting on one side so that the mesh slightly protruded, and fix with a stapler two or three brackets. The grid is slightly pulled over a support and also to fix on the opposite side a stapler. Carefully nail the brackets with a hammer.
4. Rotate the composition, if necessary, trim the grid and fix it with a stapler along the edge. For hanging attach to the lemon in the middle of the loop.
5. Hang the lemon on the wall, then glue the green leaves to the lemon for wood.
Creative corner
If you are fond of knitting, you will not be difficult to tie such bright and elegant “clothes” for baskets of yarn. The size of such a cover – about 24 (height) x 110 cm (circumferential length).
Creative corner
You will need:
- about 200 g of unpainted or green soft cotton yarn
- wicker basket about 24 x 30 cm
Pattern
- Handkerchief binding: front and back rows knit with front loops.
- Nodular edge:the first and the last loop of each row is purl.
- Knitting density (knit in 3 threads): 10 p. x 12 p. = 10 x 10 cm.
Job description:
- Knit cover should be 3 thread. Dial on the spokes 22 of the loops loosely and knit garter viscous, performing nodular region as described above.
- Knit a straight strip until it’s enough to wrap the whole basket. Then close the hinges.
- Sew the initial row and a row with closed loops. Cover pull on the basket.
Recommendations:
- When knitting in three threads, the work moves quickly.
- Pattern “Kerchief binding” may seem rustic, but it looks unusually plastic.
- During operation, pay attention to the fact that the needle captures all three threads of the loop.
- Do not tie the cover too long, even if it is a little small, it hould be very tight “sit” on the basket.
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