The trendy trend is metal jewelry. Amazing jewelry is made from copper foil, ideal for any time of the year ...
Metal jewelry often appears in fashion collections of world-famous couturiers. They look very impressive and any item will give the appearance of exquisitely luxurious. To make them out of very thin copper sheets, or thick copper foil (you can take any other foil - for gold or silver) is quite simple, with our detailed instructions and motives you simply cannot have failures.
In this master class, we offer to decorate a dress, a knitted hat and make a necklace with copper flowers and leaves. If you wish, you can decorate with them other things and accessories, for example, make a brooch for a blouse or a hair hoop. Or maybe just decorate with such a flower a gift to a loved one?
FLOWER NECKLACE
Thanks to the brilliant flowers that are just pinned like brooches, the mini-dress becomes exclusive.
WHAT YOU NEED: For six brooches: copper foil size. OK. 20 x 25 cm. 6 baskets of sweets. Embossing tool and thick litter. Sharp scissors. Copper wire. Pliers. Small beads. 6 self-adhesive brooch pins. Glue.
HOW TO MAKE: You can find flower motifs in the following photos. Motives to copy on paper. Make the first flower smaller, the second - bigger. Copy 4 small flowers, 2 large ones.Cut flowers and stick them on copper foil with adhesive strips.
Cut the flowers and process the embossing tool. First, emboss along the contour on one side. Then turn the flower over and draw lines around the contours. Repeat this process until the flowers become plastic, see photo.
Stick one small basket of sweets in the middle of the flowers. Make 14 small holes on the bottom of the basket. Cut 14 pieces of wire approx. 7 cm. On one end, string a bead, bend this end 2 cm and twist. Thread the other end onto the back of the brooch through the hole at the bottom of the basket. Twist the ends of the wire together and bend them as flat as possible.
Stick the brooch pin on the back. If necessary, give the petals and baskets the desired shape
LAUREL WREATH
It resembles a golden royal crown. Such a necklace will decorate your neckline in the most wonderful way!
WHAT YOU NEED: copper foil size OK. 20 x 25 cm. Embossing tool and thick litter. Sharp scissors. Copper wire. Little beads. Large beads and chain lock. Silver chain 63 cm long.
HOW TO MAKE: copy the motives of leaves 1-3 (see the following photos) onto paper: sheet 1 - 3x, sheet 2 - 3x, sheet 3 - 2x. Leaves cut and stick with adhesive strips on copper foil.
Leaves are cut out of foil and treated with a stamping tool. First, draw a line near the edge on one side and emboss the leaf veins. Then turn the leaf over and emboss around the leaf veins.Repeat until the sheet acquires the desired structure.
Attach a lock to the ends of the silver chain. Put the chain and nicely arrange the leaves on it. Attach each sheet in two places to the chain using a wire, for which puncture small holes in the leaves with a needle.
On both sides of the leaves, pass the wire into the links of the chain, alternately stringing small and large beads on it. Fasten the ends of the wire to the ends of the chain.
BRILLIANT ACCENT
You can decorate with such a flower not only a knitted hat, but also a beret, a bandana or a hair hoop.
YOU WILL NEED:
Copper foil size approx. 20 x 25 cm. embossing tool and thick litter. Sharp scissors. Copper wire. Pliers. Beads. Self-adhesive brooch pin.
STEP 1
Copy the motifs for the flowers (1-6, see the following photos) on paper. Petals 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1x each; petal 5 - 2x petal 6 - 3x.
Cut the petals and stick them on the foil with adhesive strips. Petals cut out of foil. On the marks with a cross, pierce a hole with a needle.
On the flower petals, emboss first in the middle of the back side. Flip over and emboss on the sides so that the petal becomes slightly concave
STEP 2
Attach a bead to the end of the wire. Alternately, according to the numbering, string the petals alternately on the wire. Start with Petal No. 1
STEP 3
In conclusion, string a bead on the wire, bend the petals in shape. Stick brooch pin.
Material prepared by Elena Karpova
