Foamiran is a plastic and pliable material,visually similar to suede, which includes venyl acetate. To the touch resembles a thin rubber. Due to the fact that it easily stretches and keeps the shape well, it is most often used to create flowers. They are very realistic, tender, so the material is also called "plastic suede".
Material Features
Foamiran is ecological, it is easy to cut, you canwash and paint with acrylic. It is often used to create children's products: soft puzzles, books, toys and rugs. Blanks of plastic suede are fastened together with a conventional glue gun. Products do not absorb water, quickly restore the shape when crumpled and soften under the influence of heat. The material can be used to create interior dolls.
Dolls from Foamiran: a master class for beginners
The master class will be devoted to the manufacture of a simpletoys for girls. The preparation of the doll's head can be a regular Christmas tree with a cut off top. It is advisable to take a plastic, rather than a glass one, or replace it with a foam ball 5 cm in diameter. We will heat the material with an iron. You can take a different pattern for a doll from Foamiran.
The following tools and materials should be prepared for the master class:
- several sheets of plastic suede of different colors;
- steel manicure scissors with good sharpening;
- an officer's line;
- pencil;
- handle;
- synthetic brush;
- acrylic paints;
- bamboo stick;
- wire;
- oil pastel;
- cotton wool or foam sponge;
- chopsticks for sushi;
- templates for hair, dresses, hands and feet.
How to make a head for a doll
We start a master class on dolls from fameirana withmaking the head. We need a sheet of plastic suede flesh-colored size 9 x 9 cm for the face of the doll and one more, but darker hue, for the neck. Of the dark material, we will later do our hair. We choose the color of hair to your taste.
We begin to form the material:
- We put it on the heated platform, smooth and pull on the workpiece. Determine the desired temperature can be a finger - the iron should not burn.
- First, we make the front part of the head, then the occipital. We cut out two hemispheres from the resulting blanks and impose on the ball, checking how smooth the edge is.
- If everything is in order, glue the halves to the ball with a glue gun. To prevent the cobwebs from glue sticks, they can be held in the refrigerator beforehand.
- Then we cut a strip of plastic suede of skin color and close the seam with it.
Face and makeup for dolls
When the blanks grabbed, draw the eyes.You can use the foamiran doll photo for the master class, which is already finished, and redraw her eyes. First, draw the outline with a pencil, then with a pen. Helping ourselves officer line. Then paint the eyes with acrylic paint. Do not forget about the glare to indicate the direction of the gaze. They are easier to put a bamboo stick. After the paint dries, draw the rest of the details - the nose, the smile. Dry pastel, with a cotton swab, apply a blush on the cheeks of the doll. We draw freckles with a bamboo stick. The next step in our master class on foamiran dolls will be the creation of a hairstyle.
Make out the head
Вырезаем по шаблону чёлку такого же цвета, как back of the head. We make two rectangular blanks for tails: we make parallel cuts, creating strands. Now they need to wind, heating the material on the iron, and curl curls with a wooden stick. We collapse the rectangle to make a tail. Glue bangs and tails to the head. You can do just curly hair or another hairstyle. It is important to prevent traces of glue on the workpiece. We continue the master class on foamiran dolls: now we will make the torso.
Body and dress
For the body you need to cut a cone-shaped billetfrom polyfoam and to cover it with plastic suede of a light, corporal shade. On the pattern cut out of this piece petticoat and glue to the workpiece. Now we take the pattern of the skirt and cut out two or three details of it in the desired color from it. We make a hole in the middle and stretch the blanks on the body of the doll. Fix in place with glue. On the edge of the skirt can be applied drawing with acrylic paint. Cut the upper part of the dress according to the template and glue it to the body. We make a belt out of plastic suede in a contrasting color.
Hands and wings
Cut out the hands according to the template from the material of the skin color, they will need two rectangular segments of foamiran to match the dress and wire:
- We take the inner part of the sleeve, put the wire in the center and glue it. Insert the blank palm skin color.
- From above we wrap the second part of the sleeve and form it in the form of a bell. We glue.
- Repeat for the second hand.
- Glue to the body of the doll.
You can turn an ordinary doll into a fairy. To do this, cut out the wings on a template and paint them with acrylic. We tint the edges with pastels and fix them on the body with glue.
Making legs and collecting toys
At the final stage of the master class in foamiran dolls, we will make legs and then assemble a toy:
- For the shoes you need an egg-shaped foam blank, which we divide into two identical halves. They stretch plastic suede. The edges are trimmed. Glue the sheet to the foam.
- The legs are made from sushi sticks: we put them on 2/3 of the skin-colored material and glue it, leaving part of the sticks to connect with the foot.
- For golfiki, cut a square of the same color as the inner part of the sleeve, make one serrated edge and fasten it to the lower part of the leg, rolling the wand so that it turns out exactly.
- The bottom of the sock, at the attachment site with shoes, you need to cut a little.
- We connect the torso, head, shoes and legs with glue. The dress can be decorated with buttons, beads, beads, and shoes with bows.
So our master class is over: “A Foamiran Handmade Doll”. The toy is ready.
