Кактус – необычное растение, но не каждый может afford to make such a flower at home. The dream of a prickly friend can be realized by weaving it with beads. Lovers and collectors of these desert inhabitants will be pleased to receive a brooch or earrings as a favorite plant as a gift. Schemes of cacti of beads and color schemes for them is easy to find or invent yourself. Consider the most popular ones.
Brooch "Cactus"
Cactus brooch can be made usingSew-on rhinestones, rondels, beads and beads available. Embroidery is made according to your own sketch on a thick fabric, for example, on felt. All blanks are cut out according to a template and are joined into one product. No special pattern of weaving cacti from beads for such a product is required. Sometimes, instead of embroidery, epoxy resin is used, which is simply poured into the blank.
A simple scheme of weaving cactus beads
Let's try to create a topiary in the form of a cactus.Topiary is a craft in the form of a plant, for example, a small tree, popular among needlewomen. Often it is called the "tree of happiness." To create such unusual things you can use the schemes of cacti from beads and the scheme of colors for them. These products will look great in any interior.
For work you will need:
- green beads;
- wire;
- a foam ball;
- green paint - gouache or acrylic;
- alabaster;
- sushi stick or thick wire;
- pot;
- cutting pliers.
We start making blanks:
- Type 8 beads on a wire with a length of 6 cm. To speed up the process, you can use a spinner.
- Wrap the wire under the first 4 beads.Tighten the eyelet. It should make a leaf, on each side of which there will be 4 beads. Make 6 of these blanks and twist them together on one side. The other part of the wire will serve as cactus spines.
- Cut the excess wire, leaving 1.5 cm on one side, and 0.5-1 cm on the other.
- We need to do a lot of such blanks.Their number depends on the diameter of the foam ball. If there is no ball, the cactus shape can be cut from any piece of foam on its own or used as a base clay.
- Paint the base with green paint. Insert a wand into its bottom.
Assembling the product
Now you need to put the foam blank inpot. First dilute the alabaster and fill it into the prepared container. When the mixture hardens a little, insert the stick, securing the cactus in the container. After complete drying, it is possible to paint the upper part of the “soil” brown or gray. Fill the base with blanks of beads, covering it completely - and the cactus is ready! Additionally, you can decorate it from above with a flower made in the same technique.
The cactus from beads can be executed differently, having covered preparation with the round leaves executed according to the scheme presented below.
Cactus flower
Cacti from beads with schemes of various flowerscan be found on websites dedicated to needlework. Consider the easiest option to create a beautiful flower. With it topiary will look much more attractive. The bud at the top will make the composition complete. In some cases, it is impossible to do without such decoration, since part of the blank remains open.
For work you will need:
- thin wire;
- thick wire for connection with the base;
- beads of three colors for petals;
- nippers;
- bead for the central part.
The flower arrangement for a cactus bead is quite simple:
- Type 12 cm of yellow beads on a wire using a spinner.
- Separate 2 cm and cut off a piece of wire - this iswill be the base of the flower. To it you need to fasten the rest of the wire: twist it around the center in rows, forming a petal. In one leaf will be 5 rows. The edges need to be pulled out a bit to make them sharp. Fasten the wire at the ends. Make 12 petals for the inside of the flower.
- Теперь на очереди лепестки немного другой формы for the next tier. You can change the color of the beads in the middle to get different shades. Then the bud will look more natural. The base remains the same color, and replace the beads in the next 3 rows with white or orange. Such petals will need 6 pieces.
- For the last tier, you need petals with a base of 3 cm. Wrap around 3 rows of beads of a light shade around it, and make the last row yellow. Collect 7 of these leaves.
Form the middle of the flower
Use large for the bud core.bead Secure it with a wire. In addition to the central part, flower stamens will be needed. To create them, take a wire about 15 cm long. You need to collect orange beads on it and fix the ends with a small bead or glass bead, turning it several times. Fold the wire in half and twist it, forming two stamens. Bead cacti schemes and color schemes may vary. Sometimes use ready-made stamens on a wire, attaching flower petals to them. On average, you may need 8 stamens.
Cactus flower assembly
It remains to collect the product and connect it with the cactus:
- First, attach to the central bead stamens in pairs, at the same distance from each other.
- Twelve small petals in bundles of two, then fasten with the center. It is easier to tie them with cotton thread, rather than fasten with wire.
- Next, attach the petals of the second and third tier, distributing them in a checkerboard pattern.
- It remains to attach a thick wire, with which the flower will be connected to the base.
Fix the flower on top of the cactus and spread its petals. The buds can be made according to the simplified scheme below.
Topiary is ready. Use different patterns of bead cacti and color schemes for them to create unusual crafts and delight their relatives and friends.
