ELASTIC BAND - A FLOWER MADE OF LEATHER AND FUR

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Each girl likes to decorate her head with bows, hoops or flowers. If you have a piece of not thick skin at home (from an old bag, jacket or any other leather product), then do not throw it away, but make yourself a jewelry with your own hands, which will be different personality and creative idea.
To create a flower - elastic bands from leather, we need:
- any thin skin;
- a little natural fur;
- feathers from a duck or any other bird (feathers can be taken decorative);
- scissors;
- glue moment crystal;
- a pen;
- a form for a petal;
- rubber.

The next step we need to take a piece of leather and a shape for the petal. Circle this shape on the skin in the amount that fits on it. On average, we need 40-50 petals per flower.

I made a shape in the shape of a heart so that the edges of the flower would not turn out unnaturally even.
Next, cut out all the petals.

The next step is to burn the edges of the petals, this can be done in three ways.
1 way - fry the leaves in a pan.
2 way - use tweezers and a candle.
3 way - use a lighter.
Frying leaves in a pan leaves a lot of soot in the apartment. After them, it is very difficult to weather an apartment in 2 minutes, but black deposits are not formed on the skin.
A candle can very quickly process the edges of the petal, but then the soot will remain on the leaf.
The best way is to handle the lighter. It does not leave soot, quickly burns all ends, but gas is consumed very quickly.

These petals after the pan. If you overexpose them a little, the edges can be severely damaged (as in the photo).

This petals after the candle.

Here, for comparison, the petals are presented, which were burned in a frying pan and above a candle. As you saw, a candle was used on the left side to process the leaves, soot from the candle was formed on the inside of the leaf, but it won’t harm us, since we will work with the second side.
Next, we look for any round shape or, if the eye is not limping, draw a circle on the skin that will be the basis for our flower. I took the lid from the camera, but your shape can be either larger or smaller.
Next, cut out a circle from a piece of leather.

The next step we need to stick the leaves on our base. They do not have to be glued exactly to each other, it is also possible in a chaotic manner. Rows can be 3-5-8, it all depends on how large your petals are and how much you want a lush flower.

You can apply glue not only on the base for the flower, but also on the petals themselves.

Getting to the second row.

Thus, we stick the petals on top of each other with a vacation of several millimeters.
As a result, you should get such a blank without a core.

You can fill the center of the flower with beads, decorate with sequins or rhinestones or stick a button. I decided to make a flower that would look like a blossoming rose as much as possible.

If before that we glued the base of the flower with petals to the center and on a flat surface, now we need to do the opposite. To do this, take an ordinary petal and wrap it, and then fold 2 times.

We need to start gluing this blank with petals.

We put the petal on one on the second, and in the end we should get such a voluminous flower.

So we got the core, which must be glued to the center of the workpiece. Grease the cent with super glue.

Now it's up to the decoration. I use feathers and natural weasel fur for this.
Glue the feathers on a piece of leather.

In the same way we attach fur to a piece of leather. All glued to the back of the flower.

From the outside, it all looks like this.

It remains only to fix the elastic and the flower is ready. We take a piece of leather, apply glue to it, pass through an elastic band and attach to the flower.