Decor from paper: 75 ideas for making their own hands on the photo

Sometimes you just need to revive the interior and at the same time fit into a couple of days. Usually such training is associated with the upcoming holidays. Some go to the store to buy unusual things, while others make jewelry with their own hands, turning the whole process into a fun game, to which you can connect all home. Creating a decor from paper is considered to be the easiest and fastest option, since the material is available, malleable, and the technique of its transformation is mass. Consider a series of workshops on the creation of original interior decorations: temporary and permanent.

Various decor ideas

Paper decor has a long history. At different periods, this versatile material was used to create figures, masks, fans, crafts. Paper products were given particular importance in Japan. Residents of the Land of the Rising Sun the process of creating crafts raised to the level of art. That is why the names of almost half of the popular techniques come from Japanese. In some cases, the decorations are the result of such hard work, when it is difficult for the average person to believe that this decor is made of paper. The most original methods of creating interior "crafts" include:

Collage. This is usually a colored picture, the image on which is painstakingly assembled from pieces of paper. A collage can be complete and partial when only individual accent zones of a photo or picture are pasted over with paper. For example, in the picture where the girl is depicted, only her dress is decorated.
Quilling Very old technique, whose age has already passed for 500 years. Thin multi-colored strips of paper twist, giving them shape, and then paste on the canvas.
Pergamano. This technique is popular for the design of postcards. Crafts are made of tracing paper by embossing or punching.
Iris folding. A relatively new technique in which a sketch is drawn on the canvas, which is then filled with pieces of paper in different colors arranged in a spiral.
Silhouette carving. According to researchers, the technique appeared in China at about the same time as the paper itself. We have a similar way to cut pictures from a sheet of paper folded repeatedly - vytnanka. In Japan, there is a more laborious technique katagami. Genuine art, in which high-grade paintings are cut out of thin rice paper. Stencils (templates) and a special sharp knife are necessary for work.
Facing Young technique, vaguely reminiscent of quilling. Instead of strips, use paper squares, which are wound on a stick, and then fixed on the canvas.
Decoupage Although the technique has a number of ways to transfer the image to the base, paper wrapping is considered the easiest and most affordable method for beginners.
A simple origami, modular, “wet folding” technique is all variations of creating paper figures without using glue or other fastening components. We'll talk more about origami below.
Papier mache. A simple technique that children often learn. From papier-mache it is possible to make figures of any complexity, but masks are considered the most popular. To create crafts, you do not have to glue or cut, it is enough to soak a roll of toilet paper in paste and wait until the mass thickens slightly, until the consistency of soft clay. After making the figures it is covered with a layer of primer and paint.
Kusudama The technique is similar to origami, but to bond modules together they can be stitched or glued together. Figures kusudama most often have the shape of a ball.
Kirigami. In this technique, a three-dimensional picture is made from a single sheet of paper using glue and scissors. The way is a little bit easier than origami, as large-scale products are obtained. Kirigami resemble children's panoramic books.
Paper art The “daughter” for papier-mâché technology that the Russian woman came up with just ten years ago. The paper strips are moistened and twisted into tight flagella, which are then applied to the base (wood caskets, chests, vases, bottles) and glued. After drying, they are covered with a layer of paint that imitates bronze, silver or gold. The decor looks not just beautiful, but authentically, as if the surface was really minted or decorated with forging.

From paper, you can create a decorative Christmas tree for the New Year, a couple of wedding swans, garlands, fans or posters on the wall, "scary" decorations for Halloween or Easter baskets from newspaper tubes. With the help of paper crafts room decoration will be "livelier" and more original.

It should be noted the most young, modern technique Cubeecraft, in which angular figures of characters from films, books, comics are made of paper. The assembly is carried out according to a single scheme, and the emphasis is on painting in bright colors.

Flowers

You can make lush, large buds of corrugated paper, neat topiary balls or luxurious, voluminous bunches on a canvas using the technique of quilling. Probably, everyone made origami flowers (tulips) in childhood. This is one of the most simple options. With the help of affordable, pliable material, you can make a real exotic garden, which will please the eye in the winter.

Beautiful, large flowers of corrugation adorn the festive tables. They are used as decorations for weddings, hanging from the ceiling or mounted on the wall behind the newlyweds. Also, the floral “wall” will be an excellent photo zone at the celebration. Consider step by step instructions for creating a rose. To work will require:

Corrugated paper of two or more colors: green on the stem and leaves, white for the core, and pink for the extreme petals of the bud.
Scissors.
Pre-prepared petal pattern.
Wire for stalk.
Glue.

Using a pattern from paper, cut out the billet petals. During operation, the material is not recommended to stretch, because the corrugation will not gather back. To get a natural bud, the petals must be of different sizes. From the smallest, they gather a dense bud, putting them on each other and gluing them together from below. Then the flower begins to wrap new petals, which are also fixed at the base. After the bud is assembled, they can be slightly stretched, giving the desired shape and volume. Now you need to cut a couple of leaves. The wire is wrapped with a strip of paper diagonally. Gradually, short side wires for leaves are woven into the stem. Secure them with new layers of paper strip. The leaves are glued to them from the "seamy" side. Finish work by fixing the flower on the stem. To create a blooming rose, a ribbon of corrugated paper is cut from one edge with a wavy line, and then rolled up. This floral decor can decorate the house not only for the holidays. A bouquet or topiary of luxurious buds suitable for any room: kitchen, bedroom, living room.

Original will look like a decor, made in certain colors at weddings. Now it is fashionable to arrange celebrations where guests come in clothes of pre-approved “shades”. For example, the area for photo shoots with pink and white buds will look good as a background if the photos are dressed in red.

Fans

A fan, mounted on the wall behind the back of the sofa, will be a chic addition to minimalism or Japanese, Chinese ethnic style. Making it is incredibly easy. Sheet folded "accordion", and then glued each section at one of the sides. To make the decoration look more solid, choose a paper with a pattern or paint it yourself. In the center of each fan, you can glue a small button or a large bead. In complex models use two sheets of paper of different sizes, which are folded with an accordion with the same pitch, and then simply overlap each other and stick together in the center.

Paper garland

Paper garlands are made of flat or three-dimensional figures, which are symbolic for the upcoming holiday:

Rabbits, flowers, baskets for Easter.
Hearts, butterflies, roses for Valentine's Day or just a romantic evening.
Fir-trees, balls, snowflakes, figures of animals for a New Year's decor.
Pompons, numbers for the child's birthday. Festive decor for a boy may include trains, cars, houses, flags. For the girl make delicate flowers, pupae.
Bows, ribbons, figures of the bride and groom for the wedding garland.
Pumpkins, spiders, miniature witches on brooms for Halloween.

Garlands can be used for decorating walls, windows, window sills or doorways. Figures are cut out of thick paper or cardboard, which are fixed to the fishing line with glue or thread. You can "flash" a string of products on a typewriter. Garland must color or pre-use colored paper.

Hearts curtain

A curtain of hearts adorn the door and window openings. Such decor looks beautiful against the background of simple white tulle. Ornament is usually made for a romantic anniversary or on Valentine's Day. Hearts cut out of paper and glued to the line, which are subsequently fixed on the eaves or on the slope. They can also be made from strips of the same length. Two such ribbons are folded into a heart and secured with two staples using a stapler. Two more strips are immediately attached to the lower "acute" part. Of them also fold a heart and on the same principle collect vertical garland. They will need five to ten pieces to get the whole curtain.

Quilling

To learn to work in the technique of quilling, you need a well-developed fine motor skills of hands. It is with the help of fingers that each element is shaped, and there are more than thirty of them in quilling: tight and loose spirals, legs, arrows, horns, eyes, half circles, regular and curved drops, sheets, triangles, curls, crescents, squares.

Since it is too long to cut your own colored paper into strips for yourself, it is easier to purchase a ready-made set, which also includes tweezers and a special stick with a longitudinal cut at the end. Into this slot, insert and fix the tip of the tape, which is then wound. If you need a tight spiral, then the tip is immediately fixed with glue. By the way, from such elements most often perform pictures of newcomers. To give a different shape, the swirling strip is carefully removed from the sticks and manipulated with fingers to create corners or flattening. Then the element is glued to the canvas. In the technique of quilling masters make complex modular paintings, where more than 20-30 colors are used.

Origami

Origami is one of the most difficult techniques. Fold a crane, a boat, a frog or a tulip is simple enough, but this is far from the limit for craftsmen. The main difficulty and the main rule in classical origami is that paper cannot be torn, cut, glued or fixed by any other method. The figure should be solid. Modular origami involves the creation of a set of fragments of a complex shape, which are “embedded” in each other, again without the use of glue. In the "wet" technology, you can wet the paper from the spray gun to get soft curves. This is usually required when creating animal figurines.

Panels and posters

To create a panel of paper, do not need complicated, step-by-step instructions or detailed guidance. The technique can be any. The main thing is that the picture had a volume. The simplest option is to use corrugated paper or fold a piece of paper so that its edges protrude beyond the frame. It is difficult to draw posters yourself, so photo printing will come to the rescue. As mentioned above, they are additionally manually decorated with colored pieces of paper to highlight accent zones.

Conclusion

Paper is a fragile material, but in its malleability the main advantage is hidden. It can be given any shape that can be easily fixed with glue or threads. Durable paper hack you will not name, but the decor is in order to reflect the mood of the owners. Decorations, like the changing of the seasons, should periodically leave the interior to make room for new ones, which will help you look at a slightly bored design from a different angle.