Friday, January 3, 2014

Best Out of Waste : Flower Making Tutorial





Plastic bags that come home every time we shop, becomes a huge waste. 

Here is a way to use these plastic bags. Make some lovely flowers out of it!!

Step (1): Cut in the indicated areas to get a rectangular sheet .
Step (2):Cut the rectangular sheet into strips of equal width. Depending upon the width of the cover you can make different sizes of flowers. Make a minimum of 6 similar strips and stack them together

Step (3) Make pleats on them  (stacked together) of half inch width throughout

Step (4): Now tie a thread/ plastic strip/ in the middle. If you want the flower to have a stem tie with metal wire instead of plastic strip.

Step (5) Now cut petal shape on both sides

Step (6): This is how it will look

Step (7):  Now start pulling up the individual layers on both side of the tie

Step (8)  This is how it looks after pulling out one side completely. Continue pulling out the layers on both sides of the tie.

Step (9) Two flowers that I made in similar fashion

Step (10) Now add it to a bouquet or make one out of similar bunch of flowers 
Hope you all liked this tutorial.

Have a great day folks.

23 comments:

  1. While looking at the pictures I was wondering what you gonna make by a plastic cover.. I am just amazed at the end to see beautiful flowers in the end :) So cute work. Hope many learns such things and delay the process of ending up plastic on garbage to pollute. Keep up the great work.

    By the way please look at this section on our blog http://propelsteps.wordpress.com/category/blogosphere/appreciate-talents/ . We would love to post an article of your works here. Hopefully we get a chance to post and show off we Indians can do a lot creative :) Please let me know

    Regards
    Dinesh
    dinesh@propelsteps.com

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    1. Dinesh, I would love to be included in that. Of course we Indians are a creative lot.

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    2. :) Thanks a lot. Can you please mail me a few of your works (images) which you would like to be posted. Also a precise bio of you and how you got interest and anything that you would like to share about your works.

      Hope I am not bothering you and your time. Please mail me to dinesh@propelsteps.com

      Propelsteps is not just a blog, at some point the posts will be used by a lot of students and surely such creativity will help many kids.

      Regards
      Dinesh

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    3. I have done just two tutorials...
      One this and another Tulips from socks.
      Shall I send you the links of the posts?

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  2. thats really creative peice of art,,Recently I also have posted " Websites which teach you how to create amazingly useful things out of useless waste"

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  3. Looks beautiful. I was so poor at crafts at school.

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    1. I was crazy about crafts from school days. Thanks for the comment Mridula.

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  4. Omg Preethi, you are so creative! I love the flowers and they look perfect :) I'm gonna try!

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    1. Thank you Pallavi... Try and surprise your husband with a bouquet of flowers. ;)

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  5. My my! .. so good.. I'm going to try it :D

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  6. Thats an interesting idea :) good way to keep things recycled at home

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    1. I hope you will try this at home...it is easy peasy..:)

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  7. So creative !!
    Seems to be great :-D
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  8. Cud u tell how to make butterfly from waste materials

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