The bizarre outlines of the branches involuntarily attract attention, and I want to capture this sophisticated beauty not only in memory or in a photograph, but also in real life. If you wish, you can add an unusual decorative touch to the interior by performing interesting compositions or creative products with features of a utilitarian purpose. Crafts from tree branches are a great hobby that allows you to create beautiful decorative elements with your own hands, without investing any financial costs. The interior of the house, decorated with this natural material, acquires a special sophistication, where everything is aimed at emphasizing its individuality. Before starting work, the blank for future crafts should be carefully prepared, taking into account the individual characteristics of the wood.
Crafts from branches - material preparation
For creative activities to decorate the selected room (this may be, and even even), well-dried branches will be required. They are easy to pick up during forest walks, as well as pick them up in a public garden or park. You can independently dry the branches that remain in after performing sanitary pruning measures.
Before work, dry material carefully for future use:
Inspected for cracks;
Cleans from dust and dirt;
Exfoliating places on the bark are sanded.
To exclude the appearance of unwanted larvae in the house, it is necessary to disinfect with the help of a weak concentration of potassium permanganate solution known to many. Depending on the idea, the branches can be painted in the desired tone, stained or varnished.
Decorating a variety of items
Bringing home a bouquet, you can quickly make a creative vase using branches. For this, any suitable jar is taken - tin, glass, and pieces of branches are cut with a length slightly exceeding the height of the container.
They are placed close to each other in a vertical direction on the outer surface of the can and secured by tying them with a beautiful braid or ribbon. You can plant the twigs with glue. Flower pots are decorated in the same way.
To make this wonderful vase, in addition to a glass base, you will need: a glue gun, dry sticks of willow or birch, wire cutters.
- The harvested branches must be cleaned of bark. It is better to do this when the wood has not yet dried up, so it will be much easier to remove the bark;
- Next, using pliers, cut the bare branches into small pieces. Their size should be calculated based on the height of your workpiece;
- After the material dries out, we glue each stick to the base in such a way that a kind of crate is obtained;
- It remains to give the glue time to dry for 10-15 minutes. Congratulations, the vase of branches is ready!
Handicrafts from branches will always find their worthy application in interior decoration of a house or apartment. Their shape and size can be completely different, because different materials can be used for their manufacture. Products made of bark, chips, snags, sawn timber or large boughs, etc., will look good. It all depends on your imagination and personal preference.
Branches installed inside a glass jar in a continuous layer along the entire lateral plane will look no less original. To prevent them from scattering in an impromptu vase, the bouquet should be large enough.
For the products described above, you will need fairly even pruning from the lower ends of the branches. The upper thin stems will help create a delightful evening with flickering candles. To do this, they are simply placed in a glass container so that they rise above it, no more than half of the volume is poured in water and floating candles are lowered.
Fascinating compositions of branches
To add an unusual accent to a room, for example, a bedroom, trunks, crowned with a cobweb of thin twigs, placed at the head of the bed in a niche cut into one side of the coffee table top, will help. In the dining area or office, a tall floor vase will look elegant, in which dried cereals will be located along with the branches.
Intricately curved, branched thin tree trunks are placed in a vase and decorated with decorative elements matching the color of the interior. It can be sparkling stars or snowflakes on the eve of the New Year, bright valentines on the eve of the corresponding holiday of lovers, or just butterflies with fancy ornaments on the wings, birds, flowers, fruits, leaves from any available material.
Strengthening graceful twigs on a velvet fabric in color that is in harmony with the overall environment, and placing the resulting composition in a wooden frame after gluing it onto cardboard, you can get an elegant interior decoration.
A beautiful branch can be supplemented with gold bows, Christmas balls or forest cones. Such decoration will contribute to a good mood and evoke only positive emotions. In addition, New Year's decorations will create a festive atmosphere on the eve of the main winter celebration.
Branches in the interior: a step-by-step master class
Tall shrub trunks (willow is most often taken) will allow an unusual way. For example, separate the sofa area from the rest of the living room. Such a partition is made very simply:
- For this, a wooden bar of the required length is taken as a stand. You can use absolutely any type of wood.
- In the timber, two rows of non-through holes are drilled in a checkerboard pattern, in which prepared branches are fixed vertically to the glue. In length, they should be about a meter less than the height of the room. The step depends on how delicate the resulting screen should be.
- To make the product look stylish, it is varnished.
The current bedroom design ideas are endless - birch trunks in the interior are proof of this.
Cuts of trunks with a diameter of 8-10 cm with strong branches extending upwards from the side at an acute angle easily turn into lovely hangers. They can be fixed to the wall in the hallway, creating a natural corner with a specific purpose. Among the designer finds can be found birch trunks that play the role of cornices and even racks near the bed for attaching a canopy.
The picture will be complemented by a coffee table, the base of which is a bundle of branches fastened in a vertical direction into a stable cylinder, and the table top is durable glass of a round or oval shape.
You can make an unexpected version of the effect, fastening the branches in the shape of a cube, and laying it on the floor on the side edge. A plastic or glass square table top is placed on top.
Wall mirrors are often decorated with branches. They can be glued around the entire perimeter perpendicular to the frame or along it. There can be many options. Craftsmen easily make frames for photographs, children's drawings, reproductions of favorite paintings from scraps of thin trunks.
A gracefully curved thick branch can form the basis of a table lamp. A branch with many twigs, mounted on the wall near the mirror on the dressing table, will allow you to easily place all the jewelry.
Such work requires gentle female hands and special attention.
Creative inspiration is the main incentive for a person who wants to create beautiful crafts from branches with your own hands.
In spacious hallways, one wall can be turned into a fairy forest by installing trunks that reach the ceiling, behind a high baseboard with LED lighting installed near the floor. This is one of the best ways to give your décor a picturesque look. Both thin and thick tree branches can be used as material.
Small products made from dried snags will look original. For a change, you can use tree bark and chips, combining everything later into a single composition.
We make decor from branches with our own hands
Crafts from branches are always distinguished by their originality and unique design. With the help of these simple sticks and twigs, you can create a beautiful author's decor for absolutely any topic. , paintings, wreaths, flower pots, bizarre animal figurines - this is just a small part of what can be created from this wonderful natural material.
- Making a wreath of branches is probably one of the simplest tasks that even a child can handle. Take thin rods of willow wood and twist them together in a tight ring, then carefully tie them with copper wire. As an additional decoration for the wreath, you can use tree leaves, flowers, forest cones.
- You can revive an inconspicuous tree branch using ordinary snowflakes. Cut them out of paper, foil, or colored felt and hang them over each branch. Such compositions will look great in the house against the background of a wall with beautiful wallpaper.
- If you still have broken light bulbs, they can also be used as decoration. Make a special fastener out of soft wire, with which you can hang them on a branch so that the base of the light bulb is at the top. Further, through a specially made hole in the base, the light bulb is half filled with water. It remains only to give our miniature an elegant look. To do this, the branch can be decorated with decorative braid, ribbons and bows.
Despite the fact that the process of creating some crafts is quite long and laborious, the result of the work done will be amazing.
Even the most ordinary painted twigs can be great materials for making fun crafts. For example, unique products made from branches in the shape of a star will look very beautiful and fun in interior design. You can make them yourself on a regular table.
- Material preparation. For each craft, we need 5 sticks. These can be branches of any tree, the main thing is that they are even and have the same length. The material should be dried and varnished in advance, so your products will last longer. We also need a thread, rope or thin ribbon. With their help, we will tie the ends of our sticks.
- We make a star. Place the sticks on the table so that they form the closed shape of a pentagonal star. Tie each corner formed with a thread or rope and decorate with satin ribbons. The resulting star can be hung on a Christmas tree or presented to friends.
To create something unique for your interior, do not copy someone's ideas, but try to do everything yourself. Feel the mood of your home, think about what exactly is missing in it, what things and objects could highlight its own style. Write down everything that comes to your mind in a notebook - these thoughts may come in handy when creating an interior design.
Pay attention to the little things. It is they who, in a creative union with non-standard design solutions, create an unsurpassed atmosphere and focus on a specific element of the interior.
Original floor lamp - creative interior decoration
Crafts from branches are not only beautiful, but also profitable. The main advantage is that no funds are required to make them, because the material itself literally lies under our feet. Moreover, all compositions can be created with your own hands, involving your children in this entertaining process.
Crafts from branches can be sold quickly and easily, because this is a unique decor, for which there is always an increased demand. You can also earn extra money by teaching paid master classes on creating designer jewelry for beginners.
We really hope that this article was useful to you. Create, create, experiment and perhaps this interesting hobby will grow into your professional field of activity.
Good day) For those who like to decorate the interior of their home in a very popular eco-style, I want to offer several ideas using snags. I collected these snags on the beach last summer, after a storm. There was laughter))) My husband never tired of repeating: don’t shame me! I walk along the beach, collect firewood and people observe with such surprise and curiosity that it’s embarrassing))) Leaving the beach, I often heard from my beloved - drag it yourself, I won’t carry this garbage) But what kind of garbage is it? Look, what beauty can be made from these very sticks. By the way, I pasted over the jar with my snags, covered them with varnish, it turned out to be a very nice vase, stylish and environmentally friendly), then I will show
Stylish frame for eco-style in the interior using pieces of tree bark, by the way, the bark can be replaced with the same snags
Christmas tree made of snags
Vintage wreath from snags. An unexpectedly beautiful combination with butterflies and roses from music pages
So, we look at ideas and get inspired for creativity in decorating an interior in an ecological style. By the way, about the environment and its safety. I would like to introduce you to the training center NP MAEB, it is the International Association for Environmental Safety in St. Petersburg. The training center specializes in occupational health and safety issues and training professionals in this area. On the website http://www.maeb.ru/ you can familiarize yourself with the services provided by the center, one of which is the labor protection and industrial safety system in Russia. If you want to acquire the specialty of a cradle worker, slinger, elevator operator, lift driver, you can take a training course at this center. Read more on the website.
To create a Christmas tree, you will need snags and a hot glue gun, you can also use Moment-Crystal glue, as well as cones and jute. If you have burlap, then it can also be used in this version)
The base for the Christmas tree can be made of cardboard, or you can use a small plastic bottle
Now we are looking at how to decorate a frame for a mirror with pieces of tree bark
The bark is also glued with hot glue.
Looks stylish, right?
Today we want to talk about how, using the bark from our trees, you can create (wall still lifes and panels, first of all we want you to remember well - you should never use the bark of living, growing trees.
You can only work with the bark of trees that have fallen, withered or cut down at logging sites. There are tree and shrub species that shed their outer bark from time to time. For example, birch in winter or linoleum hawthorn.
The bark from a fallen perennial birch tree is also a good material. Both sides are used - both the front and the morning. Such a bark can be a landscape for a still life or a panel, you can make a cloudy sky in a mosaic from it, and by combining both sides in one panel - and a whole landscape, from the thickened parts of the bark you get excellent mountains with peaks covered with snow. In a pine forest, it is easy to find dead wood, near which on the ground lies the fallen bark, eaten away by the bark beetle. such pieces can be easily turned into cliffs, mountains, rocks or the ruins of an old castle.
How is a landscape made from bark!
First of all, you need to choose a base. It can be board, plywood, or stapled cardboard. The wooden base itself can serve as a background, and veneer (veneer) must be glued onto the cardboard. Each wood species has a veneer color and a unique pattern. Therefore, for the sky, plywood is selected in lighter colors, for land - in darker colors, for the sea it can be with stripes resembling waves. If you want to depict winter, then make the snow from white, for example, birch veneer, and the sky from veneer in darker tones.
It is very important that the joint between the pieces of veneer is not visible in the painting. Therefore, two pieces are folded so that one is on top of the other (see Fig. 1), and both of them are cut at the same time.
When you have the entire background prepared and all the pieces are carefully fitted to each other, proceed to glue them onto the base. Pick up glue: woodwork PVA or No. 83, grease the background and base with it, connect them together, cover with a flat board and put a 15-20 kg load on it. If there is a clamp, then clamp it with a clamp and leave for a day to dry. Glue the details onto the finished background. Start with the details of the background and gradually move to the foreground, close-ups.
Look at the figure (see figure 2). In the distance you can see mountains, a lake in front of them and a pine tree in the foreground. To get this picture, draw a faint outline of the drawing with a pencil. Weak because the shape of the pieces of your bark itself will tell you the contours of the mountains and, perhaps, they will not look much like your drawing. For distant mountains, use the bark of trees with a light color (for example, birch or aspen), for closer ones - darker and the darkest - for the foreground. In our example, you can see the trunk of a pine tree in the foreground. Make it out of thinner nipple bark, such as the thin flakes that the tree sheds periodically. For the image of the crown of trees, you can glue pieces of finely chopped bark without highlighting the details.
In the picture below on the left, you see a sea with waves. This impression is created by plywood with pronounced stripes. The sailboat is made from birch bark, and the rock in the foreground is made from a piece of bark. If you want to depict birch trees, then first, be sure to draw a birch trunk on a piece of paper (placing a carbon copy so that the drawing is visible on the back side and gradually stick the pieces of birch bark.
To prevent the joints from being visible, glue a thin skin of the bark on them. Then cut the outline of the trunk with scissors and glue the dark spots characteristic of the trunk of a birch: at the butt (base) almost completely, and the higher to the top, the less often. Try to keep the spots as natural as possible. To do this, try to draw a birch from nature and remember the location of these spots.
The material for them can be a dark dried leaf or a dark part of the bark. For birch branches, you can use small twigs of dried shrubs. The herringbone is easy to cut from a dry dark sheet. So that it is not fragile, grease it with glue on the back side in advance. From a well-cleaned birch bark that has a flat surface, you can also make flowers for a winter dry decorative bouquet or for a panel on a wooden or linen background.
For the core of such a flower, a pine cone, a poppy seed or any dry thorn is taken. Petals of any shape are cut from the birch bark and inserted into glue between the cone scales, thorns or into the slots made in the dome. It's good if you leave a cone, thorn or poppy on a natural stem, but it won't be a big problem if you glue a dry branch to them.
The figure (see Fig. 2) below shows a panel made of scraps of veneer and bark. On a wooden board previously tinted with potassium permanganate or stain (darker at the bottom), glue flowers and leaves cut from bark scraps, for stems - dried stems of climbing plants (loach and grape leaves). In the pine forest on the ground, you can find thin scales of the bark of a light brown pine of the most bizarre shapes. Look closely at them and you will see silhouettes of people, animals and fantastic animals. By selecting and sticking these pieces, it is not difficult to compose interests of genre scenes from them. The basis for these figures can be a tree or a harsh canvas.
The bark goes well with a wooden base and does not go at all with paper and cardboard, therefore, when working with bark, you should always take wood as a basis, not paper. If you want to glaze the finished work, then be sure to glue thin strips of cardboard or sticks along the edges of the picture, then the glass, resting against the protruding parts of the picture made of thick bark, will not be crushed.
Glue two loops on the back so that the picture can be hung on them. From above, these loops must be glued with a strip of cardboard almost as long as the picture and 3-4 cm wide (Fig. 1. (2)). I would like to say a few words about the processing of the bark.
When you bring the bark from the forest, be sure to boil it in water for 15-20 minutes to kill the larvae, which are always abundant in a dried tree. If this is not done, they will ruin your work and damage household items. Spread the boiled bark on a newspaper, and so that it doesn’t warp when it dries, cover it with a smooth board, and put a weight of 18-13 kg on top.
In model works, you can paste over cardboard houses with straw when you want to depict a log house. Various cardboard products are pasted over with it.
This work is done as follows: the straw is soaked, cut to length and smoothed with a not particularly hot iron, so that even straw ribbons are formed.
Straw is usually used to decorate things with a flat surface: frames, folders, pencil cases, etc. Drawings are made up of straight and broken lines (folk cross stitching, ornaments from geometric shapes, stars, etc.) (Fig. 11 a-e).
Having chosen a drawing, they transfer it with the help of transfer paper to a thing intended for decoration with straw.
According to the drawing, the straw is cut into pieces with scissors, then the thing is greased with glue and the prepared pieces of straw are laid according to the drawing. The finished product is pressed with a piece of board and dried.
From straw woven into pigtails, hats, handbags and other things are sewn. They do it this way: the straw is soaked and braids are woven from the raw one into 4 and 5 straws (Fig. 11, A). The pigtail should be long, so in the process of work it is necessary to instruct the straws by folding the end with the end in half. The finished pigtail, while still wet, is straightened and ironed with an iron.
You can make a basket from ribbons of such a pigtail in the same way as they are made from birch bark ribbons. You can also make a hat.
It is sewn with threads, starting from the center of the bottom (Fig. 11, B). The finished hat is moistened and smoothed - the brim is on the table, and the head is on a round log wrapped in some kind of clean rag or on a 3-liter jar.
Crafts from pine bark.
Pine bark has a variety of uses in handicrafts. It is easy to handle, and with the help of a knife, models, toys and games are made from it. In fig. 12 shows a boat and a horse chess piece.
To make a boat, take a piece of bark, process its outer part, then outline an oval on top, along which a recess is cut with the tip of a penknife.
A bench can be made from a separate piece of bark and glued to the inside of the boat.
Chess pieces are drawn on a prepared bark plate. Then the bark is cut according to the drawing, first giving it a general, rough shape, and only after that the details of the figure are cut out.
These crafts are far from being limited to the possible works from natural material, there can be an unlimited number of them. The variety of materials will give a boost to your creativity.
Crafts made from birch bark and other natural materials will allow you to create unique designer items for yourself and at home, fridge magnets, topiary.
Birch bark crafts
In another way, this material is called birch bark. Collect bark from fallen trees to avoid killing trees. It is necessary to clean off the lower part of the brown bark, leaving only the white light birch bark. Here's how to make souvenir magnets out of it.
To create such an original bark craft, you will need:
- birch bark;
- transparent glue;
- thick sheet of cardboard;
- a birch twig;
- curly hole punch;
- scissors;
- sharpener;
- stationery knife;
- sponge;
- acrylic paint;
- birch cut.
Using a thin blade of a clerical knife, cut out the base of the pattern on the birch bark. You can use a template, trace it on the back of the bark with a simple pencil, and then cut along these paths.
Cut a small circle out of cardboard, glue it on the back of the bark blank, and a magnet on it. For this craft, a butterfly motif was used.
Now see how to make easy roses. To do this, you will need a pencil sharpener and a tree branch. Insert its edge into the hole of the sharpener, turn it several times to form shavings. Form the blank with your hands, glue three such flowers to the center of the magnet.
As you can see, the cut out wings of the butterfly need to be slightly bent outward in order to more clearly identify this insect. You just have to cut out the leaves from the birch bark and glue them around the rose.
Here's how to make a craft out of this. If you liked the idea of creating a flower from birch bark, then prepare:
- birch branch;
- bark;
- transparent quick-drying glue;
- scissors.
Also prepare the birch bark, remove the thick bark from it. Leave only the thin part that needs to be dried first. Now you need to cut off a rectangular piece from it with corners rounded on one side. This bud must be rolled up, shaped into a bag.
Glue it to the tip of the twig, you can additionally fix it with a thread.
It is necessary to cut out 3 types of petals from birch bark: small, medium and large.
Glue small petals to the bud in a circle, then medium ones, attach large ones outside.
Cut sepals and leaves from birch bark, glue the first ones on the back of the blossoming buds. Attach the leaves on a twig.
You will get such wonderful birch bark crafts in the form of flowers. To make a bouquet, form it from three roses, put it in a vase.
Diy birch bark jewelry for yourself and for home
Decor items made from this material will be natural, they will convey the warmth of the tree, its beauty.
To make such a suspension, take:
- birch bark;
- awl;
- chisel;
- transparent quick-drying glue.
Glue the small one to the large flower, take the chisel attachment with a different blade, use it to cut another flower, but slightly larger than the previous one. Also glue two smaller pieces onto it. Thus, make a few more flowers, gluing them together in a stack.
Further, for this craft, you need to make a chain from birch bark, it consists of several fragments. To make the first one, cut a small strip from the birch bark and wind it around the awl. Glue the tip. Thus, complete the rest of the "beads".
String them on a strong thread, attach it to the pendant. Here you have such a wonderful pendant made of birch bark.
Please note that the reverse side of the birch bark has become the face of the pendant and chain links.
To make such a panel from birch bark, take:
- birch bark along with dark bark;
- dense cardboard frame;
- scissors;
- paper;
- l wooden beads;
- brush;
- PVA glue;
- napkins;
- transparent glue "Moment".
Now draw a sketch of the future panel on paper. Draw individual elements of the exposition on thin birch bark. Stick them on the panel. This is a wonderful job.
Making topiary from chestnuts with your own hands
It is also a very fertile natural material, which is practically underfoot in autumn.
To do this, take:
- suitable capacity;
- newspapers;
- rope;
- a wooden or plastic stick;
- gypsum solution;
- chestnuts;
- glue;
- ribbon;
- decoration in the form of beads, coffee beans or aromatic herbs.
Free the chestnuts from the outer thorny shell. Roll a circle of the desired diameter from newspapers. Fix them in this position with a thread.
Make a hole in this paper wad, insert the stick of your choice here. Pour gypsum solution into the container, place the stick here, support it a little so that the solution "grabs". You can then decorate the earthenware pot, for example by smearing it with glue and twine twisting.
Glue the chestnuts to the newspaper ball, fill the gaps between them with dry herbs, you can use ordinary tea as them. You can also decorate chestnut topiary with coffee beans, chains. Cover the plaster with artificial or natural moss.
DIY decorative moss from natural
This natural material will also help make many beautiful things for your home. If you want to create a topiary not only from chestnuts, then make it from moss.
To do this, you need to take:
- floristic ball;
- glue;
- pot;
- paper;
- wooden stick;
- Styrofoam;
- burlap;
- tape.
Insert the stick into the bottom of the ball. Place a styrofoam or polyurethane foam cube in the center of the clay pot. Stick the bottom edge of a wooden stick here.
Cut a piece of burlap, put a container of topiary in its center, wrap the edges up, fix it here with a ribbon. You will get a wonderful decorative tree.
If you want to have a present in your apartment, then you need to make a bonsai. Plant a special tree in a pot, but it will be small, as befits such plants. See how you can decorate bonsai with moss.
To do this, you will need two types of this natural material. The first is sphagnum moss, the second is moss that grows on old buildings, wet sides of sheds, gazebos.
Look at the surface of the pot, if roots grow from here to the top, cut them off. Fill the container with special bansai potting soil. Usually this includes: penza, akadama, charcoal, lava.
Attach toothpicks or each stick to the bump, secure with a glue gun.
Place the sponge in a suitable bowl and stick the cones in here using wooden sticks.
Cover the top of the sponge with moss, you can also decorate it with small pebbles. If you want to create an imitation of snow, sprinkle with chopped birch bark or dried white flowers. If you wish, cover your creation with a clear glass or plastic dome.
There are so many ideas that these affordable natural materials give, but these are far from all the possible options.
How to make a decoration from birch bark, you will learn from the video. It tells how to roll a triangular bead from a strip of birch bark.
Moss crafts are described in the following story. From it you will learn how to make hearts for a wedding from this natural material.
