Foil articles - a beautiful decoration for your home

The beautiful metallic luster of the foil and its special plasticity and suppleness have caused a lot of attention from the amateurs of folk art. Moreover, moisture is not terrible for foil, temperature drops, dust and bright sun. This ideal material for various crafts is used in a variety of techniques and is the basis of a huge number of extraordinary and creative works.

What crafts from foil are popular today?

At a time when stainless cutlery was still not covered with rust, and in factory and school canteens on trays, there were a lot of aluminum spoons and forks, a roll of foil could be obtained free of charge, without much effort. An exception to this rule was the foil for baking. At the moment, the situation has radically changed, but at the same time there were alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks in iron jars. They have become an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the "foil" masters.

The first place in the ranking of handicrafts is chasing. The art of extruding images on thin metal sheets was born a long time ago. But quite recently the Chinese invented a new technique of coining on beer cans. This lesson does not require a huge amount of time, investments and tools, but the result will surpass all imaginable expectations, because such crafts from foil can not be found in any store.

For those who want to try their hand at such an unconventional art, it will take only a few things: an empty iron can of drinks, scissors, a pen, an awl or a toothpick and beads. First, take the jar and gently trim both bottoms. We cut the resulting pipe with scissors and get a rectangular sheet of foil. The plot can be used absolutely any, depending on your tastes and preferences. For example, you can refer to collections of fairy tales and try to reproduce a firebird or a mane horse. The selected image is superimposed on the foil and gently punctured with a toothpick or non-writing pen. Where necessary, bulges can be increased with beads of different sizes, and more subtle details are pushed with a slightly blunt awl. Convex places are machined from the inside, and concave - from the front. Particularly effective will look ready-made crafts made of foil, if carefully cut out all the details and paste them on a dark velor or velvet background.

It is very beautiful to look candlesticks made of foil. For such products, the material is ideal because of its fire resistance. The easiest option for making a candlestick in the form of a cozy house. Take a rectangular piece of foil and divide in width into four identical parts - this will be the walls of the future house. We make a roof: we cut out two triangles for the ends and one rectangle for the rays. It is possible to give the foil sheet for the roof a fish scales shape. For maximum light effect it is necessary to make a lot of balconies, windows and glazed doors. Inside the finished house put a lit round candle.

Fine foil crafts are obtained by applying quilling techniques. The term "quilling" means "bird feather". Simply put, this direction of creativity can be called paperfraction. Its essence consists in cutting strips of various widths and twisting them around a special thin silk. The resulting curls are laid out in various patterns. Instead of paper, you can easily use foil and make from it, for example, an intricate star or a beautiful flower. The choice of the image is limited only by your imagination.

Another way to make crafts from foil with your own hands is the technique of decoupage. Painting on a sheet of foil - this is a very specific direction in art. Often the plot becomes seascapes with the abyss of the sky and a very thin stripe of the shore. If you decide to embody your creative abilities on foil, then you should add a little dishwashing liquid to the paint to prevent it from rolling off the glossy surface.

If you are not awakened by a landscape painter, you can paste the top layer of a beautiful napkin on the foil sheet and cover it with acrylic lacquer. The translucent metallic luster will make the foil products pearly.