How to make lilies of the valley with your own hands

Do you like to be creative? Looking for new opportunities? Learn how to make lilies of the valley with paper! You can make these flowers in many ways. The executed bouquets will suit as a spring gift, an ornament of an interior or an element of registration of a card, packing, a decorative panel.

A relief or a voluminous composition - what to choose?

Paper is a very good material for creativity. It allows you to create completely different objects using different processing methods and types of surface textures.

First of all, it is necessary to decide what you will make: decor for a postcard, packaging, a panel for an interior or a composition for a vase. As a spring gift, a gentle lily-of-the-valley origami is suitable, and a panel on the wall is interesting to perform in the quilling technique. Although any method makes it possible both to work with the relief and create the application, and to perform a three-dimensional object, which can be viewed from all sides.

Production methods

To create lily of the valley from paper with your own hands is easy with different methods. After all, this material can be twisted, cut, folded, glued. All options are easy to combine. In addition, the types of paper are very diverse. Everyone uses everything: from thin creped or corrugated to thick paper or paperboard and even ordinary office paper for the printer. All this gives completely different results and the kind of flower.

So, lilies of the paper can be made with the help of their own hands in the following ways:

• In the technique of origami;
• With elements of quilling;
• In the form of an application ;
• Forming parts from the corrugation.

Each option provides opportunities for creativity and involves several methods of work.

Materials and Tools

If you want to try all the ways at once you need the following:

• Paper (conventional, crepe, corrugated, designer);
• scissors;
• pencil;
• Ruler;
• glue;
• Material for stems (strips of cardboard, wire);
• Toothpick or special quilling tool;
• Base for a panel or vase.

Above is a list of what is needed to work by different methods. If you use any one, choose what you need in your version.

Lily of the valley with their hands: origami for beginners

If you have never worked in this technique, use the simple method of folding flowers. They have a conical shape, that is, not quite natural, but in the overall mass on the twig look beautiful. The main thing is to make them simple.

The sequence of work is:

• Cut from the paper (finer than fine) the required number of squares of a suitable size. The first sample make a large, for example, 5x5 cm, to understand the technology. The rest will correspond to the scale of your composition.
• Take one piece and fold it in half, and then unfold. Do this twice to get two diagonals in the form of fold lines.
• Fold all the corners of the square to the center.
• Bend from the middle to the sides each element about half.
• Fold the resulting workpiece in half, so that all the "denticles" are located evenly.
• Fold the cone out of the made part and glue the seam.
• Make stems of paper, cardboard or wire, wrapped in green ribbon or stripe.
• Cut out leaves from green paper or fold them out of square blanks.
• Assemble the structure with glue into a volumetric composition or a relief panel.

Spring gift is ready.

Bouquet in quilling technique

This way it is possible to make both flat (for application), and volumetric lilies of the valley by own hands. The master class will help to realize both ideas. Immediately it is worth noting that the assembly of elements occurs in all versions equally - with the help of glue. Leaves and stems are manufactured in any way (from wire, cardboard or also in the quilling technique).

Consider how the flowers are made. The sequence of work is as follows:

• Cut plain white, pearly or metallized paper into strips with a width of no more than 5 mm.
• Take the first workpiece and wind it on the toothpick or use a special tool.
• Remove the part and unwind it a little, holding your fingers so that the center is shifted to the bottom of the oval.
• Press the middle of the top part so that the element is bifurcated. Pull out two petals and bend each one aside with tweezers or fingers.
• Secure the resulting product with glue. It is possible to twist also a yellowish circle and to enclose it in a middle between petals.

Perform as many colors as you want. This is just one of the options for making a flat lily of the valley.

It is even easier to make a volume workpiece in the quilling technique. It turns out not so elegant, but for children's creativity quite suitable. Work as follows:

• Just wrap a strip of white paper on the toothpick and carefully remove from it.
• Very gently pull the shape in the form of a cone from the middle of the circle up.
• Secure with glue.

The flower is ready.

How to make a beautiful lily of the valley paper from your own hands

For this method, use crepe or corrugated sheets. This method can be used to make not just flowers, but also a bouquet of chocolates. However, it is necessary either to use very small sweets or to make large lilies of the valley. The latter option does not look very natural, but it is decorative, beautiful and original.

The sequence of work is:

• Cut out rectangles of the appropriate size from the corrugation.
• Take one piece and candy (or a ball to keep the shape of the flower well) and wrap the base, gently deforming the paper where required. Gofra or crepe sheets very easily change shape, stretched with the help of light movements with your fingers.
• Fasten the folded workpiece from the bottom and wrap it with a wire. You can use it as a stalk.
• Wrap the wire at the junction with the flower green ribbon or a piece of paper in several layers, continue until the end of the stem in one layer.

Make several flowers, cut out the leaves, make a beautiful bouquet.

As you can see, you can make lilies of the valley with paper by your own hands in completely different ways. Choose the right one. Create spring gifts yourself from available funds!