Master Kanzashi Alina Bologan

Kansas flowers Alina Bologan makes quite a long time. They impress with their uniqueness, but at the same time are fairly simple to manufacture. In this technique, unique hairpins, rims, necklaces, wedding pendants, brooches, bracelets and much more.

Kanzashi technique

Kanzash technique itself appeared more than 400 years ago in Japan. It happened by accident. At these times, Japanese girls stopped putting their hair in a traditional hairstyle. Long curls with pins, combs, pins and sticks fit into intricate shapes. It was then that the idea came to decorate the crests with unique and beautiful colors from ribbons.

Ornaments made in Kansas technique became a tradition, but by their number, shape and value one could say a lot about the proprietor.

cornflower

On flowers from the tapes of Alina Boloban you can watch and admire for hours. On the example of making a cornflower we will master this ancient Japanese technique.

So, first you need to decide on the color that will be the main flower for the petals. In nature, you can meet cornflowers from a gentle blue to a saturated blue and even with a purple hue. For the flower, you will also need a green ribbon.

There are a lot of variants of making petals for cornflower. Here you need to be guided by your personal preference and, of course, mastery abilities. For beginners, it is better to use a simple, but not the worst, variant of making petals, with which we will get acquainted.

Materials and Tools

To make a cornflower, you will need a ribbon of the main color for a cornflower, a width of 2.5 cm. For the production of leaves you need a green ribbon one centimeter wide. The tools will need scissors, a lighter, tweezers and an adhesive gun.

The blue tape is cut into squares of 2.5 cm. From the green tape, cut two pieces of 15 centimeters.

Flower Making

For this kind of flower Alina Boloban decided to choose a petal with a winglet. To produce it, you need two squares of ribbons, so when preparing the material, you must immediately decide how much will be used in the work of the petals and, multiplying by two, cut the squares. One small flower will need seven to nine petals.

Take the square and bend it, forming a triangle, and then the resulting triangle is bent again and using a cigarette lighter cauterize the corner so it does not fall apart. We do the same manipulations with the second square, but do not burn the corner. In the second triangle we get, we insert the first one, which was fastened with a cigarette lighter.

Two triangles inserted one into one, using tweezers, compress in the middle and bend the edges of the double triangle. Use tweezers for such small petals is very convenient, according to Alina Boloban.

Using the example of the previous triangle, we fix the corners of the petal with the lighter. Before fixing it, you need to straighten it and see if it is correctly executed. Press these petals more conveniently with tweezers. To give aesthetics and to make them even, the rear part needs to be cut off a little and, of course, burned, so that the product does not dissolve.

The next step in the work depends on what kind of middle you choose for your cornflower. Alina Boloban chose stamens for this, but for the middle one can take any rhinestones or beads. We will describe two options for collecting cornflower.

Ways of fastening a flower

The first way. Cornflower Kanzashi Alina Bologan decided to decorate with stamens. For this, stamens of different colors are taken. You will need three light-blue colors, four - blue, and eight stamens of black color. We collect them in a bundle so that in the center there were blue, and along the edges - blue and black stamens. To ensure that they do not disintegrate, it is necessary to fasten the "bouquet" with an adhesive gun.

We proceed directly to the assembly of the petals. Alina Boloban does this on weight, attaching the petals gradually one by one with a pistol. Before fixing the last petal, it is necessary to insert the stamens into the cornflower. When they are placed inside and straightened, you can glue the last petal, connecting it with the first one. Cut the stamens and fix the finished flower with a glue gun on the base. A circle with a diameter of one centimeter will suit her. If you are afraid that not everything will be closed by the base, you can make it a half centimeter.

The second way. If you take a bead or a rhinestone for the middle, then the petals must be fastened immediately to the base, glued one after the other. After the circle is formed and fixed from them, it is necessary to place the cornflower center with the help of a glue gun.

Before fixing the flower on the base in the first method and before gluing the petals, as in the second, it is necessary to cut out leaves from the green satin ribbon . If you cut the tape in half or along, be sure to use the lighter to process the edges of the cut, otherwise the product will eventually become disheveled.