DIY BEAD TREE - NEEDLEWORK TECHNIQUES

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Making souvenirs gives double joy - to the one who creates beauty with his own hands and to the one who receives this souvenir as a gift. Of course, it is not so easy to create something really worthwhile, but perseverance, the ability to notice beautiful things and patience work wonders. Such capricious material as beads can be used in different ways, for example, to create bead trees.

Today we will try to make a berry tree, for which we need the following:
- two types of beads: 11 number of red or cherry color for berries and 8 number of green color for leaves;
- wire No. 0.3;
- small pliers;
- teip tape floral green or brown;
- gypsum building and water;
- a vase or an ashtray in which the tree will "grow";
- PVA glue and toilet paper to create a tree bark, a toothpick or a needle for drawing bark;
- paints (acrylic, gouache), brush, transparent varnish.
To begin with, we cut off about twenty pieces of wire with a length of up to 30 cm with pliers.

We fold each wire in half and gain 3-4 pcs. red beads.

Twist so that a loop of beads and wire is formed.

We collect more beads and make two or three loops, twist them together and get a bunch.

Now we collect six to eight green beads and make the leaves in the same way. But without twisting the loops together. There should be five to six leaves on a branch.

We make three branches and rewind them into one large branch.

In the same way we make three to five branches, if desired, we wrap each of them with a teyp tape.

We twist the resulting branches into a tree, make the trunk thicker, wrapping it with tape.

We prepare the gypsum mixture, dilute the gypsum with water in an unnecessary jar and pour it into the prepared vase. The consistency of gypsum is very thick sour cream.

We install the tree in a vase, props it from several sides so that the tree does not fall while the gypsum freezes.

Decorate the surface of the gypsum with the remains of beads. After the gypsum has hardened, we take PVA glue and toilet paper and with small strips of paper well moistened in glue, wrap the branches and tree trunk, straightening and drawing the bark with a toothpick.