Rose topiary looks quite interesting, since it is possible to select a variety of materials to create a real masterpiece. Making topiary becomes an exciting hobby for many, as it is an entire art that captivates and fascinates.
Trees of happiness decorated with roses can be very different, since the flowers can be selected:
- artificial;
- made from corrugated paper;
- made from satin ribbons.
In addition, you can think of a large number of options; most importantly, show creativity when creating crafts. Absolutely anyone can make topiary without special labor, because step by step instructions in the master classes is very simple and understandable.
Topiary made of artificial roses
Making a tree of happiness from roses with your own hands is very simple and exciting; in particular, a master class on creating topiary from artificial flowers will be interesting. Such a topiary can become an original gift or simply decorate the interior.
This tree is perfect for those who do not have time to care for fresh flowers.
To create a topiary from artificial roses, you need to first prepare materials and tools, namely:
- foam ball;
- stick for the trunk;
- artificial roses;
- flower pot;
- sisal;
- hot glue gun;
- alabaster;
- paint;
- decorations.
Initially, you need to paint the trunk of the future tree with soft pink acrylic paint and give it the opportunity to dry thoroughly. Then you need to attach the barrel to the foam ball by gluing it with hot glue.
If artificial flowers are collected in a bouquet, then they need to be divided one by one and leaves glued to them. Then you need to glue the flowers to the foam ball, pressing each element well and holding it for the glue to dry. The ball must be pasted over in such a way that there is no empty space left.
You can wrap beads on a fishing line around the trunk, and secure them well with glue. To prepare the base for topiary, you need to dilute the alabaster with water to a thick paste, and then put it in a flower pot and insert the trunk of the tree. When the alabaster hardens and dries, you can begin decorating. The decor is sisal fibers, to which you need to glue a rose. The tree can be additionally decorated with beads, attaching them to flowers, and gluing a butterfly.
This way you can with roses different colors, which can become a real decoration of the house.
Topiary of roses (video)
Topiary of dried roses
Since a variety of flowers are used to make a tree of happiness, including real dry ones, topiary with roses can be very different. Topiary made from dried roses looks quite interesting and unusual, however, to make it look more attractive, additional decorations are used.
A master class on creating topiary from dried roses involves using not only the flowers themselves, but also leaves, beads and sisal fibers to decorate the crown of the tree. This will help give the composition more originality and make it more realistic. To make the flowers look beautiful, you can coat them on top with acrylic varnish, which will help add additional shine.
Roses made from satin ribbons for topiary
Topiary from satin roses, since such flowers act as interesting decor. To make topiary from satin roses, initially they need to be prepared. To make flowers from satin ribbons, you need to take a skewer and insert one end of the ribbon into its cut.
Then you need to twist the ribbon a little around the skewer and, continuing to wind the ribbon, bend it slightly with a corner away from you. The rosette made of satin ribbons must be held at the bottom with your fingers. You need to shape the flower with petals until you get a beautiful rose. The edge of the tape must be glued to the base.
Thus, you need to prepare a lot of roses made from satin ribbons. Then, to create a topiary crown of satin roses, you need to take a foam ball and insert roses on skewers into it so that there is no empty space left. In order for the tree to have a more magnificent and tall crown, roses from satin ribbons must be made with a high base.
The master class (topiary from satin roses) is quite simple, since the tree crown can be made very quickly and easily.
DIY tree of happiness (video)
Paper rose topiary
Rose topiary can also be made from paper flowers, which can be made from any material, in particular:
- plain paper;
- corrugated paper;
- napkins.
MK (paper rose topiary) is quite easy, the most important thing is that you need to make the flowers in advance. Plain paper works well for making flowers, but it must be prepared first. You can make beautiful transitions on paper. To do this, you should take watercolor paint and paint paper sheets with colors of the same range, while making smooth transitions of tones.
To make paper with an interesting texture, you can color it using a foam sponge. For paper roses, you can also use a regular double-sided colored paper. You need to make roses out of it by twisting the petals around the base. You can make it with paper flowers by adding bows made of satin ribbons and beads to the tree crown.
Roses made from corrugated paper look beautiful and interesting, as this material can be very convenient to work with and allows you to create quite believable flowers.
To make roses from corrugated paper, you need to initially prepare a lot of petals. There should be a ball of plasticine or paper inside the flower. Then you need to use the prepared petals to decorate the prepared ball in layers. Corrugated paper stretches very well, so the petals are unusual in shape. You need to fasten the petals with a thread at the very base. Then twist each petal a little to make them look more natural.
A master class on making topiary is not difficult, the most important thing is to be patient and prepare a sufficient number of flowers. To make a tree, you need to glue its trunk to a foam ball. Then paint the ball in the same tone as the flowers and let it dry well. When everything is ready, hot glue the roses to the base, leaving no free space. Next, you need to decorate the trunk and place it in a flower pot filled with plaster diluted with water. When the mixture dries, decorate the pot and you are ready. You can use beads, sisal and much more to decorate the pot.
Topiaries made from napkins can be very different, since there are many ways to get beautiful and neat buds from such material. To make topiary from paper napkins, first you need to prepare the roses themselves. To make such flowers, you need to take a colored napkin and place a pencil on top of it. Then screw it onto a pencil, leaving about 4 centimeters.
You need to press the napkin on the pencil closer to the center to form an accordion. Externally, such a napkin should resemble a skirt. Two such parts need to be twisted in a spiral, one around the other. The base for the flower must be secured with thread. It is necessary to prepare 15 flowers to make topiary from napkins.
To make a topiary from napkins, you must first prepare the base. To do this, you can take a ready-made foam ball or make one out of paper, soak it in PVA glue and tie it with thread. To make the product more beautiful, you can paint the ball in the color of the napkins.
Initially, you need to glue the tree trunk to the ball, and then decorate the crown with roses from paper napkins, without leaving any free space. Then decorate the trunk by painting it with acrylic paint or wrapping it with satin ribbon, and place it in a flower pot with plaster. When the plaster dries and hardens, decorate the pot itself and the top layer of the base. The napkin topiary is ready, it can become a good gift or decoration.
Rose topiary is an original tree that can be simply an excellent gift. You can create roses from a variety of materials, it all depends on your own imagination.
November 2nd, 2014 
ale4ka
Topiary or the tree of happiness is not only a bright note in the interior, but also brings prosperity into the house along with its appearance and drives away negative energy. Flower topiary is a symbol of prosperity, fertility and the birth of new life. This tree will bring prosperity and prosperity to your family. In addition, a topiary made from paper with your own hands will be an original and sincere gift for your family and friends.
Today there are a huge variety of different techniques and ways to create topiary. Their production has been on stream for a long time. But a tree of happiness made with your own hands compares favorably with a purchased one. After all, while working on its creation, you inevitably invest a piece of your soul. This activity will certainly captivate you, and the finished result will give you aesthetic and moral pleasure. You can also involve your children in the creative process; I think they will also be incredibly interested in twisting paper flowers, especially if you first tell them the legend of magical properties home topiary.
I bring to your attention a master class on creating a topiary from corrugated roses “Pink Happiness”.
For work we need:
- Corrugated paper in dark and pale pink for roses;
- Green crepe paper;
- Transparent glue “Moment”;
- PVA glue;
- Chinese chopsticks;
- Soda twine;
- Sewing threads;
- Construction plaster (alabaster);
- Pot or mug;
- Napkins.
Making flowers for topiary
First, let's prepare sheets of dark and pale pink corrugated paper. In order to get a rose, we cut the paper into long strips three centimeters wide. We fold the top corner of the strip twice and twist the top edge of the tape like a candy wrapper. It turns out to be something like a braid; we make such a “braid” until the end of the tape.
We loosely wrap the ribbon into a tube and secure the resulting rose at the base with a thread, straighten the flower so that its petals “bloom.” About 25-30 of these roses need to be made.
These are the cute roses you should get as a result:
The video below describes in detail the process of creating roses from corrugated paper:
Creating a base and trunk for topiary
I used 4 Chinese sticks as the trunk; yours could be a dried branch, a plastic or metal stick. We tightly wrap the sticks folded together with twine, greasing them with PVA glue from time to time.
For the base ball, you can use an old newspaper, toilet paper or napkins. You can also make the base from polystyrene foam, polyurethane foam, either with your own hands or buy a ready-made one.
IN in this case We make the base from napkins. To do this, you need to crumple several napkins together, forming a spherical shape. Having achieved the desired volume, we wrap the base ball with twine to give it a more rounded shape. Next, we make a hole in the ball with a knife or scissors, insert the barrel into it or secure the joint with glue.
Now you need to prepare a solution of building plaster, mix the gypsum with water, bringing it to the consistency of thick sour cream. Fill the pot about 3/4 full with gypsum mortar and immerse the topiary stem vertically in it. Fix the structure in such a position that the plaster can completely envelop the trunk and harden.
The surface of the filler in a pot can be disguised with sisal, multi-colored decorative stones, beads, shells, artificial flowers, roses or ribbons.
Decorating the crown
Now the most enjoyable stage master class - decoration crowns with previously prepared flowers. To do this, lubricate the base of the roses with glue and place them tightly in a loose order on the surface of the base ball.
As an additional decoration, we cut out green leaves from corrugated or crepe paper and glue them to the base ball between the roses. You can also fill the gaps with ribbons, beads or lagurus, or any other decorative material, which seems most appropriate to you in this composition.
This is the lovely corrugated paper topiary we ended up with!
The “Tree of Happiness” stands on the window
He will accumulate happiness and give it to me.
Yes, we dream that we will grow Happiness,
Having bought a blank in the shop - a tree stump,
Believing, of course, that drops of happiness
Soon they will merge into a seething stream.
(c) Rushaniya Mukhtarova
According to craftswomen who make handmade gifts for sale through their small online stores, topiaries, which can be made from the most, are especially popular this year. If quite recently coffee topiaries were of particular interest, today people are actively interested in Trees of Happiness made of satin ribbons or decorated with homemade flowers made of translucent organza.
If you want to give a truly unique and exclusive gift, then make your own topiary! Moreover, making such a wonderful gift does not take much time and absolutely anyone can make a beautiful tree of Happiness, as well as decorate a ball with coffee beans or kanzashi flowers!
Our website contains photo master classes and step-by-step video lessons that will help you make very beautiful gifts in the form of miniature trees. Be sure to connect your child to this interesting and useful child development creative process - for example, twisting simple flowers from napkins to decorate a topiary ball is very easy and simple, and such small-sized crafts will need 40-50 pieces. In general, homemade products decorated with various paper crafts look very unusual and original. A topiary made from corrugated paper or plain crepe paper will look gorgeous.
We have already told you how to quickly make the base of a topiary - a container for a tree, a trunk and a crown. And with the help of corrugated paper you can decorate the outside of absolutely any gift item! For example, you can glue beautiful flowers made of paper squares to the crown, the trunk can be wrapped in strips of different colors cut from corrugated paper, and a pot or bowl can be covered with shapes made of crepe paper of different colors. Assortment of crumpled paper for making various crafts very huge. If crepe paper consists of small drawings and is more suitable for children's creativity, then high-quality corrugated paper is used for forming gift wrapping.
♦ HOW TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL TOPIARY WITH PAPER DECOR AS A GIFT. MASTER CLASSES WITH PHOTO:
OPTION 1 (click on photo):
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OPTION 3 (click on photo):
♦ VIDEO MASTER CLASSES:
Let's learn how to make a miniature tree and decorate it with homemade flowers from corrugated paper. Video lesson 1:
How to properly attach a topiary trunk to a pot of alabaster. Video lesson 2.
Rose topiary: 9 fresh ideas for delicate decor
Rose topiary can decorate your home or office table, or can serve as a romantic gift for a loved one The most important question in this matter is how to choose roses for topiary. When it comes to artificial flowers, you have many options. There are only dozens of types of paper, and if each of them is used... for the most interesting options It's worth going into more detail.
Topiary made of artificial roses
One of the most popular “pink” topiaries today is a souvenir tree made from sheet music. Moreover, they do not have to be white.
Paper yellowed with time will give the tree a special vintage flavor.
There are several ways to make roses from sheet music. Most often, petals are cut out, several rows of different sizes. The first petal is rolled into a roll, the rest are wrapped around the roll. The petals need to be secured with threads at the base.
Sometimes book pages with Latin letters become an alternative to sheet music.
Whether the bud is closed or in full bloom is your decision. Once you have made the required number of roses, you can paste them over the base ball.
Happiness tree made of artificial roses, rununcus and ochida (video master class)
Paper rose topiary
Plain paper is also suitable for making roses. But it will have to be transformed! Paint it or make it textured?
The following tips will help:
- Watercolor transitions. Take a sheet of watercolor paper and paint with colors of the same range with smooth transitions. Then you can cut out the petals from it.
- Brush and ruler. The old way is to dip an old toothbrush into the paint and use a ruler to splatter.
- Natural dye. Potassium permanganate or beetroot are also good options for coloring paper.
- Foam sponge. Then the paper will have a certain visual texture.
For paper topiary, you can also use regular double-sided colored paper
You can also glue salt to the paper and crush it well. Well, then everything follows the familiar scenario - roses are made either using the “petals around a roll” method, or cut out with a snake. You can make a topiary of roses and satin ribbons with such flowers.
Cold porcelain topiary (video)
Roses for topiary made of satin ribbons
Satin ribbons are a cheap and beautiful decoration, which is also used in topiary.
How to make a rose from satin ribbons:
- Take a skewer and insert the end of the ribbon into the cut on the skewer;
- Wind the ribbon a little onto the skewer;
- Bend the ribbon away from you, with a corner, wind it onto the skewer, holding it from below with your finger;
- Gradually form a rose with curved petals;
- The edge of the tape can be hemmed to the base or glued.
Making a rose from a satin ribbon step by step
If you want to create a wide crown of topiary, the roses should be tall.
Corrugated paper roses for topiary
Crepe paper or crepe paper is a great way to make amazingly lifelike flowers. Including roses.
Crepe paper roses are made like this: you cut out many petals of different sizes from crepe paper. Inside the rose there will be either something round - for example, candy or a plasticine ball, or a roll of corrugated paper. And then you need to gradually frame this roll with petals.
Crepe paper stretches well, making the petals very beautiful in shape.
The petals are fastened with thread at the base. Each petal can be twisted with a knitting needle, it will be even more natural.
Corrugated paper topiary “Roses”: step-by-step instructions
If the crepe paper roses are already ready, you can start making topiary
The technology for making roses from corrugated paper may differ in different MKs
This tree is made as follows::
- A hole is made in the foam base ball into which a trunk (branch, aluminum cable, etc.) is inserted;
- The barrel is fixed in the ball with hot glue;
- Now you can paste over the ball itself, forming a crown - first, paint it the color of a rose;
- Then glue the roses very carefully to the base using a heat gun, avoiding any gaps;
- You decorate the trunk and “plant” it in a pot filled with plaster;
- All that remains is to decorate the pot itself.
The same crepe paper can be used as a decoration for a pot, just wrap a regular pot in corrugated paper, tying it with a ribbon at the top
Topiary of dried roses
Dried roses are also often used to decorate topiary crowns. But only roses in the crown do not always look ideal.
If the flowers are well preserved, these will be enough, but if you think they should be diluted with something, then these could be maple leaf roses
They are formed according to the same principle as other artificial roses: bent leaves frame a roll of leaves, like rose petals, and are tied with threads at the base. You will get topiary from dry gifts of nature, like autumn decor looks great.
Floral topiary from live roses (video master class)
How to make roses from topiary napkins
There are many ways to turn a napkin into a rose; one of the most effective allows you to get neat buds.
How to make a rose from a napkin:
- Take a colored napkin and place a pencil on top of it;
- Screw the napkin onto a pencil, not twisting it 4 cm until the end;
- You press the napkin with your finger so that on the pencil, closer to the center, you get such an accordion, after which the pencil can be taken out;
- The napkin should look like a skirt;
- Twist the two skirts made in this way in a spiral around one another.
The base of the flower is fixed with thread. When there are 10-15 such flowers, you can make topiary
Topiary from rose napkins: step-by-step instructions
You can take a foam ball for topiary from the store. Or you can build it from newspapers. Crumple the newspapers into a ball, soak them a little with PVA glue and tie them with thread. You will get such a dense ball. You can paint it to match the tone of roses, or you can leave it in its original form, the main thing is the round shape.
- Immediately make a hole for the barrel so as not to accidentally cover it with flowers.
- After this you can apply for a crown. Napkins are fragile, so you only need to glue the base. It’s easier to use a heat gun to glue it pointwise, but reliably. Glue the flowers without gaps.
- Next you design the trunk. The easiest way is to wrap any hollow tube or, for example, a thick pencil, with satin ribbon. Since you are making wood, the ribbon can be brown or gold.
- Pot decor. You need to turn an ordinary flowerpot into a stylish pot. You can use the decoupage technique, and having found the necessary fragments with the same roses, paste them over the pot. Several layers of varnish, and the tree found its own flowerpot.
- After this you fill the pot with plaster. Insert the trunk with the crown into fresh gypsum and hold it until the tree is fixed in its, so to speak, soil.
- The top layer of plaster needs to be decorated. You can do this by elegantly placing satin ribbons there. Or you can fill the top of the pot with artificial stones, which looks very romantic in combination with delicate roses.
If you want, some rose petals can be decorated with rhinestones, which will imitate rose droplets on a flower.
Topiary made from napkins (video)
Topiary with roses is a beautiful tree that will be an excellent gift. It can be used in photo shoots, used to decorate bedside tables and window sills, as well as a romantic dinner. Experiment, come up with your own versions of roses, perhaps it will be lace or newspapers, who knows?
Happy creativity!
Rose flower topiary is easy to make from floral crepe paper. You can take paper in delicate shades (white, pink, purple) and make a beautiful happiness tree with your own hands. It can be a wonderful decor for any interior. This is a wonderful or different holiday. The next master class will tell you in detail how to make such a topiary yourself.
Basic materials
To make a topiary, as in the photo, you will need approximately 5-6 hours of free time and the following materials.
1. Paper for roses: when choosing corrugated paper, it is important to choose floral paper, since regular paper does not have sufficient rigidity.
2. A tree trunk can be made from a branch, thick wire, a pencil or a piece of a narrow pipe.
3. A ball made of ordinary polystyrene foam, polyurethane foam, tennis ball, plastic ball, or any other ball that can be found in the house (I use a regular Christmas tree toy).
4. A flower pot or any other suitable container, from a mug to a disposable cup.
5. Details for decorating the composition: ribbons, rhinestones, beads and the like.
6. Transparent hot melt adhesive for attaching roses to the base
7. A cement-type solution for soil in a pot: you can use tile adhesive, regular cement or gypsum. If you take plaster, then add a few stones to it.
Stages of work
The master class consists of four main stages:
1. creating a trunk,
2. making flowers from corrugated paper,
3. gluing roses onto a round base,
4. planting a plant in a pot,
5. final decor of the composition.
Preparing a trunk for topiary
I offer several ideas on how to make a trunk for a topiary.
Option 1. Find a suitable stick, remove all excess from it, and then paint it with paint or wrap it with tape or regular thread. It is best to take wax ribbon for flowers, it is sold in flower wholesalers. 
Option 2. Take a thick wire or cable that will support the weight and wrap it with tape. Good option- a knitting needle from an old umbrella.
Option 3. Make a chic gypsum trunk of any convenient shape. To do this, you need to take a gypsum solution and stick it on any solid base, from a stick to an ordinary one. a simple pencil. Paint the dried plaster in any suitable color.
The photo shows how the topiary trunk was made for our master class - several thick wires are not completely wrapped with ordinary packing tape. The lower part is straightened out different sides, we will then glue the tree to the pot using it.
Base ball
For our topiary the base is chosen in the form Christmas ball. Besides this, you can take any suitable base. If there is nothing in the house, then it can simply be made according to the papier-mâché principle using a slightly inflated balloon or in this even simpler way.
We crumple several newspapers into a ball and give them a spherical shape. Then we wrap it with threads and apply glue. At the end, we paint with paints to match the main color of the corrugated paper prepared for the flowers.
We stick the trunk into the base and now move on to making roses.
How to make flowers?
Creating roses is the most labor-intensive stage. But the master class on creating paper roses will certainly come in handy in the future in the most different types creativity. For example, to decorate a lid or. The following photos show the entire process in detail. 
1. Take 30 cm of corrugated paper and cut it off the roll. Now cut lengthwise into strips 30 cm long and 5 cm wide.
2. Use your fingers to slightly stretch the strip of paper, making the edge uneven. We bend a third of the width inward along the entire length, again slightly stretching the edge. The photo shows how uneven it turns out in the end. 
3. Now roll the strip into a flower, holding the bottom with your fingers, forming small folds. You need to twist it loosely and not too tightly (as in the photo). From time to time I fix the layers at the bottom with a drop of hot glue so that everything stays in place.
4. Now we need to make many, many paper roses so that there are enough of them for our entire ball.
There are several more ways to create paper roses. For example, original version describes in detail the following video master class.
Flower ball
Let's move on to the pleasant stage - creating with our own hands flower ball. Flowers can be glued using instant glue or a hot-melt gun. The last option, in my opinion, is more convenient.
Glue the first rose on top, the next ones next to it. Be sure to place the flowers in neat rows and plant them close to each other so that the base does not show through between them. After the entire ball is filled, all roses must have their petals fluffed up, making them even more voluminous.
Landing
A beautiful flower pot does not need to be decorated with anything. If the pot is simple or not very suitable, then you can simply wrap it in cloth, as in the example in the photo. The fabric is again attached with hot glue. 
We lower the trunk to the bottom of the pot and fix it with hot glue. Now it stands on its own and it’s time to mix the solution for the “soil”. Many people ask how to dilute plaster for topiary and even ask to write a separate master class on this topic. But in fact, everything you need to know can be described in one sentence: feel free to make a solution like thick sour cream or even liquid porridge by eye. Pour the porridge into a pot and wait about a day until it dries completely. After this, all that remains is to decorate the composition.
Decor
Anything suitable in the house will do for decoration. I had leftover white corrugated paper, which I cut into 1x1 cm squares and glued directly onto the tile adhesive using the trimming technique. The white fluffy grass was additionally decorated with several transparent beads.
I glue the same beads onto the flowers on the ball. Finally, I tie a bow on the trunk from the same packaging tape.
The master class has come to an end. This is how the delicate purple topiary turned out!
Topiary is a beautiful and harmonious plant that is appropriate in any interior.
Today's master class was dedicated to working with floral corrugation. However, you can make topiary with your own hands not only from paper roses, but also from a wide variety of materials. A master class on topiary made from ordinary napkins is described in detail. You can also look step-by-step master class from coffee beans or a review article on the most different materials for making a tree of happiness.
