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Do you know what oshibana is?  I am fond of this art and want to share it with you. In Japanese, oshibana is art of creating paintings from dried plants. This type of creativity has several names: "Pressed Floristry", "Planar Floristry", "Oshibana& ...

Nature is the best inspiration for creativity. It does not only tell stories, but also shares materials: you can draw pictures not with colors, but with flowers, petals, plants, berries. This art even has its own name — "oshibana" — and it is developing in Japan. Recently, the publishing ...

I represent to your attention a very simple tutorial that, I hope, will appeal to both adults and children. The idea of this DIY — prints of living plants on fabric. You can use different herbs from grocer's or a flower shop.   To create plant imprints on fabric, you need: Different plants (I ...

Once I was asked to make a glass pendant with a four-leaf clover. So I'll ell and show how it's done. My experience promptedme to paint the leave — even if it slightly burns, paint remains inside the pendant. I took:  transparent glass (you should only know the appropriate mode of melting ...

In the midst of spring, everybody wants to fill one's life with sunshine, warmth and something new. How beautiful the first flowers are! Buy a bouquet from a flower-woman, or pick it in the fresh air, bring home, sort out and put it in a vase on the windowsill... Anemones and coltsfeet will ...

Let's try to make a little repair right on the cover? This technique can lead to many ideas of creating jewellery.   Take a piece of bindery cardboard for the tiles and apply glue Korfix evenly (alternative – thick PVA). Neatly glue scrap paper on the cardboard — its pattern will be then ...