DIY panels

Lately it's fashionable decorate your apartment or house with decorative elements handmade. These can be paintings, photo frames, panels. The latter can be hung on the wall, or placed on the closet as photo frames. You can order all this, or do it yourself, using a variety of interesting things for work. In addition, you can involve not only an adult, but also a child in working on the panel; rest assured, he will really like it.

DIY flower panel

The simplest option for a beautiful and effective panel is to make it from flowers. Flowers can be completely different - live, dried, artificial, made from paper, satin ribbons, fabric, some natural materials, dough, plasticine. What is needed to work on the panel: a frame, you can make it yourself from wooden slats, a piece of thick fabric or plywood, you can use thick cardboard, glue, and other decorative elements. You can also use glass so that the whole picture appears behind it, or you can not use glass, then you will get an unusual three-dimensional image.

You should remember a few nuances, for example, when using dried flowers, leaves and twigs, you should handle them very carefully so that they do not break. When using fresh flowers for panels, you need to remember about water and care so as not to break the living plant. For fresh flowers, it is best to use small vases that will be attached to the base. They will be filled with water, due to which the flowers will last a long time, pleasing the eye with beautiful fresh plants.

Such panels can be supplemented with various elements - these can be stones, rhinestones, beads, butterflies, sparkles. Flowers are attached with glue, thin fishing line or wire, transparent tape, or thread. You can assemble entire paintings from any flowers using one motif, for example, you can draw on the basis Japanese house, and make blooming sakura branches from the flowers. Artificial volumetric orchids on the wall will look beautiful.

DIY paper panel

By inventing paper paintings, you can make anything you want. Paper flowers, fruits, people, animals, trees. All this is attached to any base made of cardboard, plywood, glass, do not forget about the frame. It is most often glued using simple super glue for strength.

Panels made of voluminous hearts, butterflies, convex diamonds or squares look beautiful. For example, you can cut out a lot of single-color or multi-colored butterflies and assemble a composition from them. It can be a heart made of butterflies, or a spiral made of them.

Another original option is to cut long strips of colored paper, twist each into a ring of different sizes, securing the edge so that the ring does not unwind. And attach such rings to the base in a variety of ways.

An option for lovers is to cut out a lot of hearts from any paper or thin cardboard. Fold each one in half and write a nice compliment or word inside on one half. Attach to base.

DIY fabric panel

Any type of fabric is suitable for a fabric panel; it can be a wide variety of shreds, pieces of leather, chintz, organza, lace. From fabric you can make images of a wide variety of animals from a cat to a raccoon, New Year's motifs with a Christmas tree, snow and Santa Claus, three-dimensional figures, for example, you can draw a girl, and make a three-dimensional dress, coat, or individual items of clothing from fabric.

For the New Year theme and Santa Claus, you will need a lot of multi-colored fabric - red and white for clothes for grandfather and colored ones for the Christmas tree and a bag of gifts. For Moroz's beard and hair, you can use cotton wool or white fur. You can sew a variety of flowers or flower bouquets from the fabric.

Such fabric panels are ideal for any room, bedroom, children's, kitchens. For children's you can use fairy-tale heroes, fantasy characters, animals, pirates, fairies, fairy-tale princesses; for the kitchen, bright vegetables and fruits made from scraps of fabric.

DIY shell panel

If you have a mountain of shells lying around from the sea or river, you can easily make a panel from them. You can also use dried sea stars, pebbles, and beautiful stones. You can simply attach a lot of shells to a base in different orders, or you can make a picture out of them. For example, you can make flower petals from flat shells; oblong river shells are suitable for daisies. The images can be supplemented with beads, beads, sparkles, and the shells themselves can be painted gold or silver, or coated with mother-of-pearl varnish. Another unusual option is to make such a mesh from simple threads, a couple of bamboo sticks and a lot of shells.

What else can you make a panel from with your own hands?

You can make such a decoration on the wall from absolutely any available materials. These can be pine cones, acorns, buttons, colored wax pencils, coffee beans, any cereals, threads, stones, vegetables, fruits, feathers, small toys, rhinestones, beads, lace and much more.

You can make any image from threads - a butterfly, a skull, a quatrefoil. For a stone panel, it is better to use pebbles; you can paint something on it with acrylic paints. Cats, dogs, or draw houses on the rocks and create a picture like a house on the seashore with a beautiful sunset and mountains. You can also coat the pebbles with shiny or pearlescent paint.

Dried citrus slices and slices work well; you can add cinnamon sticks to them. The simplest thing you can do from coffee beans is to paste them over a frame and make a cup of coffee.

If you did renovations not long ago and you still have scraps of wallpaper, then you shouldn’t throw them away. Having made the frame and base, you can glue the wallpaper on top. You can make several elements of different sizes, shapes and with different pieces of wallpaper.