…compilation of tutorials
I found this idea really great: cast plaster tiles where you lay leaves in which will give a beautiful pattern :)
In the end it gives a similar result to the carved plaster plaques, it’s only so much easier this way ;-)
Links:
Plaster Tiles with Leaves (Plaster Wall Tiles Part 2 2008) (Video)
That’s the second part of an instruction, you can find the first as How to make a plaster Wall Tile Part 1
Here at unikatissima:
Carved Plaster Plaques
For a long time I thought this tutorial for a bird bath in the shape of a leaf lost and now I’ve found it back! :)
Apparently you can make more from leaves than ‘only’ silhouette portraits and birds ;-))
Links:
Cut Leaves (Bio-Diversity)
via: Wireless Ginko (and other leaves messages)
Here at unikatissima:
Leaf Silhouette Portraits
Leaves Birds
Now that the real autumn leaves slowly disappear it’s time to make your own.
At least, that’s what I think ;-))
Aren’t those Apache leaves beautiful?
I’ve never seen this pattern before, but I surely will try it one day ;-)
Links:
Beaded Apache Leaves (Apache Leaf Stitch):
PDF file ( ~ 1600 KB) at Need For Beads
I don’t really like door wreaths, but even though I won’t make it and hang it on my door I find the paper leaves wreath somehow beautiful :)
It was made originally for Christmas, but I think that it could as well be a spring or summer wreath with green paper or an autumn wreath with paper in brown, red and yellow.
And with papers like those for the place mat it looks presumably great the whole year long :))
Links:
Paper Leaves Wreath (Paper Christmas Wreath Tutorial)
via: the red thread: Paper Christmas Wreath Tutorial
Here at unikatissima: Fabric/Paper Place Mat
Wow, don’t you think?
I don’t think that I’d the patience to make leaf silhouette portraits ;-))
I’d prefer to display them sorted by colour ;-))
Links:
leaf silhouette portraits
via: Leaf cage
Here at unikatissima:
The Beauty of Brown Leaves
I do love these colour gradients when working with polymer clay and I found the colour gradients of this leaf very interesting!
Links:
Striped Leaf Cane
I already wrote about drying flowers in the microwave and about flower pounding, here at how to press flowers, leaves and herbs you can find general and comprehensive tips, there are some that I want to try out ;-)
And what to do then with the pressed flowers and leaves?
That is what I did:
On the picture you see a little ‘piece of art’ that was meant originally as a card but is much to time-consuming for this: it is a Clematis petal pressed in an old phone book, embellished with self-made decorative paper and hand embroidery.
Here I’ve pressed a leek leaf in an old phone book, too, and embroidered it.
I don’t know what kind of leaf this is, but I combined it with self-made decorative paper, self-made ‘papyrus’ and hand embroidery.
Links:
How to Press Flowers, Leaves and Herbs
Here at unikatissima:
Drying Flowers in the Microwave
Flower Pounding
Faux Papyrus
