Tutorial & creative recycling: rose made of jeans!

T his beautiful rose is made from jeans scraps, I would like to show you how I made it!
You can see another craft project with jeans here: Jeans Frame tutorial

Jeans rose tutorial

Materials:
- Recycled jeans
- Water based glue
- Scissors


1-Preparing petals, to do the day before ( must dry for 24 hours)
Cut a rectangle of jeans about 2" x 4"(5x10cm).
Cut from jeans shapes of petals like those in the pictures, you will need 3 smaller petals and 10 bigger petals.

Smaller petals are about 1,6"(4cm) high and bigger petals 2"(5cm).

Make a cut in the smaller petals, will be used to bend it and give it the shape of a rose petal.

In the bigger petals make two cuts in this way:

Now you have all the elements to compose the rose.

Pass on all the petals and on the rectangle some glue diluited in a lot of water:

Let them dry for 24 hours.


2- Composing the rose
When the petals are dry you can model them and they will retain the desired shape.
Glue the smaller petals in this way to gave them the right shape:

Model petals to imitate those of a real rose:

They will maintain the shape that you gave them.

Make the same thing with bigger petal:

Stick the first two tabs together and then the third:

And model the petals:

Take the rectangle and bend it as shown in the picture below:

Begin to roll up it to form the inner part of the rose:

Fix it with a drop of glue and cut the excess.

Now you can start adding all the petals!
Stick the three smaller petals for first:

And then all the others, all around:

I used my rose to decor a bag, but it can be use for a lot of things, as a brooch, hairpin, to make a necklace, hair barretts...

What do you think of my rose?
Have other ideas to use it to decor?

Decoring with jeans spirals! Tutorial

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f you, like me, have some old jeans that no longer use, you can recycle it for some cute projects!

And you will not have to abandon a pair of jeans that you loved...

The first is: Decor with jeans spirals!!

I decorate a frame but they can be use to decor almost everything! 

Materials:
- Recycled jeans
- Scissors
- Water based glue

First of all you have to cut some little stripes from jeans, about 0,2" high. 
Prepare a lot of stripes of different lenght and from jeans of different shade of blue or black to give a wonderful gradient effect to your decoration.

Wrap in tight spirals the stripes and fix them with a drop of glue.
Prepare spirals of different measures, mine are from 0,2" to 1,4" of diameter.

If you use two different colors of jeans the effect will be beautiful!

Stick them all with glue

This is my jeans frame!

What do you think of my frame?
You can use jeans spirals to decor notebooks, bags, t-shirt, boxes...and many other things!

See you soon with another creative idea with jeans! :)