DIY photo frames are always relevant.
This is a great gift and a wonderful home accessory. A kanzashi photo frame made from satin ribbons made according to our master class will decorate a coffee table, bookshelf or chest of drawers. Delicate flowers and a charming butterfly are symbols of eternal spring and good mood. It is appropriate to give such a gift to friends, colleagues, teachers and doctors. Prepare everything you need and get to work.
Materials and tools for crafts
To make a photo frame in the style of format 10-15, you need to prepare the following materials:
- four sheets of A-4 cardboard;
- turquoise fabric – 30 cm wide and 20 cm long;
- pencil and ruler;
- satin ribbons of the following colors and widths: milky - 0.5 cm and 2.5 cm; golden - 0.5 cm and 2.5 cm; silver –3 cm; purple – 0.5 cm; pink – 2.5 cm; yellow – 2.5 cm; dark green – 5 cm; light green – 2.5 cm; white – 5 cm;
- half beads of different diameters - 15 pieces;
- 8 beads for the butterfly;
- mesh fabric - two pieces: 10 cm x 7 cm;
And tools:
- lighter;
- hot gun.
- stapler;
- fishing line
Step-by-step master class on creating elements and assembling
Take a sheet of cardboard. Draw and cut out the elements for the base of the frame: length of the upper and lower parts: 24 by 5 cm; the length of the side parts is 21 by 5 cm. On each side of the strips, cut the corners and round them. 
In order for the frame decorated with kanzashi to be stronger, you can cut out exactly the same parts again and connect them with a stapler.
Then place each piece on the fabric and trace it with a pencil. It is very important to take into account that you need to increase the length by a centimeter on each side in order to bend the material and glue it to the back side. 
Cut out the pieces and cover the cardboard parts with fabric. Place fabric parts on a flat surface and cardboard parts on top. Carefully apply hot glue in small parts, immediately bend and glue the fabric extending beyond the cardboard onto its back side.
Place the wrong side up on all the pieces the way they should be connected. Cut 4 x 4 cm squares from cardboard and round the edges on both sides. Apply glue to the joints of the photo frame and connect the parts. 
The result is such a frame - the basis for decorating with kanzashi flowers. 
Next, proceed to design. From the mesh, cut 2 pieces of 10 by 7 cm. 
On one side of each piece, gather the edge and secure it with a stapler. Then glue them on both sides diagonally from the wrong side: on the inside, the narrowed part, and on the outer corner, beautifully distribute and attach the wide part of the mesh to make a “fan”. 
To beautifully frame the frame, you need to weave a braid from two narrow ribbons: golden and milky, 0.5 cm wide and 5 meters long.
Cross the ends of the two ribbons. Grasp the milk ribbon with the edge of the top golden ribbon and glue it from below, while the end of the milk ribbon should protrude 2 cm so that a loop remains after it is glued from below. 
Into the resulting loop, thread the golden ribbon, already bent into the tracking loop. 
In the same way, alternating the ribbons, continue to thread the loops into each other until the desired length of the ribbon is reached. 
When the braid is ready, carefully glue the ends down.
Take the frame and glue the tape along the edge. 
Next you need to make kanzashi flowers and a butterfly from ribbons.
Take milky ribbon and cut 36 squares for the petals of the central chrysanthemum. Fold it in half to make a triangle, then fold it in half again. 
Connect the edges of the small triangle together. Trim the bottom ends. Burn the edges with a lighter, pressing lightly with your fingers so that they stick together. 
Connect the nine petals together with hot glue - this will be the top row. 
Attach the second row of petals between the first layer a little lower. For the third and fourth layers of the flower, cut 18 squares of gold ribbon to make two-layer petals.
Fold the square in half, then fold it again. Insert a milky petal into this triangle and connect the edges of the golden triangle, as if wrapping it. 
Glue also in a checkerboard pattern next to each other below.
For side chrysanthemums, cut 7 squares of milky ribbon for the top layer of flowers, 14 pink and purple squares, 14 golden ones for the petals of the lower rows of chrysanthemums. The technique is the same as with the first flower. 
Glue mother-of-pearl half-beads to the center of the flowers.
To decorate the next corner of the photo frame, you need to make a kanzashi daisy. To do this, take a white ribbon 5 cm wide and 55 cm long. Cut into squares. Fold the square in half to form a triangle again. Then fold each edge toward its center corner. 
Holding the bent ends, bend them in half again. Trim the sharp edges with scissors and burn them with a lighter. 
Glue the petals one by one with glue. Then cut out a circle from the yellow tape, singe it with a lighter and glue it to the center of the daisy. 
The flowers are ready, now you need to make leaves for them. To do this, take a dark green ribbon 5 cm wide and 45 cm long, a light green ribbon 2.5 by 22.5 cm, and a silver ribbon 3 by 27 cm. 
The technique is the same as for chrysanthemum petals: first make the first light petal, then “wrap” it with a silver layer folded into a double triangle. 
In the same way, wrap two layers of the finished leaf with a dark green layer. Burn and secure the edges and bottom of the leaf well so that it does not crumble. 
Glue leaves 3 at a time along the edges of the side chrysanthemums and on one side of the daisy. 
To make a butterfly, take a peach ribbon: 4 by 8 cm, yellow: 2.5 by 5 cm, golden: 2.5 by 5 cm, milky: 2.5 by 5 cm, as well as 8 beads of different sizes and 9 cm fishing line
The body of the butterfly consists of two parts, the manufacturing technique is the same as in a chamomile petal (only smaller) and a chrysanthemum petal (like the narrow wings of a butterfly).
To make wide wings, fold the square in half, fold the edges of the triangle just above its top, and then to the top. 
Cut off the sharp edges and burn them.
Glue all the parts of the butterfly together, as in the photo. String the beads onto a fishing line. After the last smallest bead, insert the fishing line into the previous one and pull it out from the top one so that two antennae stick out. Glue small beads to the edge of these antennae. 
All the details of the kanzashi frame are ready, but before gluing them, cut out a square from cardboard along the contour for the wrong side, but so that it is not visible from the front. Glue a loop of thin tape under the cardboard on top. Don't glue one of the sides of the cardboard to insert the photo! 
Next, place all the decorative elements made using the kanzashi technique on a photo frame and secure with a hot gun. 
Take half beads of different sizes and place them between the colors. 
An elegant kanzashi style photo frame is ready! You can keep it for yourself or give it to a loved one. By changing the color of the background and ribbons, you will get a new design.
This modern technique produces luxurious ones, and much more. For a selection of master classes on kanzashi, see. See you again!
Today we will make a photo frame with ribbon border. This easy kanzashi master class for beginners is so simple that you can do it with your child. We will also use a flower for decoration, for which we will learn how to make petals. This photo frame is quite suitable for memorable photographs of the Victory Day or for decorating a postcard for May 9 or any other holiday.
Kanzashi photo frame
Kanzashi master class for beginners
In making a photo frame, we will need the following materials and tools:
- ribbons 0.5 cm wide – 2 m, 2.5 cm – 25 cm and 5 cm – 10 cm green and 15 cm crimson;
- scissors, glue, lighter, thread and needle;
- colored cardboard, white sheet of paper, photograph, pencil.
We will make our frame from this Divide a sheet of cardboard in half, attach a photograph to the non-colored (back) side, shifting it slightly towards the top (this is necessary to leave room for attaching the flower). We outline, cut out a rectangle smaller than the photo and also leave two corners diagonally to be sure that the photo will not fall out.
Cut out a template from cardboard We cut off a white rectangle, wider relative to the cutout on the cardboard and shorter in length, this will be the back wall of our photo frame. Glue it to the back side and immediately insert the photo, just like we did in our other one.
Insert a photo Let's start making a flat braid from ribbons. This is a very popular weaving technique and is used in many products (we used it in strips of leather and jute). So, let's digress... We treat the edges of the 0.5 cm wide ribbons with fire. On one side we make loops of 0.6 cm. Next, I will mark the red ribbon “K” and the pink ribbon “P”. Hold the ribbons with the wrong side facing you. We pass “P” into the “K” loop. We bend “K” and pass it into the “P” loop. We tighten the ribbons a little so that the loops do not stick out. If you find it difficult, try doing everything on paper strips first. Next we weave according to this pattern until the length of the ribbon ends.
Making a braid from ribbons We finish by tying a knot and scorching it with fire. Next, we sew or glue the pigtail to the base, aligning it along the line.
Glue the pigtail along the contour Kanzashi petals
To make kanzashi flower petals, cut 5 strips of ribbon 2.5 cm wide and process the edges with fire. Then we fold the ribbon to form a right angle, and connect the upper right corner to the lower left, after which we fold the petal as in the photo and secure it with threads. We make 5 such petals.
Making petals for a flower We use the same technique to make a green leaf, but we don’t sew it together, but solder it with fire. We collect the petals one by one on a thread and form a flower, decorate the middle with beads.
Collecting a flower Green leaves are made according to this plan: we make a piece of ribbon 6 cm long and 5 cm wide, fold it in half across, with the front side inward. We cut the resulting rectangle diagonally, solder it using a lighter, and use the remnants of the tape to make a second leaf (it will be a little smaller). You can see other options for leaves in the video at the end of the lesson, where Alina Boloban shows how they are made.
Sepals for buds 
Making blanks for making buds We cut off the extra corner, press the bottom part towards the center and sew everything together (we already did this during production). You need 3 such petals for buds.
Petal for buds We supplement them with green ribbon and form buds. Here we have two buds and a carnation flower.
Flower details When all the parts are ready, first we roughly lay out what will go where, only then we glue everything with super glue.
Photo frame This frame can be either horizontal, when the flower is on the side, or vertical - the flower is from below. I wish you good luck in your endeavors and victories on the creative front! By subscribing, you will always be aware of our latest news. Happy Victory Day! One for all!
Tape ideas. Ribbon frames for postcards
Here are some examples of work where this technique is used: 
Watch the video, it clearly shows how to achieve these magnificent patterns:
FRAMES FOR POSTCARDSHow can you use regular ribbon to decorate a card? Sometimes you come across amazing ideas! And it seems like you already know a lot, have seen a lot, but here... In general, you can always stumble upon a thing hitherto unknown to you.
Notice how simple and interesting the idea with a ribbon frame looks. And it’s not at all difficult to do this - just make little knots on four pieces of tape, and secure their ends to the postcard, having previously made four holes in it with a breadboard or stationery knife. :-) 
The article was written using materials from the site http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.com
We have already made frames from ribbons for postcards. I propose to continue the topic and consider another recipe for making a frame from ribbons. This is a small idea that you might like. 
What we need:
- glue and foam tape (or ready-made 3D glue squares);
- a ring (as in the picture) made of cardboard or thick paper;
- ribbon and lace (optional);
- scissors;
- watercolor paints or stamp pad.
We take a ring that has already been cut out of paper and begin to wrap it with tape. It is advisable to secure the ribbon with glue on the back side of the ring so that it does not slip off the base. You can use lace (as in the photo) - this is optional. The finished frame is attached to foam tape and at the very end is decorated with a bow from the same ribbon. Everything ingenious is simple! 
1. ELEMENTS OF KANZASHA FOR DECORATING PICTURES AND PHOTO FRAMES
One of the interesting trends in needlework that has gained popularity recently is embroidery of pictures. Cross stitching pictures or beads, many craftsmen create real works of applied art! Paintings can be interestingly decorated. And here the popular decoration technique - kanzashi.
Typically, decorative elements in the kanzashi style are made from satin ribbons or bright multi-colored fabric. The most common crafts are flowers , butterflies, bows. In previous materials we have already told you how to use the kanzashi technique to decorate popular women's hair accessories - brooch, automatic hairpin, headband, crabs.
From this article you will learn how to make it yourself graceful flowers in kanzashi style with round or sharp petals and decorate embroidered paintings or photo frames with them. With the help of simple video and photo master classes for beginners, you will quickly learn how to make elegant flowers that will decorate a picture with a frame using the kanzashi technique.
In general, in Japanese kanzashi there are many interesting ways of making decorative flowers from different materials . Japanese craftsmen use a variety of types of flowers to decorate jewelry: ogi in the form of a fan, kusha combs, birabira pendants, flowers made from kanokodome stones, kogai hairpins, tamas and kusudama. But our most common technique is hana (or tsumami). This is a direction in handicrafts. Only the material used to create individual modules for crafts is not paper, but satin ribbon. Square pieces are cut out of it and elements for decoration are formed.
The most common elements are petals of different shapes, with and without curls. From them flowers are formed, and from flowers - compositions for decorating women's accessories or paintings. The most popular flowers made from kanzashi ribbons among craftsmen are irises, roses, chrysanthemums, and lilies. Sometimes the central part of the flower is decorated with beads, rhinestones, and buttons.
The easiest way to decorate a painting with flowers using the kanzashi technique:
Materials and tools for work:
sharp scissors, hot glue gun, lighter, wide wooden frame, A-4 cardboard, large black beads, felt, burlap, gold braid, steel tape. Satin ribbon in yellow, green, orange, red colors (width - 5 cm) 
Stages of work:
Cut out 5 x 5 cm pieces from satin ribbons.
We form round petals from orange, yellow and red squares using the kanzashi technique (below are separate tutorials for making different petals and flowers)
We make round and sharp petals from green squares. Green petals will be single and double.
Now we make the core for the flower. To do this, carefully cut out a 1.5 cm circle from felt with scissors. Then cut out 4 more similar circles.
We distribute the made petals around the circle of our core and glue them with hot glue.
Beads should be glued to the center of the flower core, and golden braid along the edge.
We cut out sharp petals from a steel ribbon and distribute them between the petals of satin ribbons.
We make the basis for the kanzashi flower arrangement in the form of a picture. We stretch burlap onto a sheet of cardboard and secure it with a wooden frame.
Now all that remains is to trust your taste and create a composition of kanzashi flowers on the canvas. Flowers can be glued using super glue.
3. MASTER CLASSES. DIFFERENT OPTIONS OF KANZASHA FLOWERS FROM RIBBONS FOR DECORATING A PICTURE
Master class 1
THE BASICS FOR BEGINNING CRAFTSWORKERS. WITH THE HELP OF THIS INSTRUCTION WITH DIAGRAMS AND MK YOU WILL EASILY LEARN TO MAKE INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS FROM SATIN Ribbons USING THE KANZASHI TECHNIQUE.
Master class 2
HOW TO MAKE AN ORIGINAL FLOWER WITH DOUBLE PETALS WITH YOUR OWN HANDS USING THE KANZASHI TECHNIQUE. STEP-BY-STEP LESSON WITH PHOTO.
Master class 3
How to make different petals and leaves to decorate kanzashi flowers and paintings:
4. VIDEO MK FOR BEGINNERS. DECORATION OF PICTURES USING THE KANZASHI TECHNIQUE
If you need to create an original photo frame with your own hands, you can use the popular kanzashi technique. This master class is offered with the aim of teaching those interested in the process of making photo frames using the kanzashi technique.
Come up with your own design and add different elements to decorate them: or a flower.
For work we will prepare the following materials:
- Photo frame;
- Satin ribbon five centimeters (five meters) wide, lilac and yellow;
- The ribbon is white, 2.5 centimeters (10 cm) wide;
- Five half beads;
- Polymer glue;
- Scissors and tweezers.
We cut lilac and yellow squares from a wide ribbon. From two yellow and one lilac we will make a triple kanzashi petal. To do this, fold each one twice diagonally, and then fold the triangles together, each one slightly lower than the previous one. Lilac should be placed in the middle. Then we grab the element with tweezers, straighten the ends with scissors, and burn the cut edges with fire. We will need eleven similar triple petals. Next, cut out a circle with a diameter of three and a half centimeters. It will act as a base for decoration. Glue eleven blanks around the circumference of the round base.
Continuing the master class on creating a photo frame, we will make one sharp petal with two vertices from two satin rectangles (with a side of 5 cm). Let's take two different colors, add them diagonally, and nest them inside each other with a slight difference vertically. After that, we roll them together again, cut off the ends and burn them, as shown in the video. Let's create ten such elements and glue them together. We connect all the leaves to each other using a glue gun along the side surface. After this, we cut out squares of white satin, the width of which is 2.5 cm, and make 11 simple kanzashi petals from it. To do this, fold the shapes diagonally twice. We glue these parts between the leaves of the previously made flower. And now the moment has come for gluing the two shades together. We fill the void in the center with half a bead, adding it with polymer glue. Now the time has come to decorate the frame by gluing a previously made product.
Next, for the kanzashi photo frame, we need to cut out a few more rectangles from a wide lilac ribbon, and make leaves with a hole out of them, cutting and burning the ends of each. Then from these sharp leaves we will glue four flowers, each of which should have seven elements. The center of each should be complemented by half a bead. Now let's glue them to the opposite corner of the photo frame. Next we will make 17 petals with a hole, and decorate the first large flower, gluing them along the edge of the photo frame and around.
