How to make a flower from an aluminum can. Rose from aluminum cans

Metal flowers are made by blacksmiths and artists, but we are not talking about such serious work. You can make beautiful and almost eternal roses with your own hands from used aluminum cans. There is nothing particularly difficult here; such work is accessible to almost everyone.

To work, you will need aluminum cans, a piece of copper wire, a steel washer, sandpaper, and epoxy glue. Glue is needed to fix the parts, but other fastening options can be used.
Tools you need are pliers, strong scissors, an awl or a nail punch.

It's better to use jars different colors, this will give contrast to the petals and volume to the entire bud.

First, cut off the top and bottom of the can with a can opener and cut the cylinder with scissors to get flat sheets of material.

On some flat, durable surface, beat the edges with a hammer and level the sheets.
Next, mark the contours of the parts, then cut out five main petals and one central one. There is no need to strive to make all the fragments the same; in nature, petals are different from each other.

Use a punch to make holes in the middle of each petal. Place the petals on a thick copper wire, turning each subsequent fragment by half the sheet of the previous one. The petals need to cover the gaps of the bottom row. Still close to the topic, but from different materials.

The largest one is at the bottom, the smallest piece is put on last.

A steel washer is placed below, at the base of the bud. Now you need to fix the kit using epoxy putty, or cold welding.

When the glue and welding have set, we begin to bend the petals starting from the center. Then we go in a circle, lifting and bending each petal. For this we use narrow pliers or round nose pliers.

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Try to make the bud more realistic; do not strive to create rigid symmetry of the fragments. This is exactly what you will need here creativity, work more boldly, what you don’t like can be slightly corrected later.
And don’t give up if something doesn’t work out the first time and the roses don’t look like the photo. Ultimately, each creative work has its own meaning.

I'm not an artist and I don't do these things professionally, but my grandmother was turning 80 and I wanted to give her a special gift! I looked online for ideas and came across instructions for similar colors. I adapted the instructions to suit myself, and this is what happened!

Step 1: Cut the leaf!

I took a new, clean sheet of aluminum, but you can use some scrap pieces or scraps of aluminum. I had to buy a whole one square meter, because they didn’t sell less. But I was not upset, since I will need aluminum in other projects. This sheet 1 mm thick. You can try with a thinner sheet, but I think you shouldn’t take sheets thinner than 0.5 mm, since in this case the edges will be very sharp and not as strong as needed. You shouldn't take thicker aluminum either! You simply won't be able to bend it.

You need to have scissors for cutting metal. For each rose you will need 3 squares 75 x 75 mm and one rectangle 37 x 75 mm (half a square).

You need to drill a 4.5mm hole in the center of each piece. I did not measure the exact center, this is an artistic work that does not require surgical precision. Moreover, if you cut into squares that are slightly different in size or not perfect shape, the rose will look more natural.

Step 2: Cut the petals!

Using the same scissors, you need to cut the squares into petals. Each square will be cut into 4 petals. Rectangle - for two. Each rose will have 14 petals. Of course, a real rose has many more petals, but in our case this will be enough.

For 4-petal squares:
- Cut 4 sides down the middle to the center
- Cut off 4 outer corners
- Cut off 4 inner corners

For 2-petal rectangles:
- Cut the two long sides down the center
- Cut off the 4 outer corners.

Step 3: Burning the Petals

The petals need to be burned, otherwise they will not be able to bend easily. Most aluminum sheets are made by cold rolling with excessive deformation, which greatly strengthens the metal. Even if you think you're strong enough to handle it, don't skip this step. It will help soften the aluminum and save time on subsequent processing of the petals. After firing, aluminum can be stretched much more without the risk of cracks and creases.

In general, the firing process involves heating the metal to 300 - 400ºC and then cooling it in air.

This step gave me some difficulty as I didn't have a burner and didn't want to purchase one. In general, the stove seemed to me the most suitable source of heat in our house!

Carefully! I recommend (even though I haven't used them) to wear leather gloves when working with fire and hot metal! Do it, don't follow my example!

You will need the following on hand:
- Stove (obviously!!)
- Aluminum blanks
- A place for cooling the metal after firing
- Pliers
- A container of water (for cooling the pliers)
- A piece of cloth for drying the pliers

Take a piece of aluminum with pliers and place it over the fire, moving it slowly to distribute the heat evenly. Turn the aluminum plate over once or twice. Everything will take a minute or so (depending on the power of the stove) to reach the desired temperature. If you leave it for too long, the aluminum will begin to become cloudy and get bumpy. The next step will be melting! So be careful, filling up a burner with aluminum drops is a real pleasure...

Place the heated piece on a wooden surface (or better yet, on a stone) to cool. In less than 15 minutes the metal will cool down and you can continue. Place the pliers in water to cool them too before heating the next piece of metal.

Step 4: Cutting the Stems

At this stage I had to get creative as it was hard to find the right size rods in stores. I used 3/16" metal rod. Yes, you read that right, it is often used in concrete structures...

It doesn't matter what you use. You need a rod with a diameter of 4 mm, since in the next step we will cut an M4 thread. The length of each segment is about 35 cm.

I sanded the edge down from 4.75mm to 4mm.

Step 5: Threading

For this step you will need:
- Vise
- M4 screw thread cutting tool
- Lubrication
- 2 M4 nuts
- Patience

It is necessary to cut a thread into approximately 20 mm of the rod. I think everything is clear from the photo.

Step 6: Assembly

Assembling the petals is quite simple: screw the first nut onto the rod until it stops, then put on 3 aluminum squares and one rectangle, and tighten it all with the second nut.

Now the fun begins. You will have to bend the rectangular petals first. Be careful! You need to bend them so that they take up as little space as possible in the core of the flower. Then you need to bend the next layer of petals. You should try to model the petals closer to each other in the middle so that the flowers do not turn out too open.

When bending the metal, be sure to add an “artistic” effect: Using a pair of pliers, bend the edge toward the outside. You will get small “notches” on the petals. Do this with all the petals. It takes time but appearance roses will improve significantly!

Step 7: Painting

It's spring again. And again spring worries and troubles in the yard. And no matter how good the spring mood may be with the first warm days, it is not yet cozy in the courtyards and gardens. Dirt and debris accumulated over the winter melt from under the snow, and old grass also melts here. Shadow areas are especially unsightly, even in summer. a big problem grow something beautiful and original. And shadow areas require a lot of care. So I suggest you decorate all dark places with amazing flowers that will never fade and will delight you all year round with your magical flowers made from aluminum beer cans. I believe that this is the only way to improve dark places and create coziness in your area, as long as you have a sufficient number of colored cans. You can, of course, make garden decorations from other materials, but today we will tell you about flowers made from aluminum beer cans.

Description of the master class

First of all, to create bright and unique colors, you need to select a large assortment of beer cans.




Then use scissors to cut off the top of each can.




We also cut off the lower part of the jar, leaving 5-6 centimeters from the wall at the base of the jar (this depends on how big we want our flower to be) and cut this remaining part into small strips along the entire perimeter of the base.













Well, now let’s start making blanks for forming a three-dimensional flower, for which we cut the remaining part of the jar in half, unfold it and get a flat surface from which we cut out a round disk, but it can be not very round, we crumple it, giving the disk the shape of a buttercup, as shown on the image.







We cut out another round disk, divide it into 6 parts with scissors, leaving the center of the disk untouched.




We divide each resulting part in half with our hands, wrap the edges so that each part turns into a triangle.




The sharp parts of the resulting workpiece need to be rounded off with scissors, as a result of which the workpiece will also turn into a beautiful flower.







There are many such blanks that can be made in different colors and sizes. And you can also cut out leaves from green jars, bending them in half and unfolding them again so that a fold remains on the leaf, like the core of a real leaf.




All preparations are ready. Let's start forming the flower, for which we punch all the blanks in the center with a hammer and nail.

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Now, in order to assemble a flower, you need to put several figures together, for which we take a wire, string a ball or a bright bead onto it, and fasten it to the edge by making a loop.




On the other end of the wire we string the prepared figures as they grow, and at the end (it turns out on the back side of the flower) we string another ball.




We unravel the wire from the flower to the length that we need and return it, twisting it together to the place where the leaves should be. We screw the leaves and lift the wire up to the flower, continuing to twist it together. We fasten the wire to the base of the flower by wrapping it twice around the base and cutting off the excess wire.










See what you can get out of this.










Here's another unexpected use for flowers made from aluminum beer cans