Handmade fall creations

Fall handmade works are: leaf betting flowers and leaf vein bookmarks.

I. Leaf betting

1. Pick up beautiful leaves you like outside, and try to choose fresh, brightly colored leaves. After picking them and exposing them to the air for too long, they are prone to wilting. You can start with an empty box and put some moist paper towels inside, which can moisturize the leaves. This method can only serve as a relief, and it is best to deal with them immediately after picking them back.

2, put the leaves flat on the paper towel. Paper towels are absorbent and can absorb water from the leaves. After the square, you can clip it in a book or a special flower board. You can take them out in about a week, and if the leaves are dry, you're done. The book clip method is more convenient, but it tends to distort the color of the leaves, and the more you leave it, the more likely it is to lose its color.

Two, leaf vein bookmark

1, choose the leaves. Choose leaves with thick and dense veins. In the leaves are fully mature and begin to age in the late summer or fall to choose the leaves to make.

2. Boil the leaves in a 10% sodium hydroxide solution. In a stainless steel pot or iron pot will be equipped with a lye solution to boil into the appropriate amount of washed leaves, boiling, this time commonly used glass rod or tweezers gently turned to prevent leaf stacking, so that it is uniformly heated, the window should be opened to ventilate, because of the cooking of the leaves have a foul odor.

3, boiling for about 5 minutes, when the leaves turn black, fish out a leaf, put into a plastic pot with water. Carefully wash it with water. Note: This operation to take and put the leaves must not use the hand to take and put directly to prevent sodium hydroxide corrosion of the surface of the hand. Use tweezers or clamps to take and put.

4, when the leaves on the residual lye rinse clean and remove, the leaves flat on a piece of glass, with a small test tube brush or soft bristles of the old toothbrush gently in the direction of the leaf veins to brush off both sides of the leaf has rotted the leaf flesh, while brushing the side of the commonly used small flow of tap water rinse until only the leaf veins left.

5. Soak the leaf veins in hydrogen peroxide for 24 hours to achieve the bleaching effect. Brush the clean leaf vein pieces, rinse them and place them on a glass sheet to dry. When drying to half-dry and half-wet when coated with a variety of dyes needed, and then clamped in the old books and newspapers, remove after drying the water, you can become a leaf vein bookmarks to use.