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I really like artificial hydrangea flowers. It is noteworthy that hydrangea blooms in caps, and in scrapbooking this flower is used on its own.

There are a great variety of them in online stores - a variety of colors and sizes.

I wanted to use them to make a wedding box, but due to circumstances I was unable to order them in advance. In our city, scrapbooking is known to only a few; it is simply impossible to buy anything more or less suitable. Stores began to sell some sets and hole punches - in a poor assortment and in single copies and at an inflated price (alas, in our city they are used to selling everything with a markup 2-3 times more expensive, compared to other Siberian cities). And so I was inspired to make these wonderful flowers myself.

As they say, the eyes fear, the hands do. First, I studied what hydrangea petals look like (see photos above).
For work we will need: gelatinized fabric, stencil, pencil, thick paper, scissors, crochet hook (No. 0.9...1.5), watercolor pencils, cosmetic sponge.
For hydrangea, we need a delicate, thin fabric with a dense weave of threads, opaque. You can take silk - natural or artificial (white), I took feather teak (light pink, blue), a wide satin ribbon (pink). The fabrics are completely different, but we will make the flower from teak, since it turned out to be harder and the veins are well drawn. The photo also shows pink and black organza. Flowers cannot be made from this fabric, since it practically cannot be embossed. This fabric is good because after impregnation with gelatin it does not crumble. Satin ribbon also doesn't fit well.

I drew two types of stencils.

The first is two paired petals. This stencil gives volume, more like a real hydrangea flower.

The second is a flower.

After cutting out the blanks, we proceed to tinting.

Take a watercolor pencil of a suitable shade and wet the lead. Apply strokes to the sponge.

Then we tint the core, first with yellow.

After the yellow one, take a green pencil and mark the core of the flower.

Paired petals:

Examples of tinting (photos from the Internet):

When the flower dries, you can squeeze out the veins. To do this, take a crochet hook (best with plastic handle), heat it over the flame gas stove. Heating time is 10-15 seconds.

We place the flower blank on something soft (I use a thick clothing catalog, on top White list paper). Using a hot hook, use its blunt side (where the bend is) to press out the veins.
The pattern of veins is something like this:

The veins are ready:

After we have pressed out the veins, we begin to emboss the edges of the petals. You can use the same heated hook or do it with your fingers. Look at the pattern of veins and the shape of the petals in the photo of the flowers (above). I show it on the paired petal:

Result:

All that remains is to collect the flower. To do this, simply glue the petals with glue - I use transparent universal “Moment Gel”. Leave until dry.
Whole flowers ( blue flowers made of teak, two dark pink ones made of satin ribbon, white and pink made of synthetic fabric):

You can then adjust the tint of the flower by going over it with a sponge again. You can use ink pads instead of watercolor pencils (if available). I don’t recommend using gouache or watercolor paints, as they need to be diluted with water, and when they get wet, the fabric will get streaks.
As the core of a hydrangea, you can use half-pearls, rhinestones, small roses, buttons with a waxed cord threaded through them, stamens, and tags.

My example of using homemade hydrangea: