The discharge of a child from the maternity hospital is an important day in the life of a family, so loving parents try to make this event festive. For the newborn, they buy and bring beautiful clothes to the maternity hospital, including a discharge envelope decorated with kanzashi flowers and a beautiful bow.
You can make a bow for discharge from the maternity hospital with your own hands. There are many master classes on making spectacular bows for boys and girls. For needlewomen, this is a good way to prepare for the birth of a baby and give him his first gift.
Bow on envelope for discharge
Beautiful and unusual
Below are videos and photos with detailed master classes on creating several types of bows. Each master class tells how to make kanzashi flowers, bows from ribbons or with an elastic band, and fabric products.
Kanzashi bow for discharge
Japanese technology
This is a decoration made using Japanese technology. To make a lush kanzashi bow with your own hands, you need to be careful and attentive. This bow is a flower whose petals are made of ribbons. For this purpose, the tape is first cut into strips.
Satin ribbon bow
It's very fast and easy
If there is no time or opportunity to create complex decorations, a simple bow is used for newborn envelopes. A satin ribbon is a standard and stylish decoration, and many people have been able to tie bows since childhood.
The main thing is not to forget to melt the edges of the tape with a match. The length of the ribbon depends on the complexity of the bow, which can be single or double. Satin ribbon jewelry is a classic.
Fabric bow
There are many types of fabric
It is an original and stylish bow that can be tied on an envelope or decorated with a stroller. Such products are beneficial because your imagination is limited only by the variety of fabrics that you want to purchase.
This fabric decoration looks original from scraps left over after making an envelope for a newborn. This creates a stylish set for discharge.
MK bow for discharge
There are master classes that will teach you how to make different types of bows and ribbons using creative elements. For example, ribbons are decorated with embroidery and rhinestones, and a fabric heart is placed in the center of the bow. It is made using fleece.
Bow with elastic band
To make the decoration easy to attach, you can sew an elastic band for it. For this purpose, an ordinary elastic band of sufficient length is covered with a satin ribbon or fabric in the color of the bow or a suitable color combination, and then stitched on both sides of the elastic. This option is convenient because the bow is simply attached to the elastic band.
They do not need to tie envelopes or a blanket, it will not be too tight or loose, tied in a hurry, because the elastic is made in advance. Such products look beautiful and neat. You can attach a large bow made of ribbons, fabric or kanzashi flowers to the elastic band.
Bow on a blanket
Convenient in the cold season
If you have prepared not a corner, but a baby blanket for discharge to the maternity hospital, then it is more convenient to use a decoration with an elastic band. A warm blanket is used instead of an envelope if the newborn was born in the cold season. To prevent the baby from catching a cold, he is dressed in overalls and wrapped in a blanket.
You can attach a lush bow made of ribbons or fabric to the blanket.
Choosing an envelope depending on the gender of the child
Envelope for children - the pattern is selected not only according to the time of year, material, but also according to the gender of the child. If you believe the signs, then an envelope that is correctly selected for a boy and a girl will help them develop faster and get on the right path. Otherwise, the boy will be feminine and the girl will be masculine.
For girl
The fabric should be either white or in warm, light, pastel colors. It can be peach, soft pink, caramel, purple, lilac, coral, yellow and so on. It is fashionable to decorate with lace, sparkles, and rhinestones. At the bottom of the envelope, as a rule, they tie it with two pink ribbons, so that it is immediately clear that it is a girl. You can also decorate with different stickers and bows.
Beautiful - for my dear baby
This season there is a fashion for children's envelopes with stickers and sewn-on designs. For a girl it can be angels, the sun, flowers, butterflies, princesses, hearts.
Stores sell craft kits and decorations. The master can suggest how best to decorate this particular envelope.
For boy
The boy is the future man, the head of the family. He must be strong, courageous, resilient, smart and rich. His envelope should be in cool colors, mainly blue, light blue, dark purple or white, a standard color. You can decorate it with different designs in the form of cars, boats, tanks, balls and so on.
To ensure that everything is always good financially in a child’s life, relatives or parents put money in the hood.
For a boy
There is also a tradition that a seal cut from the extract is placed in an envelope created for a boy or a girl. You can also put a tag that indicates the date, name, height, weight and everything else.
DIY bow for discharge: master class
A creative person can create clothes and crafts for a child’s discharge with his own hands. To do this you will need the following materials:
- satin ribbon of a light shade you like, 2-3 centimeters wide and at least 4 meters long;
- similar tape, but darker in tone;
- rhinestones or beads of a suitable color;
- lighter or candle;
- lace;
- strong thread and needle, or glue.
Manufacturing stages:
- Cut the light ribbon into pieces 20 cm long, and the dark ribbon into elements 17 cm long. The first will be the bottom layer of the bow petals, the second will be the top layer.
- Each piece is folded in half to form a petal. Then the petals are attached with thread or glue, four in a cross, and two “crosses” are folded together to form flowers of eight petals.
- The resulting two flowers are superimposed on each other so that the edges of the lower light one protrude evenly from under the edges of the upper one.
- A thin strip of lace is folded into a figure eight and attached to the center of the flower. You can make 2 stripes, creating a third delicate layer of petals of a multi-layer bow flower.
- From the remains of the light ribbon, 6 wedge-shaped petals are folded, and the resulting flower is attached to the top of the lace. To fold such a petal, a piece of thin tape, 2 centimeters long, is folded diagonally, and then the tips are applied to each other. If desired, the petals can simply be cut with scissors to create an oval shape by melting the edges of the ribbon with a match.
- The last stage is decorating the center of the flower with beads or rhinestones. You can decorate the petals of the first and second layers of the flower with glitter, then the bow will turn out even more elegant.
The simplest option
If you don’t have enough skills, but you really want to create a decoration for your baby, then you can try to make a very simple, but at the same time lush and beautiful bow.
It will require a ribbon 2.5 - 5 cm wide. You need to form loops from it in your hands. We determine the size of the loops by eye.
To ensure that they are the same, you can first mark the places of kinks from the inside out.
The following steps are performed:
- Having collected the required number of curls, tie a strong knot in the middle with a thread;
- wrap this part several more times and tie it in a knot again;
- carefully straighten the loops and cut off the remaining tape;
- do not forget to process the edges;
- With the ends of the ribbons you can tie the main ribbon on which our lush bow will be attached, and tie a knot on it, or the bow can be sewn to it.
How to tie a beautiful bow for discharge
It is most convenient with an elastic band
If you buy a set for a newborn, it usually already includes a ribbon made of satin or openwork guipure. The bow is neatly tied in the middle of the envelope: the longer the ribbon, the more magnificent the satin bow will be in the end.
If you have a ready-made kanzashi bow or one sewn from fabric, then it is better to use a pre-prepared elastic band.
Kanzashi aster for decoration
This is another original and beautiful option to receive a bow for kanzashi discharge. To do this, you should prepare the following materials:
- Colored satin ribbon can be taken from one palette for a smooth color transition. The dimensions of the tape depend on the desired diameter of the flower.
- Felt lining for the base of the flower.
- Thermal gun.
- Scissors.
- Candle, lighter or matches.
- Beads, semi-precious stones, rhinestones, sequins.
When everything is ready, you can start:
- First you need to cut the tape into 70 equal pieces. The number of petals depends on the diameter of the felt base and the size of the ribbon, as well as the desired size of the flower.
- For the central petals, the pieces of tape are 7 cm, but when cutting the tape, cut the petals 1 cm shorter.
- Then you need to start bending the first petal from the front side outwards along the line of the ribbon.
- Bend the ribbon, cut off the corner so that you get a long and sharp corner of the petal, then melt the edge.
- Fold the opposite edge of the tape with the wrong side out and fasten it together with a heat gun or sew it together.
- Process all pieces of tape in this way. Having finished all the petals, collect them into a lush flower. To do this, cut a circle of felt with a diameter of 2.5 cm.
- Stepping back about 1 cm from the edge, glue the first petal.
- Glue the next petals to the end of the circle using the same method.
- After the first circle is completed, glue the second one in the same way as the first one, but place the petals closer to the center so that their corners are located between the petals on the first layer.
- Continue attaching the petals, gradually moving closer to the center.
The best fakes for discharge
Ways to surprise and delight
Creating beautiful crafts for newborns is a great way to congratulate a young mother and baby on their discharge from the hospital:
- Making cakes from diapers for newborns is an opportunity to make a useful and beautiful gift that will please the eye and be useful in the future. Such cakes are created in the Country of Craftsmen from rolled up diapers and decorated with little things necessary for the baby: booties, toys.
- To make discharge from the maternity hospital creative and fun, relatives prepare funny posters and inscriptions with which they welcome mother and baby.
- If mother and baby are picked up in their own car, the car is decorated. There are special stickers that decorate the hood of a car, as well as ribbons and bows, and balloons.
- A children's photo album, especially one created with your own hands, also makes a good gift for a young family. It can start with photographs that were taken in the maternity hospital and during discharge from the maternity ward.
- At the time of discharge, the newborn will be wrapped in a beautiful festive envelope, decorated with ribbons and bows. If a stroller is prepared for the baby, it is also decorated with flowers made from ribbons and balloons.
