Carnation

General info

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  • Great decoration for your room
  • Difficulty: Intermediate

What you will need

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  • Soap
  • Carving or Exacto knife
  • Paring knife
  • Toothpicks (one for flower, other for stem)
  • Soap shavings
  • Floral tape
  • Scissors
  • Plastic dessert cup
  • Paper
  • Glue

Soap info

Red round soap

Used in tutorial

red round soap
  • Available
  • Master-soap brand
  • Floral (formerly peach) scented
  • Diameter: 7 cm (2-3/4")
  • Thickness: 3.3 cm (1/1/4")
  • Weight: 95g (3.35 oz)

Instruction video

Instructions

Carve carnation flower

1.1 Cut your soap into the square shape.
step 1.1
1.2 Cut the square into disc.
step 1.2
1.3 Mark the center.
step 1.3
1.4 Cut the center of your soap off.
step 1.4
1.5 Divide your soap into 4 sections.
step 1.5
1.6 Carve four petals as shown on the picture.
step 1.6
1.7 Carve a shallow trench.
step 1.7
1.8 Carve a petals of the second row.
step 1.8
1.9 Divide your soap into 8 sections.
step 1.9
1.10 Cut 8 slits around the petals.
step 1.10
1.11 Carve a S shaped trench.
step 1.11
1.12 Carve a S shaped petal.
step 1.12
1.13 Repeat steps 11-12 for remaining 7 petals.
step 1.13
1.14 Carve a shallow trench between two petals.
step 1.14
1.15 Repeat previous step for remaining 7 petals.
step 1.15
1.16 Carve 8 petals of the 4th row.
step 1.16
1.17 Cut the upper edge of your soap off.
step 1.17
1.18 Cut 8 slits between the petals.
step 1.18
1.19 Carve 8 petals of the 5th row.
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1.20 Carve 8 trenches between each pair of petals.
step 1.20
1.21 Carve 8 petals of the 6th row.
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1.22 Cut the bottom of your soap off.
step 1.22
1.23 Make a hole.
step 1.23
1.24 Cut a toothpick.
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1.25 Insert a toothpick to the soap carnation.
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1.26 Carve the bottom of your flower.
step 1.26
1.27 Make indents at the bottom of carnation flower.
step 1.27
1.28 Fill the hole with soap.
step 1.28

Make a stem of carnation.

2.1 Fold this piece of paper as shown in photo for calyx.
step 2.1
2.2 Draw line on paper and cut along it.
step 2.2
2.3 Draw and cut the calyx edges.
step 2.3
2.4 Cut the paper in half.
step 2.4
2.5 Apply glue to the paper.
step 2.5
2.6 Stretch floral tape and glue it to the paper.
step 2.6
2.7 Cut out the excess of tape.
step 2.7
2.8 Glue and fold the paper calyx.
step 2.8
2.9 Cut off the peak of paper calyx.
step 2.9
2.10 Stretch the floral tape.
step 2.10
2.11 Glue two halves of the prepared piece of tape.
step 2.11
2.12 Cut the tape to leaf shape.
step 2.12
2.13 Twist the end of leaf making a petiole. Leaf is done!
step 2.13
2.14 Wrap a toothpick with floral tape.
step 2.14
2.15 Glue the leaf to stem.
step 2.15
2.16 Apply glue to the bottom of soap carnation.
step 2.16
2.17 Put calyx on stem.
step 2.17
2.18 Put soap carnation on stem.
step 2.18
2.19 Done!
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