Dahlia Relief

General info

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  • Perfect room decoration!
  • Great gift for your friends and family
  • Difficulty: Basic

What you will need

supplies
  • Soap
  • Carving or Exacto knife
  • Needle (or other pointed tool)

Soap info

Açaí soap

Used in tutorial

acai soap
  • Not available
  • Purple color
  • Size: 7 cm (2-3/4") x 5.2 cm (2-1/8") x 2.5 cm (1")
  • Weight: 80 g (5 oz)

Instruction video

Instructions

1. Mark the center of your soap.
step 1
2. Draw a circle as shown.
step 2
3. Make a circular cut and remove the soap around the circle.
step 3
4. Round edges of the circle.
step 4
5. Divide the dome into 8 parts.
step 5
6. Make a petal shape cut in each part.
step 6
7. Remove the soap between the petals.
step 7
8. Make petal shapes between the petals of previous row.
step 8
9. Remove the soap between the petals.
step 9
10. Carve the third row in the same way as previous.
step 10
11. Carve V-shaped trenches in the petals of the first row.
step 11
12. Cut off the soap around the center.
step 12
13. Divide the area around the center into 8 parts.
step 13
14. Make a petal shape cut in each part.
step 14
15. Remove the soap between petals.
step 15
16. Carve V-shaped grooves in the petals.
step 16
17. Repeat steps 12, 14-16 for next two rows.
step 17
18. Slice off the soap around the flower.
step 18
19. Draw 3 leaf shapes.
step 19
20. Make cuts and remove the soap around these leaves.
step 20
21. Carve a leaf midrib.
step 21
22. Carve three marquise shaped cuts on both sides of leaf.
step 22
23. Repeat two previous steps for two remaining leaves (number of marquise shaped cuts differ).
step 23
24. Carve 3 other leaves on opposite side in the same way.
step 24
25. Smooth your soap.
step 25
26. Divide the corner of the soap into 6 parts.
step 26
27. Make scalloped cut.
step 27
28. Remove soap around scalloped cut.
step 28
29. Repeat steps 26-27 to carve another scalloped line.
step 29
30. Make small holes with pointed tool.
step 30
31. Smooth the blanks.
step 31
32. Your dahlia is finished!
step 32