Welcome to my balloon twisting for beginners series where I teach you how to twist balloons
like a pro Hi I'm Melanie from Balloon Artworks in Derbyshire in the UK today i'm going to show
you how to make a balloon daisy i'm going to be using two 260s for this design plus just the tip
of another 260. so take a 260. i'm using yellow make sure your balloon is in the down position
and we're going to inflate and we're going to inflate with six strokes of the hand pump one two
three four five six okay and then take the balloon off the ham pump straight away and that prevents
your balloon deflating by losing air through the ham pump so if you're finding that your
balloons are a lot softer than you expected or they're not quite as long as you needed them to be
the chances are you're not taking them off the handle quickly enough
and if you're also finding that when you have inflated your balloons
they're popping very quickly there could be a number of reasons for this it could be that
the balloons are old uh or they haven't been stored correctly and these balloons do biodegrade
so it's important that we store them out of direct sunlight and in a watertight container so
if you've got something like a ziploc bag transfer your balloons into the ziploc bag and zip them up
and keep them in a drawer somewhere or in a cupboard and that will prolong their life so these
balloons don't last forever but they can last quite a few years if they are stored correctly
if your balloons are popping and you're you're storing them correctly your balloons are still
popping it could be there's just a little bit too much pressure in this first part of the
balloon and so to relieve that we've just let a little bit of air out so i'm just slightly
deflating the balloon just slightly and put a twist in the balloon here and then tie and if
you want to recap on the tying technique check out lesson one where i showed you how to make a pirate
sword and i'll leave a link in the description below so we've got a balloon with a tail of about
five fingers or so and i'm going to show you how to make a five petal daisy flower okay
and we're using techniques that you've already learned so techniques that i'm using to make
this day easy they're the same techniques we use for the pirate sword for making a loop
so just fold your balloon over and i always like to take hold about not a nozzle grab
hold of it between my thumb and forefinger and hold on to that and then i'm measuring
the bubble that i'm going to make the loop that i'm going to make
and i'm aiming for loops of about four fingers so at that point i'm twisting
a bubble and i'm still holding on for that knot and nozzle which i pass through the centre
of that loop okay so that means that's going to be very difficult for that just to unravel okay
and then make another loop to match this one so i've just looped the balloon over i'm using my
fingers to match but i'm also comparing the two loops i put a little twist in there and then i'll
compare and those close enough so i'll carry on twisting okay and then make the third loop
to match these so again quick comparison check with the fingers and then just twist
and i tend to twist once and then just compare again and then twist again
when i've got three loops i like to start to just swap them around play places one with the other
and that just locks them all together and means that they are going to make it more difficult for
them to come unravelled and then we want to make a fourth loop okay so four fingers and twist okay
and then just wrap that in with some of the other petals and that's what we've got at the moment
and then i'm going to make one more loop four fingers
and then just measure and then twist and check twist some more and then just wrap
that in with the other petals okay and then just arrange everything i'm fully inflated at the end
so i'm just going to twist off a bit of excess at the end so an uninflated section i'm holding
on to this and i'm just going to snip a little hole and then i'm slowly going to let out the air
if you do that too quickly when you're fully inflated you can just pop everything and
and end up with not as much slack here as you would like and then i'm going to time knots
here in the normal way okay now one thing you can do you don't actually have to tie that knot
you can take instead of tying or even as well as you can take this little slab and just wrap
it around these little twists lots of times and that can very often save you need to tie a knot
okay so the latex likes to stick to the latex and then i'm just
cutting off that little bit of excess
and we've got a five petal flare take a 260
and inflate to almost a two to three finger tail now i didn't actually count how many pumps i was
doing there how many strokes of the handle but you can check you've got two two fingers there
okay and then just let a little bit of air out and tie so when i first started
twisting i always obsessed with the videos that i was watching i was always obsessing and
thinking how many how many strokes of the ham pump do i need to do for that bubble and for the next
bubble and it gets very difficult to remember the more designs and models that you learn how to make
it gets difficult to remember how many strokes of the hand pump you need for a particular design
so it's a good practice to start maybe just remembering how what kind of tail that you need or
not worrying about it you can always add in another balloon if you've not got enough or let
a little bit of air out if you've got too much so take the knot and nozzle and wrap that in to your
flour so just pull that knot and nozzle tightly in the flour and wrap around okay so that's
what you've got and then what we can do is part way down we've got quite a lot of balloon here
so you can shock twist here just by massaging and that's going to make your flower
just have this kind of almost right angle here so it's looking straight on at you and we just
want to make a couple of loops here so i'm going to make a loop there again the way we made our
balloon dog so just wrap that in and make another loop to match this one okay and then just twist
okay that goes around and then you can position the stem going through the middle
of the balloons these two loops and the stem coming out through the top and i like to just
massage or shock twist the ends of the flower petal just so they point
upwards a little bit and the other thing you can do is just slightly push those two petals together
and that will make this part of the daisy stand more upright next i just want the tip of
a balloon so as you make more designs and models you'll find you cut bits off and we like to save
the tips and we can use these these little bits of excess or scraps as we call them
within our designs so this 260 i've used for some other design and i've just been left with
this section of a couple of inches and i just need to put a little bit of air into that okay
so i only want a little bubble of a couple of fingers so what i'm going to do is just twist off
a small bubble and then let the air out from what's left and then tie
okay so that's what i've got and i'm just going to wrap that bubble and take into
my flower and i'm going to cut off
this little bit of excess here i'm just going to cut that off
okay and then you've got a really pretty balloon daisy flower hope you've enjoyed this tutorial
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