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Making an elegant centerpiece for your table, that you can paint
a design on to match your Christmas table settings.
Here I will show you how to make a elegant bowl to hold fruit, nuts
or sweets.
This will also help recycle your old news papers.
The art of papier-mâché is one of the cheapest and easiest crafts
to do and can result in some stunning beautiful pieces.
This can be fun and rewarding to see your own work as center of
attraction.
There are two techniques of papier-mâché. Pulping involves mixing
pieces of paper with water and boiling them to a pulp and adding
an adhesive this makes a clay like substance.
This type is used for sculpting and is for the more advanced person.
The second type and most popular is layering, in which layers of
torn news paper are pasted over each other onto a mould, this method
is used for more delicate projects and is the type I recommend for
beginners, and this is the one I will be sharing with you today for
your elegant centerpiece.
The materials you will need are.
News paper
Several sheets of waste plain paper
Flat bottom metal, china or plastic bowl for mould
Petroleum jelly
PVA glue
Scissors
Craft knife
Thin cardboard
Masking tape
White matt emulsion paint
Paint brush
Soft pencil and eraser
Colored gouache paints
Non-toxic watercolor varnish
What to do.
1.Tear news paper and plain paper into strips about 10cm to 15cm
long and 2cm to 4cm wide.
Smear a thin layer of petroleum jelly over the mould.
Mix the PVA glue with a little water.
Dip strips of paper into glue mix and start pasting to mould.
To ensure a consistent thickness, alternate layers of news paper
with layers of plain paper.
Apply eight to ten layers of paper, leaving each one to dry before
applying the next.
2.Trim around the top and bottom edges of the bowl with scissors.
Gently insert a knife
between the mould and the papier-mâché shell,
and separate the two.
Bind the top edge of bowl with more strips of glued paper.
Cut a circle of cardboard to fit the base and secure this to the
outside with masking tape.
Remove the bowl completely from the mould and cover the inside and
outside with two more layers of glued paper strips.
Allow to dry completely.
Note: Apply glued strips at right angles on the last layer to keep
the surface as smooth as possible.
3. Paint the bowl with two coats of white matt emulsion paint to
give a neat strong surface leave to dry.
4. With a pencil lightly draw your design on the surface, then fill
in with gouache paints and again leave to dry. When completely dry
cover with two layers of clear varnish.
I painted mine in a deep red and painted gold stars just here and there for a Christmas theme and filled with assorted sweets hanging candy canes around the edge.
This technique can be applied to most moulds that have straight sides
or even plates and trays.
Plates can make a very attractive wall hanging with a photo of your
family or pets in the center.
Let your imagination go wild and most of all have fun, these projects
are suitable also for supervised children, you can make wonderful
piñatas for parties using balloons as moulds and when dry pop the
balloon and cut a small hole in the top to fill with sweets then with
tape stick the piece you cut out back and decorate with shredded
tissue paper.
About the Author: Sandra Hedditch.
Sandra is a retired Primary School Craft Teacher, who excels in the
fine art of crafts -
She has created lolly pots for Children
You may see a sample of her work at …http://imagincraft.blogspot.com
Who knows you may get inspired to make some yourself.
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