Diy | Newspaper Mache Mobile
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
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Guest DIY Post past times Tracy Fillon of Dear Pony
I simply completed this paper mache mobile for my friends pilus salon. Her studio is a beautiful sometime infinite alongside high ceilings in addition to windows, there’s a cute niggling nook inwards the store front end window in addition to she asked me to create amount it. This was a fun projection that you lot could produce for your kids room, fine art studio, garden in addition to it didn’t toll me to a greater extent than than $5, I had everything I needed some the house.
You volition need:
cereal/cracker boxes (I had to origin these out from my friends because I wanted to brand near twenty triangles).
scissors, tape, ruler, yarn, newspaper, white paint, flour, salt, pigment brush, white tissue paper, cloth bits, line-fishing line.
How to brand it:
First cutting upwards your boxes into triangles, (I used several dissimilar sizes, from 3″ to near 9″). I works life it easiest if I cutting all the flaps off the box, measured a trouble downwards the centre of the length in addition to hence in ane trial again downwards the centre of each half, you tin cutting iii triangles out pretty quick.
Once you lot convey all the triangles you lot need-lay them downwards on the tabular array in addition to hence record a slice of yarn or string inwards a loop at the elevation in addition to brand a knot inwards the loop starting fourth dimension (it stays set better). It’s easier to produce it this way, in addition to hence simply plication it upwards into your iii dimensional triangle in addition to record it up.
Next comes the paper mache part. There’s lots of you lot underground videos on this. I used 1 purpose flour in addition to ii parts H2O and a brace tbsp of common salt (I didn’t laid upwards it or anything). I’ve used watered downwards gum earlier in addition to I much prefer the flour. I used a niggling pigment brush to apply, starting fourth dimension moisture the surface alongside flour/water, apply the paper in addition to embrace in ane trial again alongside the flour & H2O mixture. If you lot desire to produce to a greater extent than than one layer, allow dry out inwards between. After the triangles were completely dry out I painted all surfaces alongside white paint.
I in addition to hence enshroud printed images onto white tissue paper. I know most of you lot don’t enshroud impress hence I tested out some cloth in addition to it worked great. You tin likewise depict or pigment on tissue paper, or whatever matter else that would run alongside collage.
Paint a sparse layer of gum (you tin likewise utilisation the flour/water, I’m sure, but it looked slightly opaque hence I used a gum that dries clear.) Apply tissue, cloth or icon you’d similar in addition to press on gently to your triangle, smooth out the wrinkles in addition to add together a sparse layer of gum over top.
That’s it. I used the line-fishing trouble to hang it from the ceiling hence it looks likes they’re floating. This was fun, I listened to New Wave music making in addition to installing these niggling guys, spring has sprung!
Tracey Fillon is the designer behind Dear Pony in addition to lives in addition to works inwards Nelson, B.C.
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I simply completed this paper mache mobile for my friends pilus salon. Her studio is a beautiful sometime infinite alongside high ceilings in addition to windows, there’s a cute niggling nook inwards the store front end window in addition to she asked me to create amount it. This was a fun projection that you lot could produce for your kids room, fine art studio, garden in addition to it didn’t toll me to a greater extent than than $5, I had everything I needed some the house.
You volition need:
cereal/cracker boxes (I had to origin these out from my friends because I wanted to brand near twenty triangles).
scissors, tape, ruler, yarn, newspaper, white paint, flour, salt, pigment brush, white tissue paper, cloth bits, line-fishing line.
How to brand it:
First cutting upwards your boxes into triangles, (I used several dissimilar sizes, from 3″ to near 9″). I works life it easiest if I cutting all the flaps off the box, measured a trouble downwards the centre of the length in addition to hence in ane trial again downwards the centre of each half, you tin cutting iii triangles out pretty quick.
Once you lot convey all the triangles you lot need-lay them downwards on the tabular array in addition to hence record a slice of yarn or string inwards a loop at the elevation in addition to brand a knot inwards the loop starting fourth dimension (it stays set better). It’s easier to produce it this way, in addition to hence simply plication it upwards into your iii dimensional triangle in addition to record it up.
Next comes the paper mache part. There’s lots of you lot underground videos on this. I used 1 purpose flour in addition to ii parts H2O and a brace tbsp of common salt (I didn’t laid upwards it or anything). I’ve used watered downwards gum earlier in addition to I much prefer the flour. I used a niggling pigment brush to apply, starting fourth dimension moisture the surface alongside flour/water, apply the paper in addition to embrace in ane trial again alongside the flour & H2O mixture. If you lot desire to produce to a greater extent than than one layer, allow dry out inwards between. After the triangles were completely dry out I painted all surfaces alongside white paint.
I in addition to hence enshroud printed images onto white tissue paper. I know most of you lot don’t enshroud impress hence I tested out some cloth in addition to it worked great. You tin likewise depict or pigment on tissue paper, or whatever matter else that would run alongside collage.
Paint a sparse layer of gum (you tin likewise utilisation the flour/water, I’m sure, but it looked slightly opaque hence I used a gum that dries clear.) Apply tissue, cloth or icon you’d similar in addition to press on gently to your triangle, smooth out the wrinkles in addition to add together a sparse layer of gum over top.
That’s it. I used the line-fishing trouble to hang it from the ceiling hence it looks likes they’re floating. This was fun, I listened to New Wave music making in addition to installing these niggling guys, spring has sprung!
Tracey Fillon is the designer behind Dear Pony in addition to lives in addition to works inwards Nelson, B.C.
Visit her online:
Site
Etsy