Diy | Fern-Pressed Jar
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
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Contributor ship service by Caitlin of The Merrythought
I've been seriously crushing on ferns lately. My uncle's garden is amount of them too I've been trying to run them into all of my projects lately! I'm inward the procedure of updating my bath too I needed a niggling jolt to shop my makeup brushes inward too couldn't detect 1 anywhere that was the mode I was looking for. I decided to sweat to brand 1 out of air dry out clay because it's 1 of my favorite materials to use. Easy to purpose too perfect for pressing plants into.
What y'all need:
-Air Dry Clay
-Cup
-Lotion
-Knife
-Rolling Pin
-Fern
How to brand it:
-Cover your loving cup inward lotion. (Or plastic wrap.)
-Form a 1/4"-1/2" thick circle too cutting it to the same size equally the bottom of the cup.
-Roll out some clay 1/8"-1/4" thick that is long plenty to roll solely closed to your cup.
(**If y'all desire a smoothen border closed to the locomote yesteryear of your jar, purpose a knife to cutting a at 1 time border earlier wrapping it closed to the cup. I left mine equally it was when it's rolled out for a to a greater extent than natural look.)
-Start rolling the clay closed to the cup. Cut the clay where the ends reckon too purpose a knife to bring together the clay together too smoothen out the
line.
-Cut excess of of the bottom leaving well-nigh 1/2" below the bottom of the clay base of operations too thus purpose the knife to fold the clay inward too smoothen across.
-Take the loving cup too ringlet it over a fern. Rolling slow too applying pull per unit of measurement area from the within of the loving cup helps amongst an fifty-fifty print.
-I allow mine dry out for well-nigh an hr too thus gently twisted the loving cup out too left the clay jolt out to dry out for
Fill it amongst some makeup brushes (or pencils) too display your novel jolt for all to see!
About the Contributor
Caitlin McGrath lives inward a modest town inward Western New York. When her human face upwardly isn't hidden behind her camera, she's usually crafting too daydreaming for The Merrythought, where she is a business office of the 3 lady squad sharing DIY projects, recipes, fashion, dwelling décor & too bits of daily life.
I've been seriously crushing on ferns lately. My uncle's garden is amount of them too I've been trying to run them into all of my projects lately! I'm inward the procedure of updating my bath too I needed a niggling jolt to shop my makeup brushes inward too couldn't detect 1 anywhere that was the mode I was looking for. I decided to sweat to brand 1 out of air dry out clay because it's 1 of my favorite materials to use. Easy to purpose too perfect for pressing plants into.
What y'all need:
-Air Dry Clay
-Cup
-Lotion
-Knife
-Rolling Pin
-Fern
How to brand it:
-Cover your loving cup inward lotion. (Or plastic wrap.)
-Form a 1/4"-1/2" thick circle too cutting it to the same size equally the bottom of the cup.
-Roll out some clay 1/8"-1/4" thick that is long plenty to roll solely closed to your cup.
(**If y'all desire a smoothen border closed to the locomote yesteryear of your jar, purpose a knife to cutting a at 1 time border earlier wrapping it closed to the cup. I left mine equally it was when it's rolled out for a to a greater extent than natural look.)
-Start rolling the clay closed to the cup. Cut the clay where the ends reckon too purpose a knife to bring together the clay together too smoothen out the
line.
-Cut excess of of the bottom leaving well-nigh 1/2" below the bottom of the clay base of operations too thus purpose the knife to fold the clay inward too smoothen across.
-Take the loving cup too ringlet it over a fern. Rolling slow too applying pull per unit of measurement area from the within of the loving cup helps amongst an fifty-fifty print.
-I allow mine dry out for well-nigh an hr too thus gently twisted the loving cup out too left the clay jolt out to dry out for
Fill it amongst some makeup brushes (or pencils) too display your novel jolt for all to see!
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