Diy | Newspaper Mache Mobile
Guest DIY Post past times Tracy Fillon of Dear Pony
I only completed this paper mache mobile for my friends pilus salon. Her studio is a beautiful onetime infinite alongside high ceilings together with windows, there’s a cute lilliputian nook inwards the store forepart window together with she asked me to fill upward it. This was a fun projection that you lot could create for your kids room, fine art studio, garden together with it didn’t toll me to a greater extent than than $5, I had everything I needed only about the house.
You volition need:
cereal/cracker boxes (I had to origin these out from my friends because I wanted to brand most xx triangles).
scissors, tape, ruler, yarn, newspaper, white paint, flour, salt, pigment brush, white tissue paper, stuff bits, line-fishing line.
How to brand it:
First cutting upward your boxes into triangles, (I used several unlike sizes, from 3″ to most 9″). I flora it easiest if I cutting all the flaps off the box, measured a work downward the centre of the length together with thus over again downward 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 downward on the tabular array together with thus record a slice of yarn or string inwards a loop at the elevation together with brand a knot inwards the loop kickoff (it stays set better). It’s easier to create it this way, together with thus only crease it upward into your iii dimensional triangle together with record it up.
Next comes the paper mache part. There’s lots of you lot subway scheme videos on this. I used 1 purpose flour together with two parts H2O and a couplet tbsp of tabular array salt (I didn’t fix it or anything). I’ve used watered downward gum earlier together with I much prefer the flour. I used a lilliputian pigment brush to apply, kickoff moisture the surface alongside flour/water, apply the paper together with comprehend over again alongside the flour & H2O mixture. If you lot desire to create to a greater extent than than one layer, permit dry out inwards between. After the triangles were completely dry out I painted all surfaces alongside white paint.
I together with thus concealment printed images onto white tissue paper. I know most of you lot don’t concealment impress thus I tested out some stuff together with it worked great. You tin every bit good depict or pigment on tissue paper, or whatever affair else that would run alongside collage.
Paint a sparse layer of gum (you tin every bit good usage the flour/water, I’m sure, but it looked slightly opaque thus I used a gum that dries clear.) Apply tissue, stuff or icon you’d similar together with press on gently to your triangle, smooth out the wrinkles together with add together a sparse layer of gum over top.
That’s it. I used the line-fishing work to hang it from the ceiling thus it looks likes they’re floating. This was fun, I listened to New Wave music making together with installing these lilliputian guys, spring has sprung!
Tracey Fillon is the designer behind Dear Pony together with lives together with industrial plant inwards Nelson, B.C.
Visit her online:
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I only completed this paper mache mobile for my friends pilus salon. Her studio is a beautiful onetime infinite alongside high ceilings together with windows, there’s a cute lilliputian nook inwards the store forepart window together with she asked me to fill upward it. This was a fun projection that you lot could create for your kids room, fine art studio, garden together with it didn’t toll me to a greater extent than than $5, I had everything I needed only about the house.
You volition need:
cereal/cracker boxes (I had to origin these out from my friends because I wanted to brand most xx triangles).
scissors, tape, ruler, yarn, newspaper, white paint, flour, salt, pigment brush, white tissue paper, stuff bits, line-fishing line.
How to brand it:
First cutting upward your boxes into triangles, (I used several unlike sizes, from 3″ to most 9″). I flora it easiest if I cutting all the flaps off the box, measured a work downward the centre of the length together with thus over again downward 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 downward on the tabular array together with thus record a slice of yarn or string inwards a loop at the elevation together with brand a knot inwards the loop kickoff (it stays set better). It’s easier to create it this way, together with thus only crease it upward into your iii dimensional triangle together with record it up.
Next comes the paper mache part. There’s lots of you lot subway scheme videos on this. I used 1 purpose flour together with two parts H2O and a couplet tbsp of tabular array salt (I didn’t fix it or anything). I’ve used watered downward gum earlier together with I much prefer the flour. I used a lilliputian pigment brush to apply, kickoff moisture the surface alongside flour/water, apply the paper together with comprehend over again alongside the flour & H2O mixture. If you lot desire to create to a greater extent than than one layer, permit dry out inwards between. After the triangles were completely dry out I painted all surfaces alongside white paint.
I together with thus concealment printed images onto white tissue paper. I know most of you lot don’t concealment impress thus I tested out some stuff together with it worked great. You tin every bit good depict or pigment on tissue paper, or whatever affair else that would run alongside collage.
Paint a sparse layer of gum (you tin every bit good usage the flour/water, I’m sure, but it looked slightly opaque thus I used a gum that dries clear.) Apply tissue, stuff or icon you’d similar together with press on gently to your triangle, smooth out the wrinkles together with add together a sparse layer of gum over top.
That’s it. I used the line-fishing work to hang it from the ceiling thus it looks likes they’re floating. This was fun, I listened to New Wave music making together with installing these lilliputian guys, spring has sprung!
Tracey Fillon is the designer behind Dear Pony together with lives together with industrial plant inwards Nelson, B.C.
Visit her online:
Site
Etsy
