This fake stone container was created with used salsa jar as a core and form of dumpling form crumpled paper from outdated journal to change the jar form.
Properly, this craft thought come to my thoughts once I was flipping outdated journal, feeling bored, and virtually falling asleep on the sofa.
Yeah..I shortly ran to my messy desk and begin crafting when the thought struck my head. Really, I used to be dreaming about making a ceramic pot on the wheel ha..ha.. however you realize that I solely have air dry clay – handmade clay, no pure clay, no kiln, no pottery wheel.
However, hey…with a bit of little bit of creativeness, nothing can cease me to make one thing like out of ceramic studio with naked arms, minimal instrument and handmade clay.
Right here, I’m fortunately sharing with you what I’ve made – one other copycat pottery ha..ha..It is a fake stone container this time 🙂
I need to have the colour like Egyptian stone however with stone formation like these present in a cave.
Do you suppose that piece seems to be professionally made, oh..ehm I meant not child-like form of piece? I’m purposely make it that manner as a result of I used to be pondering to present this to somebody (not a child however an grownup) as a present.
By the way in which, this piece is also a pleasant handmade thought for mom’s day present or simply to maintain your individual issues contained in the jar. Sure! the jar nonetheless functioning although.
Alright, let’s have enjoyable crafting!
Instruments & supplies:
- 16 pages of outdated journal
- used salsa jar
- black gesso/ black acrylic coloration
- brushes
- water
- tapes
- cardboard
- aluminium foil
- scorching glue and scorching glue gun
- scissors/ craft knife and FORK
- air dry clay
- acrylic paints: skin-tone olive and cream
Steps to make fake stone container:
First, make 8 items of one thing like dumpling form paper from outdated journal.
Take 2 sheets of paper, squeeze the center of the paper on the shorter width, and fold it within the center. Make the underside half fats and flat on the highest. Then tie the highest paper with tapes.
You may see these 8 items paper dumpling as under image.
Subsequent, paint your salsa jar with black acrylic. I take advantage of black gesso common primer right here. Apply about 2 coats of gesso or 3-4 coats of acrylic paints. You should utilize hair dryer to hurry up the drying time in between the paint layers.
Alternatively, you should utilize white glue and bathroom paper if you wish to see white coloration from contained in the jar.
I desire black this time so, you possibly can’t actually discover the form of the jar after altering the surface form to a rounded form.
After the black gesso/ acrylic paint dry, use scorching glue and scorching glue gun to connect these 8 items paper dumpling.
Subsequent step, use proceed piece of aluminum foil to wrap the jar. The aluminium foil will strengthen the brand new form of jar that has been altered with paper dumpling.
You may have 2 or 3 layers of aluminium foil that will help you getting the correct and robust form. You may roll the container on the desk/ arduous floor to make it agency.
Then, lower a spherical form of cardboard as the bottom and paste it to the container with scorching glue.
After you may have established the container form, wrap it with air dry clay. Any kind of air dry clay is okay. Right here I take advantage of selfmade clay.
If you wish to purchase air dry clay you possibly can test my web page about “what clay to purchase” to see 3 forms of air dry clay so that you can select.
To make fake stone formation texture, I take advantage of fork. Absolutely you may have this clay instrument, proper? 🙂
Whenever you’ve completed making the feel, cease and anticipate the clay to dry.
Whereas ready for our fake stone container to dry, let’s make the lid with cardboard and sculpt a mushroom on high of the lid for adornment and in addition because the lid deal with.
When cowl the cardboard with clay, I work from the within after which the highest.
By the way in which, you possibly can return to the container when the clay has dried. Then tidy up the rim of the jar with clay.
And…wait once more till the clay dry.
Lastly, the final step of our fake stone container undertaking is portray, yayyy…..GOOD NEWS! I solely use 2 acrylic colours to color this container. These are skin-tone olive for the bottom and cream for spotlight. That is it!
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