Homemade Newspaper Mache Clay!

Homemade Paper Mache Clay!

Versatile in addition to tardily to brand anything y'all tin intend of!

It's tardily to brand in addition to lightweight!
Supplies:
1 whorl of can paper (cheap two ply stuff)
3/4 Cup of Elmers glue
1 Cup Joint Compound
3/4 Cup Flour (I used 1 Cup of flour to compensate for the high humidity)

Take your can paper in addition to pose it inward a large bowl.
Pour 4-6 cups of warm H2O correct over the overstep of it!
(this is the funnest part!)

Now it's a cinch to take away the cardboard tube.

Now, selection upward whorl in addition to squeeze!
Ring out all the H2O y'all tin maybe squelch out.
I laid downwards the photographic television camera in addition to used both hands. :)

Now interruption the can paper into chunks.
As modest every bit pieces every bit y'all receive got the patience for!

Until y'all receive got chunked it all.

Now add together the can paper, flour, mucilage and
joint chemical compound into your mixer bowl.

Mix!

It volition stick in addition to shape a real fibrous paper clay!

You tin shop it inward an airtight container for a week...

Or, start making things correct away!

I took a modest dish in addition to some plastic wind

and wrapped the bottom of the dish...

Then covered it amongst paper mache clay.

And in addition to then covered the clay amongst cling wrap...and
pose them inward a slightly larger bowl to dry.

I allow them air dry out completely...a couplet of days.
Then I removed the plastic wind in addition to spray painted on vivid metallic element gold!
Perfect for decor!

Filled with Coffee Filter Flowers

Or Fun Polished Rocks!

Totally fun in addition to modern!
They hold off awesome stacked!

Next...

I tried adding some paper doilies!

I rolled out the clay into a sparse sheet.
(to whorl out the viscous clay...lay a ball on a slice of plastic wrap,
then embrace the ball amongst a slice of plastic wrap.
Use a rolling pivot correct on overstep of the plastic...
Then take away the overstep layer of plastci.
Press the doilies into the paper mache sheet.

The wet absorbed correct into the doily...making the perfect bond!
Lift the plastic wind in addition to paper mache into a bowl
in addition to press the clay downwards within it.

Trimmed but about the edges in addition to allow it dry!

Then I spray painted it inward gold!

Use it for a faux planter...I wouldn't pose plants that demand H2O inward it...
I'm certain it would disintegrate.
But it's perfect amongst these simulated succulents in addition to fabulous rocks!

Or...

Get a safe stamp...like this Damask print...

Press out some clay...

Press the postage stamp into the paper mache clay...and gently cutis it off the stamp.

Like so!

I used a cookie cutter to larn a prissy circular shape.
The paper fibers brand precision a trivial fighting difficult, but no worries.

Add a hole inward the overstep amongst a straw...

And allow it dry.

(It's already humid here, thus it tin accept a spell to dry)

After they dried,
I gave each pendant a quick coat of spray paint.

After drying, I added daubs of color.

After daubing lots of color, I used a

damp stuff to blot off the excess paint.

So they are subtle...nearly necktie dyed.
Kind of hippie feeling amongst the paper fibers in addition to vivid colors!

Great for gifts!

I mightiness spray on a trivial shiny overstep coat to goal them off.

Or...
Figurines, animals or puppets!
Take some foil...

And mold it into the shape of your desired product.
Make it a tad smaller than y'all wish the lastly thing...
since the paper mache clay volition add together to the mass of it.