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Instructions No. 371 Instructions No. 371 Difficulty: Advanced Working time: 1 hour
You probably think of the term "handicrafts with straws" when you hear the term "straw handicrafts". These Straw stars.classic handicrafts hang in many Christmas trees and decorations every year at Christmas time. But the great straws, which the trade offers in natural and colorful colors, can do much more. On this Stretched Canvas one they are combined to big, colorful motifs and create a great look where you have to look twice to see the material.
Straws convert into surfaces
Cut them Straws open lengthwise and soak them in water for about 30 minutes, separated by colour. Smooth the individual stalks carefully with the iron: first the inside, then the outside, until all moisture is removedhas evaporated. Then glue-Adhesive tape the stalks next to each other on crepe and iron them again.
designStretched Canvas
The individual parts from Transfer the template sheet with a pencil to the back of the finished straw surfaces, cut it out and put it together to form motifs, stick them on top of each other.Acrylic colour in the shade Cadmium Yellow imit. slightly under Structure Paste and with a Spatula on the Stretched Canvas
apply, press the straw motifs immediately into the moist mass.
Shade the glued-on leaf motifs with Acrylic colour in the shade of permanent green light and mark small dots with Cadmium Yellow
imitating painting.
Cut the Polystyrene balls in half with a knife and paint it with the colour Cadmium Yellow imit., then glue the painted hemispheres with effect glue on the straw motives.
A mixture of Handicraft paint in the shades Ivory, Buttercup and May green is finally diluted with a little water and wiped over the background and motifs as light shades.
