Many women like to do needlework, andeven some men. This is not only a hobby, but also a great opportunity to give your loved ones an original gift. Varieties of needlework a lot. One of those are pictures of salt dough. How to make such a product?
Beautiful picture - kneaded the dough, picked up the plot
The first step is to prepare the dough (one cup of salt and flour, plus the required amount of water for density). However, there are other compositions, but this one is the simplest.
How to cut a picture along the contour without spoiling the future product
So, the necessary picture is selected.To begin with, the outline of the pattern must be printed out, then cut out (very neatly along the contour). Next, take a board or cardboard, wrapped in foil. Following the roll out the dough - its thickness should not be more than a centimeter. The picture is attached to it. How to make a contour drawing? It is enough to leave only point marks with a needle, puncturing every detail of the picture.
It remains only to decide how to cutcontour drawing. The easiest way, of course, is to cut along with the workpiece. Although it is not necessary. Self-confident masters will be able to cut the drawing, and removing the stencils, focusing only on the dots left by the needle.
Drying products
As soon as everything is ready, it remains to proceed.to drying the product. Someone does this in the open air for two or three weeks, and someone in the oven. The main thing that should not be forgotten when drying in the oven - about the swelling of the dough and the bending of future crafts. Set the temperature to approximately 70 degrees. Baked figure will be about nine to ten hours.
Product painting
As soon as the figure hardens and dries, itcan be brought into proper form. It is necessary to paint it, but before that the product will need more and cover with white glue. The surface, respectively, becomes smoother, smoother, and the paint is not absorbed into the dough so much that it was necessary to cover the base with another layer.
Also glue fills the points from the needle,outlines the pattern that will be applied to the product. They are desirable to put closer to each other. As a result, drawing the same outline of a drawing will be much easier. It is possible to paint a product in about ten minutes after the glue dries.
After that, it remains only to find a suitable frame. The picture will look great! By the way, such a frame can be bought already prepared, but you can also make it yourself.
Sample picture for a gift to a woman
So, you decided to make a gift with your own hands forbeloved girl, sister, girlfriend, mother, aunt, grandmother ... A picture with a bouquet of flowers from salt dough would be a good option. He will please his owner for many years, because he will never wither. By the way, you can slightly retreat from the above basic recommendations on needlework and make the picture a little different.
To begin with, the chipboard is glued over with colored paper, on which after that a drawing outline is applied with a pencil - daisies. Next, stacked stems and petals.
The dough for the stalk is pre-painted in greencolor, rolled sausage and transferred onto a greased base. After that, the leaves are made (they need to be rolled into a ball, from which the “droplet” will then be molded). Streaks on the leaves are made using a cutter.
After that, the petals are created.White dough is rolled into a sausage. She, in turn, is cut into several parts (along the length of the petal). The lower edges of each of them roll down, the rest is flattened out. Stacked petals in two rows.
To create the middle you need to advancepaint the dough yellow and push it through a strainer. After all the elements are glued to the base, the edges of the petals can be slightly shaded with blue gouache. Before you place the picture in a frame, the product is varnished.
Such a gift will help to express a lot of emotions and feelings towards a woman. But the most important thing, a thing made by hand, is the most unexpected and pleasant surprise.
