
While I am usually all about tiny floral elements, it's the fake plaster details that are my favourite this time around. Can you guess what they are made from? Hot glue!
Normally I'd make these elements with Creative Paperclay but I was feeling impatient. Some leafy silicone molds, hot glue, layers of gesso and white paint, and voila! Held side by side with resin, you can't tell the difference, and adding additional layers of gesso and paint softens the details and makes it look quite like plaster.

AND because I love you (and Leslie asked so nicely) I've made a video of that technique HERE.
Just look at this plastic frame with 'faux plaster' leaf embellishments! I can't wait to see what you make with them :)
Supply round up:
Small Hinged TinSmall Altoids Tins Triptych Frame
Large Leaves Silicone Mold*
Multi-Sizes Leaves Silicone Mold*
Flower Soft - Sweet Pea
Mini Rose Buds - Red*
Pink Rose Garland* (leaves)
Small Round Silver-Plated Pendants (not shown, applied to back of shrine for hanging)
Moss
Hot glue!
Gesso and white acrylic craft paint
Hot glue!
Gesso and white acrylic craft paint
Big fat thank you for sharing! Off I go to order some molds!
ReplyDeleteAmazing as always. Thanks for the tutorial. :)
ReplyDeleteYou never cease to Amaze.....and a tutorial as well.....Thanks.....
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ReplyDeleteWow! and I already loved hot glue. Now I adore hot glue!!! I love Alice no matter what tiny thing she has been crammed in. This is sweet and love the little frame too. Endless ideas for making things like this and sticking them to other things. lol! Thank you thank you thank you for sharing a brilliant idea Nichola!
ReplyDeleteTotally not taking credit for this. I've seen people use hot glue in their molds before, and when I was in art school we had a lecture by, Eric Cameron, a fella that covered objects in layers and layers of gesso until they became unidentifiable. Smoosh the two together and ta da!
DeleteVery cool, but is it permanent? Will the hot glue pieces melt later?
ReplyDeleteIf you heat it with a heat gun or put it in an oven it will melt. Just take as much care as you would with projects bonded with hot glue.
DeleteI love the way your brain works............
ReplyDeleteThis is a great tip! I've wondered before... is that a marble slab you work on?
ReplyDeleteNothing so fancy, just my regular old laminate kitchen counter top.
DeleteCool! Thanks for your great tutorial. I have several molds, but I've never tried to fill them with hot glue. That's a great idea. Now my head is spinning with ways for making things like this.
ReplyDeleteHot glue??!!!! That. . .is. . . brilliant!! The Alice pieces are dreamy! I feel like the little shrine is a portal all unto itself! Good thing we folk are too large to fit through. . but wait, what's this bottle on my table with the "Drink Me" label on it??? Hmmm. . .
ReplyDeleteNot just beautiful but brilliant too - the fae certainly bless you!
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