How to make salt dough lamp
Well, everyone get ready, now I’m back with my salt dough. I suggest to make a salt dough lamp! Do not be surprised, you should like.
Firstly, it is necessary to prepare a proper batter. To do this, take a glass of fine salt, two cups of flour and water. Pours salt into a bowl and add a little water to wet the salt completely, and now wait until it dissolves slightly. Add the flour and gradually, little by little start to add water. Our task is to make a uniform dough cool, soft, we really will not work because it will not hold the shape of the simulation.
You see, what it should have?
Roll out the dough with a rolling pin on a piece of fine cloth, an old T-shirt fit fine
Using template, cut a circle about 20 cm in diameter.
Now we raise the fabric together with the dough and put the design on the glass jar. The Bank already has to stand on a baking sheet covered with foil or baking paper. We attach a test cup-shaped and, if necessary forming in it apertures conceived.
Dried in the oven for one hour at a temperature of 60 degrees, then the design is inverted and send back an hour in the oven. Give cool down and carefully remove the dough from the banks. Cut the remaining test small parts that stick to the bowl on the PVA. Again put in the oven and finally dried on low heat first, and then gradually increase it. The optimum temperature of 80 to 100 degrees. After drying the dough can be painted in gouache or acrylic paint and cover with acrylic paint on several layers.
And now look at these lights. After all, just something and left embedded in the cup holder with an electrical cord, and after a fabulously warm translucent effect was!
And if you do not want to light myself on this recipe, then fine, so be it, let our salty bowl remains vase!
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