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How to Make DIY Texture Modeling Paste (Easy Recipe)

How to Make DIY Texture Modeling Paste (Easy Recipe) Learn how easy and awesome it is to make your own modeling paste! Homemade texture paste is perfect for mixed media, stencil art and other fun papercrafting. There's a pretty good chance you have what you need for this diy modeling paste already! Let's get started. Textured art is totally in--and if you haven't given it a try--you need to! It's such a fun element to any craft, paper craft, wall art, painting or project to add lots of thick and creamy texture. It's commonly done with joint compound, but that typically cracks as it dries. Making your own texture paste is a good substitute for store bought texture paste and you can make so much more quantity with very little expense. Ingredients Needed for Homemade Modeling Paste: affiliate links 2 parts  Acrylic Paint (any color) 3 parts  Mod Podge (can also use Elmer's glue or white glue) 4 parts  Cornstarch (Avoid using Baby Powder if it is just Talcum Powd...

How to Make Gallery Glass Suncatcher DIY with Freebie

How to Make Gallery Glass Suncatcher DIY with Stained Glass Pattern Freebies! Make gorgeous Gallery Glass suncatchers with these free patterns, create a beautiful Butterfly, a fabulous Luna Moth and a busy Bumble Bee! This craft is made so easy by using Plaid Leading Sheets and Cricut! I designed these 3 intricate patterns that can be cut easily with Cricut so the hard work of hand leading is done for you. Let's get started! This time of year we are all in dire need of some beautiful sunshine and suncatchers are the best way to capture it. A stained glass sun catcher is beautiful and fun to make, but a pretty big investment ( see this post here ), so Gallery Glass is the perfect option. GALLERY GLASS LEADING SHEETS: Gallery Glass can be tricky, especially the black lines, if you are shaky or if the bottle of liquid leading is bubbly, it can ruin your suncatcher. Plaid now has these rubbery-like "leading sheets" that can be easily cut with an electronic cutting machine, li...