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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
4919 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
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 Posted - May 20 2015 : 6:58:28 PM
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If no one wants your magazines, you can tear out the colorful pages, fold them in long narrow folds, similar to rolling, Then coil them up. Glue together, I used Elmers and got really messy hands but they wash up. Your coils will be about the diameter of a quarter. Add more and more to make larger coils, medallions or flowers. I made a lot, all sizes. Then I cut out a cross. It was fat or wide with rounded pointy ends. I did not want perfect. Then I painted it turquoise, wiped it and rubbed it with some brown paint that I had thinned down. I wiped a lot of that off, let it dry and placed my medallions on to see how and where they would fit and look best. Then I glued them down.I wanted a bit of my turquoise edge to show, so I squeezed and manipulated until it looked good. 24 hours to dry, then a mod podge bath. 24 more hours to dry. Lastly I brushed it with shiny mod podge. That dried more quickly. If you like the Indian/Mexican art from New Mexico and Arizona you will like this. I was showing mine to a friend and another lady asked to buy it. So now I need to make another one, perhaps... someday.
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
4919 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
4919 Posts |
Posted - May 20 2015 : 8:01:33 PM
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I sold it and the pictures I had taken of it with my cell phone were lost when that phone locked down and had to go back to the factory. I think I have some coils left. I will go out to that building tomorrow and see if they are there. I can photograph them. And maybe you can get an idea. Some ladies overseas roll the pages like narrow straws and glue them to containers such as desk accessories, etc.
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