Hello Readers...
My blog space is one of my favorite space, but I admit that I often don't give justice to this space. I have realized this many times and yesterday a mail from a very dear follower of When Creative Juices Flow reminded me it again. She has written about a tutorial. In a post entitled "Ohhh Summer", I had mentioned to come up with a post on paper mache tray. She searched about it, but couldn't find the post and thus wrote to me. I am really happy to see her message and super happy to know that my posts are really read by some at least. I am so sorry that I have mentioned about it and then completely forgot to make the post. I promise I'll make all pending posts soon. So here is the tutorial of paper mache tray.
My blog space is one of my favorite space, but I admit that I often don't give justice to this space. I have realized this many times and yesterday a mail from a very dear follower of When Creative Juices Flow reminded me it again. She has written about a tutorial. In a post entitled "Ohhh Summer", I had mentioned to come up with a post on paper mache tray. She searched about it, but couldn't find the post and thus wrote to me. I am really happy to see her message and super happy to know that my posts are really read by some at least. I am so sorry that I have mentioned about it and then completely forgot to make the post. I promise I'll make all pending posts soon. So here is the tutorial of paper mache tray.
1- News paper or Egg cartons or any other paper (I usually use egg cartoons)
2- Plaster of Paris
3- Water
4- Acrylic paint
5- A white paper
6- Paint brush
7- Sea Shells
8- Fevicol or Glue
Step-1
The first step is making of paper pulp and then paper dough. Once the dough is ready, we need to give it the required shape. Please click on this link for the detail tutorial, where I have mentioned all these three steps while making paper mache tea coasters. (Follow step-1 to step-8). These steps for paper tray are missing and it is same as paper mache coasters, so please refer to the above link.
Step-2
For tray I had made an oval shaped paper mache base of around 25 cm length, 12 cm breadth and 1 cm thickness.
Once the tray base dries completely, stick the sea shells with fevicol/glue. Allow the glue to dry completely.
Step-4
Now paint the paper mache base by using acrylic paint. I preferred to keep it natural so painted it in up-white colour.
Allow the paint to dry completely and then it is ready to use.
It is strong enough to hold your small table decor accessories or other knick knacks. Hope you all will like this and so sorry Sheetal I kept you waiting so long.
