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2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:45
Do-it-yourself leaf skeletonization has recently become increasingly popular. After all, such leaves are quite widespread in scrapbooking and card making, used in the design of gifts and bouquets, and much more.
And some, the largest and most openwork specimens, many are placed in frames and used for interior decoration. They can enhance and complement the beauty and sophistication of any interior.
But how can you do the skeletonization of leaves with your own hands? Everything is quite simple. You just need to be patient and be careful.
What do we need for skeletonization?
- Soda ash (previously used for laundry).
- Water (the most common, in large quantities).
- Toothbrush (preferably not too hard).
- Pan (if possible not enameled, small).
- Directly the leaves (try to pick up even and strong enough, if there are yellow ones - fine, they are stronger than green ones, they should be leathery and dense. For example, leaves of poplar, magnolia or viburnum).
Leaf skeletonization: master class
Actionsperform in the following order:
- It is necessary to prepare a saturated solution of soda in water. We take in the following proportion: one tablespoon of soda per half liter of liquid.
- Dip the leaves into the prepared solution and boil from forty minutes to an hour and a half. If someone is too lazy to wait so long, he can use a pressure cooker. Then the time will be reduced to half an hour.
- The leaves are thoroughly washed with running water and boiled in clean water for about an hour. Cooking time depends only on the quality of your source material. This is the most important step in a process such as skeletonizing leaves with soda. They cannot be digested, but undercooked is also bad. Turn off the fire when the leaves are completely brown-black.
- We take the leaves out of the pan one by one and carefully, slowly, peel the pulp from each of them. If something doesn't work, cook some more.
- If you accidentally tear one or more leaves while working, do not throw them away, finish them to the end, rinse and then simply lay the leaves on the table so that the gap is hidden. After a while, the hole will disappear.
- We wash our leaves well and get openwork skeletons. Do-it-yourself skeletonization of leaves is almost over. It remains only to dry them and paint them.
- In order for the leaves to dry and at the same time remain even, it is recommended to iron them and put them under the press. An ordinary book will do.
- When our skeletons are dry, we can startpainting.
If you need to bleach them, you can do it with regular whiteness.
Conclusion
Favorably emphasizes the beauty and lightness of our leaves, the paint of golden and silver colors. It is more convenient to use an aerosol. She doesn't weigh them down.
Do everything carefully, the paint is rather difficult to wash off. For spray coating, it is not necessary to use the rule: one sheet - one color, fantasize!
This is how do-it-yourself leaf skeletonization happens. Good luck in your work!
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