Tutorial: Make a small vase with plaster and glass preserves
To make this little vase, mine does not need expensive material. Empty milk cartons and juice tetrapaks are always available, as well as glass preserves. Plaster is cheap and a bit of paint, plaster bandages or deco tape too. You have to have time and enjoy cleaning.
Gypsum is great for crafting. But beware! The equipment and containers must be cleaned immediately, because it dries quickly and sticks like crazy.
material
- Tetra pack
- glass canned
- Modelliergips / plaster bandage
- cooking oil
- Acrylics
- Dekoband or plaster bandage
- craft glue
- Acrylic matt varnish
- Brush, small knife, scissors
- Newsprint for the work surface
Tutorial step-by-step
- Cut open empty tetrapak and cut off a piece. Paint the inside with oil. Fill the appropriate glass preserves with water, screw on the lid. Put in Tetra-Pak to check the size. All around must be enough space for the plaster.
- Mix gypsum: For a glass jar about 9 cm high and about 6 cm wide you need 1 cup of gypsum and 1/3 cup of water. Fill water into the pouring vessel and slowly sprinkle the gypsum. Do not stir! The plaster has to sink. Let stand for 1 minute, then mix well until it is smooth.
- Gently pour the plaster around the glass preserves. Check that it stops 1 cm under the screw cap, so that you can unscrew the lid again. Just align. Best to put a weight on it.
- The next day the plaster is hard. Cut tetrapak with scissors and take out the blank. Smooth all around with the blunt side of the knife and cover with the crumbs holes. Continue to dry.
- At the top, the neck of the glass jar looks out of the plaster. With twisted Dekoband, which has a wire on both sides, you can beautify the neck. Glue the craft glue on and around it. Let it dry, ½ cm from the upper glass neck remains uncovered, as it is often wet there.
- Then the plaster vase is painted at will. You can paint the deco ribbon in the main color right away.
- Another way to cover the glass neck is the plaster bandage. From it narrow strips are cut off. Then dipped in water and quickly placed around the glass neck. After drying, the plaster bandage is also painted.
- The paint needs to dry well. Then paint with acrylic varnish, the color layer becomes waterproof.
I wish you a lot of fun with this tinkering! Spring is coming, you can use new vases.
