Does anyone have a recipe for papier mache clay?
By vickie guy from Earle, AR
Make a form from wire, wadded newspaper, stuffed paper bags, or balloons. For a flat piece, such as a dollhouse or box, you can use a piece of cardboard. Tear newspaper into strips. Narrower strips work best for a rounded mold and larger strips are good for flat or rectangular shapes. Choose one of the following recipes to make the paste. Dip strips into paste, coating completely, squeezing out excess paste with your fingers. Use the strips to cover your pre-made form. If you overlap the strips, your finished product will look smoother. Allow each layer to dry before adding another layer. Cover your form with at least 2 layers.
Paper Mache Paste
Flour
Salt
Water
Newspapers
Non-rusting container
Wooden-spoon
Soak papers in water in container. Reduce to pulp by tearing and stirring with spoon.
Paper Mache Paste
1/2 cup flour
2 cups cold water
2 cups boiling water
3 tbsp. sugar
Newspapers
Mix together the flour and cold water in a bowl. Add boiling water to this mixture, and return to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in the sugar. The mixture will thicken as it cools. In humid climates, try powdered non-porous wall paper adhesive mixed with water.
Paper Mache Paste
Newspaper
Water
1 1/2 cups wheat paste (from a craft store)
Mix together the wheat paste and water in a bowl. The mixture will thicken as it cools.good luck.
The best 1 I have found is made from flour water Newspaper and exterior wood glue it dries very fast and very hard, I got my recipe from www.stolloween.com/
What's Walla?
I think they meant "voila!"
Walla is bastardised version of voila. (French meaning there it is!)
Walla is the rough pronunciation for the french work "oila" which roughly means, "and there you go"
Walla means And there it is.
"Walla" is this person's lay term for the French word "Voila!" :)
I think he meant voila , which is French , for there you go,its done
I think she means voila! Lol
I have a recipe that I kinda tweaked for the project I was working on and have used it for several others. Here we go *first ddepending on the piece i'm working on and the stubility I want to achieve I use either news paper and or junk mail (note the "slick" or the "shinny junk mail is not a good clay becaused of the film that creates the shinny effect), after getting my paper I tear it and place it in a blender (saved for crafting not for food) with hot water and Elmers glue all (not school glue, there is a big difference) *Pulse blender.
