COMPOSITION OF COLORED SALT AND ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS

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To decorate your home with an original composition, it is not necessary to look for it in a store. A handmade decor will surely fill your home with warmth and comfort.
Materials that will be required during the work:
- transparent vase;
- colored chalk;
- fine salt;
- grater;
- glue gun;
- artificial flowers;
- bugs for decoration.
Make crayons and a vase. Its surface should be clean and dry.

Grate chalk on a fine grater. The powder should not contain large particles.

Mix salt and crayon powder in separate containers. Depending on the size of the vase, determine the number of tablespoons of salt for each layer so that they are the same in height.
Making colored salt with chalk is quick and convenient, but the color is not very saturated. If you want to get bright shades, then try to paint the salt with gouache. It will take a little longer, but the colors will be richer.
First, take five tablespoons of salt and add 7 ml of gouache, a little water and mix thoroughly. Color should be uniform. Then put salt on thick paper and dry. To speed up this process, salt can be placed in the oven.
If desired, you can mix different colors and get unusual shades of paint.
If your salt is large, then it must be crushed. Put in a bag and carefully go through it with a rolling pin.

Now fill the bottom and pour a second layer. You need to sprinkle with a spoon, first from the edges, and then in the center.
To achieve the effect of "interweaving" layers, use a funnel made of cardboard to fill the container.

Alternate colors and make sure the layers are the same. To make them wavy, sprinkle a little more colored salt on one side. And when you cover everything with the next portion of salt, the position of the previous layer will be fixed.
During operation, try not to tilt, do not shake the container, otherwise the layers will mix and the boundaries between them will become fuzzy.
This is how a filled pot looks like.

Prepare artificial flowers. Measure the desired height and cut off the unwanted part.

To keep the flowers well on the base, you need to fix the surface above the salt with hot glue. First circle the rim of the vase with hot glue. This must be done quickly, otherwise the glue will cool and not fix.

Then, in a circle, apply glue and make sure that there are no gaps between the strips of glue.

In this case, the flowers were very tall and did not harmonize with the vase. Therefore, the stem of the flower is glued to the floristic wire. So we achieved the desired stem height.

We begin to form the composition from the center. Bend the tip of the wire, forming a loop, and fasten three flowers with hot glue.

Then gradually glue the flowers, alternating them in size and ate the need for color
To mask the base of the flowers, decorate it with green sisal. Fix the ends with glue.