Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Make your own Glue




Today I made some glue from this cool book called: Green Guide for Artists by Karen Michel.I made her recipe called: Rice paste. It was really fun to make, so her is the recipe:

95 grams of rice flour
26 grams of sugar
175ml of warm water
essential oil( this preserves the glue and stops it from smelling weird you can use Eucalyptus, Lavender, Lemon, Tea Tree or Sandalwood)

1. In a pot, combine rice flower, sugar and water. Stir until there are no lumps.
2.Stir over low heat until mixture has thickend. My glue was way to thick at this point, so I had to add more water, but once I had it was fine.
3.Remove from heat and mix in a few drops of essential oil.
4.Allow mixture to cool, then pour into a jar. You should have about a butter-cream consistency.

Apply this glue with a paintbrush , I dipped my paintbrush in water first and then apply to paper. This product last for several months:)

Above you can see my page for GPP Street-team Crusade entery, which I glued down with this cool glue. It woked wonderfully

Have fun!!!

14 comments:

  1. Wow - you are quick! Not even 24 hours and you have an entry for the crusade! Love your cut text pages. How cool that you tried Karen's glue. Thanks for the review on it.

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  2. Great page! Thanks for sharing the glue recipe.

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  3. Really cool glue and a super texted page!!

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  4. Your text page looks great, and thanks for the glue recipe.

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  5. Love all the colors in you text! Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Love the colourful text you have used.

    Karen

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  7. Awesome pages...love the colors! Great crusade contribution.
    How cool you made your own glue.

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  8. Great you made your own glue! Love your page.

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  9. Thanks so much for the glue recipe! Your "text messaging" is great!

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  10. Thanks for the glue recipe! The vertical striping on the art is wonderfully dynamic. Would you consider posting a larger image?

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  11. Love the page, and I'm really interested in the glue, especially the fact that it lasts well. I find so many green products have a very limited shelf life, which is tricky when you live in the middle of nowhere!

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  12. Thank you for sharing the recipe. Lots of color in that page, and it looks great.

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  13. very cool! I will have to try making it. I like your text messaging too! lenna

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  14. Very cool and what a wonderful glue recipe ! I would love to make some glue smelling like vanilla or something ;-) Thanks for sharing !

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