"Magic" nuts with predictions, wishes, recognition, lottery tickets, etc. Let us give any holiday a highlight, make an event unforgettable for all participants. Such nuts can be given to each guest at the birthday, new year, a wedding celebration, employees on the corporate party, customers of the company, etc., and also use prizes during the risks and lottery among the holiday participants.
Make such nuts is not difficult, only patience is needed and accuracy. And today we will show the process of creating such little surprises.
For work it will be necessary:
- walnuts
- Brushes for artworks (bristles and synthetics)
- acrylic paints
- acrylic lacquer
- paper
- cutter / scissors
- satin ribbons
- Glue
- tea spoon
- Knives (medium and small folding)
So, let's begin…
The main "heroes" of our surprises with wishes is walnuts. Select medium nuts (very small to clean it is very small). It is desirable that the nuts are "aged", and well dried.
We take a medium strong knife and split nuts in half. To do this, gently stick the knife into the top of the nut, right in the middle and strictly vertically careful, but the fast movement beat about the horizontally lying board. Even it is comfortable on a wooden board, it's better that it was 1-2 cm thick, then numerous shocks with nuts and a knife Do not harm her. Each master finds his way of splitting nuts, but we use exactly that, because With such a splitting, most of the nuts is divided into smooth natural halves, without crooked chips, although without them, too, do not do.
Here are such halves from us. Take a teaspoon and begin to clean the nut. If you have a very dry walnut, then it will take no more than a minute.
Cleaning the bulk mass and breaking the small membranes inside the nut, be sure to "sweep" it from the inside with a dry tassel, for this, a brush with natural bristles is suitable. You do not want your customers or friends to, when opening a nut with a prediction, poured the remnants of a poorly cleaned walnut?) That's why you remove all walnut crumbs with quick movements with a brush and blow them. This is what the pure nuts looks like:
We lay out our sulfted halves in the ranks, so as not to be confused (after all, then you will need to glue our halves, and convenient when the desired steam is near.
We will paint the outside of the shell of the nut. We use acrylic paints from a tube, to be applied that need a tassel manually. Of course, this is a long process, and someone will want to buy paint with a sprayer in the canisters (for example, some buy a car paint in the cans), it is easy to apply it and quickly, falls smoothly and will dry, only when applied there is an unpleasant smell.
We look carefully, but quickly (acrylic paints dry very quickly) with a smooth thin layer of the whole shell, not forgetting the nuts on the edges (so that then when gluing the halves there were unpainted edges). In this MK we show the process of painting gold and multicolored nuts.
Upload painted halves better on film or cut transparent files, because Such surfaces do not stick the painted edges of nuts (laying on paper or newspaper, after drying, you may find that the pieces of paper are kept to your nuts).
Acrylic paints, similar to other decrehensive paints, can be diluted with water, but after drying, they become resistant to water. They do not smell and are not toxic, the perfect option for such decorative works. With brushes and fingers are cleaned with water (a little faster using simple soap).
That's what gold halves we turned out.
And these are colored halves, white and blue. By the way, it is better to paint the nuts in 2 layers, it gives absolutely smooth color. If you paint nuts into yellow or orange colors, then 3-4 layers will have to apply, since these pigments always fall unevenly.
Golden, silver and any other acrylic paint from the metallic series does not require a lacquer coating, because It has a glossy and brilliant effect. And the rest of the paints - any other colors - after drying, they give the finished product of a matte effect (there are glossy paints, but according to the experience, it is best to lie exactly).
So far, our nuts will dry (about 2 hours), prepare the scrolls. We compose / find the text of wishes / predictions, we print on a conventional printer on A4 sheets, then cut into separate strips - 1 strip - 1 wish.
Cut off for each scroll satin ribbons about 20 cm long. We fold each segment in half, retreat from the place of folding 5-6 cm and make ordinary nodules. We twist our stripes with wishes in the tube, we are tied up with the free ends of our tape, press the scroll to the nodule, and tie a new knot on the scroll. Those. Our speakers are between 2 nodules. End ends of the ribbon cut off. It turns out such loops with scrolls for gold nuts.
And for colored nuts:
Now the final steps in creating nuts. To half a nuts, we put our scroll, so that the hiner goes out in the upper part of the nut, where there is a small gap. On the edges of the nut in 3 months (below, on the right and left) we drip glue (we use polymer glue - it is transparent, it does not smell, dries quickly).
Cover it with half a half, and press with a little effort. We are waiting for a few seconds, and postpone our nuts until glue grabbing finally. If you have not been presented somewhere before, or you have uneven edges, you can already curtain on the right places (it will be more convenient to be a thin taste of synthetics).
After 1-2 hours, the glue finally hardened, and nuts are ready.
Here are what they are beautiful in finished form (golden):
And this is white and blue:
Agree, get such a bag of nuts with wishes is incredibly nice. :)
Your guests, employees and customers will be admired by such small surprises!
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