Cold porcelain with their own hands: cooking recipes

Today there are many directions of needlework. Someone likes to embroider, someone to do the appliqué.In the shops of needlework there are a lot of materials that allow you to do anything, just need a little imagination. Very popular today products from cold porcelain, which can be done at home. There are several ways to make cold porcelain with your own hands. You can cook, but you can do without boiling.

Ingredients for cold porcelain

To produce cold porcelain at home we will need:

• Adhesive;
• Citric acid;
• Starch;
• Baking soda;
• Vaseline;
• Glycerin.

The quality of porcelain depends largely on the type of glue used in its preparation. The best is the usual construction PVA, which can be purchased at any hardware store.

Starch should also be chosen with particular care, it is best to use corn starch for cold porcelain, since it produces white products. As for potato starch, it gives the material a greyish shade.

Instead of vaseline, a normal cream is quite suitable, citric acid can be replaced with vinegar altogether. True, with him it's worth to be extremely accurate, only a few drops are needed, because if you overdo it, the cold porcelain will turn sour and the crafts will crumble.

Preparation of cold porcelain without cooking

To prepare such a wonderful cold porcelain as on the photo

it is necessary to prepare a container, it must be deep.

In it we pour 2 tbsp.l.starch, then add 1 st.l.petroleum jelly or cream and grate it well with starch.

After the mixture is thoroughly mixed, you need to add a little baking soda, about a quarter teaspoon, and a few drops of glycerin, then everything should be mixed.

The next step is to start adding glue.

Do this gradually. Adhesive should be poured as much as necessary to ensure that the mixture was elastic and durable.

Before you start working with glue, you should grease your hands with cream, this will protect the skin of your hands from allergic reactions, and prevent the adhesion of the porcelain mixture. Add the glue until porcelain is ready.

This cold porcelain recipe by own hands is simple enough and as already clear from the title, it does not provide for cooking. If there is a desire, then it can be colored with various dyes. In order for the color to be uniform, it is worth carefully mixing the mixture. True, it is worth saying that the recipe for cold porcelain without cooking has a big minus, it is very short-lived. Of course, you can wrap it in cellophane and put it in the refrigerator, but this will shorten its term.

Preparation of porcelain with cooking

At home, it is also possible to prepare cold porcelain with cooking. To do this, also used glue, it must be mixed in equal proportions with starch, then add glycerin and a little citric acid. After the mass is mixed, add 1 tbsp.cream and bring the mixture to a creamy state.

Next, we put the billet mass in a cooking vessel and cook on a small fire for 3 minutes. In the process of cooking porcelain can be collected in lumps, so it is worth constantly stirring the mass until it begins to move away from the walls. Some simply put the mass in a microwave, but it is safer to use the old and proven method of cooking on fire.

After the cold porcelain is ready, it is worth kneading it on the table, having previously smeared it with cream. Next we put porcelain in cellophane and put it in the refrigerator. Boiled cold porcelain can be stored so for about 2 weeks. From it you can make any crafts from flowers to toys.

In order to study the preparation process in detail, I recommend that you watch the video lessons below. A selection of videos for working with cold porcelain