You can make homemade stamps by using a wooden craft block (or anything really, you can use a bottle cap for small designs) paint your design on the surface with puffy paint. Homemade puffy paint is used for painting on canvas, labeling, jewelry, costumes, and decoration. Allow the painting to dry for several hours overnight to ensure that the paint is set. If you want a deeper color, add more food coloring. Start by adding a small amount of food coloring and seeing how you like the color. Separate it between several bowls when the flour mixture has the proper consistency. If the paint dries up at any point while using, you can simply add a few drops of water into the mixture. You can add up to 1 cup (237) but only mix in enough to create a smooth thin paste that has a similar texture to yogurt. Later, once the salt and flour are blended completely, add water to make a paste. Don’t use kosher or sea salt, it may alter the texture of the paint, use regular table salt only for the paint. You must use self-raising flour in the paint to get the puffy texture. Use a spoon or fork to mix the flour and salt completely. Be careful about the measurements, add 1 cup (125 g) of self-raising flour and 1 cup (300g) table salt to a container or bowl. To prepare the flour-based puffy paint, you need to mix table salt and flour. use a good amount of the paint to make sure that it has a puffy tex Preparing Flour-Based Puffy Paint Lastly, when your paint shades are ready, use a brush to paint them on plain paper in whatever pattern you like. When you are adding the food coloring, keep in mind that the paint will dry darker than it appears when it’s wet. The amount that you will need depends on how much of the paint mixture is in each cup and how dark you want the shade to be. Stir the coloring into the paint mixture until completely blended. You should use disposable plastic cups because it can be difficult to wash the paint out of containers.Īdd some food coloring to each cup in your chosen shade to color the paint. Add a little amount of the glue and shaving cream mixture to each cup. Divide the mixture of shaving cream and glue into several cups. However, once the glue and shaving cream are mixed well, set out a plastic cup for each shade of paint that you want to make. You can use chopsticks, popsicle sticks, or even straws for mixing the glue and shaving cream, to prevent the paint from sticking to your spoons. Don’t use shaving gel, make sure to use shaving foam. Keep mixing the two until they are fully combined in a thick cream.
You can hold the tool about 2 inches away from your canvas. Use a heat tool to make the paint puff up. If you want to make puffy paint that is of higher quality, you should set your timer to 48 to 72 hours so that the paint is dried completely. Add any finishing touches you’d like, and then let it dry overnight. Squeeze the bottle of puffy paint onto your canvas. Draw your design and start using puffy paint on canvas.
Choose suitable colors that you would like to use for your design.
How To Use Puffy Paint On Canvasįirstly, you need to choose a design to create on a canvas panel. Puffy paints are quite similar to acrylic craft paint. The paint puffs up as it dries, giving it a cloud-like appearance. There are simple, how-to-use instructions printed on each bottle. The bottles are small easy to squeeze and come in 4-oz sizes. All types of surfaces, including canvas, paper, fabric, wood, plastic, and glass, can be painted with puffy paint.