r/papermache

Made a quick piñata for a friend’s 50th birthday party. Their drink of choice has been a vodka cranberry, so naturally that’s what I made them.

Materials: Cardboard, hot glue, metal wire, drawing paper, butcher paper, cellophane, cooked flour slurry, latex and acrylic paint.

Filled with mostly red items: mini vodka bottles, mini hot sauce and bbq sauces, KitKat bars, Doritos, Cheese-It’s, Pringles, raisins, freeze dried strawberries, popcorn, to-go breakfast cereals, and Lotto tickets.

We reversed our normal hitting order of youngest to oldest after the birthday person, and went from oldest to youngest, which was pretty fun.

An update to my previous post, I finished my mantis mask in time to go to the Ren Faire this weekend!

hey all, I'm trying to make a leaf-like paper mache object (the korok mask from botw). I know it isn't exactly traditional paper mache, since I used full sheets of paper instead of ripping and layering them, but I wanted it to be translucent (see pic 2 for what it looks like against the sun) so it's a little flimsier than it could be.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has tips on how to paint it and have it remain translucent? I was thinking maybe watercolor it green, but then use modge podge on top to seal it? But I read that modge podge shouldn't be used on top of watercolor, cuz it's water soluble.

edit: I used newsprint paper, and some Elmer's kids glue and a little bit of flour.

TIA!

I am nearly done with this project. He is huge. Almost 8 feet end to end. Nothing left but a few details and then I am going to paint it Red and Gold. I started this several years ago and it became to much and I set it aside for long time. I decided not long ago that I had put in too much work in it to just give up. Constructive criticism welcomed.

This took a few weeks total to allow plenty of drying time between layers, but the wait was well worth it!
These were made for my ren faire outfit ❤️ I can’t wait to wear them.

In Hinduism, Varaha is one of the 10 incarnates of lord Vishnu. I have used a bike helmet and cling wrap as the mold. I made sure to only use strips of newspaper, kids school worksheets, amazon packing paper. For glue, I made a thick mache by boiling flour and water.
I've used acrylic paint for colors with acrylic gloss layer on top. I have used rhinestone jewel stickers on the crown as embellishments.

It's my first ever "proper" paper mache project. It took me 3-4 weeks to make it. It evolved in stages mostly to demonstrate the process to my kids.

Trust the process! This is the first thing I’ve ever used paper mache to make. It’s a small trinket shelf for the wall.
It was made out of a cardboard box, glue, tape, paint and of course, paper. But this craft is definitely a new one. I’m gonna stay doing.

I wish I had done a layer of paper clay to add scales and more texture to the fins.

Next one for sure. I have Marlin. Now I need Dory and the rest.

Well almost all the scales are finished. Now on to sculpt the face. Then hopefully I can start painting this weekend.

Im making a full dark souls 1 bell gargoyle costume for texas ren fest, thought id post my progress so far. The model is from the dark souls board game. The moonlight greatsword i made for my husband's Heolstor costume for the same event. Still about 6 pieces of armor left to even make, let alone paper mache, along with the wings.

i’m currently in the process of adding paper clay to this project (glue, toilet paper, joint compound) and i wanna ensure that it’ll be strong enough to allow my tv to sit on top and my ps5 to sit on one of the shelves. the top part of it started denting slightly after adding the paper clay so i added some support sticks while it dries. should i add more permanent support to it? multiple layers of paper clay? let me know :) ty! i’m mostly worried about the top part where my tv will sit