jeudi 1 janvier 2009

Crafting Tips For Your Hobby

02:45 Posted by: Marokko Suche 0 comments

By Alix Montoya

Ever get tired of the small troubles you keep having in your hobby? Try these useful tips and work away for happier days:

Ever get tired of your brushes always getting hard and stiff after you use them for paint or glue? Acrylic paint is the worst for this kind of thing because it crusts so easily. What you can do is wash your brushes after every use with a little bit of soap and warm water. In case they've already hardened, don't fret. You can leave them on a cup of fabric softener and they'll be as soft as new.

Do you paint a lot in your hobby? If so, you better place some newspaper on your work table to keep the paint from getting to places. It helps prevent the paint from staining your work table too. If you are working with really thick paints that bleed a lot, try doubling the layers to keep them from bleeding through. You can even try tripling it just to be sure.

A good way of removing glue stains from any surface is to use ordinary rubbing alcohol. The alcohol is a good solvent which can easily dissolve hardened glue. You can use this in case the glue gets to your clothes or any other thing that you, otherwise, wouldn't want to have glue on.

If you want your bottles to unscrew easily, you can try covering them up with some plastic wrap first before screwing the lid in. You'll soon discover that this prevents your previously opened paint or glue bottles from crusting up and it will also make opening the bottles a lot less harder.

Have you ever had that feeling like you're running out of places to hold while painting really small objects? Don't worry, all you have to do is to cut up a piece of masking tape and loop it. Put the sticky loop on the eraser end of a pencil and use that to hold the item you are painting. Afterwards, you can dry it by leaving the pencil in a cup or pencil holder for a while.

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