This
week for Trash to Treasure Thursday I thought I would show you a
quick and easy way to make some salad for your dolls. This is a
project that will work for just about any size doll.
The
secret to this salad is the snow flake stuff that the stores sell
around Christmas for placing along with the Christmas villages that
are so popular. You will need to get the variety that doesn't
include a lot of the iridescent flakes, if your bag has some be sure
to pick them out (they just don't look very convincing as salad)
It
is totally up to you how many colors of green paint you use, I
usually use between 3 and 5 colors of green and I almost always add a
purple too. In real life I almost always buy the bags of salad that
have lots of types of greens in them and that include the purple
radicchio also so that is what I make for the dolls too.
This
time the colors I used were:
Delta
Ceramcoat- Leaf Green
Seminole
Green
Village
Green
Grape
FolkArt-
Olive Green
If
you are unsure of what colors to use just stop by the local produce
department and look at the bags of salad for an idea of what colors
are in there.
You
can of course just use one color and sometimes I do that too.
For
display purposes you can toss the colored, dry salad with a bit of
white glue and then place it in whatever container you wish to use.
It will then stay put for many years.
If
you want to add some “salad dressing” you can paint in a color
to give the effect you are looking for.
This
salad also looks great when you toss in some polymer clay additions
like slices of radish, carrot, olives, tomatoes, whatever your dolls
would like to have.
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