So in the USA we celebrate Halloween. It is one of the strangest holidays ever because everyone gets into the spooky holiday by dressing up as something funny, scary or just silly. However, it is also known as a time of witches, ghouls, goblins, and ghosts so that’s why I’ve made my Boo post!!!
These tutorials will be great spooky fun so be sure to watch them all…
Tutorial Transcript
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hey guys welcome back today I’m going to show you how you can make some miniature
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tombstones for either a graveyard or for halloween and the very first thing you
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need to do is download this template and cut these out from off on my website
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they look kind of like this or like that either way just cut them out and once
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you have that done then you’re going to trace them
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alright so once you have the temp the dentals cutout you want to go ahead and
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lay them on top of the styrofoam or cardboard you can use cardboard to I
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like to line them up with the bottom like this matching it to where it’s nice
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and even across the bottom that we already have a straight edge with the
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factory cut trace it and then you want to go ahead and cut it out now I
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actually cut this one out using the bandsaw however I did cut them out using
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one of the longer box nice or box knives so you can do that too not as neat when
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you use the box night but it works
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this is another one that i did with the box night
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ok so this was a pretty tough one so i’m going to go ahead and cut that out first
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and i’ll show you how I’m gonna do it
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opening
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no way to do
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labored breathing
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alright so now you just want to take a light piece of sandpaper or a nail file
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and follow the rough edges just a little bit you don’t need a lot cuz we’re going
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to actually finish it up with putting some ground on it just basically just
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get like the little furry parts off and you might just be able to brush them off
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depending on how loose they are ok so here is one here and if you want me to
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wear it has like broken parts on it easiest way to do that is the either use
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a knife on a ball tool or you can kind of chip it with the soul
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in it
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you
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you going to do it
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there’s chips and also you want to make sure that the bottoms are standard flat
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the end
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yeah
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now if you don’t have electric sander that’s fine you don’t need one just get
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a piece of sandpaper lay flat on a flat surface and go back and forth on it like
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that and it will stand flat that way as well
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ok so now that you have them all cut out i’m going to show you how we can make
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them a black stone the very first thing you need to do is get yourself some
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non-seeing grout and you’re going to need to mix them in a bowl with some
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water so i’m doing i’m just doing a little bit at a time because i don’t
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want super super thick and you can always add more water if it’s too runny
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or a toothpick just kind of mix it all in
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i would not recommend using something that you eat out of to do this using
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things that are using for your actual food
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just keep mixing it up and stern it and I’ll be right back
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alright so once you have it should be kind of like up puddin consistency
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you’re going to set it on the side and then you’re going to take a brush and
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old brush and you’re just going to paint it won the styrofoam cutouts just paint
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it lightly over top of it
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and you want to do this to all of the ones that you have
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it doesn’t matter which way you go the direction if it’s the same layer the
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opposite way either way because we’re going to kind of brush it afterwards in
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the paint again but the idea is to get it good and covered that way we go to
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paint it it will actually have something for the pain to stick to i would use a
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brush that you’re not going to be using for painting also make sure that you’re
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doing that because it may not come out of your grip I’m out of your brush even
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though it is nonsense and it still may not come out completely
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okay so I’m gonna let that dry before i do the back of that you can always go
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over and give another coat one thing you do want to avoid is seeing the lobby
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lines so you want to try and get those off the best that you can
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you want to do that to all of them and I’ll be right back
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alright so now would be the time that if you want to make any with cracks in it
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like a broken tombstone to go ahead and kind of chiseled away with your box
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knife or with something sharp that you can poke it off there and then you just
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kind of want to apply the non sanded grout right over top of it
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see how it gets right in there kinda looks like it’s broken there a little
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bit you want to continue that and then do that to any of the ones that you want
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to look broken you’re making an old graveyard or tombstones and that’s
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something that you’re going to want to have it as then you want to do that if
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you don’t want a broken then you don’t have to either
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ok so once it starts to dry you want to go ahead and give it another coat if you
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can see through it and you can see the star of him below it just give it
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another quick coding
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okay one thing i did forget the tell you if you want to have names on it you need
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to put them in there before you actually start putting the ground on there
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because once with the ground on there you’re not going to be able to do that
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and all the cracks and everything that you want in your tombstone you need to
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do before you put the crowd as well and i just use the ball tool the very very
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small one and you can use a doll pencil or a fine pen case i want to show you
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this real quick like you see how this is really really sloppy and it looks like
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really nasty-looking that is good because when you put the ground on it
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the ground will fit in there and then it’ll look more realistic as opposed to
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it actually just being one straight line and if it’s too much don’t worry about
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it because you can always go back and add thicker ground to fill in where you
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might have needed to thick just mix up a batch of thicker ground but you see how
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that’s starting to look like tombstone cracks can like see I just kinda just
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did that i can fill it in if I want but I don’t want to some take that back out
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and the names make sure you get really thin over the names because otherwise
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you’re grounded up and then you won’t be able to tell that there was a name there
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to start with
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just want to get a little bit down in there just on each warm
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yeah
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you’ll see the transformation right before your eyes now you can use great
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route if you want and it’ll save you and the painting process a little bit but i
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wanted the darker ground because 1i already had it from when I did the
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mountain and to when you go into the deeper cracks I wanted it to be darker
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when I paint it that way the darkness will show up in the darker or in the
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inside of the cracks a little bit better
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remember don’t fill in the name or the date if you have a date on yours and
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again i just used bulb tool but you can use a pen for that and when you cut out
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your tombstone it’s okay if it’s a little rocky looking around the edges I
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mean you do want to sand it a little bit and you can use a nail file to do that
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but it’s okay if it looks a little bit rocky because it’s a rock basically
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tombstones are usually made of very durable material like slate or marble
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some sort of stone so it’s okay if it looks a little bumpy
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alright so i’m going to use a pen and i’m going to show you the technique i
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was just talking about while that’s drying you can do this with the ball
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tool as well you just kind of want to just go and make your little cracks and
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if you want to take your pen and kind of just pull some of that away you can do
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that too
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just like that and then you can write the name on there so no we’ll just say
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Mary
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and then
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the ball tool works better because you can get it in a little bit deeper
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without actually damaging the styrofoam and the process but you can work with it
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with a pen you just have to go over a couple of times
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we’ll call her Mary boo
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alright so now we’re going to go ahead and paint that with some grout and
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you’ll be able to see how that transforms
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all right finish painting it and then we’ll let that dry as well
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okay so they’re all still drying and another thing i want to show you is this
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is like little beads that you can get that look like skulls and then there’s
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he’s really creepy looking rings that they sell you can cut them off and you
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can glue them one here put a little bit of drought over top of them before you
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spray paint them and then they look like they’re stone as well alright
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ok so now they’ve been granted they need to dry as well but you can see how gives
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the tombstone a whole another piece of character kind of touch-up where I see
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some pink there but ya see that now it’s got a little bit more character to it
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and then another thing you can do is like you can kind of draw in objects if
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you like and you know glue that and to do the ring here all I did was cut this
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one an angle you can see part of its left here and I just inserted in there
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with some glue so but hold and that was that
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right now i’m going to go ahead and spray paint these and i’m going to be
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using a couple kind of paints it’s been hammered rest only him and some primer
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and then I’ll also touch him up with some acrylic right I’ll be back okay so
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now i’m going to show you how to apply the acrylic i actually did the primer
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which was a flat gray and then I did that metallic like multicolored gray and
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when I did that I actually just missed it when they’re just to hit a couple
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spots so you could still see that flat in between there and I even left some of
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the brown grout showing in some areas so it looks
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aged and now what I’ve done is I’ve added some water and some acrylic into a
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bowl or into a saucer rather and i watered it down a lot like lots and lots
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of water in there right then I’m going to take that watered-down acrylic and
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i’m going to just kind of brush it in the crevices
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ok then you want to kind of plot it like that to get the bulk of it off and then
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you want to go in a different location and kind of go around and hit that be
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sure to get a lot inside of where the lettering is that way it helps it on
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stand out a little bit more
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kind of mixing a little bit of gray with the black just to kind of give it an
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aged teams journal then taking that napkin and i’m plotting it not rubbing
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it a lot
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it around
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do you want to do the same thing on the top but you don’t want to cover every
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where you just kind of want to hit and miss some spots so that when you bought
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it off it kind of looks a little bit like it
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I’m age
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yeah
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then you want to repeat the process on the back i’m working with gray and black
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both watered down and i’m using different thicknesses of consistency
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some of it is darker and some of it is lighter but when i add the parts with a
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lot of water and it is close to a little bit it’ll stick a little bit more in
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different areas you can do this in different directions to because when you
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blot it’ll blend a little bit ok so now i’m going to show you what this one this
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one’s got a little bit more cracks in it
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I’m going to get some dark and i’m going to lead it into the water part of the
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paint gonna go right up in here
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I just want to get inside of those cracks the best I can
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no I’m adding more water
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ok now you want to take it and make sure you got it again the darkness should’ve
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stayed and side thats dark in there now i’m going to go ahead and do the same
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thing to the top a little bit of that glob of paint right there
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lead it into the water
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and then add that water down acrylic and you can seal this with a flat or gloss
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either way of Mod Podge if you like or you can just leave it like it is
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you don’t plan on having egg being used by like a child or whatever that’s
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age-appropriate then that’s fine i don’t recommend it for small children now you
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don’t want a child playing with this that’s going to put it in their mouth or
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anything like that
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you do want to make sure you get some darks and some lights in there when
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you’re blending it that way it does look like a actual tombstone
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alright once you have all that done then you want to again plot it and then there
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that is see the two totally different looks that you can get there from that
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and then this one is one of the ones that we added the little thing to and
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these sticks will come off i just did that so that when they were drying I had
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somewhere to stick them standing up you can stick them in floral foam or another
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piece of styrofoam or whatever but that’s it i’m going to go ahead and
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paint the rest of them and i will post the photos of the finished ones along
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with the next step when I’m actually making the graveyard on my website and
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on my facebook page so make sure that you like and subscribe below so that you
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my website then occasionally i’ll send you out some updates and some different
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things for you to see and my blog is on there where i will be posting stuff as
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well thanks a lot have a great day