![]() ![]() They will absorb the moisture and crumple up, to create the knotted birch bark effect. Step 8: Using the dark wash, paint the tissue paper wads. Paint stripes along the log to give it the birch wood effect. You don’t want it to be too dark, but you do want it to be dark enough to show contrast. Step 7: After the beige wash has dried, use the remaining grey wash and add a few drops of black craft paint. Step 6: Once the grey wash has dried, make a beige wash with the same ratio. ![]() *Save the remaining grey wash! You will use the rest later. Paint the entire log, including the tissue paper wads. This combination may vary, just make sure that it isn’t too dark. ![]() I used about a tablespoon of paint at a ratio of 1 part paint to 4 parts water. Step 5: Once the white paint has dried, make a grey wash by mixing grey craft paint and water. It is okay if the tissue paper wads do not get covered completely. Step 4: Paint the entire birch log with white craft paint, including the tissue paper wads. This is what the wads of tissue paper look like up close. Glue the wads on, place them spread out on the log. Crumple the strips up and make them into little wads. Step 3: Take a sheet of tissue paper and rip it into strips. Cut the circle out and glue it on the same way that you glued on the rest of the paper. Tip: In order to finish the edges, cover with paper and outline a circle. This is what the birch logs should look like once the paper is all glued on and dried. It is okay to have lumps and wrinkles, they make it look more realistic! Arrange the paper on the noodle, covering the whole thing. Then, paint the pool noodle with the tacky glue. Crumple the strips into wads so that the paper will be wrinkled. Cut at the proper width, making sure that the whole noodle is covered. First, wrap the craft paper around the pool noodle to measure how much paper you will need. Step 2: This picture shows the foam plumbing insulation. For the plumbing insulation foam tube, I cut it into thirds. To get my birch logs to be about 2 feet each, I used scissors to cut the pool noodle in half equally. Since I’m using mine for Christmas decor and put them both into bundles and on my Christmas tree, I wanted mine to be about 2 feet tall. Step 1: This first step depends on how long you want your birch logs.
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