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Instructions No. 1615 Instructions No. 1615 Difficulty: Beginner Working time: 1 hour
Protect our environment and build a hotel for our insects! We show you how to build a decorative insect hotel . This is not only fun, but offers shelter to useful insects like wild bees.
Preparing and designing the pots
Prime two Terracotta pots with white Acrylic paint. Remove the unprinted layers of Napkin. In our example we have chosen a full rose pattern. Coat one of the pots with Napkin varnish. Place the printed layer of the Napkin around the pot and press them lightly. Afterwards, coat the pot again with Napkin varnish. Apply the varnish evenly to the entire outside of the pot, as it dries silky-matt and then you will see an overall shiny surface.With our other Napkin we have chosen a rose motif with butterflies and have cut out individual motifs from it. Remove the unprinted layers and glue the motifs with Napkin varnish to the second pot at your discretion. The background we have painted with light blue Acrylic paint painted
To create a great 3D effect of the butterflies, paint an embossing foil with white Handicraft paint. After drying, stick the butterflies from Napkin with Napkin varnish onto the foil. Emboss the butterflies by tracing the contours of the butterflies on the back of the embossing foil with an embossing pen or similar. Cut out the butterflies and fix them to the pot with hot glue.
