hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel today I have a new
video tutorial with ten art acts or craft hacks that you can do using a glue
gun so sit down and joy and I've listed all the products below in the
description area the first hacks quite a simple one is making your own gemstones
or pearls so you can create pearl like gemstones on your projects whether it's
a card art journal or any type of project by just squeezing some glue on a
piece of paper or basically on any type of surface you can make these pearls any
size you want and then you can decorate them all you have to do is just squeeze
the glue and then move it in a circular motion to make sure that no residue
stays on your paper that way they become quite circular if you want to be able to
use these as an embellishment and actually not as texture all you have to
do is just do them on a nonstick surface and that way you can remove them and
actually create real pearls however for this example I did them on a piece of
paper and I'm covering them with black gesso just so I can show you how well
they look this precision glue gun is perfect to create this type of pearls
because it has a really thin spout and you can easily create beautiful pearls
with it to show you how shiny they are I am using some prima fin Abair rose gold
wax just to show you how nicely the pearls come out you could of course
color them and white or in any type of paint you could basically do anything
you want with them the sky's the limit the only thing you have to remember like
with all the examples coming up is that you cannot heat set the paint above the
glue gun texture you have to let it air dry because if you heat set the paint on
top of the glue it will soften to glue and will melt it the second art hack
with a glue gun is creating texture and I actually took a small canvas this is a
4 by 4 canvas and I started moving my glue gun around creating this really fun
texture on the background you could do this on any type of surface it doesn't
really matter all you have to do is just move and
create any type of texture it could be lines it could be squiggles
it could be just dots so basically you can create any texture to use on your
project and as I said before when you're adding any type of paint or gesso on top
just make sure you don't heat set it and let it all air dry so what I did here is
I took white gesso and I give it a really nice cover I want
to use the canvas for a different project so all I did is I gave the
canvas a nice coat of white gesso because I wanted to add some nice sprays
on top of it you could also add paints or paste or any type of product that
will just let the texture show on the surface my third art hack with the glue
gun is creating paint drips so all you have to do is basically create a blob at
the top and then let it run down and it creates these beautiful paint like paint
drips so I have my precision glue gun and I also have a glue gun from the
dollar store and I just wanted to show you that that you can use either one to
create this I do prefer my precision glue gun just because it's so accurate
and it's so easy to use and it also stands on its own without having any
drips going anywhere for my fourth hack is actually creating your own designs
and for this one I actually used the same precision glue gun and just created
a really fun background on a piece of paper of course you could do this on any
type of surface and all I did is create a heart with my glue gun and then some
lines going from it it's a really good way of creating your own backgrounds or
any other type of design that you want for your projects of course this also
can create texture like I said in the other hack but it's mainly creating your
own designs with the glue gun to be able to see the design and the texture on
each of these hacks you really need to add some kind of paint or gesso or some
color to be able to see the designs well so the same way
with the canvas texture I'm adding white gesso to the one with the heart and the
lines the one with the drips I left lane because I wanted to add watercolors on
it so for the one with the hearts all I did is take some color boom sprays and
you can use any type of spray and I just went ahead and sprayed it all over just
to show you that you can really see the design you could also paint this with
some kind of acrylic paint or gelato or anything at all and I did the same thing
for the actual canvas because I really wanted to show how nicely the texture
looks once you add this praise the colors really make a difference and make
it look really cool the only thing with this is that I have to patiently let it
dry because I cannot heat set it as it will melt the glue underneath so I use
wipes to just wipe off a little bit of the excess so you can really see the
deep color underneath and you can see the texture on top as highlights my
fifth hack has to do with watercolor resist technique and for this one I'm
going to use the paint drip background so all I did is took some of the
watercolor confections from Prima which are beautiful watercolors and all I'm
doing is adding it to my background my paint drip background I'm also spraying
on it to show you that you can also use sprays as well as watercolors then all
you do is you take a wipe and you wipe off the excess on the actual drips the
glue resists the ink and the watercolor and the color only shows on the sides of
the glued area my 6 hack is one of my favorite ones and that is that you can
create your own stencils using your glue gun I'm designing the stencil on top of
my 12 by 12 Tonique Studios tempered glass mat you can also use a nonstick
mat to create the stencils all you have to do is just create at any design you
want in this case I'm designing circular stencil by making circles and making
sure they're attached to each other I made random stir
in different sizes until I was happy with the design I guess it would have
been good to use a plain background because you can't really see the
stencils but when I use them later on in the video you are going to see how cool
they are the second stencil I created was just
making three hearts that are attached to each other
I could have created more hearts or any type of design but I just wanted to show
you the idea the nice thing about the glue from a glue gun is that it dries
really quickly and when it's done on glass because the glass is cold it
actually dries even quicker so it's such a quick way to create this type of
stencils and designs and once it's dry you just peel it off and it's so easy to
just remove I just have to be very careful to make sure that I don't rip
the glue and the circles but it removes quite easily from the mat and it's an
amazing design stencil that I just created in like basically a minute I
realized after by pure coincidence that in order to remove this much easier from
my glass mat all I had to do was spray it with a little bit of alcohol and it
actually came off so easily and you'll see later and another example that I
have make now I'm going to just use the stencils with some sprays and all I did
is just place them on a piece of paper and then just spray with a couple colors
of Colin bloom spray and locale amazing these designs came out and all you have
to do is just clean the stencil again and you can reuse it as many times as
you want you can also use this as an
embellishment or to create texture on a project so you could go ahead and glue
this on a project as well for my seventh hack I actually used my glue gun to
create my own embellishments and there's a different ways that you can do this
you can do this as a stencil that I already did or you could use it using
stamps or some kind of image for this example I'm going to stamp a happy word
or sentiment onto my glass mat and then I'm going to use my glue gun to fill in
the letters you could also use any type of shade
or any type of stamp like a flower or a leaf or circle and just create your own
embellishments so the same way I did before I am doing it on my glass mat and
you can also do it on a nonstick surface so all I'm doing is filling in the
lettering and letting it dry so I could remove it another way you can do it is
printing an image from the internet on a piece of paper and then using some kind
of clear glass to put on top and then creating your own embellishment as I
said before it's much easier if you add a little bit of alcohol and wet the area
where you're in you're removing the embellishment that way it comes off
quite easily from the mat here I have the finished embellished ward that I can
use on any project and the same way that I created this word I can also create
any type of embellishment to color in the embellishment I covered it in black
gesso and then I went ahead and added some wax on it again
of course the gesso wasn't dry because as you know I cannot dry and heat set it
so I should have waited a little bit more patiently for the gesso to dry so
it kind of mixed a little bit with the wax and as you can see it got all over
my mat so I did sit and let it dry for a little bit longer and cleaned up my area
and then I went back and added a little bit more wax that way it really took on
the color my ate art hack is using molds to create embellishments
I've already use this hack on another video where I show how to use molds in
five different ways one of the ways was to use a glue gun to fill in the mold
and create the shaped embellishment so in this case I filled out these two
roses inside my silicone mold and once it was dry all I had to do was pop them
out and a have a beautiful shaped embellishment for my project you can use
these for a card or for journal or even a mixed-media project it's a very cheap
and inexpensive way use inside the mold and the shape comes
out perfectly my ninth art hack happened just by
accident while I was leaving the glue gun to sit on my table some of it would
drip down onto my mat and would dry in a round form almost like a little pebble
or stone so I started collecting them as they were falling because the glue gun
was sitting on my table for a while and I thought that that would be an amazing
hack even if you create your own texture balls that you can use them in your
projects instead of mini art stones my tenth art act is actually one that is
very useful especially for mixed-media collage here is an old project where I
use this technique and just want to show you how well it held over the years what
I do is I use a glue gun as a reinforcer for the heavy gel or for the soft gel so
basically any gel media the way I do it is that I know that the glue gun will
glue the embellishments and will dry really quickly which is really easy
because that way I can hold the embellishments in place however the glue
from the glue gun has a shelf life meaning that after a while it doesn't
hold its own and things get detached from what they were glued on so a good
way to use the glue gun is to actually combine it with the gel medium so you're
just using the quick drying glue from the glue gun to actually hold the
embellishment in place but the gel medium which takes 24 hours or longer to
dry will actually permanently glue the embellishment
so when combined together the glue gun holds it temporarily but the gel medium
actually hold it permanently so I hope you liked my 10 glue gun art hats
if you have any other art ideas that you can do with a glue gun feel free to
leave me a comment about them I'm sure there's many other ideas if I have
enough of them I will probably make a second video with more ideas with the
glue gun there is so many ideas out there that is just unbelievable just
wanted to show you one more time all the project although some of them haven't
dried especially the ones with the sprays I really love how they all turned
out and what I like about it is that they're so versatile you can use them in
any type of project thank you so much for watching
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