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Below you'll find a tutorial detailing how to make your own flower flock.
Tools & Materials
First off, you're going to need a few things. You won't need much, though, and what you will is cheap, don't worry! Basically, it comes down to a basic kitchen/bathroom/watercolour sponge in the desired hue of your flowers-to-be; a standard cheese-grater; and, well, actually that's about it!
Prep Stuff
Ok. We've got a sponge, and we've got a grater. Now, before we can get going, you have to realize that sponges generally don't come in quite the condition we want them in. They come vacuum-sealed, moist, soft, malleable, and with a bit of cleaning product lightly saturating them. We want them dry, hard, brittle, and free of soap.
To achieve this is pretty easy, but it takes some time. First, we get rid of any soap in the sponge. Rinse your sponge, wring it out, rinse it, wring it out, rinse, wring, rinse, wring, wrings, rin, ring, wrigngss.... yeah, you get the picture.
Anyway, get it nice and un-soapy.
Wring it out one last time, get it as dry as you can, and them set it aside somewhere in the air, preferably someplace warm and dry, maybe near a heater. It actually takes a good long while for a sponge to dry out completely, they're kind of designed to hold a lot of liquid. Anyway, wait until it's bone dry, then wait a little longer. And a teeny bit longer. Trust me, wait until it's hard, dry, and brittle!
Making the Flock
Here's where it get's messy...
FIRST, however, you did make sure that your sponge has dried all the way through, yes? And it's hard and brittle feeling, almost crumbly? Not soft in the middle, at all?
Ok then, moving on. It's pretty simple, but beware this is a messy process. Sneezing, drafts, cluttered surfaces are all a no-no, unless you want sponge powder absolutely everywhere. Get a nice, clear area, with absolutely NO breeze or traffic, and grate away at your sponge with the grater! Use the finest setting, and go nice and light. Trying to speed stuff up with extra pressure will just give you big, clumpy chunks of sponge that don't really look much like flowers...
So, if you're sponge was dry, and you grated lightly, you should soon end up with a nice pile of colorful, fluffy flock, all ready for your basing endeavors!
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