Varnished paper stars

Lately I got addicted to folding paper stars and was considering using them for decorating books. Popped paper stars are fragile though and would immediately flattened down for sure, losing their pretty shape. Then I found this tutorial http://myntkat.deviantart.com/art/How-to-varnish-paperstars-108357944 about using varnish on paper stars to be able to use them as jewelery. I was bit afraid of trying it, since all liquid acrylic varnish I used so far were always sticky and got easily dirty. I bought new one specially for that purpose though, Soluble Varnish Gloss by Daler&Rowney. And I must say, I loved the effect! I really reccomend this varnish for glossing any crafts, they really become nice and glossy, and in case of my paper stars - keep shape perfectly. Here is effect of this little experiment:

Only disadvantage is that paper becomes darker, as you can see on second photo - varnished stars are on right, more glossy but also varnish leaves paper with bit 'wet' feeling. They look more like candy now XD

All in all it's really great method to keep your stars or any other fragile paper crafts in shape. I'm not sure if it will be enough to use them as book cover decoration, but I already planned making some earrings with them : )
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Rainbow Dream

Long time no see, since I was spending time with my beloved Eyslyn (http://raspberrydeer.blogspot.de) <3 As I was in her place I bought lots of accessories for my crafting, I will show some photos of them soon.

Here is my latest creation, Rainbow collection <3 I decided to make book with rainbow pages, and then used scraps of paper to create paper stars I filled IKEA bottle with. It was really lots of fun, especially making paper stars was really relaxing. Some of them are made by Eyslyn too P: Lollipop by Manufaktura Cukierków, handmade sweet manufacture located in Warsaw <3
Rainbow Book is 10,5x14 cm, 100 pages, coptic stitched.
Rainbow Jar contains around 100 paper stars in rainbow colors.
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