Artist shares tutorial on how to create a mini Hocus Pocus book from cotton

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Cori's cotton sculptures have captured the hearts of many, quickly becoming a sensation online.  As everyone marveled at her creations, a flood of requests for tutorials poured in.  In response to this overwhelming interest, she decided to share her expertise through a tutorial on how to make a mini Hocus Pocus book.  In this video, she guides through the entire crafting process, making it accessible for everyone.  With her easy-to-follow instructions and friendly approach, Cori takes the mystery out of this intricate art form.  Location: Kansas City, United States                                     WooGlobe Ref : WGA754515 For licensing and to use this video, please email licensing@wooglobe.com

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00:00Hey besties, you wasted absolutely no time matching my freak, so I want you to

00:05know that I'm here for you. I spent my entire day recording this video for you,

00:09and then I spent two hours editing it, and then the whole thing crashed, so I'm

00:12a little bit frazzled, but here I am to give you my rainbow tampon tutorial. Just

00:17kidding, I would never start with that book. Here she is. So beautiful. Could you

00:22hear her calling to you? Come little children, I'll take thee away. Hello Salem, my

00:32name's Winifred. What's y'all? Okay, enough of that. Get yourself a glass bowl for glue

00:37and paint water, a handful of cotton balls, some school glue, PVA glue, could be

00:43Elmer's, could be tacky glue, some tinfoil, some masking tape, scissors, and a few

00:47paintbrushes. Now dump that cotton out of that bowl and pour some glue into it. I

00:51have to split this tutorial into three parts. I'm sorry about that, but I'm

00:55taking my time with it so that future tutorials can be shorter and you'll

00:58already know what you're doing. You need about this much glue and about this

01:02much water. Like I said, you can use any kind of white school glue, PVA glue. It's a

01:07little too thick here, so we're gonna keep stirring as much as we can, and then

01:10we're gonna add just a little bit more water. Only this much. Bloop. Bloop. Two

01:18bloops. Only two bloops. Keep stirring until you get the consistency of about

01:221% milk. It's okay to have a little bit of glue strings at the bottom, and you

01:26want the ratio of one part glue to two parts water. Let's have a moment of

01:30silence for all of our friends who can't handle cotton, but anyways, trigger

01:34warning, we're about to touch cotton. To those of you who recommended beauty

01:37supply stores for the ropes of cotton, yes, I'm aware of this because I was

01:43getting lots of perms as a kid in the 80s, unfortunately, but the problem is in

01:47the past we cannot prepare for a future hyperfixation, and I did not have that on

01:52hand when I fell into this rabbit hole, no, but the best thing about making these

01:56cotton sculptures is that the moment that you learn about them, you've

01:59probably already got cotton balls and Elmer's glue in your house, so that's

02:04what I'm doing. Here we go. You want two pieces of tinfoil, two rectangles that

02:08are the same size. You're gonna fold them in half twice, both the same exact way,

02:13and then basically you're just gonna keep folding them down more and more and

02:16more until you have two tiny little rectangles that are gonna act as the two

02:21book covers for our book. Now, I told you I had your back. If you don't have tinfoil

02:26and masking tape, I'm gonna show you how to do this just with cotton, but first

02:29you're gonna make these two little cuties. Look at them. Oh my god, so cute.

02:34Sisters, sing. Oh, I'm so sorry, so sorry. Let's just trim these up. Pow! This would

02:43be a great time to like, favorite, and share my post, and also follow me, please.

02:47I really did spend all day on this, and that'll let me know that you want more. So

02:51you're gonna take some masking tape and wrap it around your little book covers,

02:57and then do it again the other way, all the way across, and let's use some book

03:03magic to make this faster. Ready? There we go. Much better. Now we have our two

03:10front and back book covers. I told you I had your back if you don't have tinfoil

03:14and masking tape, so lay out some cotton for yourself. Make a rectangle. I'm just

03:18measuring it up here with the one I already made, but fold it in half so that

03:21it's doubled up, and tear the edges off, and then you're just gonna take a bigger

03:25brush, load it up with glue water, and saturate the whole thing front and back.

03:31You want it very saturated, and then you're gonna curl the edges under. Make

03:36sure it's all nice and tucked in. Set it aside to dry. Make one more, and then

03:41you'll have a front and back book cover with no masking tape. Boom! Back to the

03:46masking tape version. This is the fun part. Take a few pieces of masking tape

03:50and set those aside for later, and it looks like two little graham crackers

03:53and marshmallows, like little marshmallows, and we'll make some

03:55s'mores. Man! Yeah! Wrong movie. Again, first you take the graham. Then, again,

04:03wrong movie. I'm so sorry. Spread these out so that they cover your book cover

04:08all the way, and then you're making like a little cotton ball sandwich, or you

04:12know, you really could stop here and make s'mores. What can I do to stop you? I

04:15can't stop you. Take that masking tape, and you're gonna wrap it around the

04:19outside edges, and you are basically making the spine of your book. So do that

04:25all the way along one edge, and then you're gonna do it one more time to

04:29reinforce it, and then once you have it all the way covered, you'll have like a

04:33little s'mores book. It's the best thing. Actually, the best thing about a

04:38s'mores book is that you can always read some more. I am so sorry. Okay, so now

04:44you're going to take one of the unrolled cotton balls and line the outside edges

04:48of the book, and then tear off this extra piece right here, and then just tuck it

04:53in so it's nice and snuggly and soft, just like this. I highly encourage you to

04:58take this time to leave feedback on my post so I know, do you want tutorials to

05:03be this in-depth? Do you want them shorter? What should I make next? Give me

05:08all of the things. I figure if I make this one longer and more in-depth, the

05:12future ones can be easier. Okay, this square edge brush is the best for

05:16tucking these edges in and painting down the outside of, these are your pages,

05:22you're making the pages of your book, so paint them down nice and smooth with the

05:26watered-down glue. If you have a pen on hand, it'll be your best friend, as one

05:31edge can be used to score the pages and the other to flatten them down. Now

05:35you're going to start painting the cotton in thin layers on the outside of

05:39your book covers. The thinner the layers, the smoother the cotton will be, although

05:44you don't need it to be that smooth because it's an old, janky book and, you

05:48know, some witch has cut up somebody's skin and who knows what it's made of.

05:52Anyways, tuck in the rest of the edges and pat them down till they're all nice

05:59and even. Flat and even. You want them flat and even. And then you can do the

06:05inside edges of the book like this. Two layers at least on the outside, then we

06:11move on to the spine. I don't know where my cousin Vinny came from. Anyways, this

06:15is where you should stop and let it dry after you have a layer over the spine,

06:19but if you're a raging craft gremlin like me, you can move right on to part

06:23two. So send this to your bestie who loves Hocus Pocus and I'll see you in

06:27the other video where we'll add all the details on the front.

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