Camping Beds

I started by collecting cardboard - mainly beer coasters that I use as a base. Once I had the right dimensions, I made a template on a coaster and divided it into six equal-sized sections. These will be the base elements that I'll wrap the cover material around.

There you go, I have a lot of them. Each one of these I'm going to transform into a different bed.

I glued crepe paper directly above each piece of cardboard, letting it stick out a little on each side since I'll need to fold it over afterwards. The nice thing about crepe paper is that it has that naturally wrinkled look, so it should give me the slightly fabric-like texture I'm going for.

Once I tucked in the sheets by gluing the crepe paper underneath, I glued half of a cigarette filter at the head level. Cut it in two to try to roughly make the shape of a pillow.

I added a second piece of cardboard on top to simulate how the cover will be raised a bit at the torso level, where the characters are lying down. This shows the idea of having two layers.

Now, I'm going to glue a second piece of crepe paper on top.

I sprayed everything with a mixture of water and flow aid, then dropped a water and glue mixture on top. The idea is that the water and glue mixed with the flow aid will completely seep into all the fibers of the crepe paper. Once the glue solidifies, it'll give it a much more solid appearance.

I took advantage of everything still being wet to fold it underneath, hoping it would solidify in that shape with the sides properly tucked underneath.

Then we cover all that with Black Mod Podge so it seeps well into all the holes and solidifies it a bit more.