Happy Halloween from Makin's Clay®

Have a safe and fun-filled Halloween! 

Makin's Clay® Easy Pumpkin Video

In this video you will see how easy it is to mix Makin's Clay to make a new color and create an easy pumpkin...

Here the pumpkin is used with Velcro® Brand Adhesives and fabric to make a changeable napkin holder.

Enjoy the video....

Maple Leaf Cutter Set

Autumn is the perfect time for crafting with our new Maple Leaf Cutter Set!  Create unique Makin's Clay® leaves, textured with one of our texture sheets and this cutter set, to enhance any project.

Makin's Clay® Bat Necklace

Here is a FUN necklace to create for Halloween...

 

with Makin's Clay®...complete step out instructions and photos can be found on the Makin's Clay web site.

If you wanted to you could create this in several different ways....here are a few we thought of:

*Make the candy corn and pumpkins, then add a larger pumpkin as the focal point instead of the bat.

*Make the candy corn and pumpkins, then add a larger candy corn as the focal point instead of the bat.
*Make all candy corn and pumpkins without a focal point.
*Make the candy corn, then add a larger pumpkin as the focal point instead of the bat.
*Make all pumpkins, then add a larger candy corn as the focal point instead of the bat.
*Make the candy corn and pumpkins, then add a larger pumpkin as the focal point instead of the bat.
*Make three bats in different sizes the largest on being focal point and the other two on either side.
*Make two candy corn and one larger pumpkin as the focal point with the candy corn on either side. 

this list was just to get you started....what are some ways you can think of?  Have fun!

Makin's Clay® Video - Features of Makin's Clay® with Ann Butler & Annie Mangelsen

Makin's Clay® Black Cat in a Pumpkin

With Halloween just around the corner we thought you would like this adorable...

Black Cat in a Pumpkin project....complete instructions including step out photos can be found on the Makin's Clay web site....Enjoy!

Samson the Third from Lex Sorrentino

Lex Sorrentino does it again with a creative sculpture combining Makin's Clay® and Angora - Samson the Third is featured on our Pinterest Board along with hundreds of other Makin's Clay® creations to inspire you!

Glow in the Dark Ghost Earrings

Check out these oh so simple glow in the dark ghost earrings...

created by designer Jen Goode using the Makin's Clay® Glow in the Dark Clay...these are so quick and easy that you acn make several and give them away!  check out her blog to see how she created them!

Thanksgiving Votive Holder with Makin's Clay® Turkey Accents - How-To Video

In this Creatively Crafty with Cindi Bisson video I share an idea for combining Smoothfoam™ with Makin's Clay® turkey accents to create a simple holder for votives to decorate your home for Thanksgiving.

The adorable turkey cutter can be found in our Halloween A cutter set.

Glow in the Dark Skeleton

Did you know that Makin's Clay® comes in Glow in the Dark....what a perfect clay to use for those Halloween projects...

Check out this skeleton designer Jen Goode sculpted out of the Glow in the Dark Clay...it is simply cute!  Check out how she created it on her blog here.

Makin's Clay® Autumn Pumpkin Magnets - How-To Project

We're all guilty of it - collecting bits of this and that on our refrigerators!  Photos, school projects,

newspaper articles, appointment reminders……   Why not create some seasonal magnets to hold it all in place?

Materials: 

Makin’s Clay® - White, Olive Green
Makin’s Clay® clay roller
Makin’s® Professional™ Ultimate Clay Extruder 
Makin’s® Professional™ Clay Tools 
Makin’s® New Halloween Cutter Set - 37052
Acyrlic Paint - Pumpkin Orange
DecoArt® Metallic Lustre - Gold Rush
Westcott® Craft - Self-Healing Mat 
3/4” Round magnets 
Beacon® Adhesives Tacky Glue 

Instructions:

Custom mixing shades of Makin’s Clay® is easy - whether you use our Clay Mixing Ruler, or acrlyic paint - a rainbow of shades can be achieved.  

1 - Add approximately 1/2 teaspoon of pumpkin orange acrylic paint to 60 grams of white clay.   

2 - For easier, less messy, blending and mixing, place into zip lock bag.   Massage to thoroughly mix paint into clay. 

3 - Roll clay with hand roller to approximately 1/4” thick. 

4 - Cut 6 pumpkins with pumpkin cutter. 

5 - Roll olive green clay to approximately 1/4” thick.  Using top of pumpkin cutter, cut 6 stem sections.  

6 - Use blade to remove orange stem from each pumpkin.  Use blade to cut green stem and mount to pumpkin.  

7 - Use point tool on handle to draw “grooves” in each pumpkin.  I allowed my grooves to be someone jagged and irregular rather than smooth lines. 

8 - Fill Ultimate Clay Extruder® with olive clay and very small hole disc.  Extrude clay.

9 - Mount extruded clay to stem on each pumpkin, coiling some pieces to create vines.  

10 & 11 -  Use fingertip to apply DecoArt® Metallic Lustre to pumpkins.  Let clay dry. 

12 - Mount magnets to back of each pumpkin with Beacon® Tacky Glue. 

Makin's Clay® Halloween Plant Pokes

It's October and time to think about some decorating for Halloween....

There cute little "Plant Pokes" were created by Meggan Maravich using Makin's Clay® and paint sticks.....
They are simply adorable and quick and easy to make.  You can find complete instructions on Meggan's blog by clicking here!