Snowman Door Hanger by Cindi McGee

Cindi McGee recently shared this seasonal snowman door hanger as part of her video series.  Cindi used Makin's Clay®, black and orange custom mixed with acrylic paint, to make her snowman's face!     Find full written instructions on how to create this project here. 

Makin's® Pinterest Boards - IDEAS Galore!

Projects made with Makin's Clay® for every season!

Did you know that Makin's Clay® has NEW Pinterest Boards FULL of projects to inspire your clay creativity?  We have boards for:

• Jewelry
• Paper Crafting/Card Making/Scrapbooking 
• Sculpture & Fine Art 
• Home Decor & Party Items
• Kid's Crafts
• Makin's Clay® in Cake Decorating 
• DIY Videos featuring Makin's Clay®
• Halloween, Thanksgiving, Back to School & Autumn Crafts
• Christmas & Winter Crafts
• Valentine, Spring & Easter Crafts 
• Polymer Clay Inspiration Projects
• Techniques & Tutorials for Makin's Clay 
• Makin's Clay® Products & Tools 

We add new pins to our boards several times a week, so there is always something NEW to inspire your clay creativity!

Techniques we've tried, or we would like to try with Makin's Clay®! 

DIY Videos featuring Makin's Clay® from lots of creative Designers like Mark Montano!

Wheeze's Dad by Pat Krauchune

Today we are sharing another of Design Team Member Pat Krauchune's lovely Memory Pendants.  She created this piece using Makin's® Texture Sheets on both sides.

Heart New Year's Favors - DIY WCK Video Featuring Carmen Flores Tanis

Designer Carmen Flores Tanis shares her idea for pretty gift favors for New Year's.  She created these hearts with Makin's Clay® to look like porcelain - and their light shimmer is just lovely.  These would also be great Christmas ornaments, or wonderful Valentine's Day gifts too! 

New Year's Count Down Flutes & Glass Charms by Cindi McGee

Cindi McGee recently shared this project featuring custom etched glass flutes just in time for New Year's Count Down.  She also made glass charms for each person's glass with Makin's Clay®, our Stars Texture Sheet, and our Numbers Clay Cutter set.   Find her full instructions here - and a DIY video showing how she made this project above!  

Happy Holidays from Makin's Clay®

The entire Makin's Clay® Team would like to wish you and your families a wonderful holiday and a healthy and prosperous New Year! 

Memory Heart for Jim Wark by Pat Krauchune

Design Team Member Patricia Krauchune recently shared another of her touching memory heart pendants here on her blog.  She created three of these for the family of a friend who was lost recently to prostate cancer - and included a blue ribbon on the back.  Pat used two Makin's® Texture Sheets on her hearts.

Floral Wall Hook by Irit Shalom

FLORAL WALL HOOK

Designed by Irit Shalom 

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Makin's Clay® post! Today I am going to share an altered/recycled project that became a lovely home deco piece.  I have this wall hanger for ages and I don't really like the cheap look of paper over it, also the roses are pretty. So with some work and some Makin's Clay® I made a hanger that I do like and will use on my wall.

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - Terra Cotta, Brown, Olive, White
Makin's® Ultimate Clay Machine™
Makin's® Texture Sheet Set D
Makin's® Clay Tools
Makin's Professional® Clay Tool Set
Makin's® Leaves Push Mold
Wall hook
Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents paints
Beacon™ Tacky Glue
Honecomb die, die cutting machine
Chipboard

Step by step instructions:


1.Roll 20 gram of Terra Cotta and 20 gram of Brown Makin's Clay® together to create a "log". Flatten it slightly with clay roller for use in the Ultimate Clay Machine™.

2. Use your Ultimate Clay Machine™ on setting #2 and make a mix that imitates wood. It should be the hanger size, around 3x4''.

3. Use clay roller from the tool set and wood grain texture from Texture Sheet Set D  over this piece.




4. Cut the textured clay with straight cutting tool from Makin's Clay Professional clay tools set to fit the hanger as shown. Glue the clay " wood" over the hanger with Tacky Glue.

5. Use Leaves push mold , the roller and olive green Makin's Clay to make some leaves .

6. Use flower and bee molds to make 2 big flower and 2 bees with white clay. I used some Russian molds that
work perfect with Makin's clay.Let then dry and trim the edges if needed.

7. Paint the leaves and flowers with Earth Safe Finishes Iridescents paints. Those paints are Gel Medium based and leave fantastic shiny look over
Makin's Clay shapes. The only problem is that this paint has a very long drying time, not minutes, but even hours.








8. And now  for the finished project! I added a heat embossed chipboard honeycomb die cut on the back and arranged those leaves, flowers and bees.


Close up to the shapes- can't show the shine on those photos, but it looks gorgeous.

Gingerbread Men Garland by Cindi McGee

Cindi McGee created this "everlasting" Gingerbread Man garland with Makin's Clay® and our 4 piece Gingerbread Boy Cutter Set.   Find her full instructions here on her blog. 

Winter's Jewels Snowflake Box by Cindi McGee

Cindi McGee recently shared this festive Winter's Jewels Snowflake Box here on her blog.  She used Makin's Clay® and our Christmas Nature push mold to create unique snowflake embellishments to match her patterned papers.

Have a Heart - Wizard of Oz Themed Memory Frame by Carole Monahan

Have a Heart

Oz never did give nothing to The Tin Man (America)

Designed By Carole Monahan

Who doesn’t love the Wizard of Oz???  With Makin's Clay® this image that has been in my head can now become a reality!

Materials

Makin’s Brand® Memory Frame - Turning frame double face

60g pack of Makin's Clay® in white

60g Makin's Clay® in blue

20g Makin's Clay® green

1 pack of Makin's Clay® Earth Tones

10g Makin's Clay® Red

Black acrylic paint

Green glitter glue

Beacon™ Tacky Glue

Tools

Makin's® Ultimate Clay Machine™

Makin’s® self healing cutting mat

Makin's ® Ultimate Clay Extruder™ with Makin's Clay® Discs # 2 and #9

Makin's Professional® Tool Kit (MY FAVORITE )

Makin's Clay® Brick texture sheet from set A 38001  

Makin’s® Halloween cutter set –Witch hat

X-acto blade

Letter stamps

Small paint brush short bristle

Instructions

Get your frame ready. I cut 2 pieces of heavy cardstock to the size the frame.

These will be covered in Makin’s Clay®.

Make your Yellow brick road ( of course where else would you start?)  

Roll out a sheet of yellow with your Makin’s ultimate clay machine on setting 2.

Press the texture sheet over the clay rub firmly to get and even impression.

For a hint of the “Scary” forest let’s make a tree!

I loaded 2 colors from the Earth Tones clay collection into the Extruder and used

Disc # 2. It makes the clay come out in great bark like variations.

I took the extrusions and twisted and shaped them together to form the tree.

Now trim the brick path to fit on your cardstock and place the tree.

Now for the fields

Roll out green clay setting 2 on the clay machine (here I made a custom color blend)

Then I took the Feather tool from the Makin’s Professional tool kit to make the grass.

Size everything up on the card stock and trim as needed with X-acto knife

Build the Emerald City by Extruding it with Disc # 9

The Shading tool made the perfect size Door for the Emerald city.

To hint at some evil we can’t forget the poppies!

Just little pinches of red clay pressed into place with the fine point tip of the Professional tool kit

(did I mention this is my favorite tool-tools in one)

 To finish THIS side off I added from Green glitter glue to made the Emerald city really sparkle

Now for Side 2

Again for a “hint” of evil I used the Halloween Witch hat clay cutter to cut out this shape.

We all know every Witch needs her broom.

 I took some of the extruded clay I used for the tree to make her broom.

I custom blended White and Blue to get this pale blue color to make the stamped letters pop

Let the stamped letters dry overnight before adding the paint

Paint the letters and then wipe them with a damp cloth. I left paint on to give it a vintage look.

Glue the blue background into the card stock and then glue the picture mat that comes with your

Memory Frame kit into the front.

Place this into the side slot in the frame and THEN add the hat and broom with Beacon Tacky glue.

Now trim the other Emerald city side to slip into the frame and glue on to the back of this side.

BECAUSE you need extra room for The TIN MAN! He can be removed as well.

As per the TIN MAN well…… let’s just say he is made with some “Wizard’s magic”

We all knew all good wizards never share their secrets!

At least until they have perfected the technique!

This piece has real motion between the tin man jumping and the frame spinning it is

Art in motion !

Check out my facebook page to see and HEAR this piece in ACTION!

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Let your creativity lead you down your own path or yellow brick road!!

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