Neon Monogrammed Mini Notebook & Index Card Holder and Matching Mechanical Pencil by Cindi Bisson McGee

Neon Monogrammed Mini Notebook & Index Card Holder and Mechanical Pencil 

Designed by Cindi Bisson McGee

Send your "tween" back to school in style with these personalized school supplies! 

Materials:

Makin’s Clay® - Neon Multi-Pack 

                - Black 

                - Ultimate Clay Machine™ 

                - Ultimate Clay Extruder™

                        - Cutting Mat 

                - Texture Sheet Set H

                        -  Professional Tool Kit 

Beacon™ Tacky Glue, 521 Adhesive 

The Buckle Boutique Self-Adhesive Rhinestone Sheet - Purple 

Mini composition book 

Index card holder

Mechanical pencil 

Alphabet stencil 

Scissors 

Instructions:

Roll black clay to setting #4 on the Ultimate Clay Machine™. 

Place mini composition book onto rolled clay and cut around cover.   

Coat cover with Tacky Glue and mount rolled clay cover to book.   

Place texture sheet over clay on cover and apply texture. 

Cut small pieces (about 1/2” from each color of Neon clay)of clay and roll into log shape to fit inside Ultimate Clay Extruder™.  Cut each log into slices about 1/4”.  Stack slices.  Insert into extruder, add 7 hole disc and extrude.  

Place stencil on top of cover, mount extruded clay inside stencil opening to create monogram.  If  black clay is stilll fresh/wet, then the extruded clay will stick without any additional adhesive.  If it is dry, then apply Beacon Tacky Glue to the open 

area of the stencil and then add extruded clay.

Gently mix and blend equal parts pink, orange and green clay together to make marbled “tie-dye” effect clay.  

Roll with clay roller to approximately 1/8” thick.  

Use flower cutters to cut medium flower, use small flower to cut out center of medium flower.  Let dry. 

Use Tacky Glue to mount small piece of Buckle Boutique Self Adhesive Rhinestones beneath flower so rhinestones how through center opening.  

Use Beacon 521 to mount flower next to monogram.  

Cut small strip of rhinestones and mount to spine of mini notebook.  

Open index card holder and cut piece of rhinestones to fit cover.  Mount. 

Use Beacon 521 to mount mini notebook centered over rhinestones.  

Place 4 hole disc in extruder.  Extrude stacked neon clay.  Coat mechanical pencil with Tacky Glue.  Coil extruded clay around pencil.  

Let clay dry 24 hours.