Autumn Leaves Centerpiece by Irit Shalom

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Fall inspired Makin's Clay® post.

When I think Fall - I think fall leaves. Nothing more, as here in Israel we don't celebrate any other Fall holidays. We don't even have a lot of rain. So falling leaves is my fall and this table centerpiece was made with tons of those leaves made from Makin's Clay® with a lot of techniques too.

So here we go!

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - Peach, Merlot, Olive, Grape Leaf, Straw, Red

                        - Ultimate Clay Machine™

                        - Ultimate Clay Extruder™

Beacon® Tacky Glue

Leaves dies & die cutting machine 

Shiny/metallic paints 

Step by step instructions:

1. Use your Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® with disk #5 and your Makin’s Clay® in Peach and Meriot colors and make two similar round extruded pieces as shown.

2. Roll your extruded pieces as shown. Then  fold them into half and roll again.(not shown)

3. Mix Olive Makin’s Clay®  with White clay to get this  light olive color you see on the left big piece. Mix Green and Straw colors to get the marbled look of the lower piece on the right. Mix Merlot and Olive Green to get the piece in the middle, and Red and Straw.

Use your  Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine® on setting #3 to get those piece of clay ready to be die cut.  Allow to dry 24 hours.  (It is important to alway fully DRY clay when die cutting.)

4. Die cut all pieces of rolled, dry clay with  your leaves dies. I used two companies for this piece: the big leaves are cut with Sizzix and the smaller with Cherry Lynn Designs.

5. Arrange the dry leaves into a circular arrangement using a piece of white clay on the bottom.Use good clear drying glue such as Beacon® Tacky Glue to adhere the leaves over the bottom piece and one over another.

Paint them over with shiny paints (I used whatever I had, no special brand).

Try to arrange the large leaves on the bottom and then to move to middle and small sizes on the top.

6. I used the old , used red candle to be my stand.

7. You can also arrange the candle with your leaves into another bowl.