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| Driftwood Flowers by Bea Grob |
For this months project, I grew some rare species of
Driftwood flowers. ;-)
Ok, I did make them, really easily with Makin's Clay® and some
wire, acrylic paint and driftwood.
Supplies:
Makin's Clay® - Natural ( I used approx. 100 gr)
Makin's®
- Roller & Cutter Set
- Texture Sheets Set B - Dots
- Push Mold - Florals
- Clay Cutter Set Nr. 36501, I did use sizes 20 mm and 30 mm
Makin's Professional®Ultimate Clay
Machine®
For each flower / heart about 7
inch Wire, Gauge 20. It is an ordinary
black wire from the garden center or the hardware store.
Acrylic paint and embossing
powder
Driftwood
Pliers
I started by making some Hearts. I usually make two balls
which I form into a teardrop, by rolling them in the palm of my hands and then
open them up to roll just the lower part. This way you get a nice teardrop.
Next, I set both teardrop shapes side by side, and they don't
have to be excactly the same size, in fact I like it better when they are
slightly different size.
Next I "smush" them together, spray lightly with water and
smooth out the lower part on both sides.
I know I going texture it, so I'm not too concerned about
it, just make sure that they hold together.
Next I prepare a wire about 7 inch long with a little loop at the top.
I poked the wire into the Heart and the next step was to
flatten the Heart a bit and at the same time
Next I rolled some Natural clay using Makin's Professional® Ultimate
Clay Machine® on the
thickest setting, #1, and pressed it into the
Florals Push Mold. I did use two different flower molds. 
I made two of the same flower for each finished flower. The
molded flowers are bigger than I wanted the finished flowers is bigger, so I just
choose the part I liked the most to cut out with the 30mm round Clay Cutter.
Next, I put those two circles together and sandwiched the
wire, again with a little loop at the top. That helps to prevent the wire slipping out. I pinched them together I little bit on the edges, trying to give some ruffly edge.
I made also some smaller ones with the 20 mm circle cutter
and the dots texture sheet. All in all I made 11 Flowers and Hearts. I let them begin to dry and waited until I could handle them without destroying them. (I don't like to wait to
until the molded pieces are completely dry.... I want to see if my idea works asap
please :)... )
The next step is to add some patina first with some
dark brown acrylic paint. I made sure that I got into all these nooks and
crevices. Next, take a baby wipe or a damp cloth and remove most of
the paint again. I let the color dry before I went onto to the final colors
for the Flowers and Hearts. I gave them just a light wash, I didn't wanted to cover
the natural color from the Makin's Clay®.
Not done yet, will the paint was still damp, not to wet, I poured some embossing powder on. I'm looking
for a more distressed look for the heat embossed parts. So where ever the paints are still damp, the embossing powders stick and can be heat set. I did use a
gold embossing powder, but that is up to you, whatever you like the best in
combination with your acrylic paints.
All my flowers are painted and heat embossed. Of course I
had to drill holes into the driftwood.
The wire is rather soft so it bends a little to much, to work harden I
hammer it a bit with a hammer and metal base.
Now it was time for assembling. I threaded the wire through
the holes and on the bottom side I bent them in a little spiral.
It was still a little too bendy, so I added on the top some additional wire.
I threaded it into the same hole and then wrapped it several times around the bottom of the stem. I made sure that I did hide the other end of the wire somewhere into the middle, so there is nothing poking out. As the last step I pressed everything together with pliers.
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