Shabby Chic Keepsake Box

Shabby Chic Keepsake Box by Panarili

Tools and Materials

Makin's Clay® white

Makin's® push molds

Makin's Professional® cutting mat

Pasta-machine or a roller

Chalk pastels (blue, pink, yellow)

White acrylic paint

Paint brushes

Rounded tool

PVA glue

Superglue

Cardboard from the tape roll

Two cardboard coasters

Plastic bag or foil

Cans with a rounded bottom, can be substituted with table spoons

Remove some white clay from the wrapping. Add some blue chalk powder to it. Keep in mind two things: the clay you are not using at the moment is kept in a plastic bag with a wet tissue inside, and, do not add too much colour, as it will get darker, once the clay dries. Mix in the chalk powder well.

Make a snake.

Place it in the mold “rope” and then take out ropes in the amount needed.

Take the cardboard ring from the tape roll and cover it with PVA glue.

Attach the ropes side by side to cover the cardboard ring.

Add some more blue chalk powder in some places to emphasize the curves.

Now add some blue chalk powder to another piece of white clay, mix well and form a triangle. Make a white triangle as well. We will make a graduated blend.

Run through the pasta-machine, fold and run again, repeat till you have a blend.

It took me 4-5 times to get it the way I wanted.

Make a thinner ribbon out of the blend.

Then run it through a thinner setting of the PM, then one more setting thinner, till you get a thin and long ribbon.

Fold it like this.

Form a drop out of a cube, where white is either the sharp end, or the opposite, whichever you prefer.

Cut small slices. Do not worry if it distorts, you can fix it on the mat. I place a piece of plastic bag over it and spread it to a petal shape I wish.

Then take a rounded tool, it could be a stylus, and make some veins/riffles through the plastic bag, start somewhere in the middle of the petal and go to sides and the upper part.

Add some shadowing with chalk powder.

Place a piece of blue clay (the same one we used for petals) in a can bottom or a spoon.

Brush some water in and place a petal, I chose the bigger ones first. Press in the middle and shape it as you wish. Place 4-5 more petals, so the whole layer is filled with petals.

Then brush the middle with water again and add the second layer of petals. Then add some mini balls using water as an adhesive medium again.

Take two round cardboard coasters and glue them together. Cover both sides and the edges with white acrylic paint.

Once dried, both the paint and the clay, add some Super Glue on one edge of the cardboard tape roll covered with clay and attach to the coaster bottom.

Paint the upper edge with acrylic paint as well. I have also added some white accents on the sides, to make it look a bit older.