Easy Sparkling Clay Snowflakes - DIY Video

  There's a frosty chill in the air !  Today, we thought we'd "re-share" Cindi McGee's DIY video she created last year featuring clay snowflake ornaments and light enhancers.   Bring a little winter sparkle into your home with these sparkling flakes! 

Zentangle Drop Pendant by Lucy Reese

Zentangle Drop Pendant

Designed by Lucy Reese

Hello everyone! Since its summer, I thought what a great opportunity to break out the Makin's Clay® Neon pack and being that Zentangling is so popular right now, why not combine the two?  If you have seen my previous work on the blog, I'm sure you can tell by now that I absolutely love using Makin's Clay® for pendants. Due to it being lightweight and durable it's a great material to use in jewelry making. Enough talking, lets get to "Makin's" this pendant...see what I did there?😉

Supplies:
Makin's® Clay Roller
Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat
Makin's Clay® Water Drop Cutters
Makin's Clay® - Black, Neon Yellow
Lisa Pavelka Texture Stamp- Cloodlettes
Dylusions Paint- Black
Judikins- Diamond Glaze™
Helmar Glue
Sharpie Fine Point- Black

Instructions:

Begin by taking the your clay from its package. Take what you need and remember to put the rest in a Ziplock with a wet paper towel or baby wipe so that its stays fresh and ready to use. Now, take your neon yellow clay and roll it out to the desired thickness. You can see that I did end up picking up some other colors that were left on my mat, which didn't bother me.  But, you can prevent it by making sure your work surface is clean.

Using the Dylusions Paint in Black Marble ink up the Cloodlettes texture stamp by Lisa Pavelka and stamp onto the clay.

Your clay should now look something like this. If your image has some skipping in it, no worries, we can fix that later.

Take out the Makin's Clay® Water Drop Cutters. Being that they come graduated, you want the 2nd to largest one. Place the cutter lightly on top of your clay and with firm even pressure press down and pull it out. If your clay is still inside the cutter, you can use a tool to push it out..careful not to distort or leave tools dents.  (Tip:  If you lace plastic wrap over the clay before you use the cutters,  then simply lift the plastic wrap, the shape comes free and eliminates the issue of removing it from the cutter.)

To make the base, roll out the Black Makin's Clay® to desired thickness and lay one of the neon cutouts on top and repeat the cut with the largest water drop cutter.

We are now at the touch-up part of the project. This is where we can grab our black fine liner Sharpie and fill in the parts of your image that had skipped during the stamping step. After your finished, take the Helmars and glue your focal to the base. Let the piece dry completely before proceeding to the next step.

For a beautiful shiny finish, use Judikins™ Diamond Glaze™ and let dry. To complete this project glue on a bail..and your ready to add to a necklace of your choice!

I hope you enjoy this project as much as I did. If you would like to see more of my projects visit my blog at tecniquefreak.wordpress.com.

~Lucy

Clay Octopus & Coral Pendant DIY Video with Cindi McGee

In this DIY video, Cindi McGee shares two techniques for molding with Makin's Clay® to make this "Beneath the Waves" pendant.    Makin's® has a wide variety of push molds, but Makin's Clay® also works wonderfully in silicone molds, and in custom made molds too.  

Gel Printed & Silk Screened Clay Necklace DIY Video by Cindi McGee

Cindi McGee shares how she used two techniques to create this subtly shaded Makin's Clay® necklace inspired by the shades of a peacock in this DIY video. 

Metallic Effects Cuff Bracelet by Cindi McGee

Cindi McGee recently shared this metallic effects cuff bracelet on her blog - she used Makin's Clay® and Clearsnap® Decorator Foils to create her colorful foiled accent pieces.

Faux Ceramic Pendants by Lisa Haney

Faux Ceramic Pendants 

Designed by Lisa Haney 

Recently, I was checking out the Tutorials and Techniques for Makin’s Clay® Board on Pinterest and came across pictures of faux ceramic pendants posted by MossyOwls.  I thought this would be a nice effect to try on Makin’s Clay®.  Since Makin’s Clay® is an air-dry, no-bake clay, I chose to use Tim Holtz® Adirondack® Alcohol Ink mixed with JudiKins Diamond Glaze™ to achieve the faux ceramic effect.  I hope you agree that they turned out beautifully!

Supplies:

Makin’s Clay®

White

Recommended Makin’s® Tools

Makin’s Clay® Cutters – Round (Large)

Makin’s Clay® Texture Sheet - Set H (Coils)

Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Other Materials:

Bail

Corn Starch

JudiKins Diamond Glaze™

Paint Brush

Small Mixing Cup

Straw - thin

Tile

Tim Holtz® Adirondack® Alcohol Ink – Sail Boat Blue

Method

  

Roll out a sheet of white Makin’s Clay® on the largest setting of the Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®.  Lightly rub corn starch on one side of the Coils Makin’s Clay® Texture Sheet.  Place the sheet of clay on the texture sheet on the side with the cornstarch and roll both through the clay machine.   Roll out another sheet of white on the #5 setting.

Place the textured sheet on top of the thinner, backing sheet.  This

backing sheet is only to make the pendant a little thicker.

Cut out a circle with the Makin’s Clay® Round Cutter.  Tidy up any sides if needed.

 

Poke a hole in the top of the pendant with a thin straw.

Pour JudiKins Diamond Glaze™ into a small mixing cup.  Add the one drop at a time until the desired color is achieved.  Usually one or two drops will be enough for pastel colors but if you like dark colors, drop away!  Mix thoroughly with the paint brush.

Tim Holtz® Adirondack® Sail Boat Blue Alcohol Ink

Paint a thin layer of the tinted glaze around the edge of the pendant.  Lay it on a tile.

Paint a generous layer of the tinted glaze on the front of the pendant letting it pool in the lower areas.   Let dry.

Paint the back and let dry.  You only need to do this step if you want the back finished.  You could write a nice message on the back instead.

Add a bail and then it’s ready to be added to any chain or cord for a necklace.

   

Makin’s Clay® has tons of great cutters and eight different sets of texture sheets (each sheet has an innie and an outie, one on each side, giving you 8 textures per set) that can be mixed and matched to make hundreds of different pendants.  Also, the alcohol inks can be used as is or combined for an endless array of colors.

   

Heart cutter, Set E Diamond Texture Sheet and Cranberry Alcohol Ink

Round cutter, Set C Honeycomb Texture Sheet and Caramel Alcohol Ink

Round cutter, Set E Curly Fur and Wild Plum Alcohol Ink

Square Cutter, Set H Connectors Texture Sheet and Sail Boat Blue Alcohol Ink

These pendants were made using two colors of tinted glaze and texture sheets.

These pendants were made using darker colors and stamps instead of texture sheets.