Easy Sparkling Clay Snowflakes DIY Video

Cindi McGee recently shared this DIY video showing a quick & easy way to make sturdy snowflake light enhancers and ornaments with Makin's Clay®.

Snowflake Light Enhancers & Ornaments by Cindi McGee

Faux Cupcake by Cindi McGee

FRIENDS ARE LIKE SPRINKLES 

DECORATIVE FAUX CUPCAKE 

Designed by Cindi McGee - Behind These Eyes™

www.CindiMcGeeBehindTheseEyes.blogspot.com 

“Friends are like sprinkles on the cupcake of life” - This decorative “forever cupcake” would be a fun gift for a special friend.  Everyone loves cupcakes, and this would surely bring a smile to their face every time they see it!   I chose colors with a bit of an “art deco” feel for a vintage look.  I think these would also make fun party favors for a wedding or shower.  My boys came home when it was almost finished and said they though it looked real, and they wished it was because it looked really good…

Materials: 

Makin’s Clay® - 120g Natural, 120g Earth Tones 

                        - Cutting Mat 

                        - Floral Push Mold 

                        - Ultimate Clay Extruder™ - Disc #40    

Smoothfoam™ Cupcake 

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ - Champagne 

JudiKins™ - Diamond Glaze™ 

                  - Gold Roxs™ Glass Glitter 

Bamboo skewer, scissors, paintbrush, printer 

Beacon™ 3-in-1 Adhesive 

Instructions:

Paint Smoothfoam™ cupcake paper with Champagne paint.  Let dry.  Repeat with 2nd coat.  Let dry. 

Open Natural Makin’s Clay® and make a “mountain” shape with about 1/3” of the package of clay, the same dimension as the top of the cupcake.   Use 3-in1 Adhesive to mount to top of cupcake. 

Use Ultimate Clay Extruder™ and disc #40 to extrude clay and wrap around top of cupcake to mimic frosting.   Use fingers moistened with water to blend seams where extruded pieces of clay are joined.    Be sure to clean the extruder of all clay when finished. 

Open Earth Tones Makin’s Clay®.  Use flower push mold to make 3 peach flowers and 7 olive leaves.    Place remaining clay in zip lock baggy with damp paper towel or moist towelette and seal to keep fresh for later use. 

Use fingertip to apply a small amount of Champagne  paint over top of flowers and leaves, just to highlight raised areas and add subtle golden shading.  

Moisten back of leaves and flowers and mount to extruded clay frosting. Begin with first flower and 3 leaves, off to one side, then continue over the top arranging as desired.  

While clay is still fresh, insert bamboo skewer through top down into foam.  Remove. 

Print 2 copies of graphic to mount to skewer with 3-in-1. 

Apply light layer of Diamond Glaze over each printed image.  Apply very light touch of Champagne paint around edge.  Cut skewer to desired length for printed  image.  

Paint skewer with Champagne paint and let dry.  Mount skewer between printed images.  

Pour small amount of Diamond Glaze™ into a dish (amount shown is actually way more than you need!).  Use tip of skewer to apply small dots randomly over surface of cupcake.  While wet, apply gold Roxs™ for “sprinkles”.  Let dry. 

Insert skewer with graphic into hole in cupcake. 

Captured Snowman Ornament by Cindi McGee

Captured Snowman Ornament 

Designed by Cindi McGee - Behind These Eyes™

Frosty is tucked safe inside his glass globe ready to weather the next storm!   The flexibility of Makin's Clay® after drying makes it the perfect medium for creating objects that need to fit inside a small space like the opening on these glass ornaments!  

Materials:

Glass ball ornament 

Makin’s Clay® - White

                        - Snowman Clay Cutter Set 

                        - Texture Sheet Set 

                        - Ultimate Clay Machine™

                        - Cutting Mat 

etchall® - etching cream 

              - Etchmask®

Spellbinders™ - Artisan X-Plorer™

                        - Snowflake Dies 

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ - Paprika, Dark Scarlet, Black 

Fine paintbrushes 

Beacon® 3-in-1 Adhesive 

JudiKins™- Diamond Glaze™

                 - Clear/white Roxs™

Ribbons - white, light blue, silver 

Tweezers, scissors

Instructions:

Roll white Makin’s Clay® in Ultimate Clay Machine™ starting on setting #1, then #2, finishing on #3.  

Place on cutting mat.  Apply texture with snowflake texture sheet. 

Use largest size snowman cutter to cut snowman from textured clay.

Use DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ paints to add hat scarf, buttons, eyes, nose and mouth to snowman.  Let dry 24 hours.

Makin’s Clay® remains lightweight and flexible after drying so it’s easy to bend your snowman to make him fit inside the ornament.   The slightly curved shape after he is set in place adds to the dimensional feel of the finished ornament.   

Add a small amount of Beacon™ 3-in-1 Adhesive to the bottom of the inside or the ornament.  

Use tweezers to insert snowman into glass ball into adhesive.  Leave tweezers in place to hold snowman up while the glue dries.  

Use Spellbinders™ Artisan X-Plorer™ and snowflake dies to cut snowflakes from Etchmask®.  Set snowflakes aside for another project - you are using the negative space as a stencil for your etching. 

Place snowflake “stencils” onto glass ball. 

Apply etchall® creme to snowflakes with small brush.  Let set 15 minutes.  Return cream to bottle and carefully wash ornament to remove remaining creme.  Remove Etchmask.  

Pour Roxs™ into Snappy Tray™,  Pour about 1/4” inside ornament so snowman is sitting in a snow pile.  

Apply Diamond Glaze™ to bottom of ornament, dip into clear glass Roxs.  Let dry. 

Add ribbon hanger and bow to top of ornament.