One Fish, Two Fish, Many Fish

Design Team Member Natalja Ivankova recently shared these adorable polymer clay fish made with the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder.  What fun they would be as earrings, pins, connected for a bracelet, and more.  

Back to Nature Necklace

Cindi McGee recently shared this autumn necklace on her blog.  Cindi used the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® and ClayCore Adapters® to add the cording hole in her molded twig.

Miniature Bee Skep

Today, Design Team Member Patricia Krauchune shares this adorable little Makin's Clay® bee skep!  Pat used the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® when making this charming piece.  We think it would be adorable decorating a potted plant!

Floral Monogram Pendant

Cindi McGee recently shared this shabby chic floral monogram pendant. She used the Makin's® Flower/Leaf Clay Cutter Set, and the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® to create these fabulous flowers.  

https://cindimcgeebehindtheseeyes.blogspot.com/2018/04/shabby-chic-floral-monogram-polymer.html

Bohemian Style Pendants

Cindi McGee recently shared  these colorful clay pendants she created with the help of the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®, Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder®, and Makin's® Water Drop Clay Cutters.  

 

Faux Knitted Heart

Design Team Member Patricia Roberts-Thompson has been experimenting with Makin's Clay®!  She created this faux knitted heart pin using 3 shades of Makin's Clay® and the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder®.  Find out how she did it here on her blog.

Bold Gold & Black Pendant

Cindi McGee recently shared this detailed pendant with a detailed technique created using the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder®.

Tidal Pool Necklace

Cindi McGee is teaching an online workshop sharing how she used the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder®, Makin's Professional® ClayCore Adaptors®, Makin's Professional® Professional Clay Tools®, and Makin's® Clay Cutters to create this unique necklace!

The "Heart" of Kindness

Design Team Member Patricia Krauchune's kind heart strikes again - this time she creates this unique anatomical steampunk heart for a friend who recently underwent heart surgery.   Pat used the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® and ClayCore® Adaptors to create the arteries for the heart.  We are sure Howard is going to be pleased with it!

Back to School! A No. 2 (wink wink) Pencil!

"No. 2" Pencil Topper by Carole Monahan 

This project is down and dirty and pretty much makes itself!   

"Poop" Emogies are everywhere these days - magnets, pillows, keychains, stickers....... to name a few.  They just seem to make people laugh and are more "poopular" than ever could have been imagined! 

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - Brown, Black, White (amount of brown clay needed will depend on desired number
of finished pencil toppers)
Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® - Disc #4 - Medium Circle
Kemper cutters to cut 3 circle sizes  (1mm, 2mm, 3mm)

Instructions:

Load Ultimate Clay Extruder® with brown clay.   Insert disc #4 and extrude the clay.  Wrap the extruded clay around the pencil top, starting from the "bottom" where the metal holding the eraser starts.  Make sure it is snug so it will stay put.  (Optional:  add a touch of glue to hold your topper in place permanently.

"Tweek" your poop (yup... I just said that!)

Roll white clay to about 1/8" thick.  Now, with a 3mm Kemper cutter cut out a circle of rolled white clay for the mouth and cut it in half.

With the 2mm cutters, cut 2 circles for the whites of the eyes.

Roll black clay to about 1/8" thick.  Use 1mm cutter for the black pupils.   Place the eyes and mouth accordingly on your happy little poop!

And here is my poop group!

Coiled Clay Bowl

Design Team Member Patricia Krauchune shares another of her projects from the recent Klay Karma retreat - she used the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® to create decorative coiled clay coin bowls.

Give it a Swirl!

Swirl Necklace by Carole Monahan

Give it a Swirl!  Once again I used the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® to show how versatile it is. Plus, Makin’s® has a NEW drill bit adapter for the extruder!

This simple yet glamourous necklace can be made in minutes and be 
made to match your mood and outfit!

MATERIALS

Makin's Clay®, black I have about 2 oz here. 2 inch wide pendant

Pearl X interference gold

1 small bead for center

1 16” wire cord with screw clasp

TOOLS

Makin’s Professional® 

• Ultimate Clay Extruder® Set -  Disc # 18
• Ultimate Clay Extruder® Drill Adaptor
• Ultimate Clay Machine®

Round cookie cutter

INSTRUCTIONS

Load clay into extruder and attach drill bit adapter.

Please note GO SLOW when extruding since Makin’s Clay® is so nice and soft it, comes out rather easy. You NEVER want to go all the way down with the drill gun (NOTICE about 1inch of TREAD still visible) If you repeatedly go all the way to the end of the screw shaft with the drill you may risk stripping the screw shaft of the extruder.

It is JUST this easy!

Start center swirl keeping the edges nice and crisp on the top and sides.

Take a little water if needed to make sure the swirl stays together as you roll it up.

After you get the size you like (here is about 2”).

Take a round cookie cutter a little smaller than the swirl and roll out a flat disc of black clay to setting #2 on the clay machine, then cut out the disc.

Take your wire of choice and embed it into the plain cut disc.

Then top with the decorative swirl.

You can also wait until both pieces dry and glue them if your prefer.

Then you can add your bling and accents. I think the Pearl X really brings all the

details to life and the little pearl in the center is a great focal point.

You can see what else I’m up to here 

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