West Witch Heart

Wicked Witch Heart by Patricia Krauchune

For my October Makin's Clay® project, I decided to make the heart of the Witch of the West.  Supply List:  Black & Red Makin's Clay®  Small Nails & Pins  Lumiere® Black Metallic/Olive Green/Metallic Copper Paints  5/8" Flat Glass Gem  Watch Parts  Plaid® Bright Red Paint  Jump Rings  Small Gear  Folkart® Color Shift Green Flash Paint  Copper Wire  Krazy® Glue  Artist's Loft™ Burnt Umber Oil Paint Recommended Makin’s® Tools: Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat  Supply List:  Black & Red Makin's Clay®  Small Nails & Pins  Lumiere® Black Metallic/Olive Green/Metallic Copper Paints  5/8" Flat Glass Gem  Watch Parts  Plaid® Bright Red Paint  Jump Rings  Small Gear  Folkart® Color Shift Green Flash Paint  Copper Wire  Krazy® Glue  Artist's Loft™ Burnt Umber Oil Paint Recommended Makin’s® Tools: Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat  Instructions: On the flat back side of the glass gem, first paint a black iris. When completely dry, paint a ring around iris with the metallic olive green paint but do not go all the way to the edge. The third and final coat of metallic copper paint is applied covering the entire back when the previous coat is dry. The eye is now complete. Set aside to dry overnight. You can paint the iris any shape you want and the eye can be any colors you like too.  Free form a heart shape to your liking from the black Makin's Clay® Make a jagged cut with a craft knife. I also added some texture with a tool I had made. Cut the jump rings in half and use them to "suture" the cut in the heart. They are glued in place with Krazy® Glue. Press the eye into the clay then remove it. This will form a little "well" to later hold the eye. Add a bale made from the copper wire. Nails were glued into the side and a small screw was glued into the heart.  Now I glued the eye in place with Krazy® Glue. A small jelly bean shape piece of clay was used to form the eye lid and smoothed and blended into the heart. I also poked some random holes in the heart.  Small pins were used to make eye lashes and a watch part was used to make an eye brow.  I made a small slit on the heart's side and glued a small gear half way embedded. Another screw was added and a couple watch stems.  I liquefied some red Makin's Clay®: (clay mixed with bottled water) and added a little red paint and made a slurry. The "blood" slurry was painted into the tear in the heart and around the screws and gear.  Next I painted the heart with the FolkArt® Color Shift Green Flash paint.  The final step was to antique the heart. I brushed on burnt umber oil paint and then wiped it off with paper towels.  There you have it...the Wicked Witch of the West, her heart in all its glory. Here's looking at ya, my pretty!

 For my October Makin's Clay® project, I decided to make the heart of the Witch of the West. 

Supply List:  Black & Red Makin's Clay®	Small Nails & Pins	Lumiere® Black Metallic/Olive Green/Metallic Copper Paints
5/8" Flat Glass Gem	Watch Parts	Plaid® Bright Red Paint
Jump Rings	Small Gear	Folkart® Color Shift Green Flash Paint
Copper Wire	Krazy® Glue	Artist's Loft™ Burnt Umber Oil Paint

Recommended Makin’s® Tools: Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat

Supply List: 

Black & Red Makin's Clay® 

Small Nails & Pins 

Lumiere® Black Metallic/Olive Green/Metallic Copper Paints 

5/8" Flat Glass Gem 

Watch Parts 

Plaid® Bright Red Paint 

Jump Rings 

Small Gear 

Folkart® Color Shift Green Flash Paint 

Copper Wire 

Krazy® Glue 

Artist's Loft™ Burnt Umber Oil Paint

Recommended Makin’s® Tools: Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat 

Instructions:

On the flat back side of the glass gem, first paint a black iris. When completely dry, paint a ring around iris with the metallic olive green paint but do not go all the way to the edge. The third and final coat of metallic copper paint is applied covering the entire back when the previous coat is dry. The eye is now complete. Set aside to dry overnight. You can paint the iris any shape you want and the eye can be any colors you like too. 

Free form a heart shape to your liking from the black Makin's Clay®

Make a jagged cut with a craft knife. I also added some texture with a tool I had made. Cut the jump rings in half and use them to "suture" the cut in the heart. They are glued in place with Krazy® Glue. Press the eye into the clay then remove it. This will form a little "well" to later hold the eye. Add a bale made from the copper wire. Nails were glued into the side and a small screw was glued into the heart.  Now I glued the eye in place with Krazy® Glue. A small jelly bean shape piece of clay was used to form the eye lid and smoothed and blended into the heart. I also poked some random holes in the heart.  Small pins were used to make eye lashes and a watch part was used to make an eye brow.  I made a small slit on the heart's side and glued a small gear half way embedded. Another screw was added and a couple watch stems.  I liquefied some red Makin's Clay®: (clay mixed with bottled water) and added a little red paint and made a slurry. The "blood" slurry was painted into the tear in the heart and around the screws and gear.  Next I painted the heart with the FolkArt® Color Shift Green Flash paint.  The final step was to antique the heart. I brushed on burnt umber oil paint and then wiped it off with paper towels.  There you have it...the Wicked Witch of the West, her heart in all its glory. Here's looking at ya, my pretty!

Supply List: 

Black & Red Makin's Clay® 

Small Nails & Pins 

Lumiere® Black Metallic/Olive Green/Metallic Copper Paints 

5/8" Flat Glass Gem 

Watch Parts 

Plaid® Bright Red Paint 

Jump Rings 

Small Gear 

Folkart® Color Shift Green Flash Paint 

Copper Wire 

Krazy® Glue 

Artist's Loft™ Burnt Umber Oil Paint

Recommended Makin’s® Tools: Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat 

Make a jagged cut with a craft knife. I also added some texture with a tool I had made. Cut the jump rings in half and use them to "suture" the cut in the heart. They are glued in place with Krazy® Glue. Press the eye into the clay then remove it. This will form a little "well" to later hold the eye. Add a bale made from the copper wire. Nails were glued into the side and a small screw was glued into the heart. 

Now I glued the eye in place with Krazy® Glue. A small jelly bean shape piece of clay was used to form the eye lid and smoothed and blended into the heart. I also poked some random holes in the heart.  Small pins were used to make eye lashes and a watch part was used to make an eye brow.  I made a small slit on the heart's side and glued a small gear half way embedded. Another screw was added and a couple watch stems.  I liquefied some red Makin's Clay®: (clay mixed with bottled water) and added a little red paint and made a slurry. The "blood" slurry was painted into the tear in the heart and around the screws and gear.  Next I painted the heart with the FolkArt® Color Shift Green Flash paint.  The final step was to antique the heart. I brushed on burnt umber oil paint and then wiped it off with paper towels.  There you have it...the Wicked Witch of the West, her heart in all its glory. Here's looking at ya, my pretty!

Now I glued the eye in place with Krazy® Glue. A small jelly bean shape piece of clay was used to form the eye lid and smoothed and blended into the heart. I also poked some random holes in the heart. 

Small pins were used to make eye lashes and a watch part was used to make an eye brow.  I made a small slit on the heart's side and glued a small gear half way embedded. Another screw was added and a couple watch stems.  I liquefied some red Makin's Clay®: (clay mixed with bottled water) and added a little red paint and made a slurry. The "blood" slurry was painted into the tear in the heart and around the screws and gear.  Next I painted the heart with the FolkArt® Color Shift Green Flash paint.  The final step was to antique the heart. I brushed on burnt umber oil paint and then wiped it off with paper towels.  There you have it...the Wicked Witch of the West, her heart in all its glory. Here's looking at ya, my pretty!

Small pins were used to make eye lashes and a watch part was used to make an eye brow. 

I made a small slit on the heart's side and glued a small gear half way embedded. Another screw was added and a couple watch stems. 

I liquefied some red Makin's Clay®: (clay mixed with bottled water) and added a little red paint and made a slurry. The "blood" slurry was painted into the tear in the heart and around the screws and gear.  Next I painted the heart with the FolkArt® Color Shift Green Flash paint.  The final step was to antique the heart. I brushed on burnt umber oil paint and then wiped it off with paper towels.  There you have it...the Wicked Witch of the West, her heart in all its glory. Here's looking at ya, my pretty!

I liquefied some red Makin's Clay®: (clay mixed with bottled water) and added a little red paint and made a slurry. The "blood" slurry was painted into the tear in the heart and around the screws and gear. 

Next I painted the heart with the FolkArt® Color Shift Green Flash paint. 

The final step was to antique the heart. I brushed on burnt umber oil paint and then wiped it off with paper towels.  There you have it...the Wicked Witch of the West, her heart in all its glory. Here's looking at ya, my pretty!

The final step was to antique the heart. I brushed on burnt umber oil paint and then wiped it off with paper towels. 

There you have it...the Wicked Witch of the West, her heart in all its glory. Here's looking at ya, my pretty! 

The Tin Man

Design Team Member Patricia Krauchune has created another unique sculpture project with Makin's Clay®!  This time it's the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz! - Find out more about her creative process here on her blog.   We never know what Pat will create next - and it's always a great surprise!

Have a Heart - Wizard of Oz Themed Memory Frame by Carole Monahan

Have a Heart

Oz never did give nothing to The Tin Man (America)

Designed By Carole Monahan

Who doesn’t love the Wizard of Oz???  With Makin's Clay® this image that has been in my head can now become a reality!

Materials

Makin’s Brand® Memory Frame - Turning frame double face

60g pack of Makin's Clay® in white

60g Makin's Clay® in blue

20g Makin's Clay® green

1 pack of Makin's Clay® Earth Tones

10g Makin's Clay® Red

Black acrylic paint

Green glitter glue

Beacon™ Tacky Glue

Tools

Makin's® Ultimate Clay Machine™

Makin’s® self healing cutting mat

Makin's ® Ultimate Clay Extruder™ with Makin's Clay® Discs # 2 and #9

Makin's Professional® Tool Kit (MY FAVORITE )

Makin's Clay® Brick texture sheet from set A 38001  

Makin’s® Halloween cutter set –Witch hat

X-acto blade

Letter stamps

Small paint brush short bristle

Instructions

Get your frame ready. I cut 2 pieces of heavy cardstock to the size the frame.

These will be covered in Makin’s Clay®.

Make your Yellow brick road ( of course where else would you start?)  

Roll out a sheet of yellow with your Makin’s ultimate clay machine on setting 2.

Press the texture sheet over the clay rub firmly to get and even impression.

For a hint of the “Scary” forest let’s make a tree!

I loaded 2 colors from the Earth Tones clay collection into the Extruder and used

Disc # 2. It makes the clay come out in great bark like variations.

I took the extrusions and twisted and shaped them together to form the tree.

Now trim the brick path to fit on your cardstock and place the tree.

Now for the fields

Roll out green clay setting 2 on the clay machine (here I made a custom color blend)

Then I took the Feather tool from the Makin’s Professional tool kit to make the grass.

Size everything up on the card stock and trim as needed with X-acto knife

Build the Emerald City by Extruding it with Disc # 9

The Shading tool made the perfect size Door for the Emerald city.

To hint at some evil we can’t forget the poppies!

Just little pinches of red clay pressed into place with the fine point tip of the Professional tool kit

(did I mention this is my favorite tool-tools in one)

 To finish THIS side off I added from Green glitter glue to made the Emerald city really sparkle

Now for Side 2

Again for a “hint” of evil I used the Halloween Witch hat clay cutter to cut out this shape.

We all know every Witch needs her broom.

 I took some of the extruded clay I used for the tree to make her broom.

I custom blended White and Blue to get this pale blue color to make the stamped letters pop

Let the stamped letters dry overnight before adding the paint

Paint the letters and then wipe them with a damp cloth. I left paint on to give it a vintage look.

Glue the blue background into the card stock and then glue the picture mat that comes with your

Memory Frame kit into the front.

Place this into the side slot in the frame and THEN add the hat and broom with Beacon Tacky glue.

Now trim the other Emerald city side to slip into the frame and glue on to the back of this side.

BECAUSE you need extra room for The TIN MAN! He can be removed as well.

As per the TIN MAN well…… let’s just say he is made with some “Wizard’s magic”

We all knew all good wizards never share their secrets!

At least until they have perfected the technique!

This piece has real motion between the tin man jumping and the frame spinning it is

Art in motion !

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