Embellished Baby Photo Frame

Baby Frame for Oliver - by Panarili

Tools and Materials

Makin's Clay® white 

Makin's® texture sheet Dots

Makin's® push molds Baby

Makin's Professional® cutting mat

CreateAlong.com tag cutter

Cutter

Roller

Cookie letter stamps

Pasta-machine

Eye shadows

Chalk pastels (blue, pink, light orange, yellow and red)

Markers (black, blue)

Soft paint brush

Tacky glue

Two sided puffy tape

Glass from a photo frame (can be of plastic as well)

Scrapbook paper

Plastic bag or foil

Nail pile

Prepare the glass from a regular photo frame.  Mine is actually not glass but plastic, but it is also fine as we are working with Makin's Clay®.

Open white clay and cut the amount needed, in my case it is about half a package, and place the rest in a zip-lock bag with a wet paper towel or baby wipe. Run the clay through the thickest setting of the pasta machine, that makes about 2mm thickness.  Make 2 appr. 4cm wide stripes. Mine are about 15 cm long.

Place the stripes on the Makin's Professional® cutting mat and cut them even.  Place the glass from the frame over the stripes. The stripes edges should be wider than the glass about 1 cm on each side.  

Then add horizontal stripes. Fresh clay will stick to fresh clay, if your clay has begun to dry brush some water in the places the stripes will touch. 

Place the Dot Makin's ® texture sheet over clay and pres gently with fingers everywhere.

Use the roller to make the texture even.

Remove the texture sheet.

 

Now add some pearl accent using eye shadows (chalks or mica/pigment powders would also work, as would pan pastels).  I do it either with a soft brush or my finger.

Take some more white Makin's Clay® out of the bag, and leave the rest in the zip-lock bag with a wet tissue.  We will be colouring it with chalk pastels.  We need flesh colour, so make some chalk powder from pink and light orange.   For the blue add some blue chalk pastel powder to the white clay.

It is time to make embellishments. We will need Makin's®  Baby push mold.  Let us make the pacifier first, the rest are similar to make.  First, we use a small amount of the flesh colour we have mixed and place it in the push mold exactly, where it will be, once we are finished.  Makin's® push molds are clear, so you will see where you put it.

Then add some blue.  And finally, make a small snake and add the handle.  Press well and then take it out.  

For the bear I used the blue clay we have made for the whole toy.  Make two small dots, where the eyes are and place white clay balls in there.  Then I colour the eyes and the nose with a black marker and add some shadowing with blue chalk pastel.

I also made two 2 baby bottles, some buttons, and a duck.

Now we will make a baby name tag.  Take some white clay out of the bag and roll it out 1mm thick.  Prepare the letters we need, in my case it is Oliver. Stamp it.

Cover the clay with a plastic bag or plastic wrap and cut a name tag with a CreateAlong.com cutter.

Take the plastic and the excess clay away.  Make the edges smooth with your finger.  Add some shading with a blue chalk pastel on the edges,  Then make dots with a blue marker and colour the letters with a blue marker as well.

Let it all dry.  24 hours was not enough for the frame, and I recommend putting something like a book over it for the frame to remain flat.  I let mine dry for another 24 hours.  To make the edges of the embellishments nice and smooth, I used a nail pile

These are all my dried embellishments.

Once completely dried, I put some tacky glue on the back side of the frame.

Place it on scrapbook paper and cut out the frame.  

Place the glass/plastic from the frame on the back side in the middle.

Stick the two-sided puffy tape on the edges that are not covered by the glass from the frame – from both sides and on the bottom, leaving the upper side without the tape.

My tape is rather wide, so I cut it off.

Cut out a rectangle the same size our frame is from a scrapbook paper and attach it from the back. The two sided puffy take will hold it together well and leave the space for the picture and the glass if wished.

Add the embellishments  - adhere with tacky glue.  And add the most important embellishment - a picture of Oliver!!!! 

PANARILI

Decorative Baby Frame by Martha Lucia Gomez

Decorative Baby Frame

by Martha Lucia Gomez

Hi everyone, Martha Lucia here with you. Today I want to share an special idea with you. It is a Baby Frame that you can use as present or decoration. I made this using only one color of clay and one Push Mold. This is the list of materials that I used to make this:

Product list:

• Makin’s Clay® - White
• Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat
• Makin's Clay Push Mold - Baby
• Beacon™ Quick Grip All Purpose Adhesive
• Copic Markers or any alcohol markers
• White Frame 5 x 7"
• Decorated Paper Pink Piroutte
• Card Stock Chocolate Chip
• Postage Stamp Craft Punch

Instructions:

Use White Makin's Clay® to push mold all the decorative pieces for your frame.  Since the mold is clea,r you can turn it over and see if you have air bubbles that need to be pressed out and make sure that all areas are filled with clay. Remove the excess clay that overlaps the edges of the mold. If this process is difficult to you, you can cut with scissor when the clay is dry. You can create several molds at the same time. You can leave your molds for a few hours until the clay dries, or, since the molds are flexible, you can remove your clay pieces when the clay is still fresh.

Once the clay is fully dry (24 hours), if you want to give special colors to some parts of your design you can paint these with alcohol markers or any other paints (you can paint Makin's Clay® when it is still fresh or dry - when using alcohol inks or
alcohol markers, wait until the clay is dry). I used Copic Markers for mine.


I used a white 5x7" wooden frame as the base for the project.  I created a mat from Pink Pirouette Decorated Paper and punched individual "mats" from the dark brown "chocolate chip" card stock for the clay shapes with a postage stamp craft punch.

I pasted each design over the chocolate chip mat using Beacon™ Quick Grip All Purpose Adhesive and let it dry for a while.

This is a very simple idea that you can use as inspiration because we have a lot of molds to choose from, and you can create your frame with any other theme and make something special for Mom, Dad, Halloween, Christmas, with flowers, or any other occasion.

I hope you are inspired with my tutorial and comeback soon to share with us!

Enjoy, Martha Lucia

Never Grow Up Flower Memory Frame by Lisa Haney

Never Grow Up Flower Memory Frame

Designed by Lisa Haney 

Supplies:

Makin’s Clay®

White (comes in the Memory Frame Kit)

Recommended Makin’s® Tools

Makin’s Brand® Memory Frame Kit

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin’s® Push Mold - Florals

Other Materials:

Beacon™ Tacky Glue

Cardboard

Exacto Blade

Oil Paint - Burnt Umber and a set of colors

Paint Brush

Paper Towels

Picture

Poem

Rubber Gloves

Scissors

Method

Open the Makin’s Brand® Memory Frame Kit and remove the white clay.  Open the clay with the scissors. 

Mold leaves and flowers using the Makin’s® Push Mold - Florals.  I made six each of five different   I bent the leaves to give them some shape.  Set aside to dry.

flowers, 50 bigger leaves, and several smaller leaves.

Cut a piece of cardboard which fits into the shadow box side of the frame (about 6 6/8” x 5).  Lay the picture in the center of the cardboard and trace around it.  Draw a line ¼” toward the center.  This will be the frame for the flowers and leaves.

Lay the cardboard on the Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat.  Cut  Discard the center piece.

the center piece out with the exacto blade.

Begin gluing the flowers and leaves to the frame with the Beacon™ Tacky Glue.  They should hang over slightly on each side of the frame.  Because the flowers and leaves will be flexible, they will bend when the frame is inserted into the Memory Kit Frame.

Continue until the entire frame is covered.  Set aside to allow the glue to dry.

Glue leaves to two flowers and also set aside to allow the glue to dry.

To antique the frame, put the rubber gloves on and begin painting the frame with the burnt umber oil paint.  Make sure paint into the crevasses.

Immediately rub the oil paint off with a paper towel leaving it in the details and the crevasses. 

Complete the whole frame.

Do the same for the two flowers.

Put a small amount of green oil paint on a paper towel and rub it onto a leaf.  Immediately rub it off. 

Continue with other colors until the whole frame has been painted.  Repeat any colors if they get painted over or are not dark enough.  Let dry.

Repeat with the two flowers.

Tape your picture at the back of the frame on the shadow box side..  Slide a plastic mat over the picture.  Gently push the flower frame into the memory frame until it is pressed against the plastic mat.  Slide another plastic mat into the front of the frame.

Add the poem to the opposite frame (not the shadow box side) using the picture mat to frame it.  Slide a plastic mat over the top of it.  Cut a piece of the double-sided adhesive tape from the Memory Kit and attach it to the small flowers.  Attach the flowers to the plastic mat on the poem side.

Use a different mold and repeat the whole process for the other sides of the frames!