Birthday Card for Mom by Steph Ackerman

Design Team Member Steph Ackerman recently shared this special birthday card just for Mom  on her blog.  We love how she used Makin's Clay® to make dimensional accents for her card.

Declaration of Love Card by Martha Lucia Gomez

Today on our blog we share this cute "Declaration of Love" card with a die-cut Makin's Clay® accent made by Design Team Martha Lucia Gomez.  Martha shared this card here recently on her blog.  Makin's Clay® is perfect for card making and scrapbooking as it can be die cut, cut with clay cutters, craft punches or scissors, push molded, and more to create lightweight, flexible, and acid-free embellishments!

Witchy-Boo! Halloween Card by Martha Lucia Gomez

We love how Design Team Member Martha Lucia Gomez incorporates Makin's Clay® into her beautiful paper crafting projects.  Recently she shared this fun Halloween card here on her blog.   She used Makin's Clay® and our Halloween Clay Cutter Set to create her witch's hat and ghost embellishments.

Trick or Treat Goody Card for Halloween - DIY Video featuring Judi Watanabe

Makin's Clay® is a sponsor of the When Creativity Knocks All-Star Designers Holiday Series.  In

this episode, Judi Watanabe from JudiKins shows Cindi Bisson McGee her adorable trick or treat card with a hidden goody.  Judi used Makin's Clay® to make her spooky dimensional clay bat embellishment.

Halloween Witch Card by Martha Lucia Gomez

Design Team Member Martha Lucia Gomez recently shared this adorable Halloween Witch Card featuring Makin's Clay® accents here on her blog.  We love how Martha is able to incorporate great dimensional accents into her paper crafts using Makin's Clay®!

Work Hard, Nap Hard Card by Cindi McGee

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Autumn Leaves Card by Steph Ackerman

Design Team Member Steph Ackerman recently shared this pretty autumn leaves card here on her blog.   Steph created her pretty die-cut leaves with Makin's Clay®!

Fall Card by Martha Lucia Gomez

Fall Card

By Martha Lucia Gomez

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia here to share with you my first card for the fall, my favorite season for the wonderful colors on the leaves and trees, without counting the temperature. With Makin's Clay® you can create some amazing elements for this season.

Supplies:

Makin's Clay® - White and Earth Tones -
                         - Makin's Professional Ultimate Clay Machine
                         - Makin's Professional Cutting Mat
                         - Makin's Clay Roller and Cutters Set

Sizzix® - Big Shot™ Die Cut Machine
              - Bigz Leaves #2
Birch Tree Embossing Folder by Darice®
Cardstock by Stampin Up®
Fireworks by Imagine Crafts
Quick Grip by Beacon Adhesives
Staz-On™ or Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Instructions:

1. Mix a small amount of white clay with your hands. Using the clay roller, roll out the clay until the ball is flat. Pass the already flat surface through the Ultimate Clay Machine™ in setting number 3 to create a flat and uniform surface. Using the Cutter tool and a ruler, create a rectangle. This will be the main layer of your card. Make another little rectangle to stamp your sentiment later and keep it aside.

2. Put the white layer you created inside the birch tree embossing folder. Pass the roller gently over the embossing folder and open the folder to see how deep the embossing is. If you want you can add more pressure.








3. Mix two tones of clay from the Earth tones packages and create a thin layer using the roller. This layer doesn't need to be perfect because once it is dry you can use it to pass through the Big Shot with the Bigz die Leaves.

4. Note that I mixed my clay in different forms to create different results on the leaves. Also, I mixed different amounts of each color of clay to create different tones on the leaves.

5. When you finish the leaves, paste these over the white surface created in steps 1 and 2. If the clay is fresh, these will paste naturally, if not you can add some water drops to your leaves. Let the decorated piece dry almost 24 hours.


6. Stamp your sentiment in the little rectangle that you created in step 1 using Staz On or Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I used Green Staz On.

 7. When this piece is completely dry, paste over a piece of card stock using the Quick Grip Adhesive. Let's dry for a few minutes and sprayed the entire piece with Fireworks to give a little sparkly and shimmery effect.

8. Paste this decorated layer over the card base using a hard adhesive.

I really like how easy it is to work with Makin's Clay® to create a wide variety of projects. For card makers like me, I find that the clay does not add much bulk and gives me the possibility to make different things and explore techniques that I love. Thanks for stopping by today! Martha Lucia --

Card Embellishments with Makin's Clay®

Makin's Clay® remains lightweight and flexible when dry, making it a great alternative for creating custom embellishments for hand-made cards.  Here's a simple card designed by Stephanie Bernard to inspire you to try it yourself - Cindi Bisson

Supplies:

Makin’s Clay®:
120g Red Clay
120g Blue Clay
Recommended Makin’s® Tools:
Roller & Cutters
Flower Cutter
Other Materials:
Sugarloaf Products, Inc Alphabet Stamps
Sugarloaf Products, Inc Black Stamp Pad
Mara Mi Patterned Paper
Bazzill White Cardstock
Therm O Web Zots Adhesive
10 Business Cards or 10 card size pieces of card stock
Scissors or Paper Cutter


Directions:

Mix equal amounts of red and blue clay.
 
Roll purple clay out to the thickness of five business cards.

Stamp ‘Thank You’ onto clay.

Cut around stamped image, as shown.

Cut three purple flowers.

Roll white clay out to the thickness of five business cards.

Cut one white flower.

Use leftover clay to form mini balls for the center of flowers.

Add a white flower to stamped image.

Let clay air dry.

Cut patterned paper into one 5x7 card.

Adhere stamped clay to card.

Cut White cardstock squares slightly larger then purple flowers

Adhere purple flowers to white cardstock squares and add to card.