Clay Tags

Design Team Member Leila Bidler recently shared how she made colorful clay tags using Makin's® clay cutters.

Cinnamon & Gold Earrings

Design Team Member Cynthia Gougian recently shared these fabulous "Cinnamon & Gold" Paisley earrings made with Makin's® Water Drop clay cutters. 

Starry Night Polymer Trading Coin

Cindi McGee recently shared a video tutorial for this project, she used her Makin's® Mini Geo Clay Cutter Set to quickly & easily make her moon!

Spring Flowers

Cindi McGee shares a sneak peek at an upcoming project tutorial. She's giving her Makin's® Flower Clay Cutter set a workout on this one!  Makin's® also has several other clay cutter sets, including these butterfly and frog sets perfect for Spring projects!

Kitty Trinket Bowls

Cindi McGee shares her latest batch of tiny kitty trinket bowls she creates to benefit a favorite charity.  Cindi cuts each kitty by hand, but has been asked how she gets the perfect kitty eyes every time, and she shares her secret is the Makin's® Mini Geo clay cutter set!

Rain Cloud Necklace

 

Design Team Member Iris Rodriguez recently shared this charming rain cloud necklace made with .   

Makin's® Cloud Clay Cutters

Flower Tile Wall Hanging

Flower Tile Wall Hanging by Iris Rodriguez

Hello Makers!

Accent your home with this cute flower tile wall hanging. I like the Makin's®Water Drop clay cutters; you can make a rainy, water theme project, or make use of the shape for other themed projects. For instance, I used it to make flower petals on this project. Additionally, I used Makin's ® Texture Sheet from Set H (Connectors) on the substrate and the Leaves Push mold. Check out this tutorial and hopefully you will give it a try.

Materials:

Makin's Clay®– White  
Makin's Professional® 

• Cutting Mat
• Ultimate Clay Machine® 

Makin's®– 

• Texture Sheet, Set H (Connectors)
• Water Drops Clay Cutters
• Leaves Push Mold

DecoArt® Americana Acrylic Paint – Avocado, Pistachio Mint, Hauser Light, Purple Rain
Ribbon-purple

Aleene's® Clear Drying Glue

Instructions:

Using Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®, roll out a sheet of White Makin’s Clay® to the third thickest setting (begin on setting #1, then #2, and end on #3).

Using smallest cutter in Water Drops cutters set, cut out 8 water drop shapes. Cut out 4 water drop pieces using largest cutter from the set.

Slightly bend the center on the small water drop shapes.

Add Alene’s clear glue to the ends and glue the petals together.

Once the smaller petals are glued together, glue the largest petals behind it.

To make the center, make a circle shape or use a circle cutter. Add texture with the opening of a pen.

Glue the circle to the center of the flower.

Using the Leaves Push Mold, make two or three leaves.

Now we are going to make the substrate. Using Ultimate Clay Machine®, roll out a sheet of White to the thickest setting. Place the texture sheet over the sheet of clay and press down firm with your hands or roller. Cut out the sheet into a square or rectangle, ensuring that the flower and leaves fit on the substrate. Cut a hole in the center, in order hang a ribbon.

Allow all the pieces to cure for 24 hours.

Paint the substrate with DecoArt Avocado and Pistachio Mint acrylic paints. Paint the leaves with Hauser Light and Avocado DecoArt acrylic paints.

Paint the flower with DecoArt Purple Rain acrylic paint. Assemble and glue all the pieces onto the substrate. Add ribbon through the substrate hole. You now have a cute home décor piece.

Alphabet Soup Bowl

Hello Makers!

Remember eating alphabet soup as a kid. I always saw it as an educational and interactive kind of meal. You get to spell out words as you’re eating. Of course, by time you’re done eating and spelling, you soup was cold. So nice to be a kid. So today I pay homage to the old fashioned alphabet soup, with an alphabet soup bowl made out Makin’s Clay® alphabet cutters and white clay. So you can’t eat this, but you will have fun making it. So I hope you give a try. 

Materials:

• Makin's Clay®– White  
• Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat
• Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine 
• Makin's Clay®– Alphabet Cutters
• Deco Arts Americana – Warm White, Baby Blue, Prussian Blue
• Sculpey Gloss Clay Sealer
• Bowl
• Corn Starch
• Aleene’s Clear Glue

Instructions:

Determine desired bowl shape and size. For this project I used a square bowl that measures 4.4 x 4.4 inches.

Using the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®, roll out a sheet of white to the second thickest setting. (Setting #2)

Fold a small sheet of clay in half. This will be thickness of the letters. You’ll want at a minimum ¼ inch thick letters, in order to have enough surface to glue the letters together.

Dip or brush the cutters with corn starch, ensuring to get inside the cutters. This will keep the cutters from sticking to the clay. 

Cut the letters out with cutters. Wipe of cornstarch with a soft brush.

As your’re cutting out the letters, glue the letters together inside the bowl. This is good to do while the clay is fresh; the clay is pliable, can be shaped and sticks better. Do two or three letters at time. Condition a new sheet and repeat the process. Don’t do a lot of letters at time, the clay begins to dry/cure when taken out of the package. 

Here all letters are glued to each other. Let the bowl cure for 24 hours. 

After 24 hours, turn the bowl upside down, and place the clay bowl on top of the real bowl. Let it cure for another 24 hours. Because the clay bowl is a little thick, and it’s inside a solid surface, the bottom does not get enough air to completely cure. So turning it over helps.

Place a little water and glue in a small container and brush the glue all over the clay bowl. Let it dry. Then turn the clay bowl upside down and brush on glue to the other side. This helps to strengthen the bowl.

Paint two coats of Deco Arts Americana Warm White paint on both sides. Allow the paint to dry.

Paint one coat of the Deco Arts Americana Baby on both sides. Allow the paint to dry.

Paint one coat of Deco Arts Americana Prussian Blue, focusing on the crevices. Then wipe off the paint with a baby wipe, leaving the paint in the crevices. Do this to both sides. As you are doing this you will notice that you will push globs of paint through crevices to the other side. Once you are done with one side, take a look at the opposite and wipe of the globs of paint. Let the paint dry completely.

Using a make up sponge, gently paint Deco Arts Americana Baby Blue, ensuring to paint the raised areas, while avoiding the creavices. Do this to both sides. This helps to make it neat and even.

Well this is it for me. I hope you like my alphabet soup bowl and will give it a try!

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

Christmas Gift Tags

Christmas Gift Tags by Steph Ackerman

Getting ready for Christmas, I realized I needed tags.  Makin's Clay® was a great choice to create fun, dimensional accents! 

Supplies:

Makin'sⓇ Clay - Light Adobe Brown, Concord Blue, Red, White
Makin's ProfessionalⓇ Cutting Mat
Makin'sⓇ Clay Push Mold - Christmas Décor, Christmas Nature
Makin'sⓇ Clay Cutters - Christmas, Christmas A, Christmas C
Makin'sⓇ Clay Roller and Cutters Set
Beacon Adhesives - 3-in-1
Joy Clair stamps
Memento Inks
Whisker Graphics Twine
Cardstock
Pattern Papers

Instructions:

I rolled out the clay on the cutting mat.

Using a variety of clay cutters, I created an assortment of clay elements.  I used the push molds to create additional embellishments. 

 

Look at all these amazing clay elements that can be used for a variety of projects.

Now it was time to create my tags.  Using left over scraps, I assembled my tags, I used Beacon Adhesives to adhere the clay pieces.   The pinecones were inked with brown ink and the ornament was inked with red ink.

The mitten was inked with black ink before adhering to the tag.  A snowman was added to the other tag.

Both sizes of pointsettias were created from red clay then added to the tags.  Sentiments were then added.

Makin's Clay® elements are light weight and add almost no weight to a project.   They were perfect to add to my tags.

What do you think?

Glow in the Dark Doorknob Hangers

Design Team Member Lisa Haney recently shared these cute glow in the dark door knob hangers made with Glow in the Dark & Neon Makin's Clay® and the Makin's® 4 piece large flower clay cutter set.

Cabin Fever Event Workshops

Design Team Member Lisa Haney will be teaching two creative polymer clay workshops at the upcoming Creative Arts Fest Cabin Fever event in Laurel, Maryland on February 17th.

Lisa's Moroccan Lantern Beads were created using the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder®, and the Makin's® Flowers/Leaves, Geo and Mini Geo, and Flower Clay Cutters.

The Textured Fish projects were created using the Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder®, and the Makin's® Heart Clay Cutters.

Both of these workshops look like a wonderful way to explore a variety of ways that Makin's® tools can be used when creating with any type of polymer clay!