Church Window Ornament

Church Window Ornament by Carole Monahan

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - 2oz Brown 

Beacon Tacky Glue™

Mylar or Tavoos Dichroic films

Stringing materials

Tools:

Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® - Extruder discs 6 and 18

Makin's Professional® Professional Tool Kit

Retro Café stencil board gothic window

Instructions:

I used the gothic window stencil board as a pattern it is under a glass pane.

You can get the Masonite and just cover the board with clay as well.

Extrude brown clay with the larger disc 1^st 18 about 1 foot. Trim with the flat blade from the professional tool kit.

Place over the pattern and press onto the glass sheet to hold in place. 

Then extrude with the smaller disc # 6 to add the small circles and details. 

To smooth use the medium tip sculpting tool and spray with a little water. 

After the window has dried for 24 hours, gently remove from the glass and glue it on to the Tavoos or mylar sheet.

Let the Beacon’s Tacky Glue cure completely then trim off any excess.

I used a hole in the top to string the window and it is ready to hang on your tree!

Winter Banner

Winter Banner by Irit Shalom

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Makin's Clay® tutorial.  This time I decided to make a mixed-media Winter banner.

Materials:

Makin's Clay®  -  Black and White
Makin's®

• Roller & Cutter Set
• Push Molds - Christmas Decor, Christmas Nature 

Makin's Professional®

• Ultimate Clay Machine™
• Cutting Mat 

Decorative round frame push mold 

Beacon 3-in-1 Adhesive™

Light blue, white, yellow, red paint 

Stencil 

Ribbon 

Scissors

Paintbrush 

Instructions:

1. Roll black Makin's Clay®  using Ultimate Clay Machine® beginning on setting #1 and ending on setting #2. Hand cut the flag shapes as shown and let them dry.

2. Mix white clay with blue acrylic paint and make the light blue color piece of clay.
Roll to setting #3 and tear part of clay to fit the banners as shown.

3. Use stencil and texture paint to make the background squares and let them  dry.
Punch holes over each piece for the ribbon.

4. Cover the edges of torn pieces with clear  glitter texture paint and let them dry. When dry they look translucent and not so white.

5. Use Christmas Nature and Christmas Decor push molds to make large star, ice skate, bow, snowflakes and mitten, and decorative round frame mold to piece behind large star for the banner.
Use white clay and then paint the parts into the desired colors.

6. When dry paint the molded shapes into gold, red and shiny clear colors.

7. Arrange the parts over the banner and glue them with Beacon 3-in 1 Adhesive™.  Tie the ribbons.

 And now to some close ups of the finished project:

Candy Apple Ornament by Laura Bray

Today we are sharing this adorable Candy Apple Ornament embellished with Makin's Clay®.  Designer Laura Bray created this project which is featured here on the Smoothfoam™ blog.

Meowy Christmas!

Have a purrrfectly nice holiday and make yourself this cute holiday kitty!   You can find the instructions at the Makin's Clay® website!  I wonder if Santa will fill his stocking with fishy treats & catnip mice! Meowy Christmas!  - Cindi

http://www.makinsclay.com/US/eng/project_gallery/seasonal/xmas06.htm

Countdown to Santa!

It's December 1st and that means Santa will be finishing up his naughty & nice list and loading up that sleigh for the big trip in 24 days!   Find out how to make this cute Santa & Chimney decoration on the Makin's Clay® website - and check out all the other cute Christmas projects there too - Cindi

http://www.makinsclay.com/US/eng/project_gallery/seasonal/xmas02.htm