Die Cut Makin's Clay® Flowers

Cindi McGee recently shared  these pretty die-cut Makin's Clay® flowers she used to embellish a mixed-media project.  Makin's Clay® is amazingly versatile as it can be molded, die cut when rolled thin, rubber stamped, is lightweight, flexible, and acid free when dry.

Steampunk Mini Hearts

Steampunk Mini Hearts by Erin Reed

I wanted to make some fun hearts steampunk style to give out in an embellishment swap.  The ideas is to make 9 embellishments roughly about the same to send off to a single person, then she mails back 9 different ones back to me to use how wish.  I thought how fun to make little Valentine hearts, but then post Valentine's Day that might seem a little over done, so how about generic hearts than can be used any time, and why not do a little steampunk in it all for fun.

I find that when I want to make my own DIY embellishments, clay is my go to choice as it can be any color, shape and texture I want it to be.

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - White 120g
Makin's®

• Texture Sheet Set F - Sprockets
• Clay Tools

Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat

Tattered Angels
Eyelet Outlet Pearls
Heart Cutter
Beacon 3-in-1 Adhesive

Instructions:

Roll out white Makin's Clay® to about 1 cm depth and use the Sprockets texture sheet to create a gear pattern in the clay.

Cut out 12 hearts with a heart shaped cutter.

Roll the Merlot clay into little balls (36 total) with your palm and flatten onto the mat.

Paint the hearts with silver Tattered Angels paint to make them look metallic

Glue the little Merlot balls onto the top left corner in a cluster of 3 using Beacon 3-in1 Adhesive™.  Also glue on 3 little black pearls to the bottom right.

Paint the little merlot balls with shimmer watercolor paint in red to make them sparkle.

Here is a full video tutorial on how to make these fun little hearts!
https://youtu.be/IkOV4TAP9gU

Now you an use these little embellishments for planner clip toppers, on cards, scrapbook pages, in mini albums, really any craft project you need a little heart for!

Happy Card by Martha Lucia Gomez

Design Team Member Martha Lucia Gomez recently shared this pretty card on her blog.  She used Makin's Clay® to create her dimensional heart embellishments.

Graduation Centerpiece by Erin Reed

Graduation Centerpiece 

Designed by Erin Reed

My husband is graduating this May with his Master's Degree and we are hosting a party to celebrate.  So of course I wanted to help make some fun and unique decorations to help celebrate this amazing event!!  I have already created the Dessert Stand for these amazing cookies my friend made, and now I want a centerpiece for the food table as a fun decor item.

Makin's® Materials for This Project: 

Makin's Clay® - Black, White 

Makin's® Roller & Cutter Set

Makin's® Cutting Mat

Makin's® Clay Mixing Ruler™

Makin's® Texture Sheets - Set C 

Instructions:

I started out making the fun Mortarboard for the topper our of Makin’s Clay® in black using the Weave Texture Sheet from Set C and the Makin’s Clay® standard tools.  

1) Roll out the Makin’s Clay® with the clay roller, then cut it with the straight cutter to make a square that fits the top of the box being used.  Add in the texture with the Makin’s® Texture Sheets Set C using the Weave pattern.  This created the top of the hat.

2) Repeat Step 1 for the base of the hat but roll it into a rectangle and connect together to make a tube that the top sit s on.  Glue the 2 together with Beacon 3 in 1 Glue.

3) I then used some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist to color white string for the tassel of the hat.  Glued them to the top of the hat and then rolled out a little ball with my hands of black Makin’s Clay® and glue it on top of the string. I let all this dry as I moved onto Part 2.

Here is a video tutorial on how I made this fun little hat for the top of the cake.

https://youtu.be/Dp1zWCwlabE

As the mortarboard hat was drying I set out to create all the embellishments and the base of the cake.

1) Start with 2 small boxes of different sizes that stack onto each other, paint in white and then cover in black and white paper. Also paint the chipboard white and then spray with orange spray.

2) Cut apart 2 little paper mortarboard from the EZ laser designs strip add some of the same orange and white string from part1, and attach it with a black brad.

3) Roll out 9 strands from the Makin’s Clay® black clay, cut 8 of them and glue to the sides of the box like piping.

4) Using the Makin’s® Clay Mixing Ruler™ using the size D create 8 balls from the Makin’s Clay® White clay

5) Roll out the Makin’s Clay® white clay with the Makin’s Clay® standard roller, use a large circle cutter (I used the top of a spray can) and press the Makin’s Clay® Texture sheet C in the lace design into it.  Let everything air dry for a couple hours.

Here is a video tutorial on how I created all the steps above.

https://youtu.be/mKfyi1MOwKU   

And now... Assembly! 

1) Now that all the clay has dried, add ink the edges of the white clay doily and glue to the top.  Then glue the black clay rope around the white circle.

2) Glue the white clay balls, paper mortarboards, and chipboard to the sides.

3) Glue on various bling and pearls, and then glue the hat onto the top.  You are done!  Place your fun little faux cake centerpiece on a table for all to enjoy!!

Here's the video for the final assembly steps!  https://youtu.be/LftDQuI76Kc

Freeform Flowers by Donna Budzynski

Design Team Member Donna Budzynski had some fun creating freeform Makin's Clay® flowers and adding accent shading with colored pencils - Find out more here on her blog.