Fairy/Dragon Door

Design Team Member Naomi Scarparo shares this incredible "Dragon Door".  Naomi used the Makin's® Borders Push Mold and Wood Grain Texture Sheet to help create the door.

Magical Mushroom Pendant

Design Team Member Naomi Scarparo recently shared this adorable stamped mushroom pendant made with Makin's Clay®.  Check out Naomi's blog to see more of her fun enchanted creations!

Ladybug Keychain

Design Team Member Naomi Scarparo recently shared this adorable "Lady Luck" Keychain with charms made with Makin's Clay®!

Candy Rosenberg's Ethereal Fairy Wins!

Makin's Clay® is thrilled to be an integral part of mixed-media artist Candy Rosenberg's WINNING Ethereal Fairy 2018 ManneqART Compeition entry!  Candy hand made the bodice decoration of this amazing mixed-media wearable dress with Makin's Clay®.  We are so excited that Candy has realized the broad range of applications clay can offer to her creative designs.

Candy's uniquely detailed dress is featured in the premiere edition of Passion for Polymer Magazine, and is also on display at the ManneqART exhibit.

Read about the entire experience here on Candy's blog.

Driftwood Fairy

Driftwood Fairy by Bea Grob

Today I'm here with a new driftwood fairy. I love everything with wings, and so fairies are included. Not sure if they really exist, but I like the idea anyway....

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - Natural, Red

Makin's®  Clay Tool Set

Makin's Professional® - Ultimate Clay Machine®

Metal leaf any color you like. I used a variegated one

Glue for metal leaf

Brown acrylic paint as patina

Die and embossing folder for the wings

Wire from the hardware store

Glue E6000

Driftwood, wire, 2 beads for hands, toothpick to attach head and a stand to put the driftwood on top.

Instructions:

I started with a ball of Makin's Clay® in natural. To form the head and the neck I used a tool from my clay tool set. 

I marked a hairline and then started applying very thin pieces for torn clay to mimic the hair.

A toothpick in her neck will give a connection to the driftwood.

Roll clay beginning on setting #1 of the Ultimate Clay Machine® and then #2, then #3, and ending on setting #4.

Now I had to let dry everything over night, before I diecut and embossed some wings from a bee. (it is a set from Tim Holtz). If you don't have it you could totally just cut by hand some wings. It is really easy with Makin's Clay®, just use a pair of scissors.

I  also shaped a little bird in red, again with the help of a tool from  the tool set. 

 

I also had to prepare my driftwood. I used a power tool for making holes for the head and at the bottom for the stand. For the arms I  used a simple hardware store wire and made holes on both sides. To glue everything into the wood and also the bird on the wire I used E-6000.

To give a little bit more dimension to the head, I used brown acrylic paint. I used a stiff stencil brush to get the paint into the cracks of the hair. Then I let it dry somewhat and used a wet towel to remove the paint again from the top parts. Leaving the paints mostly in the cracks. This is sometimes a back and forth process, means apply paint, wipe it of, apply more paint and so on.

I like to mix and match in all my art, so I added some metal leaf to the wood and the Makin's Clay®. To glue on I prefer gluepaste as it dries faster but any other metal leaf glue works too.

The goal is to have the glue not completely dry, but a little bit tacky, so you can carefully add the leaf. When it has dried you can use a brush to wipe off any excess.

I also added the same brown acrylic paint as patina, and no worries it wipes off easy from the metal leaf.  As you can see I was going for a more aged, grungy look.

When everything was dry, I assembled my fairy. I used E-6000 to add the wings to the back and also to attach the beads and the bird to the wire arms.

Now have fun to make your own fairy.....

Forest Fairie House

Forest Fairie House by Sherri Welser 

It is so fun to think that in the forest somewhere is a band of fairies that build their homes in woodsy nooks and crannies! I was inspired by just that thought when creating these fun fairie houses with Makin’s Clay®!

Supply List:

Makin's Clay® - Grape Leaf (60g), Olive (60g), Brown (60g) 

Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat 

Makin's® Clay Roller 

Floral jewelry piece for front door

WelBond Adhesive for the jewelry piece and roof 

Instructions:

Roll the Grape Leaf clay into 4 small "logs" to use a a support base for the house.

Using small pieces of Grape Leaf and Olive clay, roll into organically shaped balls to resemble stones. 

Stack them in rows on top of each other and build the four walls. On some of the houses,   I began with the Olive and then moved up to the darker green, on others I started with the Grape Leaf and added in the Olive.  

I left a small opening for a window and a larger opening for the front door, and built around them.

Use the clay roller to roll Brown clay into a flat roof shape large enough to cover the top of the house.  You can use some texture to roll on the roof to create an organic look. 

Put a small crease lengthwise in the roof and set onto the house. 

Take a floral jewelry piece the width of the door and place at the bottom to create the effect of the bottom of the door and flowers blooming. 

Let dry 24 hours.  Use WelBond to glue roof to top and floral piece in place. 

To display, add real moss and place in a fun place and enjoy! 

Fairy Collage Frame

Fairy Collage Frame by Irit Shalom

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my very last inspirational post as part of the Makin's Clay® Design Team  It's not a real tutorial, but just a kind of " how to make this project" with photo steps.

Product list:

Makin's Clay® - White and Natural
Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat
Makin'sR Roller & Cutter set
Beacon 3-in-1 Adhesive™
Assorted molds
Pentart Acrylic paints
Die Versions Die
$1 shop frame

Instructions:

As the first step I made those two Makin's Clay® hearts using  white Makin's Clay® rolled thin and die cut with Die Versions XL Heart die.  As you can see the die cutting was just partial, the intricate details are embossed onto the clay instead of cut from it.  The technique leaves you with fantastic elements for your projects. 

I used different molds  to  cast a variety of shapes using White and Natural clay. I let all the shapes dry 24 hours.

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I used Pentart Acrylic paints (some are metallic) to paint all dry clay shapes. Don't try to paint them perfectly, just add some color over the shapes and let them dry.

Next, I arranged the shapes over the clay hearts and make the collage of vintage shapes, fairies and butterflies.  Beacon 3-in-1 Adhesive holds the pieces together.  Arrange the whole collaged piece over the frame.

Iridescent Garden Fairy Cameo Pendant by Cindi McGee

Garden Fairy Cameo Pendant made by Cindi McGee with Makin's Clay®

Designer Cindi McGee recently shared the instructions to make this Iridescent Garden Fairy Cameo Pendant here on her blog.   She used Makin's Clay® to create her fairy cabochon.

Gift Card Envelope by Irit Shalom

Design Team Member Irit Shalom recently shared this colorful gift card envelope here on her blog.   She used Makin's Clay® to create her charming fairy embellishment.   Makin's Clay® is ideal for paper crafting as it is lightweight and flexible when dry, and acid free when dry so it is safe for memory books also.

Fairy Heart Figurine by Irit Shalom

Fairy Heart Figurine

Designed by Irit Shalom 

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here with my very first project  in 2016. January is a perfect moth to make projects for Valentine's Day. Yes, Valentine's Day is in February, but then you need time, so here is a small clay projects that is easy to make and fancy to give. As young kids we all believed in these fairy tales love stories. So I connected hearts with a fairy image and made my own Love figurine.  Say " Hello" to my Fairy Heart figurine.

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - Red 120g, White 60g 

Makin's® Roller & Cutter Set 

Makin's® Professional™ Clay Tools Set 

Makin's® Hearts, Hands, Water Drop Clay Cutters 

Makin's® Texture Sheets - Set C, Set E 

Large heart cutters 

Clear glaze 

Fairy Dust glitter 

Step by step tutorial:

1. Use a full 120g package of Red Makin's Clay®. Roll it with clay roller from Roller and Cutter set to about 1/4'' sheet of clay. Cut the flat clay sheet to a few pieces to fit your cutters using the cutter from Makin's® Professional Clay Tools set.  Pick your Makin's® Heart shaped cutters and find some bigger heart shaped cutters in your stash. The simple ones from the baking shop will do the job (also I never used them for baking ). Cut the largest heart, the second size heart and the 2 smaller using Makin's® cutters.

2. Pick three Makin's®  Texture  sheets and roll over the cut hearts with the roller. I used the following textures, but you can pick your favorites.  Let the embossed hearts dry for a couple of hours before adding the glaze over them.  I used Lace from Set C; Diamond from set E and Curly Beard from set E.

3. Cover each one of 4 large hearts with any kind of a glaze you have. I used the one on the photo, but it's just because it is what I had.   Adhere the hearts as shown - you can use glaze to do it, but a glue like Beacon™Tacky Glue is much better. Let it dry for 24 hours to be sure the clay is totally set and dry.

4. In the meantime cut 6 small hearts with the smallest Makin's® Clay Heart shaped cutter. Arrange all 6 hearts and shown and cover them with glaze.

5. Cut the smallest hand with Makin's® Hand cutters and Water Drop shaped cutter.  I made each  hand with 2 clay cuts adhered one over another. The drops made my feet shapes, again I glued two cuts one over another. Cover them with glaze.

6. And now to the finished project. I made the base of my figurine  from the flower shaped hearts. 

Glue " feet"  over the base. Glued hands over the hearts shape. Then I made a fairy using white Makin's Clay® and a craft store mold; covered it with glaze and a layer of Fairy dust glitter (not seen much on the photo, sorry about it).

 And a bigger photo of the finished project:

I hope you liked my Valentine's project and see you next month with another one. Hint- it's all about being Lucky.