Embellished Baby Photo Frame

Baby Frame for Oliver - by Panarili

Tools and Materials

Makin's Clay® white 

Makin's® texture sheet Dots

Makin's® push molds Baby

Makin's Professional® cutting mat

CreateAlong.com tag cutter

Cutter

Roller

Cookie letter stamps

Pasta-machine

Eye shadows

Chalk pastels (blue, pink, light orange, yellow and red)

Markers (black, blue)

Soft paint brush

Tacky glue

Two sided puffy tape

Glass from a photo frame (can be of plastic as well)

Scrapbook paper

Plastic bag or foil

Nail pile

Prepare the glass from a regular photo frame.  Mine is actually not glass but plastic, but it is also fine as we are working with Makin's Clay®.

Open white clay and cut the amount needed, in my case it is about half a package, and place the rest in a zip-lock bag with a wet paper towel or baby wipe. Run the clay through the thickest setting of the pasta machine, that makes about 2mm thickness.  Make 2 appr. 4cm wide stripes. Mine are about 15 cm long.

Place the stripes on the Makin's Professional® cutting mat and cut them even.  Place the glass from the frame over the stripes. The stripes edges should be wider than the glass about 1 cm on each side.  

Then add horizontal stripes. Fresh clay will stick to fresh clay, if your clay has begun to dry brush some water in the places the stripes will touch. 

Place the Dot Makin's ® texture sheet over clay and pres gently with fingers everywhere.

Use the roller to make the texture even.

Remove the texture sheet.

 

Now add some pearl accent using eye shadows (chalks or mica/pigment powders would also work, as would pan pastels).  I do it either with a soft brush or my finger.

Take some more white Makin's Clay® out of the bag, and leave the rest in the zip-lock bag with a wet tissue.  We will be colouring it with chalk pastels.  We need flesh colour, so make some chalk powder from pink and light orange.   For the blue add some blue chalk pastel powder to the white clay.

It is time to make embellishments. We will need Makin's®  Baby push mold.  Let us make the pacifier first, the rest are similar to make.  First, we use a small amount of the flesh colour we have mixed and place it in the push mold exactly, where it will be, once we are finished.  Makin's® push molds are clear, so you will see where you put it.

Then add some blue.  And finally, make a small snake and add the handle.  Press well and then take it out.  

For the bear I used the blue clay we have made for the whole toy.  Make two small dots, where the eyes are and place white clay balls in there.  Then I colour the eyes and the nose with a black marker and add some shadowing with blue chalk pastel.

I also made two 2 baby bottles, some buttons, and a duck.

Now we will make a baby name tag.  Take some white clay out of the bag and roll it out 1mm thick.  Prepare the letters we need, in my case it is Oliver. Stamp it.

Cover the clay with a plastic bag or plastic wrap and cut a name tag with a CreateAlong.com cutter.

Take the plastic and the excess clay away.  Make the edges smooth with your finger.  Add some shading with a blue chalk pastel on the edges,  Then make dots with a blue marker and colour the letters with a blue marker as well.

Let it all dry.  24 hours was not enough for the frame, and I recommend putting something like a book over it for the frame to remain flat.  I let mine dry for another 24 hours.  To make the edges of the embellishments nice and smooth, I used a nail pile

These are all my dried embellishments.

Once completely dried, I put some tacky glue on the back side of the frame.

Place it on scrapbook paper and cut out the frame.  

Place the glass/plastic from the frame on the back side in the middle.

Stick the two-sided puffy tape on the edges that are not covered by the glass from the frame – from both sides and on the bottom, leaving the upper side without the tape.

My tape is rather wide, so I cut it off.

Cut out a rectangle the same size our frame is from a scrapbook paper and attach it from the back. The two sided puffy take will hold it together well and leave the space for the picture and the glass if wished.

Add the embellishments  - adhere with tacky glue.  And add the most important embellishment - a picture of Oliver!!!! 

PANARILI

Altered Kitchen Memo Board

Altered Kitchen Memo board

Lately we remodeled our kitchen and the old Memo board didn't fit any longer. I knew I had to make something better, while at the thrift store I found this rather plain magnetic board and I taught I gonna turn into my new Kitchen Memo board

Supplies

Makin's Clay® about 120 g, also leftovers in any color.

Acrylic Paint in the color of your choice. I had one plain in lime green and one metallic in a more teal tint.

Gesso

A frame or Memo board

Silicon Mold by Prima from Iron Orchid Design Collection

Makin's Clay® Floral Push Mold SKU 39005

So out with some Makin's Clay®. I didn't care about the color, as I knew I gonna paint everything. 

The first step was to sand down the paint and add a light coat of Gesso. This helps to have the Makin's Clay® and the paint stick better to the frame.

I did use up some leftovers clay and some red clay, but the color really doesn't matter. I did fill up the Silicone mold

I did carefully pull out the molded patterns by bending rather the silicone then the Makin's Clay®

While the clay is still fresh I did bend the embellishments around the frame. That is one thing I love about Makin's Clay® you don't need to bake it. The frame is quite large and certainly doesn't fit into an oven. 

The focal embellishment at the top I did double up, first the large embellishment again bending around the frame and then adding the angel. I did press them carefully together and have added just a tiny drop of water before layering. 

Image 6

Here I have placed all the elements from the Prima Silicone form, now I'm ready for the Makin's Clay® Floral Push Mold.

I did fill in the 3 different sizes of Roses and a leave shape 

as you can see it needs quite a bit of them as the frame is about 18 x 22 “ (or 46 x 5 cm). I did add the flowers and leaves step by step, just to make sure that the clay is still fresh when I want to bend it around the frame. Then I did let it dry overnight. I came the next morning and did check which pieces needed some additional glue (I did use Tacky Glue) but a big portion just sticked by themselves to the frame.

Next I went over with a heavier coat of Gesso, I did even paint the fabric inside the frame this time

Now it is time to apply the paint, I didn't cover up completely the Gesso, in fact in some places I even wiped back some of the paint with a wet towel.

Again I had to let it try completely before I could add some Rub on wax in gold. I simply applied it with the finger to the raised area of the embellishments, I also did add some to the frame itself.

Beach Life Decorative Frame

Materials: 

Makin's Clay® - Earth Tones Multi Pack, Black, White 

Makin's® 

• Clay Mixing Ruler
• Sea Shell Push Mold 

Makin's Professioanl® Cutting Mat 

Wooden star frame 

Round mirror 

Alphabet push mold 

Cheese cloth 

Beacon Tacky Glue®

Proxxon® Delta Sander

Plaid® Coastal Paints - High Tide, Sand Dollar and Seal Gray 

Alphabet stickers or die cut lettering

Etchall® Dip n' Etch

Tattered Angels Copper Glimmer Mist

Script stamp

Permanent ink 

Paint brush 

Instructions:

Use the Clay Mixing Ruler to create your own colors of shells, adding different colors of clay in any number of holes.  I initially chose 3 colors from the Earth Tones pack to work with.  Then I simply removed the clay balls and mixed them together.  This way you can create some very realistic looking shells.

Place the clay in the Sea Shells push mold gently pushing the clay into the cavities so the clay picks up the all the details in the mold.

Once removed, you have beautiful shells to work with.

To create the letters to spell LIFE, mix black and white clays together until you've created gray.  Then place the clay in an alphabet mold.

To create the mirror/frame, begin by sanding the frame with the Proxxon Delta Sander.

Paint the frame with  Plaid Coastal Paints using High Tide for the base color.  Then add touches of Sand Dollar and Seal Gray to create a beachy feel.  Once dry, use Tacky Glue to adhere some mesh around the right side of the opening.

Determine the placement of the shells and use Tacky Glue to glue them around the frame.  Glue LIFE in the opposite corner.

Use etchall® dip 'n etch to etch Beach into the mirror.  Directions on how I etched the mirror can be found on my blog.

Spritz Tattered Angels Copper Glimmer Mist on the shells and the mesh.  The glimmer mist adds a nice tone to the shells when it gets into the crevices.

Use a script stamp with black ink and stamp it randomly around the frame to create some additional detailing.

I hope I've got you in a beachy mood today.

What will you create today?

Steph