Autumn Leaves Candle Holder

Autumn Leaf Candle Holder by Panarili

Thank you Bea Grob for the great idea to use wooden cubes!  

Tools and Materials:

Makin's Clay® - White

Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin's® clay roller 

Leaves

Wooden cube

Tea light candle

Water colors

Paint brushes 

Remove the clay from the packaging.  Any clay you are not using put into a plastic bag with a zipper top, add a damp paper towel or a moist towelette to keep the clay fresh for later use. 

Roll out the clay about 2-3mm thick to cover the cube on all but one side.  Cut the rest of the clay. 

Place leaves on each of the 4 sides except for the bottom.  Press them well

Take watercolours in fall shades and paint each side in a different shade. You may also add some details if wanted, I did so with the berries for one of the leaves.  

Once dried a bit, take off the leaves and colour the leaves.  Let it dry well.

Leave it dry for at least 24 hours, then extract the cube = that was the most difficult part))) Colour the inside if wanted.  

Place the candle inside.  Most likely it will be too deep for it, so put some foil or something else in the cube.  Then place the candle.  Make as many as you wish and enjoy the fall days. 

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

Heart Clay Bowl

Design Team Member Iris Rodriguez recently shared this pretty heart bowl just in time for Valentine's Day!  Find her tutorial here.  Iris made her bowl from a stoneware clay, and used the tiny heart from the Makin's® Mini Geo Cutter Set to cut her hearts into the bowl.

Natural Leaf Bowl

Design Team Member Bea Grob recently shared this fabulous leaf bowl made with Makin's Clay®.  

Dream Bigger Mixed-Media Canvas

Dream Bigger Mixed-Media Canvas by Iris Rodriguez

Hello Makers!

Need positive affirmation in your life? Make it happen with some art. Not only do you get custom make your phrase, but you can hang it on your wall as a reminder. This canvas was made using Makin's Clay® and the Makin’s® Alphabet Clay Cutters, canvas, paper and paint. Check it out.

Materials:

Makin's Clay® – Black
Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat
Makin's®– Alphabet Cutters
Imagine-Staz-On-Spiced Chai
Rubber Stamps
Acrylic Paint-Sepia or Raw Umber
Gesso
Scrapbooking Paper (letters, stamps theme)
Gel Medium
8 x 10 inches canvas

Instructions:

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

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

Fold the sheet of clay in half, then cut the letters out with cutters. Wipe of cornstarch with a soft brush. After cutting out all desired letters for the sentiment, let the letters dry for 24 hours.

While the letters cure, work on the canvas or substrate and embellishments. Use an envelope you already have or custom make one. Use a template from the internet or draw out you own. In my case I chose to make my own because I wanted a specific size. Trace the pattern unto cardstock paper and cut it out. Glue the flaps.

Collage or paint the canvas. I used a stamps and letters themed scrapbooking paper. Using the Gel Medium collage the paper onto the canvas. Brush on a layer of Gel Medium on top of the collaged paper; this seals the paper. Sealing the paper keeps it from getting stained or getting completely covered by the paint. 

Brush watered down gesso, do not cover completely. Let the paper dry. 

Brush on a second layer of watered down Sepia or Raw Umber. When painting the envelope, wipe the paint from raised areas leaving some in the crevices. This gives dimension. Add additional embellishments with rubber stamped images, stencils, stickers, resin or metal embellishments, additional collage paper. 

Glue the letters and you are done. No you have a positive affirmation art piece.