LUCKY Necklace by Irit Shalom

LUCKY NECKLACE

Designed by Irit Shalom 

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here again with my Makin's Clay® Lucky necklace.
I think that anyone needs a bit of luck. And games, any kind of them, are the most common way to get some luck together with a lot of fun. So I made a fancy 3 colors only necklace with Makin's Clay® using many different possible techniques.

Supply list:

Makin’s Clay®

White

Black 

Red

Tools:

Makin's® Ultimate Clay Extruder™- Disc #28

Makin’s Clay® Cutters –Mini Geo cutters set

Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools® 

Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine®

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin’s Professional®Roller and Cutters set®

Other products:

Glaze- DecoArt®

Acrylic paint- DecoArt®

Jewelry parts and beads- craft shop

Materials:

Let me show you all of them techniques used today:

1. Use the Ultimate Clay Extruder™ with large square disk #28 with white and black Makin's Clay® to make this charm that looks like a chess game board.   I used a piece of thin red clay that was rolled to #6 setting on Makin’s Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine® and dry to make the base for the extruded squares.

2.Make a free hand  game cube from black clay and making the dots with Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools®  top as shown.

3.Stamp with black permanent ink over fresh clay rolled with Makin's Clay® roller.  I used a Rubber Dance stamp to make this playing card Queen image.

4. Stamp with bare stamps into the fresh white clay. I used Rubber Dance stamps again and in my final project the Bingo card was not used after all. But I did use the domino piece as you can see. All pieces were hand cut with a cutter from the Makin’s Clay® Professional Clay Tools® set.

5. Use Makin's® small cutters of playing cards signs from Mini Geo cutters set to make the small pieces for the necklace.

7. Make a mold using a molding compound and a real chess game piece and cast the chess game piece with black clay.

8. Cover all dry pieces with glaze. The Domino piece dots were painted with black acrylic paint.

The cube dots were all painted with white acrylic inside the dots.

And this is my finished pieces added to a fancy multi strings necklace.  I added the word Lucky over the chess board with stickers and then covered the stickers with glaze again.

So are you Lucky? I hope you are and if not - make this necklace for some extra luck!

St. Patrick's Day 4 Leaf Clover Earrings by Lisa Haney

Four Leaf Clover Earrings

Designed by Lisa Haney

Yesterday we shared Design Team Member Lisa Haney's clever shamrock pin and today we are sharing a fun set of earrings to match!  

Skill Level – Easy

Supplies:

Makin’s Clay® 

120g Green Clay

Recommended Makin’s® Tools

Roller

Clay Mixing Ruler™ - Pointed Mixing Wand

Geo Cutter Set – Heart

Other Materials:

Green Glitter

Beacon® Quick Grip Glue

Earring wires, jewelry pliers 

Method:

1. Roll green clay to 2mm thickness with Makin's® roller.  Cut out four petals using the (Tip:  If the clay sticks inside the cutter, use the stylus end of the mixing wand to push it out). 

heart-shaped cutter.  

2.  To shape a petal, lay the pointy end of the mixing wand down the center, press gently, and pinch the bottom of the petal.  Do this to all the petals. 

3. Form the petals into a clover making sure all of the petals touch firmly in the center. Wet clay will stick to wet clay with no additional adhesive needed. (Tip:  If the clay has begun to dry out, paint a tiny amount of water down the sides of the petal.  Keeping open clay not in use in a ziplock bag with a damp paper towel or baby wipe will help keep it fresh and prevent drying.)

4.  Add glitter to the center of the clover for some sparkle. (Tip:  Apply a small amount of adhesive then sprinkle on glitter.) 

• 5. Using the sharp end of the mixing wand, poke a hole in the top of one of the petals for the jump ring.  

6.  Repeat steps 1-5 to make second clover. 

7. Let both clovers dry 24 hours, then using jewelry pliers attach the jump rings and then add to earring wires. \