Gift Pail

Gift Pail by Martha Lucia Gomez

Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here! Today I have a cute gift package created with Makin's Clay®.  This can be used as a souvenir for a party, or just as a sweet little present.

Supplies:

Makin's Clay® - Brown, Red and White

Makin's®

• Roller and Cutters set
• Push Molds - Borders
• Cutter Set - Flower

Makin's Professional®

• Cutting Mat

Beacon Adhesives - Quick Grip Adhesive™
Metal Pail
Paper Straw

Instructions:

Press brown Makin's Clay® into the select the design from the Borders push mold.  Create enough borders to cover the surface of the small metal pail.




Use Quick Grip adhesive to secure the strips to pail, beginning at the bottom and working to the top.   If the strips are too long you can cut them with the scissors. After the second or third loop you will need to paste the end of the strips to have the entire line around the pail.

When the entire pail is covered you can push down with your hands the strips to secure them better and let it dry 24 hours. The pail is ready!

To decorate the pail, I put inside a little bag with candies tied with a linen tread. Then I put inside of the pail a green and white paper straw that I decorated with some flowers that I made with red and white clay.

Use the clay roller to flatten the clay to about 1/8".  Use flower clay cutter set to cut desired number of flowers. Layer smaller flowers over the larger ones.  Fresh clay will stick to fresh clay without additional adhesive.  If adhesive is needed, the Quick Grip will work for this too.  Add a small ball of white clay to the center of the flowers.  Let flowers dry 24 hours.

Glue the flower to the paper straw, add a stamped or hand written sentiment, and insert into the pail with the candies.  Add a little bit of shredded paper to fill in around the candies and your gift package will be ready.

Thank you for stopping by and see you soon by more inspiration!

Martha Lucia

Flower Party Time! Gift Box by Donna Budzynski

Design Team Member Donna Budzynski shares this pretty gift box today on her blog.  We think her dimensional, die cut Makin's Clay® flower is the perfect accent!

Faux Cupcake by Cindi McGee

FRIENDS ARE LIKE SPRINKLES 

DECORATIVE FAUX CUPCAKE 

Designed by Cindi McGee - Behind These Eyes™

www.CindiMcGeeBehindTheseEyes.blogspot.com 

“Friends are like sprinkles on the cupcake of life” - This decorative “forever cupcake” would be a fun gift for a special friend.  Everyone loves cupcakes, and this would surely bring a smile to their face every time they see it!   I chose colors with a bit of an “art deco” feel for a vintage look.  I think these would also make fun party favors for a wedding or shower.  My boys came home when it was almost finished and said they though it looked real, and they wished it was because it looked really good…

Materials: 

Makin’s Clay® - 120g Natural, 120g Earth Tones 

                        - Cutting Mat 

                        - Floral Push Mold 

                        - Ultimate Clay Extruder™ - Disc #40    

Smoothfoam™ Cupcake 

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ - Champagne 

JudiKins™ - Diamond Glaze™ 

                  - Gold Roxs™ Glass Glitter 

Bamboo skewer, scissors, paintbrush, printer 

Beacon™ 3-in-1 Adhesive 

Instructions:

Paint Smoothfoam™ cupcake paper with Champagne paint.  Let dry.  Repeat with 2nd coat.  Let dry. 

Open Natural Makin’s Clay® and make a “mountain” shape with about 1/3” of the package of clay, the same dimension as the top of the cupcake.   Use 3-in1 Adhesive to mount to top of cupcake. 

Use Ultimate Clay Extruder™ and disc #40 to extrude clay and wrap around top of cupcake to mimic frosting.   Use fingers moistened with water to blend seams where extruded pieces of clay are joined.    Be sure to clean the extruder of all clay when finished. 

Open Earth Tones Makin’s Clay®.  Use flower push mold to make 3 peach flowers and 7 olive leaves.    Place remaining clay in zip lock baggy with damp paper towel or moist towelette and seal to keep fresh for later use. 

Use fingertip to apply a small amount of Champagne  paint over top of flowers and leaves, just to highlight raised areas and add subtle golden shading.  

Moisten back of leaves and flowers and mount to extruded clay frosting. Begin with first flower and 3 leaves, off to one side, then continue over the top arranging as desired.  

While clay is still fresh, insert bamboo skewer through top down into foam.  Remove. 

Print 2 copies of graphic to mount to skewer with 3-in-1. 

Apply light layer of Diamond Glaze over each printed image.  Apply very light touch of Champagne paint around edge.  Cut skewer to desired length for printed  image.  

Paint skewer with Champagne paint and let dry.  Mount skewer between printed images.  

Pour small amount of Diamond Glaze™ into a dish (amount shown is actually way more than you need!).  Use tip of skewer to apply small dots randomly over surface of cupcake.  While wet, apply gold Roxs™ for “sprinkles”.  Let dry. 

Insert skewer with graphic into hole in cupcake. 

Valentine Treat Mason Jar

This Valentine Treat Mason Jar was one of our make & take projects featured at CHA in Anaheim.   Today we are sharing the instructions for making the jar.

Create a unique Valentine keepsake treat jar for  someone special this year with Makin’s Clay® & Buckle Boutique Rhinestone accents.

Materials:

Mason jar 

Makin’s Clay® - Brights Multi-Pack, White Clay 120g (www.makins-usa.com) 

                    - Ultimate Clay Machine® 

                         - Ultimate Clay Extuder®

                         - Hearts Push Mold

                         - Crinkle Cutter Set 

                 - Texture Sheets 

                 - Professional Clay Tools

The Buckle Boutique™ Self-Adhesive Rhinestones (www.thebuckleboutique.com) 

Beacon® Tacky Glue (www.beaconadhesives.com) 

JudiKins™ Script Rubber Stamp (www.judikins.com) 

Clearsnap® Crafter’s Ink - Red (www.clearsnap.com) 

Designed by Cindi Bisson - Behind These Eyes™

www.fatcatcreations.blogspot.com 

Instructions:

1. Mix small amount of red clay (approximately 1/4” ball) with enough white clay to cover jar lid  (approximately 1/4 of 120g package) to create pink.
2. Roll pink clay in Ultimate Clay Machine™ to #3 setting. 
3. Ink script stamp with red permanent ink - stamp into rolled pink clay. 
4. Using jar lid as a template, use clay tool to cut circle from stamped clay.
5. Place tacky glue on top of lid, apply stamped clay, pressing gently to adhere.
6. Roll small amount of red clay to setting #4 on clay machine.
7. Texture rolled red clay, cut with heart crinkle cutter. Use tacky glue to mount heart to center of lid. 
8. To create push molded heart shown, place green clay in leaf areas, red in roses, white in bottom of heart and pink in top of heart as shown.  
9. Mount molded heart to center of red heart. 
10. Cut self-adhesive rhinestones and mount around outside of jar lid.
11. Extrude white clay into fine strands.  Twist strands and use tacky glue to mount to outside edge of jar lid. 
12. Add two rhinestone accents to center of roses, using tacky glue to hold in place. 
13. Cut strip of self-adhesive rhinestones and mount around outside of jar lid.

Fill with candy, cookies, flavored coffees, a small stuffed animal, or another special treat and present it to someone special! 

Bluebird of Happiness Baby Shower Video - Part 2

In this second part of the Bluebird of Happiness Baby Shower episode of When Creativity Knocks All-Star Designers Spring Series, Ana Araujo and Jonathan Fong share more great ideas for the shower.  Ana's mason jar drinking glasses have these fabulous birds nests made from Makin's Clay®!

 http://whencreativityknocks.com/mycraftspace/m/videos/view/All-Star-Bluebird-of-Happiness-Part-2

Faux Succulents with Jonathan Fong

Makin's Clay® is a sponsor of the WCK All-Star Designers Spring Series!  This week creative designer Jonathan Fong shares his clever idea for a tiered plate centerpiece and clever faux succulent party favors!   View the episode here:  

http://whencreativityknocks.com/mycraftspace/m/videos/view/All-Star-Designers-Spring-Series-Tiered-Plate-Centerpiece

Makin's Clay® Incense Pouch

What a great idea this is from the Makin's Clay® website - find out how to create this incense pouch here.  Wouldn't these make fun bridal shower, baby shower, or wedding party favors?   Endless options for the shapes - and endless scents to experiment with - I'm definitely going to give this idea a try!   - Cindi Bisson