Witches Hat Ring Holder

Witches Hat Ring Holder by Naomi Scarparo

With my one of my favourite holidays approaching, I wanted to make something practical and have a Halloween theme to it… I don’t know about you, but I am always taking my rings off to do sculpting or any messy crafting fun. What a spooky way to store your rings on this Witch’s Hat Ring Holder, that you can make yourself...

Materials:

Makin’s Clay®- Black, Plum Wine and Yellow

Makin's® Clay Roller or Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Machine® 

Makin’s Professional® Cutting Mat 

Makin's® Texture Sheet - 

Makin's® Clay Tool Set - Chisel

Small Dish (I used a 10cm diameter size)

Circle cutter to fit your dish 

2 square cutters, one approx. 1cm and 0.8cm 

Instructions:

Roll out your black clay to the thickest setting on your clay machine, then cut a circle to fit a small dish (10cm diameter size). Smooth edges of the circle with your fingers. Lay the circle clay into the little dish, making sure there are no air bubbles.

Roll a large sausage shape of black clay then roll tampering the top into a point. Widen the base by setting it up with the pointed end upwards. Slightly making the top half crocked so a ring can sit there. Tip - test it the width with a ring.

Place it in the centre on top of the clay dish, using a touch of tacky glue or water to adhere to the base of the bowl.

Extrude Plum Wine clay with the help of Makin's Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® and the wide flat extruder disk, to make the Witch’s Hat ribbon. 

Place the strip of clay around the base of the point hat tip with water or Tacky Glue. Smooth connector ends, blending them together.

Set aside. 

To make the witch’s hat buckle, Roll out your yellow clay to the 3rd thickest setting on your clay machine. Cut a little square using the larger of the 2 square cutters, then in the centre of that square place the smaller square cutter and cut out the square, leaving a square outline use as a buckle.

Place the put line square onto the hat ribbon using tacky glue or water. 

Set it aside and allow to dry for 24 hours in the dish to keep its shape.

These next steps are optional.

Roll out your Plum Wine clay o 3rd thinnest setting on your clay machine, then Lightly dust, dusting powder (cornstarch) over the clay. Place the Makin's® Texture Sheet Set C - Weave on top of the clay, using your fingers press and roll over the texture sheet, pressing the impression into the clay. Does not have to be a perfect impression right around, it is to give an organic feel.

Use the same circle cutter used to cut the base of the hat, cut a circle out to place on the bottom of the ring base. Adhere it with some tacky glue. Smooth edges with your fingertips.

Extrude black clay with the help of extruder, and the small single extruder disk, make an edging for the rim of the dish. Adhere it with Tacky Glue.

Again Extrude more black clay using the extruder  and the tiny hole extruder disk and make tiny strands of clay. Place in between the first extruded rim clay, just to tidy areas up, this step is certainly not a necessity. 

Allow to dry for 24 hours.

Witch's Hat

Hi everyone, Steph here today with a witch hat that can double as the top of a candle holder.  While  Halloween is just around the corner, there is still time to create some fun Halloween projects!
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​Supplies

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​Makin's ClayⓇ- Black 

​Makin's ProfessionalⓇ 

• Cutting Mat
• Ultimate Clay MachineⓇ

​Black Gesso

​Prima Marketing Metallique Paints

​Rinea Foiled Papers

Paper mache hat

​Candle Holder

Instructions
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Starting on setting #1, roll black clay through the clay machine, increasing the settings one a time,​ until I had the thickness I desired.  For this project, I ended on setting #5.
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​I found a paper mache witch hat that I thought would be fun to alter.

Damp clay will seal together without glue, so starting from the tip, I wrapped the clay around the point.  I cut off  the excess clay as I covered the hat.   I snipped the clay along the bottom edge so it would sit evenly on the brim.  ​
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​I took the cut off remnants and wrapped them around the brim, sealing them to the hat.  Again, I trimmed the clay so it would sit evenly on the brim.

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I cut off the overhanging clay then painted the hat with black gesso.  Once the clay had been allowed to dry for 24 hours, I decided to paint the hat a lovely metallic purple.

​I wanted to add some "hair" to the hat so I die cut Rinea Glossy Copper Foiled Paper and adhered the

hair under the hat.

​I then curled each piece individually by wrapping each around a craft tool.  Next, I adhered some white mesh around the hat.

​ To finish, I adhered some lovely purple jeweled spiders to the mesh.

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​I created the witch wand by wrapping black clay around a stick.  For the top of the wand, I die cut  Rinea Ebony Starstruck  Foiled Paper and added it to the top, curling each piece.

Thanks for stopping by.
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Glow in the Dark Halloween Pendants

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Witchy-Boo! Halloween Card by Martha Lucia Gomez

We love how Design Team Member Martha Lucia Gomez incorporates Makin's Clay® into her beautiful paper crafting projects.  Recently she shared this fun Halloween card here on her blog.   She used Makin's Clay® and our Halloween Clay Cutter Set to create her witch's hat and ghost embellishments.

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Altered Halloween Tray by Irit Shalom

Design Team Member Irit Shalom recently shared this wonderfully wicked altered Halloween tray here on her blog.  She used Makin's Clay® to create many of the spooky embellishments!

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Design Team Member Lisa Haney recently shared these cute Halloween charms made with Makin's

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Witch's Apothecary by Cindi McGee

Witch's Apothecary

Designed by Cindi McGee

I love Halloween!  I love the silly, spooky fun, the costumes, and the creepy decorations.  A friend had given me some of his mother's perfume bottles after she passed away, and I thought they'd be perfect to alter and transform to help decorate for Halloween!   With the help of Makin's Clay®, and etchall® etching cream, those bottles, and a couple of empty medication bottles, came together to create this Witch's Apothecary complete with a bat display tray!   

Materials:

Makin’s Clay® - Green, Olive, Black, White, Merlot, Neon Green

                        - Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder™

                - Texture Sheets Set D

                - Cutting Mat

                - Clay Tools 

DecoArt® -  Metallic Lustre™ - Gold Rush 

        - Americana Decor® Chalky Finish Paint - Relic, Carbon 

Glass perfume bottles

etchall® Etching Cream 

Black permanent marker 

JudiKins™ Diamond Glaze™ 

Blumenthal Lansing™ spider button 

Beacon® Tacky Glue, 3-in-1 Adhesive 

Tim Holtz® Idea-ology® letters 

Unfinished Wood Company™ wooden bat 

Loew-Cornell™ Simply Art paint brush

Jute twine

Instructions:

Frog Eyes

Roll Green clay using clay roller until about 1/8” thick.  Place bottle on side on rolled clay, use tool to cut around bottle.  Repeat for reverse side.  

Apply small amount of Beacon® 3-in-1 Adhesive over sides and apply clay.  

Use fingers to gently transfer texture from cobblestone texture sheet to clay.

Use fingers to gently blend and smooth textured clay.  The finished result is just a touch of texturing, to more closely mimic frog skin. 

Cut jute twin strips and use 3-in-1 to glue to sides of bottle. 

Wrap jute twine around top of bottle using 3-in-1 to hold in place.  

Mix small amount of neon green clay with green clay to create marbled green.  Roll into ball and flatten to make disc about 1/2"across.  

Use black permanentt marker to make pupil in eye. 

Glue eye to center of bottle using 3-in-1.  

Coat clay surfaces of bottle with JudiKins™ Diamond Glaze™.

Grave Dirt

Remove lid from medicine bottle.  Apply black clay directly to bottle with fingers for an uneven effect.  

Impress plastic lettering into fresh clay to spell out “grave dirt”.  Let dry 24 hours.  (Thanks to my “Fairy Craftmother” for sending me these letters in a recent surprise box…. you know who you are…!) 

Randomly apply “Relic” Chalky Finish paint to surface with paper towel - do not cover entire surface.  While paint is still wet, rub to remove in some areas.  Let dry. 

Apply small amount of cocoa brown Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ paint over surface and around letters with a paper towel.  While wet, rub to remove most of paint and just leave a touch in grooves around letters, 

etc.  Let dry. 

Trace top of bottle onto cork sheets.  Cut enough cork circles to stack and create faux “stopper” for bottle.  Use 3-in-1 to attach layers of cork and then attach to top of bottle. 

  

Spider Legs

Remove lid from medicine bottle.  Mix small amount of black clay with white clay to create grey.  Cover bottle with clay with fingers for an uneven effect.

Impress spider button onto fresh clay to make spider image.  Remove button. 

Use clay tool to write “spider legs” in fresh clay. 

Cover lid of bottle with clay, create small clay “rock” and add to top of lid.   Let dry 24 hours. 

Use paper towel to apply small amount of  Carbon Chalky Finish™ Paint to bottle.  While wet, use paper towel tor remove some of the paint, allowing it to remain in the impressed areas and on some areas of the surface.  

Snake Oil

Remove cover from bottle.  Apply etchall® cream and let set 15 minutes.  Return cream to bottle and rinse to clean.  Let dry. 

Paint lid with Relic Chalky Finish paint. Let dry.  (This bottle had a row of crystals on the bottle itself, I also painted those).  

Mix equal parts Green and Olive clay together.   Insert into Ultimate Clay Extruder™ and extrude using  Disc #40 (oval) from Ultimate Extruder Discs Set B. 

Wrap around bottle, coiling so head and top of body cover the crystals on the bottle.  Use Tacky Glue to hold in place.  

While clay is still fresh, use scales texture sheet to texture snake. 

Create tongue with Merlot clay, add to snake.   Let dry 24 hours.  

Use fingers to gently add a touch of Gold Rush Metallic Lustre to snake. 

Use permanent marker to add eyes to snake.

Dragon Tears

Use black permanent marker to write “DRAGON TEARS” on bottle.  

Apply etchall® cream.  Let set 15 minutes, return cream to bottle and rinse to clean. Rub at the marker lettering tor remove it from the bottle.  Let dry.  

Use JudiKins™ Diamond Glaze™ to make teardrops on sides of bottle around writing.  (Tip - Lay bottle on the side, and apply tears a few at a time to prevent running while drying.)

This bottle had a big gold plastic bow on the cover - which just would not work for the finished project.  I used pliers to gently break away the plastic bow from the cover. 

Mix equal parts Green and Olive clay.  

Use fingers to apply clay to cover of bottle. 

Use scale texture sheet to texture clay. 

Using Disc #31, extude strip of green clay and wrap around stem/top of bottle.   Use fingers to apply light coat of Gold Rush Metallic Lustre™ to cover and clay on rim of bottle.   

Bat Tray 

 

To create bat try to display your bottles, paint unfinished wooden bat with Carbon Chalky Finish™ paint and let dry. 

Make 4 small balls of black Makin's Clay® about 3/4" across.   

Use 3-in-1 adhesive to to mount balls to back of tray to create feet for tray to stand on.