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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Snowflake magnets


Good morning, and welcome to another Creative Paperclay® project.  I wanted to show you another project I made with all those embossed snowflakes and some others.  Remember, you can emboss your paperclay while it's still wet and using a cuddlebug folder or anything with texture just adds element to your project.  I love doing this.  Click on the link above if you don't remember the post or want to see it for the first time.  So let's get started:
After my snowflakes and other cookie cutter cut outs were completely dry, I painted them with acrylic paints and inked around the edges to give them dimension.  I do that allot. 
See how using different embossing folders gives them different looks.  I love this technique. 
So I wanted to turn them into memo holders... 
So I used Mod Podge and added some papers to the front of the clothespins.  Adding a bit of glitter here and there to make them sparkle and another layer of Mod Podge to seal them well. 
Aren't these cute? 
Now I wanted to turn them into refrigerator magnets...so off to my "hoarding" bin and there I found some old 2012 calendar magnets.  Yes, I keep "EVERYTHING" 
I cut them into strips that are the same width as the clothespins and glued them to the backside of them. 
Now they can hang on your file cabinet (like mine) or the 
refrigerator (like my mom did) to keep notes or cards or whatever your heart desires. 
These turned out so cute.  I wanted to make them for my mom, my dad's girlfriend and MIL 
but also wanted to package them up cutely...SO 
I used bakers paper to cut the bags from my TBBM cricut cartridge 
scored them. 
glued them. 
folded them. 
the bottom is also glued, but somewhat fragile if you were to put anything heavy into it, so... 
I just cut a piece of cardboard to fit the bottom of the bag and used an adhesive runner  
placed it into the bottom of the bag
my hand didn't fit, so I used my scissor to make sure it fit snuggly and... 
here they are packaged for gift giving.  I cut some tags using up most of my Christmas paper scraps, punched holes at the top and used some ribbon to close them up.  I gave them to my mom, my dad's girlfriend and MIL and they loved them.

I hope I've given you some more ideas for using your Creative Paperclay® and hope to see you here again in a month.  As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Creative Paperclay DT call

 Good morning crafters...wow can you believe it's October already?  I know I can't...but I can tell by looking out my window and watching the leaves turn right before my eyes.  I love fall with all the color changes and such, but I'm just not ready for that dreaded you know what...but here I am today showing you how to use your Creative Paperclay to make some snowflake ornaments...hehehe.  I've been on the Creative Paperclay DT for 6 months already and today I am reapplying for next term...so here goes: 

First I started out with my clay and again using a cookie cutter, I cut the Creative Paperclay out and embossed the snowflake using my cuddlebug folder and just lightly pressed in into the clay as to not distort the shape. 
Isn't the detail just wonderful?
I hot glued some beads around one of the snowflakes
after I used an ink pad direct to the snowflake
to give it a pretty purple hue
Then I used some Dimensional ModPodge and added
it to all three snowflakes
See how milky it is right now?
and see how beautiful it is after it dries 
While the dimensional Modpodge is still wet
I added some glitter right ontop of the dimensional
and this is the affect you get
Very sparkly
then I also added a few drops of Slade alcohol ink
right onto the dimenstional Modpodge and it
gave this snowflakes this crazy cool affect.
I love experimenting and this was another
one of my favorite projects.

Now remember last week I gave a tutorial on using Creative Paperclay and I also had a giveaway...Well the winner was:

Amanda said...




New follower 2 the Paper Clay blog via GFC! Thanx~prhmangel at gmail dot com

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Creative Paperclay

Good morning friends

Today I want to share a project that was super easy and fun involving some more alphabet cookie cutters.  As most of you know, I am also a designer over at Creative Paperclay.  I love working with it for embellishments for my scrapbooking and cardmaking but this time I used the paper clay to make a sign for Miss Bella's door.  I am taking over decorating for her room and everything is coming together black and pink...

Here are my step by step instructions, kinda picture heavy.
I laid out some paper clay to the size I wanted the
sign to be...it measures 2.5 x 9 and then used my
fiskars embossing plates to add some flowers
Then I used my alphabet cookie cutters 
to cut out her name
now the centers of the B and A don't depress
enough, so I thought I'd cut heart out in the middle
I used the hole of a mechanical pencil to cut 
out the holes for the ribbon to hang
Here are all the pieces dried and ready to paint.
As you can see the holes in the A and B didn't
work, so I changed my mind...
I painted the sign first pink, then black and then 
washed a pink over it again.  I also painted all the 
letters pink and....
highlighted the edges with black
I glued all the letters to the sign, hot glued some lacy
ribbon around the back...glitzed up the letters with
rhinestones and added some bows with the lace.
I also made one stick pin for accent to the top
and added some pink and black ribbon as the hanger
I really love the way it turned out.

So, today I am giving away (1) 8 oz brick of Creative PaperClay.  I used half of a brick to make this sign and all the embellishments, so depending on what you want to make, it can last a while.  Be sure if you do not use it all at once to put it in an airtight container or it will harden on you as it dries by air.  I store mine in ziplock baggies after I've sucked all the air out of it.  

So, now to qualify to win this please let me know what you would make with it...have I given you any ideas or do you know of something you'd like to try?  
Also, please go to Creative Paperclay FB page and "like" them for a second chance and tell them I sent you and then come back here and tell me that you did that
For a third chance go to the Creative PaperClay blog and become a follower and come back here and tell me you did that

This giveaway ends on October 2nd and I will announce the winner 
October 3rd, so please make sure to come back here to see if you have won.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Creative Paperclay Pumpkin and button Embellishments


Good morning friends

Today I want to share a project that was super easy and fun involving some more cookie cutters.  As most of you know, I am also a designer over at Creative Paperclay.  I love working with it for embellishments for my scrapbooking but this time I used the paper clay to make pumpkins for a wreath.

Here are my step by step instructions, kinda picture heavy.
Just roll you paper clay like usual.  The thickness depends 
totally on you and how thick you want you embellishment to be.
Then just cut it out with your cookie cutter.
I picked this one up at Michaels in the 
Halloween section for $.99
I also cut out some circles that I will turn into buttons.
Now let them dry...again, drying time depends on 
the thickness of them.  These dried in about 4 hours.
Then I painted them with standard acrylic paints.
I used a stamp with embossing ink to stamp my button
and then embossed it my black embossing powder
just gives it a really cool effect.  Now you can
make ANY button to your hearts content.
Then I embellished the pumpkin with google eyes,
cardstock nose and mouth cut with my E-Craft 
and some silk leaves just for a more dramatic affect.
Now, what did I do with these cuties?
Now I started with a free frisbee we got at the
sportsman's show at the beginning of summer and
wrapped it with sparkly purple ribbon.
Wreath...
I made some stick pins and added them behind some
silk flowers that I took apart and hot glued to the wreath.
I added some glass tiger eye blobs to the center and
used my new "glitter gelly roll" pen to give accent
to the purple flower petals.  Really sparkly!!!
I hot glued 4 pumpkins around the wreath.
and added some Halloween colored
glass ornaments to more of the same
purple ribbon and hot glued one of
my homemade buttons to the center.


Isn't this just neat?  Well, I think so anyway.  I hope you liked my Creative Paperclay project today and I will see you again in about 2 weeks for another project.  I hope I've inspired you to create your own embellishments using some Creative Paperclay.  You can purchase Creative Paperclay here or you can even get it at Hobby Lobby or Michaels.