tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39477452953057018412024-03-13T22:27:38.615+01:00Floraphine's Creative MadnessFloraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-23094185128783894852016-07-06T21:30:00.001+02:002016-07-11T11:15:12.340+02:00Tutorial Simple Leaf Necklace<div dir="ltr">
Hello ;)<br>
Today I want to show you how you can make a very simple leaf necklace that is perfect for summer and looks really pretty.<br>
I got the inspiration from a dress I have that has really nice flowers and leaves.</div>
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<b>Mater</b><b>ials:</b></div>
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Polymer clay <br>
Blade or xcto knife <br>
Roller <br>
Needle tool or toothpick <br>
Acrylic paint<br>
(Beads)<br>
Jewellery findings<br>Round-nose pliers</div>
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<b>Instr</b><b>uctions:</b></div>
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Roll out clay in the colour you want your leaf to be. I mixed a dark green to go with my dress but of course you can make it any shade you like. Don't make the clay sheet too thin. Trace a leaf on there with a needle tool or toothpick.</div>
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Then cut out your leaf shape. You can definitely use a cookie cutter for this but simply cutting it by hand works fine. If you have a bendable blade, use that.</div>
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Make sure you round off the edges really well with your fingers to give it a natural look. </div>
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Now onto the veins. Use a needle tool or toothpick to make indents in the clay for the veins. You can trace them first if you're unsure. Then deepen them slowly to get them accurate. You can make them as detailed as you like, I stuck to a very simple design to match my dress.</div>
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Smooth out any lines you don't want there with your fingers. If you have difficulties removing them, use a little bit of liquid clay or even water on your finger.</div>
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Now just make some holes in each end of the leaf to hang it later. You can also drill the holes after baking if you like the look of more accurate holes. This way you don't risk distorting your design, too. However, if you don't have a hand drill, make the holes prior to baking.<br>
Then bake your leaf according to the instructions on your clay package.</div>
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After baking we can add some paint into the crevasses to make it more interesting. I chose black paint but you can use any colour you like. You can experiment until you like the look.<br>
Thin out your paint with water and brush it on the leaf, making sure you cover all the little deep spots you have created. Let the paint dry a bit and then rub off the excess from the high parts with a baby wipe or a q-tip with alcohol. If you rub off too much, you can always fix this with more paint. Then varnish the leaf to protect the paint and that's it.</div>
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To make it more interesting, you can add some beads. For this you'll need a head pin. Put the beads in the colour and size of your choice on your head pin and bend a loop at its end with round nose pliers. You might need to cut the excess wire. If you do need to cut anything, I recommend filing away any sharp edges with a nail file so you don't poke yourself when wearing the piece.</div>
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Now you just need to assemble it.</div>
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Attach a jump ring on either side of the leaf by carefully twisting the open ends of the jump ring with pliers. Never pull open any loops of metal, always twist!</div>
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Measure how long you want your chain around your neck and then open up the little rings in the right place. Attach the chain to your jump rings and add a lobster clasp and a jump ring as closure if necessary. To add your head pin, put it on the jump ring with its loop and twist it shut.</div>
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And it's done!<br>
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Easy but very pretty :)</div><div dir="ltr"><br>
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I hope you liked this easy tutorial. Let me know what you think and if you have any questions.</div>
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See you soon <br>
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-77808597062912474232016-07-06T19:29:00.000+02:002016-07-06T19:29:05.661+02:00Tutorial Egyptian Scarab Jewellery<div dir="ltr">
Hey crafters :)</div>
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Today I want to show you how I made an Egyptian jewellery set inspired by ancient jewellery I saw in the British Museum in London. It contains a winged scarab which resembled the sun god Ra.</div>
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<b>Tools and M</b><b>aterials:</b></div>
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Polymer clay <br />
Metal powder/ eye shadows <br />
Blade/ xcto knife <br />
Pasta machine/ roller <br />
Small circle cutter</div>
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small oval cutter<br />
Jewellery Findings (Chain, jump rings, closures)</div>
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So here is the photo I took of the Egyptian jewellery of the British Museum... I know it's horrible.</div>
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However, I found a link to a better photo on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/silverlutra/8565206339/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>.</div>
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On the base of these photos I started by making a sketch of my design: The scarab in the middle, surrounded by an oval. For the oval I used my oval cutter as a template as I was going to use it later. Then draw an abstract wing shape next to it. You can divide it into more parts if you like. Decide where you want to have the holes. I stuck to the photos I had where I could see a lot of holes.</div>
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After you have made your basic sketch, you can trace neatly it onto some parchment paper to make it easier to transfer to the clay.</div>
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Now roll out a sheet of clay (I used black to achieve an aged finish later, but you can us brown or gold or whatever you like) and transfer your sketch to it. Simply put your paper upside down on the clay and rub. The graphite from the pencil should transfer to it. If it doesn't, trace over it with a pencil. Do one oval for the scarab and one wing and then turn it around to trace one opposite wing.</div>
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Then cut out your pieces. I cut out my scarab piece with a cookie cutter but of course you cut it by hand.</div>
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Also make the holes where they should go.</div>
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Here are all three pieces, positioned how they will be assembled later.</div>
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Now some details. First we'll make the scarab. Take a piece of clay and roll it into a ball first. Then slightly roll it into an oval and flatten it a bit. Check if it fits by placing it on your sketch. This way you make sure, you don't lose the dimensions. Trace the closed wings and that part above them with a needle tool and slightly indent it at the top.</div>
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Put the body on your oval.</div>
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Now we make the head. It looks harder than it is. Basically, you cut out a little half circle and cut out four spikes, too longer ones in the middle and two shorter ones at the sides. Smooth out any sharp edges. Don't forget to check your proportions by laying it on your sketch. Now just roll two little balls of clay and attach them as the eyes.</div>
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Also roll a really thin snake of clay.</div>
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Attach the head to the body of the bug. You can add some texture by making lines on the body and head with a needle tool or toothpick.</div>
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From the thin snake of clay, cut pieces for the legs and antennas. For the antennas we'll just need some very small pieces, make sure they're pointy at the ends. I also left some space to add a bead later for the scarab to hold.</div>
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To measure the length of your legs, lay them on your piece or sketch to get the right size. Then cut the excess, bend them into legs and attach them to your bug. As you can see, I needed long legs, medium and small ones, but it it really depends on your piece.</div>
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Now we want to make the legs more scarab-like. Take a needle tool (or a toothpick) and at an angle drag some lines starting from the legs outwards (see photo). Do this with all of the legs.</div>
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Now we move on to the wings. You can make the feather-like shapes different ways but for me this was the easiest method.</div>
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First roll out a sheet of clay at a medium thickness and then cut strips that are thicker on one side and thinner on the other. Hold your blade at an angle to do this. Then change the angle to get alternating strips - one time having the thick part in the left, the next time on the right. Now everywhere you have a thick side, cut the clay at an angle again to obtain a half feather. Leave the other side for now.</div>
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Now start placing your feathers on the wings. It's crucial that you start at the top an outer edge (see photo) if you want to imitate this exact design, as all the other pieces will overlap the first. So position your first feather with the thin end over the outer border. Then cut your excess. As you can see, I traced this rounded shape on the inside of the wing following my reference photos. This will be covered with different feathers. Position your next large feather overlapping the first slightly and continue until you have this part covered. You'll have to cut the pieces smaller and smaller the more you move to the bottom. Try to match the other wing by counting your feathers and checking now and then if they're more or less symmetrical. But don't worry too much about it. It's art. Enjoy the process.</div>
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For the small feathers in the middle sections I cut out very small circles using the smallest size of my homemade circle cutters. Check out the tutorial <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-floraphines-circle-cutters.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Then start at the bottom and place row after row of small feathers on your wing.</div>
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This is what the project should look afterwards. You can add some texture by crushing a piece of aluminium foil into an irregular ball and carefully dabbing it onto some areas of the necklace pieces. This gives it an aged and worn look once you add colour. You can also make fine cuts with your knife as texture. But don't overdo it.</div>
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Before applying any colours, we'll create a matching bracelet.</div>
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First draw out a shape you want your bangle to be. I chose to make it larger in the middle. Make sure you measure your wrist to know how long your strip has to be. After you have the basic shape, fold it in half, correct any irregularities and cut it out folded, so that it is symmetrical.</div>
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You can either just make your bangle from clay or put a sheet of metal in the middle to make it sturdier. For example you can use soda can metal. In order to do this, cut open your can and tape your template to it. Trace it and then cut out the shape.</div>
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Now we make a pretty stone as centrepiece of the bangle and a small one for the necklace. For this, roll out some translucent clay, apply alcohol ink to the sheet in the colours of your choice (I don't have bottled ink so I dabbed on colour with my alcohol markers) and then with your blade shave of some wax from corresponding crayons. These little pieces make really nice inclusions in your clay. Put them on your clay sheet, fold this and roll it out again. You can repeat the ink/crayon process but remember that the more colour you put in, the more you lose the transparency.</div>
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Mix your clay until you have achieved your desired patterns and colours and then roll it into a sheet again.</div>
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For the necklace we need a very small stone for the scarab to hold. For this, either take your smallest round cutter or try to cut it by hand. Round of the edges with your fingers.</div>
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To give it more dimension, roll out a sheet of translucent clay as thin as possible and carefully lay it on top of your stone. Cut around and smooth out any irregularities with your fingers.</div>
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Create a bigger stone too for you bracelet. Choose a cookie cutter that has the right size, put some kitchen wrap on top of your clay sheet and then cut out the circle. This way the edges are already rounded. Place your thin sheet of translucent clay on top again, cut around the edges and smooth out any irregularities.</div>
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Now you can bake the stones separately first (that's what I did) and throw them into iced water right after baking. This makes them more translucent. However, this way the the stones won't bend with the piece and therefore you might encounter problems once you bend your bracelet. I show you what I mean further on.</div>
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Anyway, before you position your stone, consider texturing the bangle. Of course I forgot to do it and had to come back to it with the stone already in place. I recommend texturing by pressing in sandpaper as this gives it a really nice effect. Now place your stone in the centre of your bangle.</div>
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To give it some more interest, you can cut a thin strip of clay and wrap it around the stone. I also did this with the smaller one on the necklace.<br />
Now we'll create the same feather pattern as on the necklace. You might need to draw another rough template for this, as it will probably have a different size.<br />
Then start arranging your feather shapes like you did on the necklace.</div>
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Now onto the exciting part: the colouring. You can use metal powders, eye shadows or paint it later with acrylics. I used my golden metal powder first by dabbing it on lightly with my fingers. To have some colour, you can apply eye shadow in a shade corresponding to your stone. I recommend applying it with a brush to get into more spots. If it doesn't stick because you have already too much powder on there, you can use some liquid clay.</div>
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Don't forget to do the same with the necklace parts.</div>
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Now remember when I told you, you might experience problems if you bake the stone in advance? Well once I bent my bangle into shape and attached it to the metal base, I got some ugly gaps where the stone was attached to the raw clay because obviously it couldn't bend with the piece. I only noticed that after baking. You should keep this in mind. However, you can fix it of course. Roll out some more clay, stuff the gaps (liquid clay makes it easier), apply colour again and no one will notice. However, this will always stay a weak point.</div>
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Once you have attached your outer part and cut any excess, I recommend baking it for 15 minutes so you don't distort the shape. Then roll out some more clay and cut another bangle part using your template. Texture that and apply colour as before, then attach it to the inner side of the bangle. Cut any excess again and now you'll just need to hide the seams by cutting a thin strip of clay and attaching it all around with liquid clay. Cut any excess, smooth out the seams and don't forget your colouring. Bake one last time and it's finished.</div>
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If you experience that the bangle sits to loose on your arm, you can screw some holes into the ends and add a chain and/ or a closure. That's what I did.<br />
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Now just add a piece of chain and closure to your necklace measuring it to fit your neck and the clothes you want to wear. You can also attach chain to the holes we made at the bottom. Always twist open a jump ring first (never pull it open!) and attach that together with your piece of chain.<br />
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And here is the finished set:<br />
What do you think?<br />
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You should wear it with a summery white dress (the fabric underneath is the one I wore with it)<br />
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And some detail photos for you:<br />
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I hoped you liked this tutorial. Let me know if you have any questions :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-12513178481425481192016-06-01T09:28:00.001+02:002016-06-01T09:28:26.685+02:00Tutorial Indian JewelleryHey guys :)<br />
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For another party theme, I made some Indian inspired jewellery to go with my outfit. In case you wonder, I don't mean Native American but Indian as from India ;)<br />
I'm gonna show you here how you can make a simple necklace, earrings and a bangle using clay, stamps and swarovski crystals. It's easy to alter this set by using different stamps, different shapes, and different crystals or beads. Use the materials you have. Enjoy :)<br />
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<b>Tools and Materials:</b><br />
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Polymer Clay<br />
Gold Powder or Acrylic Paint<br />
Oriental Stamps<br />
Cookie Cutters<br />
Metal Sheet<br />
Liquid Clay<br />
Blade or X-Acto Knife<br />
Swarovski Crystals<br />
Jewellery Findings (Headpins, Chain, Closure...)<br />
Beads (Bicone Crystals, Teardrop-shaped Crystals...)<br />
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First decide how you want your necklace to look. Teardrop shapes for example work nicely for Indian jewellery. You can look at some pictures on the internet for inspiration :)<br />
It's nice to use some graduated cutters to make the necklace from several pieces but you can of course just make one piece. Choose some nice stamps with ornaments to stamp into the clay. Of course you can also roll out very thin snakes of clay and create a design with those but it's much easier to stamp.<br />
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Here a sketch of how the necklace and earrings can look like:<br />
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I have this set of wooden stamps which are meant for stamping on fabric and chose one of them for my central piece. Roll out your clay of the colour of your choice (I chose brown which is easy to cover by gold) on the thickest setting of your pasta machine or by hand and press in your stamp. Some people roll over the stamp with a rolling pin but I found that it sometimes distorts the design. Therefore, I recommend either pressing with your hands (while standing) or putting a large heavy object on top and applying pressure to that.<br />
Then cut out your design where you like it best with your chosen cookie cutter or by hand.<br />
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For the other two necklace pieces, I chose a smaller stamp and a smaller cutter, but of course that's personal preference. I also created two more (one size smaller ones) with this stamp for the dangling parts of the earrings.<br />
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You can either decide to hang those earring pieces from ear hooks or make another piece for studs to go on. The picture below shows my pieces for the studs.<br />
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Now onto preparing the bangle. Measure your arm and cut a strip of metal from a metal sheet. If you don't have one, you can also use an empty soda can but it might be too flexible. Bend it into a cuff, you can bend it around a glass if you have one with the right diameter.<br />
Roll out some more clay and cut a strip that is slightly bigger than your metal cuff. Texture it to make it more interesting. I used this crinkled up paper (not sure what it's called :D) and pressed it in for an interesting texture but you can use sandpaper, a toothbrush or anything you prefer.<br />
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You can also make your bangle only from clay, if you roll it out thick enough. But I'm always worried that it breaks if you use it.<br />
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Place your clay strip onto your metal piece and attach it with the help of liquid clay. Smooth it down from the middle to the outside thoroughly to avoid air bubbles that will show after baking.<br />
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Wrap the overhang around the sides.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLu61OxPauhfIqrfOTff2ytPLNT803sSCBfBL_9_EJlsIDgdkj265FgM2qIRRSe9sIkj9glYlVBmm_HwRAyDscaoa2vDWriln_F_2ML77LEcbae04N-St2DBeYKLn_BJe1zvR4fgOwI24/s1600/IMG_20160514_205044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Shave away the excess clay on the inside with your blade.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLu61OxPauhfIqrfOTff2ytPLNT803sSCBfBL_9_EJlsIDgdkj265FgM2qIRRSe9sIkj9glYlVBmm_HwRAyDscaoa2vDWriln_F_2ML77LEcbae04N-St2DBeYKLn_BJe1zvR4fgOwI24/s1600/IMG_20160514_205044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLu61OxPauhfIqrfOTff2ytPLNT803sSCBfBL_9_EJlsIDgdkj265FgM2qIRRSe9sIkj9glYlVBmm_HwRAyDscaoa2vDWriln_F_2ML77LEcbae04N-St2DBeYKLn_BJe1zvR4fgOwI24/s1600/IMG_20160514_205044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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Cover all of the pieces you made with gold powder and then pre-bake them for about 10 min. Of course you can also paint them with gold acrylics later.<br />
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To finish of the bangle, take another sheet of clay and texture it. Attach it to the inside with liquid clay and shave of the excess clay again. Smooth out any seams and apply gold powder.<br />
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To make a design on the bangle I used my big and small stamps from above again and cut them out with round cookie cutters. Put on the larger circle with liquid clay underneath and the small one on top. Cut any excess and apply gold powder. Tip: you can also cut clay with small scissors (like mine in the picture) which often works better than using a knife.<br />
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If you want you can antique your pieces by brushing on watered down black paint and wiping away the excess with a tissue.<br />
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Once your pieces are out of the oven you can turn to their back to be able to hang them. Of course you can just poke holes into the front before or after baking but I think it looks nicer if you have the eye-pins at the sides. You can also hang some beads from your pieces.<br />
To recreate my look, take some eye-pins and bend them like in the picture. This way they won't fall out after baking. Place them where you want your beads to hang, like one in the middle and two next to it. Then roll out some more clay, texture it as before, cut the same shapes as your already baked pieces, apply liquid clay to the baked clay and place your raw pieces on top to cover the eye-pins. Don't make the clay too thin otherwise, you'll have bumps where the eye-pins are, like I do (but it's on the back and I'm not selling it so I didn't mind).<br />
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Here I also sandwiched a toothpick in between the layers because initially I wanted to string the pieces on cord. However, if you want to use chain, I recommend embedding another set of eye-pins on either side. If you have any excess at the sides, cut it off and don't forget to apply gold powder again at the back and the sides (or paint it after baking).<br />
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If you want to make studs, you'll have to securely embed the metal (or plastic) piece into the clay. Here you can see the baked piece of clay in the same shape. Poke your stud through. Apply liquid clay to the baked part and stick the raw piece on top, pressing it down really well to help it adhere. You can also glue the stud on after baking but this way it looks neater and is more secure. Shave away any excess you may have at the sides and apply gold powder again.</div>
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Bake all of your pieces again.<br />
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After everything is painted to your liking, you can add some crystals. If you have any with a hot fix back, you can also do this before and simply bake them together with your pieces. Otherwise, just glue them on now in areas that look nice. Use a very strong glue like e6000. I used 3 blue and 2 green ones for my bangle.<br />
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Here are the other parts. The smallest ones are going to be earrings, the other three are for the necklace. I wasn't sure if the glue was really enough, so I added very thin snakes of clay around the crystals just to be sure. You can see the difference in colour on the photo. I then brushed on some more gold powder.<br />
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Now onto assembling everything. Put some pretty beads, like the teardrop-shaped crystal beads I used, on head pins and bend a loop with your round-nose pliers. Cut away any excess.</div>
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Bend open your loop with your pliers to attach it. Always twist sideways and don't pull! Otherwise you'd weaken the metal.</div>
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Attach them to your pieces and then attach chain in the same way (or string them on cord). Add some beads in between and at the sides if you like. Assemble your earrings with jump rings and if you're scared of losing your cuff, you can also attach a piece of chain and a closure by drilling a hole at the ends and adding a jump ring.<br />
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And here is the finished set of Indian inspired jewellery: </div>
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Underneath is the fabric of tunic I wore to the party. So what do you think?</div>
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I hoped you liked this project. It's easy to substitute any of the steps here if you don't have all the materials. Just use your imagination :)<br />
Let me know if you have any questions :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-36827505649813484272016-05-22T09:55:00.000+02:002016-05-22T09:59:01.360+02:00Tutorial Manuscript FrameHey guys :)<br />
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Today I want to show you how you can decorate a very pretty frame with polymer clay that is inspired by an old manuscript.<br />
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<b>Tools and Materials:</b><br />
<b><br /></b>polymer clay<br />
picture frame (make sure it's bakeable)<br />
clay shaping tools<br />
roller or pasta machine<br />
blade or x-acto knife<br />
liquid clay<br />
gold leaf<br />
black alcohol marker<br />
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First decide on a design you want to have. I wanted to have a sort of piece of parchment with the phrase 'home is where the heart is' and a lot of flowers and vines around it. Look at some pictures on the internet for inspiration. Pinterest is a really good source for this :) Here my <a href="https://de.pinterest.com/floraphinescrea/manuscripts/" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a> for this project.<br />
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So to imitate a manuscript, mix some sand colour and white with translucent. Don't worry if you get any lint and dirt on there. This actually helps to achieve an aged look. Mix everything together and roll it out. Then roll out another sheet of translucent really thinly and place it on top. Roll it out again, making sure, it fits your frame.<br />
Place it on the frame decide how big you want it.<br />
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Cut it to size. It's nice to have some ragged edges to make it look worn.<br />
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To have a really pretty illuminated initial I made a square template with some indents and placed it where it should go to see where to write everything else. Then I indented all the other letters of the text into the clay in Gothic script. It's a little hard to see here. I recommend practicing the letters first, if you're not used to this. You can also make some lines first to know where to write out your letters<br />
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I placed my template for the initial on some clay and cut it out. Take some gold leaf and carefully put it on the clay and smooth it out with your fingers. Make sure to also cover the sides. I recommend a short pre-bake of 10 minutes at this stage because the more you move the sheet with gold leaf, the more it cracks.<br />
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Now cut out a very pretty initial from red or blue clay or whatever colour you like. Check the internet or my <a href="https://de.pinterest.com/floraphinescrea/manuscripts/" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a> for shapes of pretty initials. Place your initial on your gold-leaf clay, attaching it with liquid clay.<br />
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Position your finished initial piece on your frame, again using liquid clay underneath. You can also make a design into the initial. I chose some simple leaves that I indented with my clay tools. You'll see it better once I add the colour. You can then pre-bake the whole frame again to make the next step easier. This way you don't have to worry about distortion. Unfortunately, I got some air bubbles under the big parchment sheet, that went upwards in the oven. But don't worry, if this happens. Just put something heavy (like a big book) on top of your frame once it's out of the oven. It will even out this way.<br />
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Now the vines. Around the texts of manuscript folios you often have these beautiful floral decorations. To imitate those, start with rolling out some black clay into very thin snakes and put them on your frame in swirls. To help them stick, first trace the swirly vine with liquid clay and then put the snakes on top.<br />
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I discovered that it's easiest to start at the end of the swirl (check the picture). Simply stick the end down and then let the rest sort of fall into place naturally.<br />
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Here you can see again how I start a swirl. I also made a cute heart on the right side.<br />
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I made the same leaf design on the heart as on the initial. Also make small swirls attached to the bigger swirls and simple stems so add flowers and leaves later.<br />
Here I also have already coloured the letters in black. I used an alcohol marker for this.<br />
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For the flowers, roll some logs in the colours you want the flowers to be, and you'll also need a sheet of black clay.<br />
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Wrap the logs into the black sheet, cut the excess and smooth out the seams.<br />
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Reduce your new canes to the size you want your flowers to be by rolling them on your table and carefully stretching them. Then pinch one side between your fingers to create a teardrop shape. Cut slices from that, three for each flower, and attach them on your frame with liquid clay.<br />
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To make the golden leaves, I covered some clay with gold leaf again and cut out the shapes with a very small cutter. I made the cutter from the metal part of a paint brush on which I pinched one end with pliers. To see in detail how to make these small cutters check out my <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-floraphines-circle-cutters.html" target="_blank">circle cutter tutorial</a>.<br />
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Bake your frame one last time according to the instructions on your clay package or for 30 min at 100° C. Then colour the inside of your initial and heart with white acrylic paint.<br />
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You can also paint a border around the golden leaves with a black marker. Put varnish on the whole piece to protect it and that's it.<br />
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So what do you think? I'm quite pleased how it turned out :) I hope you like this tutorial and give it a try. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments :)<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-18591844611946451372016-05-14T12:55:00.000+02:002016-05-16T21:20:39.683+02:00Tutorial Zentangle ShoesHey guys :)<br />
Today I want to share how I designed my new shoes :) I simply drew on some zentangle patterns, choosing only the ones that resemble flowers and leaves. It looks really complicated but actually isn't. You just need a cheap pair of white shoes and a black waterproof pen.<br />
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bright shoes<br />
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Actually you're not supposed to draw out your designs in pencil first in zentangle art but I'm not a spontaneous person and since this is only my second try, I just had to draw it in pencil first.<br />
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Here an overview of the zentangle patterns from my sketch book. I needed them as reference, they're not stuck in my head, yet.<br />
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You should of course come up with your own design that suits you and not just copy mine. But I'll still show you the process of how I did it. It's pretty self-explanatory but I still try to say a couple of things :)<br />
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I decided to draw a flower first, starting with the centre. Draw a circle and a larger circle around it. I filled the ring with small circles and made a dot in the centre.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Zentangle Shoes</td></tr>
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Then draw petals around it. You can make them round or leaf shaped. In between those I made more petals. Into the first layer of petals I drew some lines and just one line with a dot at the end.<br />
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Then I started with some leaves. You can make a line first for the stem and then draw on petals. See the start of it at the right side.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Zentangle Shoes</td></tr>
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You can draw in lines for the veins and a dot if you like. This pattern is called Flux, in case you want to see some more examples. I also added some vines (Opus) between the leaf pattern.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Zentangle Shoes</td></tr>
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<b></b>At the back of the first shoe I added another flower. Start with two circles again and then draw round petals with lines inside. I then added lines with dots at the end.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Zentangle Shoes</td></tr>
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I also added lines between the petals that are shorter. Then you can draw more 'petals' around the lines.<br />
Also make a design at the top. You can go with the stitching of the shoe. Make a line around the stitching and then half circles. Make a dot inside. Trace around them with another line. I had some more space, so I added some circles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Zentangle Shoes</td></tr>
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Trace the other stitching line as well. Make another pattern in between like little lines. Add more patterns on the sides. Like some more leavy/ feathery patterns. This one is called Verdigogh. I drew it on both sides.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Zentangle Shoes</td></tr>
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Now the next shoe. Here I started with some leaves. First the outlines of the leaves, I have three here but I added two more at the sides. Uneven numbers usually make it more pleasing to the eye. Add another leaf shape inside the first and another very small one. It's pretty to colour the inner leaf in and then you can add some lines on the outer one.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Zentangle Shoes</td></tr>
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Now time to add some flowers. Draw the centres first again and then the petals. This flower there is called Henna Drum. It's like a daisy and I think it's really pretty but easy to draw. Here is the first layer of petals.<br />
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To make it fuller, I added another layer of petals in between the first one and lines into the petals.<br />
I then added some more vines going upwards.<br />
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At the side of the shoe I drew a combination of Zinger and Poke Leaf. With both patterns, you start with the stem. Then for Poke Leaf, just draw a leaf around the stem. For Zinger, draw a ring around the stem. Draw another ring on top which is bigger and repeat. Then draw smaller rings until you come to a point. Make sure that the patterns overlap to make them look pretty.<br />
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On the other side, I drew out flowers. I chose Dyon and Cyme for this. For Dyon, draw out about five curved lines in a star shape (see the one on the right). Connect those with more curved lines (see the third from the right). You can then add some more lines inside the flower (see the one on the left). Cyme is also easy. Draw out a four-petal flower (see second from the right). Add more petals in between the first ones (see third from the left) and make a dot in the middle. You can then draw in some lines (see second from the left).<br />
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Draw in stems underneath the flowers and then leaves. It's prettier if they overlap. I chose to make round petals for the dyon-flowers and pointy ones for the cyme-flowers.<br />
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At the back of this shoe I also drew out another flower. As before, start with the centre by drawing out circles. Then add the petals. This time I chose some daisy petals.<br />
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You can then fill it with patterns again. The petals got some lines as veins and the inside of the centre some small circles. I drew some more veines to fill the space, too.<br />
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Here you can see both shoes from the back.<br />
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And a picture from the front of both shoes:<br />
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Here they are from the side:<br />
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And from the other side:<br />
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Now what do you think? Do you like them? I think, they turned out pretty good for my second attempt :) I mean you can buy shoes like this for a lot of money. But you can just make them yourself :)<br />
Let me know what you think in a comment :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-53056970836666775722016-05-08T15:40:00.000+02:002016-05-08T15:40:02.088+02:00Tutorial Primrose DecorHello guys,<br />
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this time I want to show you, what I made for my mum on mother's day. I couldn't show you any earlier, because she reads my blog :D<br />
My mum loves flowers and decor so I attempted to make a primrose that was as realistic as possible. I think it turned out quite nicely for my first attempt :)<br />
You don't need to make any canes for this, Just have a little patience :)<br />
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<b>Materials:</b><br />
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polymer clay<br />
real primrose and leaf if possible<br />
pasta machine or roller<br />
blade or xacto knife<br />
water or baby powder<br />
chalk pastels and/or acrylic paint<br />
paint brush<br />
eye or head pins<br />
tooth pick<br />
<a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-needle-tool.html" target="_blank">needle tool</a><br />
aluminium foil<br />
cardboard<br />
decorative stone<br />
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<b>Instructions:</b><br />
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Try to find a real primrose and leaf (hopefully in your own garden :D) If you can't find one, you can use pictures but it's easier with a real one. This way you get the size, the colours and the textures right.<br />
Here's mine:<br />
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Now we start with the flower. Roll out some clay in the colour you want your flower to be. Make a really thin sheet. I think I used 7 on my pasta machine (9 is the thinnest). Trace a heart shape with a stem into your clay and cut it out. Use the first one as a template and place it on your clay again to trace the other four. If your clay is really sticky, you can also make a template from paper first. Cut out all five petals.<br />
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Cut out some strips of yellow with points at one end. Place them on your petals with the pointy end about one third on the petal.<br />
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Take a toothpick and drag lines on your petals from the outside to the inside to blend the clay together and create texture at the same time.<br />
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Carefully take your petals from your work surface. To do this, you hold your blade at an angle and slide it underneath. That way, they don't rip apart.<br />
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Flatten the borders of the petals between your fingers to make them thinner and not as regular. Then place it on your work surface again and make veins on both sides of the petals with a needle tool or wire brush. Then at the back side, brush on some colour by scraping off pigments off a chalk pastel with your blade. If you don't have chalk pastels, you can use acrylics, too. You can also brush on some yellow if you like.<br />
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Now make the stem. It has to be very very small, so take a head or eye pin or a piece of wire and place a very small piece of light green clay on top. Liquid clay can help it stick better or glue it on after baking if it falls off. Then paint the wire in light green acrylics.<br />
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Now it gets a little bit difficult. Take your time for this. Take your first petal and place it on your wire and wrap the long strip at the bottom around it.<br />
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Take another petal and wrap it around as well, making sure they overlap. Continue until all five petals are on there. Make sure that once you place the last petal, it overlaps on one side as well and on the other side it goes underneath, it shouldn't just lay on top.<br />
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To secure everything, twist the stem between your finger until it's smooth. Take a dotting tool and shape the middle with it, so the hole around the stem gets a bit larger. Make sure the stem doesn't stick out too much.<br />
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Now you need a base to bake your flower on. You can make one out of clay (then you have to make sure to have something in between, so it doesn't stick together) or aluminium foil. Make a ball first and then an indent inside - using a ball tool for the indent should make it easy.<br />
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Make some really small leaf shapes and fold them on a needle tool. They are for underneath the flower. You need five for each flower.<br />
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Place them carefully on the flower stem underneath the petals. and then twist them with your fingers again to connect them. Cut off any excess and paint the rest of the wire green. If you don't succeed with those little leaves, just skip them, they're not as important and really difficult to attach.</div>
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Then place your flower into your foil indent and bake.</div>
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Now the leaves. Mix some green clay. Add in a little bit of brown to not have a bluish green. You can mix a lighter shade and then brush on pastels on the high points or acrylics if you like. Or just mix the right shade and then paint the veins lighter after baking.<br />
Roll out your clay very thinly, like you did with the petals. Mist your leaf with water or baby powder and press it into your clay carefully with your fingers. You could use a roller but I found that the indent gets blurry if you do. Then cut it out. Don't make the edges too straight.<br />
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Slide your blade underneath and turn your leaf around. place an eye pin or head pin were the stem is (check the picture) the thick part should be on the leaf, so that it doesn't slide out. Cut a strip of clay to secure it.<br />
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Place your strip of clay on the back of your leaf all the way up to the end, to support the middle vein, as the clay has most likely become really thin at that part. Now you can dust on some chalk pastel to give it some colour (or do it after baking with acrylics). Twist the ends a bit.<br />
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Make another base from foil to bake it on and place on your leaf. The sides shouldn't lay too flat but have ridges and be a bit wrinkled. Depending on how many leaves you make, you will have to make more bases. Or bake it on there for just a couple of minutes and then remove it and bake until fully cured. This way, you can use the base for the next leaf. After baking, you can add some more clay to the stem. It's better to bend the wire into place (a slight curve) before adding the clay.<br />
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Don't forget to fix the colours after baking. I diluted some really light green paint with water and brushed them into all the little crevasses. I wiped away the excess and let it dry. Then I used a darker green and dry-brushed it on the leaf. To do this, wipe off almost all the paint from your brush and lightly drag it over the surface. A stiff brush works nicely for this. Let dry.</div>
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To make a base for your creation, choose a large pretty stone and make a base from cardboard. Don't make it too regular. Of course you can also place them in a vase, then you don't need a base.<br />
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Spread some clay on your cardboard, press your stone into it and make the clay higher in front of the stone to be able to push in your flowers and leaves. I used air-dry clay as I can get it much cheaper than polymer clay.<br />
Now texture it. I found this amazing hairbrush cleaner to create which I couldn't walk past and this is the first time I used it for texture. I just scratched and wriggled it over the surface. It's very easy and much faster than doing it with a needle tool, but you can definitely use one, if you don't have anything else.<br />
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Remove the stone and paint the base green. I painted it before it was cured because I couldn't wait. It worked fine :)<br />
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Once the paint is dry, place your stone back on the base. Then stick your flowers and leaves where you want them into the little hill. The stems of my leaves were unbaked at this point, I figured they would hold better this way. The picture below shows how it came out of the oven... Two leaves broken off :( I had to remove them, superglue them back together and support them at the back with more clay. Then I baked them for about 15 min separately, Stuck them back in the base and baked everything again for 30 min.<br />
So, don't make the same mistake as I did and place some tissue in between the several layers of leaves and flowers before baking. This way you support the clay.<br />
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And this is the finished project:<br />
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What do you think? Did I succeed in making it look real? I think the leaves could be better but otherwise I'm pleased.</div>
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My mum loved it :)</div>
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Are you gonna make something like this, too? I'd love to know and see some pictures. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have :)</div>
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See you soon</div>
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-69797253898457477072016-05-06T14:09:00.000+02:002016-05-06T14:09:56.603+02:00Tutorial Steampunk Jewellery<div dir="ltr">
Hey there :)</div>
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As I'm going to my first steampunk festival this weekend, I really needed some jewellery to go with my outfit :)<br />
I decided to make a steampunk cat necklace together with earrings and a bracelet. I also upcycled a ring and made a hair pin.</div>
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<b>Materials:</b><br />
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Polymer clay (e.g. brown, black, metallic colours)<br />
Blade<br />
Roller or pasta machine<br />
Needle tool<br />
Aluminium foil<br />
Tiny screws<br />
Gears (from old watch or <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wholesale-Mix-30pcs-Vintage-Charms-Gear-Pendant-Antique-bronze-Fit-Bracelets-Necklace-DIY-Metal-Jewelry-Making/32373616467.html" target="_blank">bought ones</a>)<br />
Black paint<br />
Jewellery findings (head pins, jump rings etc.)<br />
Pliers<br />
Resin or glaze<br />
Small round silicone mold</div>
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<b>Instructions</b><b>:</b></div>
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First I made a sketch of my necklace. I wanted it to be a cat's head with gears and screws and different (faux) materials.<br />
Trace your sketch onto a piece of (parchment) paper so you can use it as a template for the head shape and the different parts.<br />
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I used black clay as a base colour and rolled it out pretty thick to give it dimension and to be able to stick your screws and stuff in. If you make it too thin, they will poke out of the bottom. Place your template onto your clay and trace it with a pencil. It will indent into the clay. Then cut out your shape and round off the edges.</div>
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I shaped the ears and attached them separately and indented them a bit. Then I rolled out two equally small balls from reddish-brown (caramel) clay to put as the cheeks. The chin just stayed as it was traced through the template but I made a nose from black clay. For this I rolled a tiny ball, made it a triangular shape and carefully pushed in the two sides for the nostrils. I poked holes in there and then made a slit into the lower part like cats usually have.<br />
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Then I rolled out a sheet of the reddish brown clay and using my template I traced around the parts that I wanted to be a different colour. I put them on the piece where I wanted them to go and then poked holes with my needle tool where the parts meet so it looks sewn or saughtered together.<br />
Once you have added all your clay parts you should texture it as it will be harder later on when you have your metal pieces already in there. Because my mum said "cool, this looks like leather" I changed plans and started texturing it like leather instead of aiming at a metal appearance which I had in mind before. <br />
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Leather texture is quite easy to achieve. Simply crumple up a small piece of aluminium foil, straighten it again and crumple again until it shows a nice indented texture. Then just dab it on your piece until you have the desired effect. Turn the foil as you go to make it more interesting. The good thing: you can use the foil again and again and it costs you nothing.<br />
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Now the fun part: gears and screws.</div>
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I had bought some really cheap gears from<a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wholesale-Mix-30pcs-Vintage-Charms-Gear-Pendant-Antique-bronze-Fit-Bracelets-Necklace-DIY-Metal-Jewelry-Making/32373616467.html" target="_blank"> AliExpress</a> which have an amazing quality and I searched my granddad's cellar for tiny and pretty screws. <br />
I also screwed open some old and not so pretty watches and was dazzled by the treasures I found, especially in the oldest and ugliest watch. I carefully removed each tiny screw and metal piece after each other and put them in trays. I think I opened up about five watches in total but I didn't need all of the parts for this project. The older they are the more gears and stuff the watches have.<br />
So now place your elected treasures onto your cat face. One bigger gear I used for the eye and then randomly put more and more parts in the clay. Press them in as deep as you can. The screws will stay in the clay after baking as the clay has something to grab onto. However, nails, head pins, gears and all other stuff that you stick in clay and that are not bigger at the bottom than at the top will fall out after baking if you wear your jewellery. To prevent that you should take them out carefully after baking and then glue them into place using for example E6000.<br />
I also stuck a small swarovski crystal into the eye gear :)<br />
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For the whiskers I used some head pins which I bent at the tip before putting them in. This way the clay grabs onto it as well and they don't have to be taken out and glued.<br />
On the ears I decided to add some 'piercings' using jump rings which also help with putting the chain on later (clever, eh? :D). You can also use small springs, like the one on top of the head.<br />
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I then made a cat eye cane. <br />
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There are really amazing eye cane tutorials out there where you have all those small stripes in the eye but I chose to keep it simple and quick. Simply make a colour blend from bright yellow to green. If you don't know how to make a colour blend, here is <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/04/tutorial-skinner-blend.html" target="_blank">my tutorial</a> for this. Roll your blend out really long so that yellow is on one end and green any the other. Then take a bit of black clay, roll it into a tube and then shape the tube into a leaf shape. Make sure that it has the same length as your blended sheet (with the shape at the sides) and then lay it onto the green end of the sheet. Start rolling it into a log so that you get a cane that has the dark pupil on the inside and then turns from green to yellow.</div>
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I rolled just one end of the cane really thin and left the other side thick as I will need the thick part for the bracelet.</div>
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I made an indent into my cat where the eye should go, cut a slice from the small side of my cane and placed it into its spot.</div>
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I rolled some really tiny snakes of black and placed them above any below the eye as eye lids. I blended them in with my tools and fingers.<br />
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So once you're happy with your necklace piece, bake according to the instructions on your clay package and let it cool. Glue in your gears and stuff and then you can use some deluted black (or dark brown) paint to give it an aged look. Make sure that it goes into all the little crevasses and wipe it away from the high points.<br />
I then took some resin and put it on the eye to make it dimensional and give it shine but you can also just glaze it. You can glaze your whole piece if you like or keep it matt.</div>
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I attached jump rings on the 'ear piercings', then a gear, then a jump ring again until I was pleased with the number. I made sure to switch between silver and bronze coloured gears and big and small ones. For the rest I added a chain from an old necklace.</div>
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The bracelet's main piece is a bronze blank setting into which I put a slice of my cat eye cane, textured it by dragging lines with a needle tool and baked it. There's some scrap clay underneath to save cane. I put some resin on top make it shiny.<br />
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I also created some beads from resin. I used a very small round silicon mold into which I poured resin and some small gears from my watches. I let it cure and carefully drilled holes into the sides for eyepins to attach them to my bracelet. I also used some more gears and added everything together with jump rings.</div>
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If you don't have resin you can also create round pieces from clay and put your gears in. This way it's also easier to attach the eyepins.<br />
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For each earring I used a gear and a stamped piece of clay on which I had put some copper powder.<br />
Just using a gear or two would also look pretty. Add an ear hook or a stud. I tried using a plastc stud this time and embedded it into clay. It was fine to put in the oven.<br />
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I also have a ring that I attached to the bracelet with a chain. It was silver at first and the stone was missing, so I first molded a stone to go in the empty space. For this I took some translucent clay, flattened it and gave it colour with my alcohol markers. I simply dab the colour on, because otherwise you'll ruin the pen by clay smears. If you have liquid alcohol inks, use those. I chose green and yellow. Then I folded the piece and dabbed on more colour but I think that was too much as it was quite opaque after baking. So don't put too much colour in.<br />
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You can also use some gold leaf to give more dimension. Place it on your sheet, fold it and mix it in. </div>
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Then use a mold to shape your diamond or simply roll it by hand.</div>
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Bake it and you can glue it into your desired piece of jewellery.<br />
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I didn't like the colour of the ring and decided to paint is coppery. I mixed glaze with my copper powder and painted it on. You might need a couple of coats. You can also use acrylic paint or anything you have. </div>
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Let dry and then give it a wash of black paint to make it look aged. Mix black acrylic paint with a lot of water and paint it into the crevasses. Wipe away any excess.<br />
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Here it is together with a hair pin I also made. It's just clay with some gears, copper powder and another stone. I'm not sure if I'll wear it, yet.<br />
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And here's a picture of the attachment of ring and bracelet:<br />
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However, I couldn't stand so much dangle and detached them again :D<br />
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Here you can see the whole set:<br />
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So what do you think? Do you like it? I hope this was helpful to you. I would love to read some feedback in the comments :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-31374203635795581972016-05-01T21:46:00.001+02:002016-05-01T21:46:25.789+02:00Tutorial Beer Bottle OpenerHey there :)<br />
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This year I designed a beer bottle opener for father's day and I wanted to share the progress with you :) Of course you can also make one for your mum, or anyone else who likes drinks with a bottle cap. I used a cheap bottle opener I already had and covered that one. If you have a plain one, you can of course use that and make a solid clay handle. Of course you can also make a handle for a wine bottle opener or any other handle :)<br />
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<b>Materials:</b><br />
plain, old or ugly beer bottle opener<br />
polymer clay<br />
blade or xacto knife<br />
roller or pasta machine<br />
(scissors)<br />
clay shaping tools<br />
sand paper<br />
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letter stamps</div>
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(decorative stamps)</div>
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metallic powder, paint or eyeshadow</div>
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<b>Instructions:</b></div>
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First check if the handle of the bottle opener you're using is oven safe. You do that by simply testing it. Put it in your oven and bake it as you would bake your clay. If it doesn't melt, congratulations: you can use it. I've made the experience that most plastics are bakeable if they're not too thin. But try it first. Of course if it's wood, metal or glass or something, you don't have to worry.</div>
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Now check if the piece you want to cover has any bumps and shapes you don't like. If it does, you can try cutting them off. I'm talking about things like the handle of the beer pot I'm using. If you can't cut it, you'll need to even it out by for example putting more clay into the low spots. Or just use the bumps to your advantage and create an uneven piece :)</div>
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Now roll out a thick sheet of scrap clay and wrap it around your piece. This is to create an even surface. If it's already very even, you can skip this process.</div>
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Smooth it all out and cut away any excess. Roll it on your work surface if you want, to make it smoother.<br />
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Now I covered mine in 'nice' clay. I chose black. For that roll out a thin sheet of your desired colour, cut one side straight and tightly wrap it around your piece. If it's a round shape like mine, be sure to start pressing down in the middle and then pushing the clay to the sides to avoid air bubbles. Push it very carefully and tightly to get a smooth surface.<br />
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Push it and smooth it down all the way to the end until you have all the excess at the end. Check the picture below. Then cut away then excess. You can use small scissors for that (look at my cute golden scissors in the background :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Beer Bottle Opener</td></tr>
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Then use a tool to smooth out the bottom. Preferrably use a metal tool for this to really smooth it out. You can also use a silicone one. Try to remove all the seams. I found out that you can smooth out seams really well if you use a little bit of liquid clay. Or try water if you don't have any, but not too much.<br />
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Now to add some great texture, I recently seem to always use sandpaper. Simply roll it on the sandpaper. It's best to take two pieces of sandpaper, one for underneath and one on top, and then just roll your piece in between.<br />
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You can also texture with a toothbrush or anything similar but I always find this sort of tedious... Too lazy :D</div>
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Then onto the stamping. Choose your alphabet stamps to stamp the name of your loved one and if you want and you have enough space, you can also stamp a little design underneath. I got both of my sets from AliExpress. One is an <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/CCINEE-1PCS-Clear-Rubber-Stamp-Letters-Design-Transparent-Stamp-DIY-Scrapbooking-Card-Making-Decoration-Supplies/32567803190.html" target="_blank">alphabet set</a> and one a <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wooden-lovely-animal-cartoon-Antique-Stamps-seal-collection-diary-gift-craft-toy-DIY-funny-13PC-SET/556214562.html" target="_blank">bird set</a>. </div>
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You can either stamp directly on your handle or stamp on a textured clay sheet and then cut it out and place it on your piece. I first stamped directly but because of the curve, the indents were not really even. That's why I stamped it again onto a sheet, cut it out and put it on my handle. This way, it's also not as bad if you mess up as you can justtry again.</div>
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If you have cut out your designs and placed them on, you will have a boarder. You don't have to worry about it and smooth it out but use it to your advantage and take a small dotting tool (or toothpick or something) and make dots all around the boarder in a line. This way we have a very pretty design, which will look like rivets or small nails once you add your metal powder :)</div>
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You can see the metal powder in the background already, I store my gold and copper in glass jars.</div>
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Take your favourite metal powder or eye shadow, dip your finger into it, tap your finger onto your work surface to shake off the excess and then carefully stroke your finger over the surface of your clay. The powder will stick to the raw clay.<br />
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I used both the gold and the copper to give it even more interest. The texture we created with sandpaper and the faux rivets give it an almost steampunk look. </div>
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Don't forget to stamp your <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/04/tutorial-signature-stamp.html" target="_blank">homemade signature stamp</a> into the bottom, so people always remember where it came from ;)</div>
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Here it is all done: </div>
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I'm really excited to see the reactions on father's day :)</div>
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So what do you think? Do you like this project? Are you gonna make one? Hope to hear from you in the comments :)</div>
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See you soon</div>
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-42654057716624113542016-04-26T11:29:00.000+02:002016-04-26T11:29:15.564+02:00Tutorial Signature StampHey there :)<br />
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Today I want to show you how you can make a very simple signature stamp. You can add your signature to your pieces by creating a cane for example but I never tried this because it seemed so stressful. That's why I created a stamp.<br />
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<b>Materials:</b><br />
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scrap clay<br />
blade or x-acto knife<br />
roller or pasta machine<br />
small dotting tool, needle tool or tooth pick<br />
water, baby powder or flour<br />
(liquid clay)<br />
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<b>Instructions:</b><br />
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You can use some scrap clay for this project, you won't need a lot. Roll it out evenly. Take your dotting tool or needle tool and trace your initial(s) into your clay. I also decided to have a flower as my personal sign. Trace it first and then deepen the lines so you can see it better. Once you're done, cut your design to size. Bake it according to the instructions on your clay package.<br />
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Roll out some more clay. Mist your baked piece with some water or baby powder or something and press your raw clay into it. The water or powder is so they don't stick together. Cut your stamp to size again and bake for a couple of minutes.<br />
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Now you only need to add a handle at the back. Just take a bit of clay and roll it into a cone. Press it onto the back of your baked stamp. You can use liquid clay to attach it to make it easier. Smooth it on really well with your fingers or some tools so that it doesn't come of again.<br />
Bake again and that's it.<br />
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Here is an example of how it looks like:<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-27696521956211542112016-04-17T20:53:00.000+02:002016-04-17T20:53:08.729+02:00Tutorial Faux Patina Metal<div dir="ltr">
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This time I want to show you that I tried something new.<br />
I'm thinking about getting Swellegant by Christi Friesen because you can achieve really amazing effects with it. But first I wanted to try if the whole patina thing is something I want to invest more time and money in. So I made some experiments with trying to achieve it without real patina.</div>
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polymer clay<br />
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acrylic paint</div>
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<b>Instructions</b>:</div>
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Choose a nice stone you want to sculpt your faux metal on.<br />
You first need to cover the back, so the hook we create afterwards has something to hold onto. For that roll out your clay quite thinnly (I used setting 5) and place your stone on top. Cut around the stone with your knife and then press the cut-out piece onto your stone. </div>
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Smooth down the edges with your fingers and push the clay a bit up the stone, so it becomes a nice case. </div>
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You can texture the clay with sandpaper or a toothbrush to give it some more interest</div>
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Now we create the loop to hang it. You could use only clay for this but I was scared, it would break off, so I always put wire underneath.<br />
So bend a wire loop with your pliers and bend the ends to the sides but with the loop's eye facing the sides so that you can string your pendant later. Now place your loop onto the back of the pendant.</div>
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First cover the two parts that stick out, those are only there so that the clay has something to grab onto.</div>
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Then cut a strip of clay and place it over your wire, around the loop to cover it. <br />
Take a tool and push the sides of the clay strip inside to cover the whole wire. This might require some practice.</div>
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Smooth everything out and texture again.<br />
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Now the front. For a very simple leaf design, cut out some leaves either with a cutter (see <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-clay-cutters.html">tutorial</a>) or by hand. You can texture them for example by pressing them into the ridges of a razor handle. I have made a mold from this to use over and over. However, you can also make a design with a needle tool for example.<br />
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You can also roll out some thin snakes of clay and place them on your stone as vines. Start at the top of your pendant and position them downwards and around your stone. Don't put on anything that stands by itself because it will just fall off after baking. It's best to connect every element if possible. However, if anything should fall of, you can glue it back on with some glue.<br />
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Here I put on the leaves (without vines, I changed my mind later). I positioned them like they were growing out of the bail at the top and smoothed everything together carefully.<br />
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I also made a simple cat design on this black and white stone.<br />
For that cover the back and create a bail as before. Then take a little ball of clay and shape into a rounded triangle for the cat's head. Make two really small triangles and smooth them on as ears.<br />
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Draw in the mouth and eyes with a needle tool and put on a very small piece of clay as the nose. I also pushed in some nostrils with a needle tool.<br />
For the body, form a long triangle and cut away the top. Check if the proportion is correct.<br />
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Take a ball of clay and flatten it. Place this as the upper part of the leg (the cat is sitting). Then make two snakes, one a bit longer than the other. Position the shorter one as the front leg and blend in the top, so you don't see the seam. The other one is for the tail. Attach that and smooth the seam and curl it to your liking.<br />
Now you can put your cat on the stone. I created a ground for her to sit on, so she doesn't fall off after baking. I also made some vines.<br />
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The possibilites are endless here. You can create whatever you like.<br />
After your design is finished, you can cover the whole piece in the metal of your choice. I like to use a copper powder for this which I brush on. Then bake it according to the instructions on your clay package or at 100° C for about 20 minutes.<br />
After baking you can paint on your patina with acrylics. Of course, if you don't have any metal powder, you can also paint on metallic acrylics after baking.<br />
Find some pictures of how your chosen metal would oxidise. For copper that's blue and green shades. Mix some acrylic paint in that colour and brush it into all the crevasses and low spots of your design, also at those spots where clay touches stone. Then carfully wipe away the excess paint from the higher parts. You can repeat this process until you're happy with the result.<br />
Then don't forget to put some varnish on to protect your creation.</div>
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As I said there's another way to achieve this effect. You can also mix your clay in a patina colour (for copper that's bluish green) and sculpt from this. Then apply your metal powder with your finger, so it only stays on the high spots. Someone on Facebook suggested this technique. However, mine didn't turn out the way I intended it. Maybe you can do better ;)<br />
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Here are the results. The first two are done with the first acrylic technique, the third one the other way.<br />
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What do you think of these? Do you think they look like oxidised metal? This just reaffirms me in wanting to get Swellegant :)<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-54988884998051417572016-04-15T11:53:00.000+02:002016-04-15T12:32:31.548+02:00Spring Creations 2015<div dir="ltr">
Ciao a tutti :)</div>
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Today, a little bit of Italian for you ;)<br />
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I'd like to show you some of my creations for spring from 2015.<br />
Spring is really my favourite season because I love how everything wakes anew and blossoms and smells and sings.</div>
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As you can probably tell from my name I absolutely love flowers and therefore they are also my favourite things to craft. They are also quite hard to craft if you want them to look realistic because they are so delicate. If you are making them from polymer clay you need to be really careful with baking them at the right temperature and for the right amount if time. And even then it's possible that some parts break. Therefore, sometimes it's wise to support the delicate parts with a bit of liquid clay or maybe glue after baking.<br />
I also stopped pre-heating my toaster oven because I found that the clay is not as brittle if I don't do that. But it probably also depends on the clay brand. I use mainly Fimo.</div>
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Firstly, I want to show you my jewellery for spring and then some decor items and sculpts :)</div>
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Here are my snow drop earrings and necklace I made. They're made from two canes. One for the outer petals and one including a heart shape for the inner ones. There's an eye pin going through the earrings with a green translucent clay bead at the bottom.</div>
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I also made a necklace with some leaves and some wires with beads on it.</div>
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Here my apple blossoms collection. For the necklace and earrings I made branches and put the leaves and flowers on. the flowers are cut out from one of those bakery cutters. You can buy them quite cheap on <a href="http://www.ebay.de/itm/Ausstecher-SET-Fondant-Torten-Modellierwerkzeug-Glatter-Kuchen-Ausstecherform-/181611843333?var=&hash=item2a48e8cf05:m:mSeS27RVqhhFWvDfUTXTluQ" target="_blank">eBay</a> or <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kitchen-DIY-Tools-Decorating-Cake-Pastry-Plunger-Cutters-Home-Fondant-Cookie-Chocolate-Sugarcraft-Baking-Moulds-33Pcs/32543529016.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_4_10017_10005_10006_10034_10021_507_10022_508_10020_10018_10019,searchweb201603_7&btsid=954e231c-45cf-460b-9a51-48e7e8cad150" target="_blank">AliExpress</a> in sets. I made the blossoms as 3D as possible.<br />
The bangle is made from air-dry clay underneath but I wouldn't recommend it as it's not as flexible as polymer clay. I covered it in light green pearlescent clay, then put some branches on and more flowers. For the bangle I made everything flatter, so the flowers wouldn't break off (a bit broke off anyway and I had to fix it).</div>
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This is my set of forget-me-not jewellery.</div>
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The necklace consists of a grass and a water part. I made the water with the mokume gane technique. I layered several shades of blue and the pressed in dotting tools and other round objects. Then I made slices from it and put them on my prepared shape. I made some small stones from Fimo marble and granite. I cut out some very small flower shapes with the smallest cutter from my set (<a href="http://www.ebay.de/itm/Ausstecher-SET-Fondant-Torten-Modellierwerkzeug-Glatter-Kuchen-Ausstecherform-/181611843333?var=&hash=item2a48e8cf05:m:mSeS27RVqhhFWvDfUTXTluQ" target="_blank">eBay</a> or <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kitchen-DIY-Tools-Decorating-Cake-Pastry-Plunger-Cutters-Home-Fondant-Cookie-Chocolate-Sugarcraft-Baking-Moulds-33Pcs/32543529016.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_4_10017_10005_10006_10034_10021_507_10022_508_10020_10018_10019,searchweb201603_7&btsid=954e231c-45cf-460b-9a51-48e7e8cad150" target="_blank">AliExpress</a>) from two shades of blue and placed small yellow and white balls in the centre. There are also some real pressed forget-me-nots underneath but you cannot really see them. The dragonfly wings are made from a cane of white and translucent. The water was made with liquid clay but I went over it with resin later because it didn't shine enough.<br />
I made some beads from some of the flowers for the earrings and bracelet. I also cut out leaves and bent them a bit. The light blue beads are also from clay, only the translucent ones are from glass.</div>
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These bellflowers are made from cane slices. If you want to know how to make this cane check out <a href="http://www.koralki.rooya.cz/projekty_detail.php?id=96" target="_blank">this tutorial</a> until picture 3c and then form into a petal shape. The tutorial is not in English but the pictures are sufficient. I then cut four petals and attached them into a bell shape. I added some green petals on top and a long snake of green which I bent into a bail for hanging it. Inside they also have thin snakes of clay for stamens.<br />
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I also made some tulips. The canes are made with a different technique but you can also use the one from above. The stem has some wire inside to make it more sturdy. On the inside I added some yellow and black stamens. You can bake the petals first with some paper or foil inside to protect them and then add stem, leaves and stamens and bake again.<br /><br />
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Here a spring candle holder I made for my mum. The flowers are made from cane slices (among others the ones above) as well as the butterflies (let me know if you're interested in a tutorial for that) The orange wavy strips are cut out with a wave blade, the spirals are made from red and yellow clay, pressed through an extruder and then rolled into a spiral. Then I made slices from that. The grass is just two layers of waves cut out and textured by dotting it with a needle tool. and the yellow parts are just white and yellow mixed together randomly.<br />
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This is a tea light I made for my mum, too. I first rolled out snakes of brown for the branches and then attached flowers, cut out with my smallest flower cutter (<a href="http://www.ebay.de/itm/Ausstecher-SET-Fondant-Torten-Modellierwerkzeug-Glatter-Kuchen-Ausstecherform-/181611843333?var=&hash=item2a48e8cf05:m:mSeS27RVqhhFWvDfUTXTluQ" target="_blank">eBay</a> or <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kitchen-DIY-Tools-Decorating-Cake-Pastry-Plunger-Cutters-Home-Fondant-Cookie-Chocolate-Sugarcraft-Baking-Moulds-33Pcs/32543529016.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_4_10017_10005_10006_10034_10021_507_10022_508_10020_10018_10019,searchweb201603_7&btsid=954e231c-45cf-460b-9a51-48e7e8cad150" target="_blank">AliExpress</a>) and leaves, cut out with my <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-clay-cutters.html" target="_blank">home made leaf cutter</a> and textured with a needle tool. I also added some pink chalk pastel to the insides of the flowers.</div>
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Horrible picture but pretty tea light holder with lilys of the valley ;)<br />
I cut out large leaves, textured them and placed them on my tea light holder. Then I rolled out snakes of green for the stems and put them on. The flowers are cut out with a little star cutter (<a href="http://www.ebay.de/itm/Ausstecher-SET-Fondant-Torten-Modellierwerkzeug-Glatter-Kuchen-Ausstecherform-/181611843333?var=&hash=item2a48e8cf05:m:mSeS27RVqhhFWvDfUTXTluQ" target="_blank">eBay</a> or <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Kitchen-DIY-Tools-Decorating-Cake-Pastry-Plunger-Cutters-Home-Fondant-Cookie-Chocolate-Sugarcraft-Baking-Moulds-33Pcs/32543529016.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_4_10017_10005_10006_10034_10021_507_10022_508_10020_10018_10019,searchweb201603_7&btsid=954e231c-45cf-460b-9a51-48e7e8cad150" target="_blank">AliExpress</a>) and then folded carefully, so they look like the little bells. I also strung some matching beads on wires and curled up the ends. I stuck them into the clay but had to glue them on after baking.</div>
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This little sheep has a paper and tape core to reduce weight. The fur was made by pushing a tan colour through a sieve. </div>
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These creations were all made after I had been working with clay for about six months. So they're far from perfect. I still wanted to share them with you :)<br />
What do you think about them?<br />
Have you got any questions on any of the pieces?<br />
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Let me know in the comments :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-87597013652014917682016-04-12T15:47:00.000+02:002016-04-12T15:47:59.114+02:00Tutorial Flower PendantHey crafters :)<br />
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Today I want to show you how you can create a very pretty flower pendant with a colour blend.<br />
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<a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/04/tutorial-skinner-blend.html" target="_blank">polymer clay colour blend</a><br />
pasta machine (roller also possible)<br />
blade or x-acto knife<br />
needle tool or toothpick<br />
sandpaper<br />
(leaf cutter)<br />
ball tool<br />
pliers<br />
eye pin<br />
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<b>Instructions:</b><br />
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You'll first need to create colour blend sheet. If you don't know how to do this, check out my <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/04/tutorial-skinner-blend.html" target="_blank">Colour Blend Tutorial</a>.<br />
Fold and roll out your clay sheet very long like on the picture. Make sure that the colour blend stretches out.<br />
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Roll it out really thin and long through your pasta machine or with your roller.<br />
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Then start folding the sheet as shown in the picture back and forth.<br />
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Your cane should then look like mine.<br />
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Now you need to form and stretch your cane. Take it into your hand and carefully press it and gently pull on it. It's faster if your hands are warm and the clay is soft.<br />
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Continue lenghtening it until you have your desired petal size. Roll the cane on your work surface. Make sure, the colours stay lined up.<br />
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Leave the cane as it is to have round petals or pinch the side which you want to be in the middle of the flower (for example the lighter side of the blend)<br />
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Then cut five or six slices from your new cane for the petals.<br />
Here I placed them into a circle to see how it looks.<br />
At this point the petals have these sharp edges which make them look cut out.<br />
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Therefore, flatten their sides by pinching them with your fingers and you can use a ball tool to make the petals more 3D. For that, put one into your hand, press your ball tool into it and carefully wiggle it and roll it on your petal.<br />
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You can give them even more interest by creating an indent at the top. I did this with a simple toothpick. Just take a petal in your hand with the outside edge upwards and press in the toothpick. Flatten out the area with your fingers and you get a sort of heart shape.<br />
You can also add texture with a toothpick or needle tool by dragging in some lines.<br />
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To assemble the flower, take a piece of scrap clay (like from the rest of your cane), roll a small ball from it and press it on your work surface. Then place the petals on it.<br />
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I created more indents in the middle of each petal with a tooth pick.<br />
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Then I made some leaves to go underneath. I used my home made leave cutter (see <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-clay-cutters.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a>) for this but you can also cut them out by hand. Texture them by making some lines with a needle tool or toothpick.<br />
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Roll out a sheet of clay in a colour that goes with your flower and texture it by pressing sandpaper on top. Choose a circle cutter that's big enough for your flower to fit inside and create an indent on your clay sheet as a guide. Place your leaves onto the sheet inside the circle and cut it out (you can also cut it out before).<br />
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Position your flower on top and create and indent with a smaller ball tool in the centre. Put a little ball of yellow in the centre and texture it by dotting it with a needle tool or tooth pick.<br />
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I also pressed in a swarovski crystal. Make sure that the clay around it encases the crystal, so it doesn't fall out. Or glue it after baking. Make another circle of the same size as before and texture it with sand paper. I then pressed my signature stamp into it.<br />
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I turned it around, cut an eye pin to size and bent the straight side to another eyelet. I pressed that into my back piece, added some liquid clay to bond the pieces and placed the flower circle on top.<br />
One eyelet is for hanging the pendant and the other to attach a bead underneath.<br />
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I also made three beads to function as a closure. I used my own <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-floraphines-circle-cutters.html" target="_blank">circle cutter</a> to cut equal parts from a clay sheet and rolled them into balls. I pierced those with a needle tool and baked everything.<br />
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I put a cone-shaped swarovski bead on a head pin, cut the excess and bent a loop with my pliers.<br />
This dangles underneath the pendant.<br />
When you open the loop, or if you open a jump ring, always make sure you do this with a twisting and not pulling motion or the metal might break.<br />
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I also brushed on some white paint into the crevasses and wiped away the excess. I glazed it to protect the paint<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Flower Pendant</td></tr>
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I threaded the pendant on a piece of satin string to be a necklace together with two other beads at the sides. Then I threaded the ends through one of my clay beads from each side (see drawing). I threaded on another bead on each end of the string and tied a knot.<br />
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If you have any difficulties of threading the cord through you bead, try bending a piece of wire and using it as a needle (see picture). You might need to use pliers to pull it through but it works :)<br />
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And here is my finished pendant. I made it for my sister :)<br />
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So do you like this pendant? Are you gonna make one yourself? Let me know :)<br />
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Se you soon<br />
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Today I want to show you how you can make a very basic colour blend to turn into something fabulous like a flower cane (following soon) :)<br />
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<b>Materials:</b><br />
<b><br /></b>polymer clay (two colours)<br />
pasta machine or roller<br />
blade or x-acto knife<br />
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<b>Instructions:</b><br />
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It's easiest to simply form some tear drops to start your blend.<br />
First take equal amounts of clay and roll each into a ball between your palms. Then put your hands together at a slight angle and roll again to get a tear drop.<br />
Place them like on the picture.<br />
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Put the tear drops next to each other and then take your rolling pin (or another cylindrical shape) to roll them out and together to create a sheet.<br />
Fold that sheet horizontally and roll it out again.<br />
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Fold it horizontally again and roll it out again. Always fold it so that you put the same colours on top of each other, so they are in a line.<br />
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Here you can see the blend starting.<br />
Roll it out some more.<br />
If you're using a pasta machine (which makes your life so much easier), start with a thick setting for me that's 1) and slowly turn it thinner and thinner.<br />
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Once you have rolled it out once or twice you will (hopefully) get straight borders at the sides. Always make sure that those straight lines lie on top of each other when you fold it, this way it blends much easier and faster.<br />
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Here it already looks pretty good. I've folded it for about 10 - 15 times.<br />
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If you roll the sheet through your pasta machine, make sure that the fold is always at the bottom like on the picture.<br />
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This is my finished blended sheet, ready to use and create something pretty :)<br />
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I hope you could follow my instructions. If you have any difficulties, don't hesitate to ask me in the comments or per mail :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Today I want to show you how to make a simple fairy house from polymer clay.<br />
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polymer clay or air-dry clay<br />
tube shape<br />
(parchment) paper<br />
x-acto knife or blade<br />
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<b>Instructions:</b><br />
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Roll out some clay in the colour of your choice. I mixed several shades of brown and grey together to have some texture, however, as I messed up I had to roll it out again and the nice pattern disappeared :(<br />
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Choose a circle cutter or small bottle or something else to sculpt your house on. Cover it with a piece of paper to make it easier to remove later and tape the paper tight.<br />
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Cut your clay sheet straight and to the height you want your walls to be. Wrap it around your circle cutter and cut away any excess. Then smooth together the seams with your fingers or clay tools.<br />
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Take an x-acto knife or blade and cut out a cute door. You can trace it with a needle tool first. Keep the cut-out piece.<br />
Cut out a small window using a very small circle cutter. Mine is one of my homemade <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-floraphines-circle-cutters.html">Floraphine's Circle Cutters</a> :) Texture with a wire brush or needle tool.<br />
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Use a bigger circle cutter to cut out the roof from a clay sheet.<br />
You can stick a sheet of a lighter colour underneath now. I forgot to do it and did it later.<br />
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Put your circle on a ball tool to shape it. You can also try using something else that's round if you don't have one. Press the edges between your fingers to flatten them and give them and organic shape.<br />
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Here I added the white clay sheet after baking but I recommend doing it before baking.<br />
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Add texture to the underside with a needle tool and then stick it to your base and bake. You can also bake it first and then glue it on the other part.<br />
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I then prepared a smaller circle to place on top of the roof with a little bit of liquid clay as I wanted a little swirl on top.<br />
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Place it on top and shape it. Of course you can also add this earlier in the process but I was worried of losing the shape so I prebaked the parts for 10 minutes.<br />
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Smooth out all the seams and shape the top into a point by twisting it between your fingers.<br />
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Now onto the door. You can of course just leave the opening like that or add the door back in with a small hinge. To do this, first roll a little snake of clay and place it next to the opening with a little bit of liquid clay and smooth it out. Pierce a hole into its top. Bend a small piece of wire with some pliers and stick it into the side of the door (see picture). Make sure it fits into its hole and that it's possible to twist the door.<br />
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Here is what it should look like.<br />
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For some dots on the mushroom you can use pieces of clay in several sizes. To make them organic, rip the clay and flatten it with your fingers. You can of course make them totally round but I like an organic shape :)<br />
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Then bake your piece according to the instructions on your clay package.<br />
To add some more dimension, you can give it a wash of dark paint. I used dark brown with a lot of water and brushed that onto the hole mushroom.<br />
Wipe away the excess and that's it.<br />
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I put on a thin layer of varnish to protect the paint as I wanted to place it into a small garden.<br />
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Here is what it looks like in its new area. It sits in a glass bowl :)<br />
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So what do you think? Could you follow or do you have any questions? Are you gonna make one yourself? :)<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-28153800568443475402016-03-30T17:28:00.001+02:002016-03-30T17:28:48.214+02:00Tutorial Bird House DecorationHello there :)<br />
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Today I want to show you how you can decorate a bird house for spring :)<br />
I had a small wooden bird house which I got really cheap and decorated that with leaves and flowers.<br />
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wooden bird house<br />
polymer clay<br />
<a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-clay-cutters.html">leaf cookie cutter</a><br />
(flower cutter)<br />
needle tool<br />
roller or pasta machine<br />
liquid clay<br />
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<b>Instructions:</b><br />
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Here a picture of the bird house I used.<br />
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We will start with the roof which will be covered with leaves. You can draw them on in pencil as a guide if you like. Mix several shades of green to make it more interesting and then roll out each colour into a thin sheet. Using a cookie cutter in a leave shape cut out your leaves from each sheet. You can of course also cut them by hand or create your own cookie cutter like I did. I showed you how to do this in <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-clay-cutters.html">this tutorial</a>.<br />
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After you have cut out your leaves, take each into your hand and using thumb and finger press all around the sides. This is to remove the sharp edges and to flatten it so the sides look thinner and more leave-like.<br />
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You can then use a leave mould to texture your leaves by pressing them into it. If you don't have one, you can either take a real leaf and press your clay leaf in or you can simply add veines with a needle tool or a tooth pick.<br />
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Then start placing your leaves onto the roof. Take some liquid clay and put a line of it at the bottom of the roof.<br />
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Position the first row of leaves. You can overlap then a bit if they don't fit next to each other. Make sure you interchange the colours. </div>
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Add row after row of leaves, always placing the leaves into the gaps of the previous ones and overlapping them a bit. Don't worry about small gaps too much. We can cover them with paint later on.<br />
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Once you reach the top, start at the other side of the roof. When you're finished with that you'll probably have a gap at the top. Cover that with another row of leaves but this time position them horizontally. This way everything is nicely covered.<br />
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Now onto the rest of the house. You can add big or small flowers or anything you like. I made a big flower at the back, one around the hole at the front and a meadow with small ones at the bottom of the house.<br />
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For the daisy it's probably best to sketch out where you want your leaves and the flower to know where everything goes. Roll out a thin sheet of white clay.<br />
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Then you can use a cookie/ fondant cutter like I did or simply cut out the petals by hand one by one. Flatten the edges like you did with the leaves.<br />
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You first need to place down your leaves with liquid clay and then the flower on top. Position the flower or the first layer of petals where you want them using liquid clay underneath.<br />
Texture them with a needle tool by adding lines to the petals, so they look more organic.<br />
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Cut out another flower/ more petals and flatten the edges. Create a second layer of petals, making sure that the top petals are in the gaps of the first layer.<br />
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Condition some yellow clay and roll it into a ball, flatten it with your fingers and check if it fits into the middle of the flower. Texture it with a tooth pick/ needle tool by making little holes. Then place it into the flower's centre.<br />
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For the blue flower around the house's bird hole, simply cut out small circles and cut them in half.<br />
Add liquid clay around the opening and place your petals on. You can overlap them a bit if you like. If you're not sure if they fit into a row, you can also try out the arrangement without liquid clay first and then attach them once you're sure.<br />
To make the flat bottom of the petals fit the circular hole, simply drag them a bit with your fingers.<br />
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Now the bottom of the house. If you want a moss-like texture, use your several green shades and put pieces of them on the bottom of the bird house, which you have covered with liquid clay. Be sure to place on the colours in an irregular pattern.<br />
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Once you have covered everything, start texturing with your needle tool/ tooth pick. To create the moss texture, you'll need to scratch the surface by making circular movements on your clay. Circle, circle, circle until the clay has this bumpy surface, the colours also blend through this technique nicely. Press down any loose parts with your fingers.<br />
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To create grass on the side of your house you can either use a quick technique and cut out zig zag grass or like me, invest some more time and roll out your green clay into very thin snakes and cut pieces of different lengths. Roll the top of each blade of grass into a point. Spread on liquid clay and then position your grass pieces. Make sure you interchange the colours and that the blades of grass are not too straight and regular and overlap them.<br />
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For small the small flowers, roll your desired colour into a thin snake and cut pieces of the same size from it. For the daisies roll them into little logs and flatten them. Place them into the spot where you want your flower and arrange them in a circle. Add a yellow centre and texture with a needle tool. For round petals, roll the small pieces into balls and flatten them. Arrange them and add a centre.<br />
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Add as many flowers as you like and then bake the whole bird house according to the instructions on your clay package.<br />
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You can then use some acrylic paint to cover up any wood you don't want to be seen. For example I wanted the roof and the base of the house entirely green. For this, paint all the gaps with green, also underneath the roof and underneath the house's base. You can use several shades of green if you like. To add some more dimension you can also brush on some watered down paint into the leaf veins and the low parts of the moss. Use a darker colour for this like really dark green, brown or even black. Wipe away the excess paint from the high spots with a paper towel or wipe it with nail polish remover after it has dried.<br />
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Glaze your house if you'd like to give it shine or leave it like it is to keep it matt.<br />
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Here it is, completely finished :)<br />
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To hang it you can screw in a hook at the top if you like. Mine is just for decoration and stays inside.<br />
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What do you think of this? Do you like it? Let me know if you have any questions and show me your recreations :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-84842853426636122242016-03-25T13:56:00.000+01:002016-03-25T14:02:19.899+01:00Tutorial Easter Eggshell Mosaic part 2<div dir="ltr">
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Now onto part two of our egg shell mosaic. You can read about <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-easter-eggshell-mosaic-part-1.html">part 1 here</a>.</div>
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boiled egg</div>
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roller or pasta machine</div>
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blade or x-acto</div>
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wire</div>
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eggshells</div>
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Roll out a sheet of clay as evenly as possible. Cut one side straight and start wrapping your egg, cut off the excess clay and smooth the ends together.<br />
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Then pinch the clay together at the top and bottom like on the photo. Your egg should sit nice and tight in there.</div>
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Cut around the middle of the egg as straight as possible. make a light indent first, so that you can correct the line if it's not straight all the way around. Then cut deeper and smooth out any irregularities.</div>
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Bake or let dry depending on your clay.<br />
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Here is how I made the hinge. The upper piece is one wire loop with two side pieces and the other has two loops and two side pieces. Make sure that there's enough space between the loops so that the upper part fits into it.</div>
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Glue the hinges on your egg, making sure that the loops hang a bit over the edge and that the upper one fits into the lower one.</div>
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Try if it works by feeding a head pin through all three loops before the glue is completely dry.</div>
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This time I decided to draw on my design by hand instead of using a template. But you can do it however you like.</div>
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Then start gluing on your eggshells. Put the glue on one area at a time and then place down the little egg pieces.</div>
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Here my next layer of eggshells.</div>
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On the upper half I decided to have some flowers. Here you can see how I made them.</div>
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I also added three small balls of clay as feet and a flower on top, which I decided to omit later.</div>
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I also painted the borders of the egg gold with a marker.</div>
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Finally glaze your whole piece to protect the eggshells.</div>
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Put a head pin through the hinge and then you can use your egg as decoration or to store pretty stuff inside.</div>
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Here some pictures of my finished project :)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tutorial Easter Eggshell Mosaic part 2</td></tr>
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And that's it. Do you like it? Let me know :) Send me pictures if you recreate this :)<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-11027400694735153722016-03-21T18:51:00.000+01:002016-03-21T18:56:37.547+01:00Tutorial Hearts and Flowers DecorHey everyone :)<br />
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To get some spring into your home I want to show you how you can create some ornaments out of clay that you can assemble into a nice piece of decor.<br />
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empty refill or tooth pick<br />
daisy cutter<br />
wire brush/ <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-needle-tool.html">needle tool</a><br />
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For your hearts you first need to create a template (unless you have a heart-shape cutter you'd like to use).<br />
Draw out a long heart on a piece of paper. Fold the paper along the middle of the heart and decide which side of the heart you like better. Hold that side upwards and cut out your heart keeping the paper folded. This way you'll have an even shape.<br />
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Roll out a sheet of clay, not to thinly. You can use air-dry or polymer clay, it doesn't really matter. Place on your paper template and press it a bit, so it transfers onto the clay. Cut out several hearts, I've made three of each size.<br />
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Smooth out the edges of the heart with your fingers (and water) and make a hole at the top to hang it, either with a toothpick or and empty refill.<br />
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Choose some nice textures, like lace, a texture sheet or stamps and imprint them onto your hearts. Here I've stamped two with my texture sheet and one with lace.<br />
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Now onto the flowers.<br />
For those I used my daisy plunger cutter. Of course you can also draw a template like you did for the hearts.<br />
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You can string your creations and hang them on branches for example or create something like this:<br />
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For another decor idea check out my <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-simple-clay-feathers.html">Clay Feather Tutorial</a> :)<br />
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So do you like those? I hope you try it out yourself. Send me pictures if you do :)<br />
Let me know if you have any questions :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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<br />Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-42325656944410219182016-03-18T22:32:00.000+01:002016-03-18T23:16:20.969+01:00Tutorial Simple Clay FeathersHello :)<br />
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Today I want to show you how you can make very simple feathers for spring or summer. You can use them as decoration and hang them on branches or as gift tags or whatever you can imagine :)<br />
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First roll out some clay very thinly and sketch out the shape of your feather. Feathers come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, you can check out some pictures on the internet or use a real one as a guide. Basically, it's a sort of leaf shape.<br />
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You can also paint them in several colours to give them a bohemian look for summer.<br />
I'll show you how to do that in summer time :)<br />
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I used some cotton yarn which I dyed brown with tea as I only had this whitish colour at hand. I just put some water in a pan, added a strong black tea and put the yarn in. I let it boil for a couple of minutes and then turned off the heat and just left it in there for 2 hours or so with the lid closed. I rinsed and dried it and that's it.<br />
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To attach the yarn to your feather, thread it through the hole, leaving a bit of excess (more than on the picture, to make it easier to tie)<br />
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Wrap the long end around your feather a few times.<br />
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Take a needle (or a pieces of folded wire like I did) and thread your long end of the yarn into it. Poke it through the last wrap on your feather and pull tight.<br />
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Here it is pulled through. This secures your wrappings.<br />
Tie two knots with your short ends.<br />
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To make a loop to hang it, you need to tie it again. For this, take the two ends in one hand and fold the loop. Take the loop into the other hand and tie a knot with the ends and the loop. Tie another one to secure it.<br />
Use a bit of super glue on the wrappings and knots to secure everything permanently and that's it. You can hang them now :)<br />
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And what can you do with them?<br />
I strung them onto some more yarn together with some daisies from clay and some wooden beads and hung them on hooks from the ceiling :) Or you can hang them on nice branches if you like :)<br />
By the way, I'm gonna show you how you can make those flowers soon :)<br />
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So do you like these feathers? Are you gonna make them, too? And what would you use them for? Let me know :)<br />
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<br />Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-24984539168269555912016-03-17T11:08:00.001+01:002016-03-22T19:50:27.263+01:00Tutorial Needle ToolHi there :)<br />
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Today I want to tell you how you can make a very simple needle tool. You don't need a lot for this and it's very easy.<br />
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Choose an old handle for example from a of paint brush and a sewing needle or a pin like I did. </div>
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If you're using a sewing needle, you can take a piece of wire and thread it into the eye of the needle and then wrap it around the handle to connect them.</div>
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If you have a pin, just place it above the handle. It will hold because of its head once you wrap it woth clay.<br />
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Now just use a bit of clay and wrap it around both your needle/ pin and handle. This can be a bit tricky with the pin but it works. Although I guess the needle and wire version is sturdier.<br />
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Roll the clay part between your hands to even it out. Smooth out any bumps with your fingers and that's it!</div>
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Of course you can also use very colourful clay and for example cover the whole handle. You can blend together complementary colours until they show a marble effect. You can also mix a wood texture. See my <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/03/tutorial-faux-wood.html">faux wood tutorial</a> for this.<br />
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I chose to keep it simple with this one but here a picture of some other tools I made. The small one is a nail I covered to use for texturing and the other one, I just found among my stuff. I don't know if it was for sewing or anything but it's an amazing sculpting tool since I added the handle :)<br />
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I hope this is useful for you. Let me know, if you have any questions :)<br />
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See you soon :)<br />
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-14582701554711138182016-03-11T20:46:00.004+01:002016-03-11T20:46:59.799+01:00Tutorial Floraphine's Circle Cutters<div dir="ltr">
Hello friends :)</div>
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As promised I want to teach you how you can make some really cool and cheap circle cutters from very few materials.</div>
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I'm really proud that I came up with this idea after a lot of thinking of what you could use as very small circle cutters.</div>
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I think (and hope) no one has done this before but correct me if I'm wrong. I call them 'Floraphine's Circle Cutters' :)</div>
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So my secret is: I use the metal parts of paint brushes!</div>
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old/ cheap paint brushes of graduated sizes</div>
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pliers</div>
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(hair dryer)</div>
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clay</div>
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You can use some of your of brushes for this (I'm sure many of you have ruined brushes you didn't clean soon enough ;). Or you can buy those really cheap brushes, maybe you already have them and then you noticed that they shed hair... like me :D. Those on the picture were 1€.</div>
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Remove the metal parts with two sets of pliers (one in each hand). If it doesn't work right away, use a hair dryer and heat up the metal (use pliers, it gets really hot!) for 1min. This way the glue inside is loosened.</div>
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Here all of my removed metal parts. I used paint brushes in different sizes to get graduated cutters.<br />
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To be honest, they don't really look nice :D I tried removing the hair, too but the glue was too strong on some of them. Don't worry if this happens, just cut off the hair. You can keep it for later projects, for adding hair to sculptures for example. Also don't toss the handles! You can make clay shaping tools from them :) (I'll show you soon how).</div>
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To hide the horrible end part (where the hair was) you can cover it with clay. I used air-dry clay here but polymer clay works also of course.</div>
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You can make it pretty by adding cane slices or by blending together several colours or just use one colour. Of course you can paint them later.</div>
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Take a ball of clay and push it into the end of the cutter.</div>
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Smooth it out and push it to the front part, making it thinner there and thicker at the end.</div>
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Let dry/ bake and you're finished.</div>
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If you get any cracks through baking or drying (the metal might expand) you can apply super glue into the cracks. </div>
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You can also cover the finished circle cutters with colurful clay after baking.</div>
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I have painted mine white and then added numbers and polka dots. The smallest one has the number 1, the biggest is number 6. To recreate this, dip a tooth pick in acrylics and paint on the number. For the polka dots, I used the end of a bigger skewer.</div>
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So that's all! Easy right? </div>
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And what can you do with them? </div>
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You can cut the circles and use them in several ways, like layering colours, using them for scales on dragons, putting polka dots on anything, make rings by using two cutters.</div>
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One little thing: You'll need to stick the clay sheet from which you want to cut circles onto your work surface 8by pressing it down; I work on tiles or glass), so that the circle doesn't get stuck in the cutter, as it's no plunger cutter and the hole doesn't go through to the other side. </div>
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You can also use the cutters to texture your clay by not pushing them in all the way.</div>
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I really hope this helps you and you can understand my instructions. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.</div>
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-35469380883352677862016-03-11T20:46:00.001+01:002016-03-11T20:47:45.259+01:00Tutorial Clay Cutters<div dir="ltr">
Hello there :)</div>
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As promised I want to share with you how I make my own cookie cutters for clay.</div>
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Especially if you want to buy small cookie cutters which are especially designed for clay, it can get quite expensive. </div>
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metal (from a barbecue tray, cake pan or old cookie cutter)<br />
old scissors<br />
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You'll need some kind of metal for your clay cutters. I tried using old tea lights but I found that the material is really thin and bends too easily. For this project I used an aluminium barbecue tray. You can also try shapable cake pans or something similar, like a soda can (be sure to fold over the metal at the top if it doesn't have a folded edge already, so you don't cut yourself).<br />
The most sturdiest solution would be to cut up old cookie cutters you don't like. This metal is perfect for keeping its shape but on the other hand hard to bend and to glue together.<br />
So maybe start with softer metal and for the cutters you use the most, create a sturdier one.</div>
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This is my barbecue tray. For this project you will need to cut off the border. You can do this with an X-acto knife or old scissors. Don't use your best cutting equipment for this, it will get dull.</div>
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Now take your piece and using a knife or anything else that's thin, push it into the 'pocket' you have created. Carefully wiggle it, so that it opens up in the middle. Bend it like a leaf with your fingers or by pushing in larger tools to shape it. The shape doesn't have to be perfect on top, only the bottom needs to be straight for cutting. <br />
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For a square you need to make sure that all the sides are the same size. It's best to measure that out with a ruler. For a square of 3cm, measure four times 3cm on your metal strip and a smaller section for gluing it together.</div>
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Those are the cutters I've created above:</div>
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And this is my leave cutter made from an old cookie cutter. It's of course much more precise and doesn't bend out of shape as easily:<br />
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Before you go running to make circle cutters yourself, let me tell you, that there is a wide range of things you can use which are circular. For example I use caps of spray bottles, straws, empty refills (if you want to make a hole and don't need the cut-out) and all kinds of stuff. I saw people use those cable clamps, so-called bootlace ferrules. Here a <a href="http://artisan-bijoutier-createur.km-bijou.eu/#post80">blog post</a> in French about them. So if you know an electrician, he might give you one of each size. However, if you want to buy them, you'll always need to buy big packs of them... Which can be expensive, especially because you basically only need one of each size... Might be the same price as if you buy kemper cutters, depending on where you live. So what to do? Share a pack with all your clay friends? Sure. But if you're the only one of your friends with a quirk for clay...</div>
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-17197595700642317602016-03-04T14:25:00.000+01:002016-03-04T14:25:07.191+01:00Tutorial Stamped Oriental Mirror<div dir="ltr">
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Today I want to show you how you can decorate a plain mirror with stamped pieces of clay to make it look fabulous :) I found an old hand mirror which needed a make over. I had previously watched a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFIR9MoyPrQ" target="_blank">tutorial</a> which inspired me to do something similar.</div>
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I used a small mirror which was already framed but I didn't like the colour. It was plastic but I didn't worry about that as I lately have discovered that you can bake most plastics at a low temperature (100° C). It really depends on the type. If you're worried, bake your mirror in advance before adding clay to test if it melts.<br />
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Roll out your clay evenly. It's best to use a pasta machine for this but you can also put even pieces of cardboard at the sides of your clay sheet and roll over it.</div>
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Take square cookie cutters to cut from your clay sheet or cut it by hand.<br />
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Try to stamp exactly into the middle of your cut-out.<br />
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Dip your finger in metallic powder or eye shadow, tap off the excess and rub the powder carefully on your stamped piece. I used gold and copper here.</div>
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Spread liquid clay on the back of your mirror and place on your first piece.</div>
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Repeat this process of creating stamped squares and rectangles. You might need to measure out the remaining space on your mirror to know how big you need your pieces.<br />
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You can also stamp first and then cut it out. That's what I did here using a texture sheet from Fimo.<br />
I impressed the design, cut it out and then rubbed on copper powder.<br />
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You can also make more designs in your clay using the tools you have.</div>
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For the rectangle I used two stamps and then pushed different-sized dotting tools in and also my rigid blade. You can use tooth picks and pen caps and what else you have. You can also texture by pressing in sand paper.</div>
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After you have placed on all of your rectangles and squares you can cover the borders as well. For this, roll out a thin sheet of clay in the colour of your choice and measure your borders. You can do this with a ruler or simply by pressing the side of your mirror lightly into the clay. This leaves marks which show you where to cut. Create strips which you place around your mirror. Then take your shimmery powder again and add some shine to the borders as well.</div>
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Bake it according to the instructions on your clay package and let it cool slowly leaving it in the oven so you don't get any cracks. Glaze your mirror after it has cooled down. </div>
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So that's it. What do you think? Do you like it?</div>
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Of course you can use any stamps you have, I just wanted to give it that oriental look. Or if you don't have stamps, just make a design with tooth picks and what you can find. You can create flowers and pretty designs just by pressing in a couple of tools. Or make your own stamps from clay (see my <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/01/tutorial-texture-sheet.html">tutorial where I make a leave stamp</a>)</div>
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I will also show you soon how you can shape your own cookie cutters soon, so make sure you come back :)</div>
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Floraphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15009506577934312875noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947745295305701841.post-54598259859957315442016-03-02T12:32:00.000+01:002016-03-02T12:32:36.954+01:00Tutorial Faux WoodHey :)<br />
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Today I want to teach you my version of a faux wood texture. It's really easy to make and looks amazing. I'll also show you what you can do with it.<br />
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Choose several shades of brown clay. You don't have to buy them all, you can just mix them with white or black and with each other. Or even mix contrary colours (like green and orange).</div>
Roll them into logs of different thicknesses. Make sure, you have several of one colour.<br />
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To use your new faux wood sheet you can make beads for example. With a small cookie cutter (doesn't have to be round) cut out circles.<br />
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Pierce through them with a needle tool (or needle). Make sure you do this from both sides to create an even hole. If you haven't done this before, you can practice with scrap clay.<br />
Depending on how you want to use your beads later, you can enlarge the hole with a toothpick (or bigger needle tool). I recommend using a thinner one first, so the clay doesn't crack, when you push it through. you can always enlarge it afterwards. I also bake them on toothpicks so they don't roll around.<br />
You can add some more texture with a wire brush or needle tool if you like. Make sure you do this along the lines you have already in there.<br />
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I also made a pendant with a larger cookie cutter.<br />
For that cut out two circles from your wood sheet. You can put some scrap clay inbetween them to make it thicker or just stack them without it. To be able to hang it, add one or two jump rings in between the layers. Blend the seams with your tools or fingers.<br />
If you have some small stamps you can stamp into the clay to add some interest. Then texture it with a wire brush or needle tool along the lines.<br />
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To make your pieces look aged and even more wooden, you can cover them with diluted black paint and then remove the excess with nail polish remover. I bought some nail polish remover pads. With those it is really easy to do.<br />
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And here is the result. It looks a bit grungy and weathered and really organic.<br />
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A tutorial on how to use these beads and pendant will follow soon. Do you like this tutorials? Leave me a comment below if you want to :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Today I want to show you how you can make a very simple but cool phone holder.<br />
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Roll out your clay quite thickly and shape or cut it into a long rectangle.<br />
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On one end slightly bend it upwards at the edges, it should stay there if you didn't roll it out too thin. That is where your phone will sit.<br />
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Then bend the middle part upwards and use a tube shaped object (I used my small spray bottle) to hold the shape upwards.<br />
A short part of the end can be bend in a 90° angle so that it lays flat on the work surface. This also supports the structure.<br />
Smooth out any cracks or bumps with your fingers and water and let dry/ bake.<br />
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After it has hardened you can paint it in any colours you like or leave it like that. You can also cover it with ornaments or clay slices before baking.<br />
If you want to create something similar to mine, first paint the whole phone holder white. Dab on the paint with a tissue to avoid brush strokes. Let dry and then paint on small flowers. Use the tip of your paint brush for this and make five or six strokes or dots. Once it's dry, use a toothpick and dipping it into yellow paint make dots in the middle of the flowers. I also made some larger dots with a skewer. You can also paint the underside light blue and create a small yellow boarder all around to match the flowers.<br />
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Glaze everything to protect it and you're done.<br />
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I wanted to add a picture of the phone holder in use for you :)<br />
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I also made another one for a friend. I painted it with a longcat design haunting a skyline (It's a reference to Godzilla, so I painted Tokyo-like buildings).<br />
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I drew out my design, scribbled on graphiite at the back to transfer it and then taped it to the clay phone holder. Then I drew over the lines again. The graphite on the back transfers the image.<br />
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However, you should probably paint the background first and then transfer it :D<br />
Here a picture of the background and the first layer of paint on the cat.<br />
I then painted the cat a light and a medium grey (for the shadow), outlined it in black with a very small paint brush, and painted the buildings black, too.<br />
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To paint the face I cut out my cat from the template, placed it on the painted cat body and transferred the face again.<br />
I also covered the buildings with paper to protect everything and with a stiff paint brush sprayed on some white dots with my fingers to resemble stars.<br />
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Here a picture of the finished phone holder. I hope, he'll like it :)<br />
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So what do you think? Do you like it? Let me know :)<br />
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See you soon<br />
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Today I want to show you how I made this pretty notebook cover with red roses.<br />
I made this for my best friend's birthday and now that I've given it to her, I can show it to you :)<br />
It was a lot of work but I know that she can appreciate it and that she deserves it :)</div>
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Texture sheet (see <a href="http://floraphinescreativemadness.blogspot.de/2016/01/tutorial-texture-sheet.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a>)<br />
Clay shaping tools<br />
Roller or pasta machine<br />
Small rose leaves<br />
Bronze powder or eye shadow<br />
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Now make the roses.<br />
Roll out your red clay (or whatever colour you want your roses) very thinly. I used setting 6 on my pasta machine.<br />
Cut out your petals in varying sizes using round cookie cutters or by hand.</div>
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For the fully blossomed roses I used four small petals, five medium sized ones and six big ones.<br />
Flatten the edges of the petals and make sure, they don't look too even but more organic.<br />
It's easiest to sculpt your flowers on a toothpick. Wrap your first smallest petal onto the toothpick and then attach one after another overlapping each with the previous one. Always make sure that the petals look organic and not to round and artificial. <br />
Once you have added your petals pinch them once or twice to make them look a bit like they have folded themselves at those parts. Look at pictures of roses for reference.<br />
If you have difficulties understanding my explanations check out this amazing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VicdzJ9oeDI" target="_blank">rose tutorial</a> by Maive Ferrando who explains it really well :)</div>
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For the small leaves at the bottom of the roses' heads that wrap around I rolled out a sheet of light green very thinly (pasta machine setting 6) and then drew on curvy zig-zag lines at the edge and cut them out. Flatten their edges to remove the sharp lines.</div>
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Wrap them around your roses and buds and smooth out the lower part. I also textured the leaves with my needle tool<br />
Roll out little snakes of the same green and shape them into the stems. The top should be bigger as roses have a bulky green part underneath their heads (I think that's where the seeds are in) smooth out everything carefully with a silicone tool or whatever you have, always making sure not to crush the delicate leaves and petals. I left the stems a bit longer and cut them to size later.</div>
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For the main branch I mixed some shades of brown together without fully bending them together so they obtained a wooden texture. </div>
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The easiest way to get pretty and amazing leaves is to pick some real ones from your garden or wherever you can get them. I used a really small branch for this.<br />
Remember that rose leaves usually come in branches which means there is more than one leave attached to the main stem, they are clusters of three, five or seven.<br />
So I rolled out a darker green thinly and pressed my branch of leaves into it. You can roll over it with your rolling pin if you prefer but I find that the clay underneath sometimes gets distorted this way so that it doesn't have the right shape anymore.<br />
I pressed my leaves in with my fingers and carefully rubbed over them. Remove it carefully, lifting one edge at a time, so that you don't destroy the real leaves and that they can be used over and over again.<br />
Cut out your clay leaves and then to create the jagged edges, use your knife and cut into the sides. Smooth the edges carefully with your fingers, so they don't look as cut out.</div>
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Of course you can also create your rose leaves without using real ones. Just cut out a leave shape and using a knife or a needle tool, draw in your veins.</div>
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Then think about where you want your flowers to go. I placed them on the base to try out my design and then took a picture of it to remember the placement. Keep in mind that smaller buds are usually at the end of the branches.<br />
But before attaching them permanently you need to put down your leaves. So they're below the flowers later.</div>
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I rolled out some more of my light green I had used before into a very thin snake. From that I created the branches for the leaves by placing small snakes in the desired areas. Then I positioned the leaves using my real branch as a guide: One is always at the end of the branch and the others are parallel to each other. This way it's always an uneven number of leaves. Put the ends of your light green snakes onto the leaves and blend them together carefully with your tools. I also made sure that the leaves didn't lay completely flat but some parts always stuck upwards.</div>
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After having attached all your leaves it's time for the roses. Place them where you want them and cut their stems to size. Then blend the stems into the main branch. It wasn't easy to assemble the roses in a way that the cover wouldn't be too bulky. Especially as I wanted one to be looked at from its side. This simply got so fat that I had to cut it away after having baked everything already because you couldn't even open the book properly... So keep that in mind. I therefore, had to make a new one which I carefully pressed onto the base to flatten its underside without distorting the visible part... In order to do that I stuck my needle tool into its middle part and pushed down. It wasn't easy but it worked.</div>
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If you want you can dust on some shiny powder before baking to make it even prettier. I used my copper powder and applied it with my finger by carefully brushing over the surface. You can also use a shiny eyeshadow.<br />
Then bake your cover. It's best to do that on a ceramic or glass tile so that it bakes completely smooth.<br />
I also made a leave branch for the back of the notebook which I forgot to take a photo of.</div>
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I painted the whole cover and inside of the cover of the notebook black to match my clay piece and then glued on my creation. I also gave it a wash of thinned out black paint to go into all the low spots.</div>
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If you want you can give the sides of the book some shine, too. I took a golden pen and while pressing the sheets together tightly I painted over them. Be careful that no paint seeps onto the whole pages and that you don't have your pages stuck together. Therefore, you shouldn't use acrylic paint for this. Maybe you should try if it works with your supplies on an old notebook first.</div>
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Here the finished cover, look at the upper big rose, it's a different one than above ;)</div>
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For the pen I first folded a piece of metal into a tube for the refill to go in. I also used the refill as a guide for this. My metal is really thick so it's quite hard to do this and I need pliers for it.</div>
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Roll out a thick sheet of black clay and cut it to the length of your tube and refill, leaving out the tip of the refill. <br />
Cover the tube in the black clay and smooth out the seams. Texture it by rolling it onto your texture sheet.</div>
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Put on some leaves like you did earlier and create a small rose to go on top of the pen. Also make some small leaves to go underneath the rose. Put the rose on top of the pen using liquid clay - if you have any - for stronger attachment.<br />
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Difficult project but definitely worth it :)<br />
Do you like it?</div>
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