Pepcid® Complete® Bottle Makeover

Makin’s Clay® is an air-dry clay.  This makes it ideal to use to cover plastic containers that would normally melt if they were put in an oven to cure.  This is a Pepcid® Complete® container that was given a Makin’s Clay® makeover.

 

 I recently designed a project for Makin’s Clay® called Grapevine Vase.  I created the base clay to look like stone using white clay, black acrylic paint, and pepper.  I liked the look so much that I wanted to cover something different then a glass vase so I chose the Pepcid plastic bottle.  Each time I buy a new bottle, I can just dump the tablets into the decorated bottle and each time I have to chew a tablet, maybe my decorated bottle will help me forget my heartburn!

 

Sooooo, this is how I decorated the bottle: 

1.       Use the instructions from the Grapevine Vase project to create the stone clay.

2.       Roll the stone clay out on a #5 on a Makin’s®Professional™ Ultimate Clay Machine™ and cover the bottom and top of the bottle separately.  I found that rubbing a small amount of water along any seams helps make the seam disappear.

3.       Mold and then place the molded items on a moist paper towel.  This keeps the back nice and moist so they will easily stick to the bottle when it is time to put them in place.  I used Makin’s® Floral andBorders Push Molds and Makin’s Clay® Vineyard Vines purple and green and yellow clay.

a.       Nine green leaves. 

b.      Three purple flowers.  Add a small dot of yellow on top of the center. 

c.       Two leaf borders.

4.       Place the leaf borders around the top of the bottle to cover where the seam between the top and the bottom.

5.       Arrange the leaves and flowers on the front of bottle to your liking.

6.       Let the entire bottle dry.

7.       Antique with burnt umber oil paint mixed with turpenoid to thin the paint out.  Paint on and rub off.  If the paint gets too thick in areas, rub off with a little turpenoid.

Sea Shell Necklace

Makin’s Clay® The No Bake Polymer Clay® is so easy to work with.  I needed a beach-themed necklace so I made this quick and easy pendant using white Makin’s Clay®, the Makin’s® Sea Shells Push Mold, and some oil paint.

Here is what I did:

·         Molded the starfish and three shells

·         Attached them to about a ½” ball of clay

·         Let the piece dry

·         Antiqued it with burnt umber oil paint

·         Added other colors of oil paint

·         Added a bail to the back

·         Put the sea shell pendant on a neck wire

So easy and quick to make!  I hope you enjoy it and it inspires you to make one! 

Girl's Weekend at the Beach

What’s better than a girl’s weekend at the beach?  One that includes a Makin’s Clay® workshop taught by me!  Lol 

I recently designed a project for Makin’s Clay® called Sea Shell Votive.  Maybe you saw it on the Makin’s Clay Blog?  You can check it out here:  Sea Shell Votive

Anyway, off to the beach we went and on a quiet evening, just kidding, don’t think we’ve ever had a quiet evening, we gathered around the table and my friends worked on their projects.  This was the first time any of them had ever used Makin’s Clay®.  We had a GREAT time and they did a GREAT job! 

Here are a few pictures of the fun we had.  Thanks to Makin’s Clay® for sponsoring our workshop!

Completed Projects

 

 

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Star Flowers

 

These star flowers are made from a cane end and a solid color of clay extruded using a small diamond shaped disc from Makin's Clay.

Start with a cane end.

One end.

Same cane just the other end.

 

 

 

Add a solid piece of black clay to one end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Reduce the clay so it fits in the barrel of the extruder.  Cane end goes in first.

Makin's Clay has two diamond discs.  The one on the right, the smaller diamond, was the one that was used.

The clay was extruded into a diamond-shaped cane.

I think it came out raggedy because I didn't warm up the cane end before I used it.  The clay was a couple of years old!  I used it anyway and put the scrappy looking end towards the center of the flower.  The center gets covered up with a crystal or a ball of clay.

Start cutting the end that came out of the extruder first which should be the solid color end.  Cut one inch pieces off until you start seeing color.  Before cutting, press one of the tips of the diamond down on a glass cutting surface (the diamond has four sides, press one of the sides flush with the cutting surface.)  This helps with distortion as you cut.  If the petals do get distorted, use the side of a blade to straighten the tips.  A thinner blade works better to cut with.

Cut eight petals about 1/16" or 1 1/2mm thick (or bigger if it makes them easier to work with.)  Arrange four of the petals like in this picture.  There are different ways the slices can be arranged.  They can be mirrored, with the same end pointing to the center or they can all be put the same way all the way around.  With the side of a blade, push the edge so it is straight.  This will help the two halves fit together.

Arrange the other four slices and straighten the edge.

Pick up one of the pieces with a blade, take it off of the blade with your fingers, and match it up to the other half.  Place a blade flat on top and press down to make the petals uniform and help them stick together.  It is also helpful to gently press down and to the center to help the petals stick together.  Add a crystal or a small ball of clay in the center of the flower.  I like to add one to both sides.  Use a blade to pick up the flower, otherwise, you may pull off a petal.

These flowers are in order from one end of the diamond cane to the other.  See how the outline is darker at the beginning?  If the chunk of clay was not added, there would be less definition between the petals. 

 

Memorial Day Earrings

Memorial Day Earrings

by Lisa Haney

 

Red, white, and blue earrings for Memorial Day, how patriotic is that?  These earrings were so easy to make.  And, because I used Makin's Clay they are lightweight and comfortable to wear. 

 

 

I rolled out the red and white clay on a #4 setting on my Atlas pasta machine.  I cut strips from each color then laid them side-by-side making stripes.  Next, I rolled out the blue clay and butted it up against the clay stripes.

I placed the entire piece between two sheets of hamburger paper, then, with a bone folder, I rubbed the clay together so the seams would join.  I did this to the front and the back. 

Using the large cutter from the Makin's Clay Star Cutter set, I cut out two stars from the patterned sheet.  I poked holes in the top of each.

Using Kemper cutters, I cut out six small stars and glued them to the bigger stars.  I added the earring hooks and jump rings. 

This is another pair of earrings I made using Makin's Clay, their texture sheets, Waves and Stripes, and the Makin's Clay Star Cutter Set.  I rolled out the blue and red clay and textured the blue with the Waves texture sheet and the white with the Stripes texture sheet.  I cut out two large blue stars and two large red stars.  I trimmed the red stars to be a strip down the middle of the blue star.  From white clay I cut out two small stars for the center of each earring.