3D Chrissy Tree ... by Cindy Porter

Hi Creative Paperclay® fans, it's Cindy here, I am excited to share with you my latest project a "3D Chrissy Tree" just in time to decorate your table for Christmas in July.... keep reading to see how to create your own.

Supplies:

Creative Paperclay®

Papier-mache  cone

Silks Acrylic Glaze Pretty Peridot 

Silks Acrylic Glaze Mallard Green

Silicone tipped tools & Ball tools

Homemade Creative Paperclay® tool

For the how to... I created a little video...

One last look at the completed piece...

thank you for stopping by and joining me here today

Till next time

Happy Creating

xC

3D Frame..... with Cindy Porter

Hi Creative Paper Clay ® fans, it's Cindy here,  I am excited to share with you my latest project a "3D Frame" and show you how to create your own.

dosen't Gerry the Giraffe look fabulous in his new frame.... 

Supplies Required:

Creative Paperclay®

wooden craft frame

Silks Acrylic Glaze Autumn Leaf

Silks Acrylic Glaze Sunburst

Silicone tipped tools

Homemade Creative Paperclay® tool

For the How to I created a process video ...

I hope you enjoyed that, here's another look at the frame, and Gerry looking fabulous in his new home...  if you'd like to see how I created Gerry as well click here...

thank you for stopping by and joining me here today

Till next time

Happy Creating

Cindy Porter

Cindy's June tip for saving money.....

Hi everyone, and welcome.

 Today I am sharing my June tip/technique. I have a quick tip to help save you some money (we can all use that right?) and have some creative fun at the same time.

This is an idea I came up with while looking to get myself some smaller tools to sculpt with. To start I did what most of us do right - I went to google, lol... I found many people making their own tools, but out of aluminium and brass tubing.  This didn't seem economical enough for me, so I decided to create my own from a few household items and paperclay...

Supplies:

Creative Paperclay®

Large paperclips

Small paperclip

Sewing Pins

Silks Acrylic Glaze Spiced Pumpkin

Silks Acrylic Glaze Rich Cobalt

Directions:

I began with my Creative Paperclay® and some basic household items.... some sewing pins and oversized paperclips...

 I removed the heads from the pins and then bent the ends slightly.... this is to ensure that they don't pull out of the formed clay handle once dry....

I applied clay both underneath the row of pins and then on top of the pins

 I kept adding clay and smoothing it out until I was happy with the size and shape, and set it aside to dry...

 Next I began with one of the large paperclips, opened it out, and left the curves of the paperclip in tack...

 I embedded the paperclip into a lump of clay...

smoothed the clay around the paperclip, and again set aside to dry...

 For my final tool, I used some jewellery pliers to make smaller loops from my paperclip...

 I again embedded the shaped paperclip into a lump of clay...

 and smoothed the clay around to form the handle....

Once again I set it aside to dry...

Once the clay was dry I grabbed out my Silks Acrylic Glazes and painted my new tools... Naturally I chose two of my favourite colours, Spiced Pumpkin and Rich Cobalt...

 So with a very small amount of of Creative Paperclay® and some basic household items I have four new tools to start creating with and I can't wait to get started.... look out for my next Creative Paperclay® blogpost where I will make use of my new tools.

thank you for stopping by and joining me here today

Till next time
Happy Creating

Cindy Porter

Cindy's tip for May

Hi everyone, and welcome to the Creative Paperclay® blog.

It's my turn to share with you a tip or technique.... today I have chosen to share a quick tip....  this is something I came up with while trying to make sure I keep my paperclay in new condition after I have opened a new pack...

Being that I enjoy scrapbooking along with many other creative endeavours, I was searching around for the best way to store my opened Creative Paperclay® when I spied my Fuse tool.  For those unfamiliar with this tool, it was designed with the pocket page scrapper in mind, to seal off the small pockets on the multi pocket pages, a great little tool that I have found many fabulous uses for, and now I can add one more to that list - re-sealing my Creative Paperclay® packets.

So we begin with an open packet of paperclay.

next you need to push all the air out of the packet

Then you start to roll the Fuse tool (as close as possible to the clay) across the package.

Now I did learn that the Creative Paperclay® packaging requires more pressure and several runs across on both sides, but the Fuse tool did seal the package just like new, so my paperclay will stay as fresh as the day I first opened the pack.

I do hope this little tip is helpful and you can enjoy many good times with that new pack feeling right down to the last speck of your Creative Paperclay®.

You can get your Creative Paperclay® here.

and you can find the Fuse tool here.

Until next time, 

Happy Creating  

xCindy.

Nature's Pen

Hi Creative Paper Clay ® fans, it's Cindy here, welcome to my very first post as a member of this fabulous Design Team! I am so excited to share with you my "Nature's Pen" and show you how to create your own. I chose to create this pen from the Delight Air Dry Modeling Compound, to ensure that the pen remained very light and because once dry the Delight remains very soft and is spongy even after it has dried thus making it very comfortable to use.... there will be no callous' here when I'm writing my memoirs (lol)...

Supplies:
So for this project you'll need the following:
Delight Air Dry Modeling Compound
Clay shaping tools
Rolling pin
Water for smoothing clay
Acrylic paints (I used Vivid Ultra Metallics on mine)
Gel medium
Rhinestones
Paint brushes
Water for your brushes
Spay varnish


Directions:

So I began with some Delight and made some rough 'snakes' ready to form my wooded base of the pen..


















Next up with my regular old Bic pen I removed the ink nib from the barrel and started wrapping the barrel with the "snake" strips...

Continue wrapping the barrel, 

until it is fully covered. 

Next up it is time to add detail and make it look more like a log... I achieved this by using small ball tools and silicone tools 

I added smaller details using a scalpel blade.. 

Time for making the leaves, roll out some more Delight.... cut out some tear drop shapes, and shape and then mark and curl them up.... 

I rolled out some more Delight and used a small cap to press out circles.... you need 6 circles to form one flower...  I made three flowers in total...


I also rolled out some very thin snakes...  that I made into the tendrils.... 

Now we are onto the painting...

no rude comments about what it looks like at this stage.... lol...

 Paint up all the pieces...

Next it's time to assemble your Nature pen...

I used Gel medium to adhere the painted flowers, tendrils and the rhinestones in the flower centres...

To finish off my pen, I gave it a spray over with varnish, and re-inserted the ink nib









some close ups of the finished pen

thank you for stopping by and joining me here today,

Till next time
Happy Creating

Cindy Porter