Paperclay Garden Stakes - How To

By Amanda Marks

This project is super easy and is a GREAT kids project!  Since I wanted to show how easy this project is I enrolled the help of my children (the princess and the Booga).  I will say this project was a little too advance for the Booga (he is 2 and thought we were making cookies - the disappointment was apparent when he tried a piece of clay) but was perfect for my daughter (who is 5).  I used the Delight for this project because it is much easier for my daughter to handle (she doesn't like the "feel" of Paperclay - any clay for that matter.   She thinks it has a muddy, icky feel.)

Materials:
Delight Paperclay
Big Craft Sticks
Cookie Cutters (Halloween Themed)
Fondant Roller (Rolling Pin)
Water
Sculpting tool
Paint
Paint Brushes
Googly Eyes
Sealant

"Smoosh" the clay into a ball and flatten it with the rolling pin.

 Once the clay is an even thickness, take the cookie cutter and cut two pieces (one will be the front and one will be the back.)

Take one of the cut out pieces - scoring the clay with a scultping tool add water.  Place the craft stick in the center and add the top piece of clay.

Smooth the sides together and allow to dry for 24 hours.

Paint, add googly eyes and seal.

Place in your new garden stakes in your plants!

Halloween wreath using paperclay embellishments

Good morning friends

Today I want to share a project that was super easy and fun involving some more cookie cutters.  I just love working with it for embellishments for my scrapbooking but this time I used the paper clay to make pumpkins for a wreath.

Here are my step by step instructions, kinda picture heavy.

Just roll you paper clay like usual.  The thickness depends 

totally on you and how thick you want you embellishment to be.

Then just cut it out with your cookie cutter.

I picked this one up at Michaels in the 

Halloween section for $.99

I also cut out some circles that I will turn into buttons.

Now let them dry...again, drying time depends on 

the thickness of them.  These dried in about 4 hours.

Then I painted them with standard acrylic paints.

I used a stamp with embossing ink to stamp my button

and then embossed it my black embossing powder

just gives it a really cool effect.  Now you can

make ANY button to your hearts content.

Then I embellished the pumpkin with google eyes,

cardstock nose and mouth cut with my E-Craft 

and some silk leaves just for a more dramatic affect.

Now I started with a free frisbee we got at the

sportsman's show at the beginning of summer and

wrapped it with sparkly purple ribbon.

Wreath...

I made some stick pins and added them behind some

silk flowers that I took apart and hot glued to the wreath.

I added some glass tiger eye blobs to the center and

used my new "glitter gelly roll" pen to give accent

to the purple flower petals.  Really sparkly!!!

I hot glued 4 pumpkins around the wreath.

and added some Halloween colored

glass ornaments to more of the same

purple ribbon and hot glued one of

my homemade buttons to the center.

Isn't this just cute?  Well, I think so anyway.  I hope you liked my Creative Paperclay project today.  I hope I've inspired you to create your own embellishments and make something with them using some Creative Paperclay.  You can purchase Creative Paperclay here or you can even get it at Hobby Lobby or Michaels.