Easy Bat Ornaments

 

If you are anything like me you are always behind in decorating for holidays.  

So today I am going to be showing you how to create some cute, quick, & 

easy bat ornaments to hang around your house for Halloween fun!

All you need is:

Creative Paperclay

Acrylic paint - black and white

Knife

Rolling pin

Bat template or cookie cutter

Take about ¼ of a package of Creative Paperclay and using your rolling pin

 (You can substitute a drinking glass if you don’t have a craft rolling pin) 

\flatten out the clay.  

Once the clay is flattened as thick as you would like your ornament to be

 use either a bat shaped cookie cutter or bat template (I’m crafty so I drew a

 bat but you can also easily search for one online to use.  Mix up a couple 

different ones for variety too!) to cut out your bats.  Go for one or make a 

whole family of bats!

After cutting the bats out smooth out the edges using your fingers and 

a wet paper towel.  Put one or two holes in your bats using a pencil or needle.  

One hole if you want them to hang down and two for a more realistic flying bat.

Let them dry out for a day or two!  

To really give the bats character dry them over your rolling pin for a flying bat.

Now let’s paint!

Go for plain black or get creative and add a little shading.

Time to hang them.  Put a little string or yarn through the holes and hang 

them up next to a window or make a bat corner.  

Thanks for joining and Have fun and share what you create with us below!  

We would love to see where you hang your bats!

Find your Joy!

Kelly

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Ten Minute Halloween Ghost

 Hello and welcome to my spooktacular tutorial! Today I am going to show you how I made this adorable ghost. 

For this project I am using Delight Clay™. It is easy to use and has a lovely, soft, marshmallow-like texture. 

All you need is:

• Delight Clay
• water and paintbrush for smoothing
• a pencil to form the eyes
• watercolor paints and small brushes
• spray varnish

Step One:

Grab a palm full of Delight Clay™ and form it into the shape of your ghost. Gently tap the base on a table to ensure that it stands flat.

Step Two:

Using some water and your finger/paintbrush, smooth the clay.

Step Three:

Use your pencil to poke two holes for the eyes.

Step Four:

Add black water-color paint to the eyes using a small paint brush. Use a soft brush, or your finger to add paint to the cheeks. Set aside to dry.

Step 5

Spray with varnish when it is completely dry. 

That's it! You are done. Wasn't that simple?

Tips

1. Do not bake Delight Clay™ or dry with a heat gun.
2. Only use a spray varnish - the watercolor paint will shift with a paint-on varnish.
3. Add a hook to make a hanging ornament.
4. You can use acrylic paint also, just ensure the clay is dry first.
5. HAVE FUN!

You can share your creations with us on our Facebook page. We would love to see them! For more inspiration have a look around the blog. There are tutorials for many levels using Creative Paperclay® and Delight Clay™. You can also visit my blog Paper Mache Patch.

You can find Creative Paperclay® online at Creative Paperclay Co and also at Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Dickblick and Amazon. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzette

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Making Spooky Spell Bottles with Creative Paperclay®

HELLO! Halloween is just around the corner so I thought what better to make than a Halloween craft? I love creepy crafts, don't you?

These spell bottles are so easy to make and you can decorate them any way you choose. Here is the list of supplies:

Empty bottles and jars

PVA glue

Creative Paperclay®

Acrylic paints

Apple Barrell Antique White

Americana Walnut Gel Stain

Golden Acrylic:

Green Gold

Nickel Azo Gold

Sap Green

Matte Varnish

Raffia 

Sculpting tools

Paint brushes

water

Part 1

1. First you cover the bottle with paper clay, taking care to push down firmly so no air is trapped. Let that dry. 
2. When it is dry you add all the decorations such as the words and the eyeball, using some PVA glue of course.
3. Put that aside to dry.

You can watch the video below to see how I did this.

Part 2

Now its time to paint!

1. Apply a coat of gesso. This seals the clay so it doesn't absorb all the paint.
2. Paint the bottles in whatever color you choose.
3. Apply a wash of black paint and a wash of red paint.
4. Wipe off.
5. Keep going until you are satisfied. 
6. Paint the eye on the Frog Eyes Bottle. I also added some brown stain and green paint to this one.
7. When dry, varnish.
8. Add any other embellishments you choose.

You can see how I painted my bottles in the video below.

I do hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thanks for stopping by!

Suzette

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Let's create a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Banner

Hi!,
I love that fall has finally come to North Texas. Chilly mornings, an extra large cup of coffee, and crafting on my patio. Pure Heaven!!

My inspiration for today's project comes from a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the dead) festival in my town of Denton Texas.

When the first of October comes to north Texas you start to see tons of sugar skull decorations. Getting ready for the celebration this year, I decided to create a sugar skull banner incorporating Creative Paperclay® for my potion shelf.

 Supply list
Creative Paperclay Delight
Sugar skull  cookie cutter
Heavy cardboard banner
9" of 36" wide fabric
Black felt
Colored hemp cord
Decoupage for fabric glue
Flowers with skulls
Corn starch
Acrylic paint (white, black, neon blue, neon pink, light purple)
Tacky glue
Scissors
Fabric pencil
Ruler

Lets get started 

The skulls

1.  Roll out your delight clay 1/4 inch. (Delight is much lighter than original paperclay and perfect for this type of banner)
2. Dust the edge of your cookie cutter with corn starch
3. Press cutter into clay. Lift out and lay flat piece on the table
4. ( If you have a cookie cutter with details like mine, turn over the cutter and press the face imprint into clay)
5. Make two more faces
6. Set aside and let dry

    7. Paint the front and back of the skulls white and let dry
    8. Finish the features using your acrylic paints and set aside

The banner flags 

1. Use one of the banner flags as a template 
2. Lay fabric(wrong side up) on a table
3. Using a ruler and a fabric pencil trace 1/4" edge extra around your template
4. Glue the fabric on the cardboard.  
5. Snip of the corners
6. Put glue on the fabric edges and fold them over
7. Using the template cut a piece of black felt and glue it on the back

     8. Take 3 strands of colored hemp and braid them together

   9. Thread the cord through the banner pieces. (leaving room for the skulls)
  10.Glue the skulls on the cords using tacky glue
  11.Glue the flowers to the banner using tacky glue


Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you can be inspired to create a banner of your own.

Happy Creating,
Shari

  

Create a Cute Halloween Goulie Wand

Hi!

I don't know about you but I am so ready for fall to begin!

Today I am really excited to show you how I created my first fall craft of the season. Let's get ready to make this easy, adorable, Halloween Goulie wand.

What you will need:
Creative Paperclay®
Styrofoam balls
Americana® multi-surface acrylic paint
Wooden round dowels
Dowel caps
Matte Mod podge 
Feather trim
Ribbon
Black Hemp string
Painters tape
Clay roller/tools
Raffia
Pencil 
Hot glue gun/glue
Paint brushes/water/paper towels

Lets get started:
1. Take a Styrofoam ball and a stick. Push the stick half way into your Styrofoam ball. Set stick aside.

2. Roll out your paperclay to about 1/4 inch thin.
3. Lay your Styrofoam ball on the clay and trim around the ball. Leave a little extra for wrapping around the ball.

4. Form the clay around the ball, removing any excess clay and making sure not to cover the hole.

5. Smooth the clay out with damp hands.
6.Let dry completely.
7. Paint 2 coats of white paint.
8. With a pencil , lightly hand draw out the face.
9. Paint in the face with black paint and a fine detail brush.
10. Seal it with a Matte mod podge.

Finishing Mr. Skeleton

The wand
Paint the stick white.
Use painters tape to create a striped effect.
Paint the space between the tape with black.
Paint the cap black and hot glue it on the stick.
Seal all with matte mod podge.

Glue the head on the other end of the stick with hot glue.

Creating the mini bat head.
Roll out a small ball of clay.
Flatten the ball with your finger.
Using a cutting tool, cut a triangle on the top of the circle.
Trim the other edges to create a bat head shape.
With damp fingers, smooth out the bat head.
When dry paint the face black and the eyes yellow.

The bow
Cut 3.5"of black ribbon and lay on the table.
Cut 8 strands of orange raffia various lengths and lay on top of the ribbon.
Cut a 5" piece of hemp string.
Pinch the ribbon and raffia together.
Wrap  the hemp string around them and tie it in a knot.
Tie the collar with the hemp string around the stick.
Hot glue in place and trim the ends.

Assemble 
Hot glue the bat head on the middle of the knot.
Cut 2"of feather trim.
Attach it around the back of the skeleton head, attaching to both sides of the back of the ribbon with hot glue.

My 4 yr. old grandson loved Mr. Skeleton! Because I had so much fun making him, I ended up creating a few more. Meet my monster and pumpkin Goulie wand.

I hope you enjoyed my first fall craft post. Come back later this month for a helpful tip that I use when creating with paperclay.

Happy Creating,
Shari
My Altered Life blog