Tropical Leaf Ornaments

Do you love plants?  If you do then this is the tutorial for you!  I will be walking you through how to create your own Pink Princess Philodendron clay ornament.

All you need is:

Creative Paperclay

Acrylic paint - In greens, pinks, and white

Knife

Rolling pin

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 a leaf template or create one by drawing a heart shaped leaf onto a piece of paper to cut out your leaf.  

After cutting the leaves out smooth out the edges using your fingers and a wet paper towel.  Put one hole in the top of the leaves using a pencil or needle.  

Let them dry out for a day or two!  

Now let’s paint!

I started with white, the lightest color, and painted a small section on my half moon leaf and then added in light and dark pink variegation.  On the green side I put some light pink splotches and then painted around them with the darker green.  I did blend in a little lighter green in spots to make it more realistic. 

Time to hang them.  Put a little string or yarn through the hole and hang them on your tree!

I would love to see all your different leaves!  Comment your photos below.

Cheers until next time!

Kelly Martin

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Carnivorous House Plant Project by LuLu Lancaster

It's the most wonderful time of the year :) Halloween is coming it is raining here and I am ready! Every room of my home will have some little spooky critter or creature lurking. Join me in creating a carnivorous house plant or 3 or 4 :)

Gather your 

small gauge floral wire

masking tape

Creative PaperClay®

miniature clay pots

some cheese cloth

and acrylic paints

Create a T shape with your wire

take a small amount of Clay. enough for the bottom of your pot.

Cover your wire T with masking tape and invert. Poke through the clay.

remove the upside doen T 

this will be your plant head and stems

cover each stem with clay and create a head out of a ball of clay

you can split the head for a mouth :)

create eyes from smaller balls of clay and attach to the wet clay head with a little bit of water.

make leaves for hands by elongating the balls you have attached to the side stems.

using a toothpick you can create teeth, by pulling through the clay.

add nostrils and tiny grooves in the stems to add character :)

Once dry you can use some tacky glue and attach the cheese cloth to the inside of the clay pot.

another dab of tacky glue and attach the plant base to the inside.

Now you can paint your plant to creepy perfection!!!

Thank you so much for following along!

I hope you have enjoyed this project :)

LuLu Lancaster

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