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Like I promise here is the part 3 of this one of a kind tea light fairy house.
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Now in this 3rd part I will be showing you how I use a few techniques to paint this magical fairy tea light house with one of my most favorite wood spirit Totoro from the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro.
For this project I used some of my previous FolkArt and DecoArt Acrylic paints
Here is the color list:
FolkArt Licorice Black
FolkArt Antique Copper
FolkArt Rose Shimmer
FolkArt Champagne
FolkArt Metallic Inca Gold
FolkArt Metallic Christmas Green
FolkArt Metallic Periodot
DecoArt Festive Green
DecoArt Renaissance Brown
I like to do a couple of coats when I paint my Creative Paperclay pieces just to make sure I have a nice coverage and protection for the final piece. Make sure you wait in between coats to make sure is all dry so the second coat adheres propertly to the clay.
Start covering the truck of the fairy house with the FolkArt Metallic Inca Gold.
To color the top of the house use the FolkArt Metallic Inca Gold for the stump with FolkArt Metallic Inca Gold and the base colot of the roof leaf FolkArt Metallic Periodot and make sure you use to coats for each color.
Now lets give a nice coat for the grass with the DecoArt Festive Green.
To give the roof a nice 3d effect use the FolkArt Metallic Christmas Green and apply a water down mixture very carefully. You can use a wet down paper towel to remove any excess if you think is too thick after you applied the acrylic paint down.
Now this will only work if the paint still wet so make sure you inspect the piece carefully before you leave it to completely dry.
To create a nice accent tone door use the FolkArt Champagne has a base and give it two complete coats and let it dry.
The best way to bring any texture up is to apply a darker color in this case DecoArt Renaissance Brown. I have notice it works best if you water down the paint so the pigments will go down the crevices of the sculpted piece. Again dont be afraid to apply a much since you will be using a wet paper towel to remove any excess paint. this techique work best to exposure the nice sculpted texture you left behind . This really brings the rock appearance of the front door and the grain of the tree bark.
We also want to give the grass a nice and natural effect for that we need to add a few layers of colors. For the second layer use a nice water down mixture of the FolkArt Metallic Christmas Green. The more you water it down the easier it will pool in all those tiny little grass we previously sculpted. You can remove any excess again with a wet paper towel.
Tip: Always use a new Paper towel for each color you will be removing so your piece will not be stain with the older previous color you already removed.
It is now time to color the cute little flower and for that we will be using the FolkArt Rose Shimmer.
Feel free to apply two nice thick coats. No water downs for this step.
Remember to leave the window frames for last. The reason for that is you want them to be bold and clean colored. Use two thick coats of FolkArt Champagne.
Now you can see how all these steps came down nicely to create your one of a kind Tea Light Totoro Fairy house. A very lovely way to recycle any old baby food glass jar.
The little house is ready for a cute little LED tea light and it will bright your night away.
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Hola! It is Gloriann from #ArtbyGloricom here to show you how to sculpt this little guy for you to pose in your Creative Paperclay® Tea Light Fairy House. I will be sculpting a cute wood spirit my girls love so much. His name is Totoro and is a very cute character in the Studio Ghibli film titled My Neighbor Totoro. With these instructions you can make a small Totoro or a use more clay and make a bigger version of him to display or just enjoy him. This is the second part of a three parts tutorials but not to worry because I will be linking every single one of them at the beginning of each tutorial.
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Start by rolling a little ball of clay and shaped it like an egg.
Grab 2 of the bamboo skewers and Cut 2 sharp tips about a half an inch long.
The bamboo skewers will be the ears for the wood spirit Totoro.
I like to use bamboo so the ears are stronger and not so easy to brake when the piece is handled.
Now shape the egg into a pear like shape. For the little legs we are going to roll a very small round ball and with a sharp hobby knife cut it in half. doing this will ensure that both legs have the best equal amount of clay.
To attach the legs grab your brush and get both half balls wet and attach them to the fat part of the pear shape Creative Paperclay®. Work the clay legs secure with the wet brush by stoking and shaping the legs in place.
To sculpt the hands roll a little bit of Creative Paperclay® into a snake shape about the same length of the pear shape from head to toes.
With a Xacto knife cut the snake in half.
Smooth and curve the end of the now 2 shape little snakes.
Now to attach the 2 little snakes and make them look like little hands is simple by using a wet brush and using light pressure to add the hands to the pear shape body.
Shape his head like show in the above photo. To attach the bamboo ears get the ends wet and apply light pressure to the head until you achieve your desired ear length. To shape the eyes just simply use the excess cut off bamboo and press the round end to the eyes. Use the Xacto hobby knife tool and cut little slits in for the little claws and shape triangle nose.
It is best to add to the
It is best to add the Totoro to the dried Tea Light Fairy House when he is still wet. That way you can shape him in place and add and adjust him to fit just right. Once you are satisfy set aside and let him dry before your paint him. I will be sharing the step by step painting process in my third and final Totoro fairy House Tea Light tutorial.
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Hola! It me Gloriann Irizarry. I wanted to take this opportunity and say hi to all my wonderful family, friends and followers who had always support my arts and crazy crafts adventures. Now I wanted to make this tutorial a little more special for everyone so it is going to be the first of a 3 parts long and it will be full of easy step by steps photos for everyone to enjoy. I hope you like this one of a kind tutorial and please stay tune for more to creative ideas to come.
Here I will link al 3 tutorials once each one of them becomes available online.
(For Safety reasons only use LED battery operated candles with Creative Paperclay®)
Start by opening the Creative Paperclay® and roll a sheet big to a 1/4 inch thickness.
Roll enough to cover the entire baby food Jar. I'm using the Beech-Nut ORGANICS or Beech-Nut NATURALS due to have the best shape for my desired house. Baby Food jars come in many sizes and shapes so feel to choose your favorite one.
Don't have a baby or know anyone that could help you find a jar to recycle? is ok just got to Ebay or Amazon and search for Baby Food Jars. They have a big selection of Jar for you to purchase and recycle on your next craft project. Just browse.
Place the 1/4 thick over the baby food glass jar.
Lightly press the clay to the baby food glass jar.
Make sure is flush and cut any excess. Using water a brush and your fingers blend the seems together
Neat TIP 1:
I will give you a tip how to get a nice clean cut on the top of the Baby food glass jar.
Use a thick thread like quilting or dental floss and wrapped around the top of the jar mouth.
Place where you want the cut to be and tight a knot . The pressure of the knot will cut your clay and all you have to do is remove any excess out. Now you have a nice clean cut top. Enjoy!
Using water and the wet brushes pad the clay smooth to the baby food glass jar.
Leave the bottom of the baby food glass jar clean of Creative Paperclay® this will help the tea light fairy house be more stable and flat on any surface.
Now feel free to hit your cookie cutter collection and find any that will look like the desire windows and doors. Don't have any? That is totally ok. You can use a pencil, wooden dowel or anything sharp and free draw indentations on the slightly Creative Paperclay®.
I so happen to have these cute flower petals cookies cutter and though would look good for marking the door.
I use the smaller cookie cutter from the same set and mark where I wanted my windows to be.
I do love to collect small fondant cutters. They are so cute and I know they can be very useful for my Creative Paperclay® projects. So why not make cute little windows with this shape. If you don't have one these can be found online. Search for Shape Fondant Punchers. If no puncher available you can use a needle and draw them pressing down firmly against the Baby Food Glass Jar. I found needles to have neater precision cuts in the wet Creative Paperclay®.
Neat Tip 2:
Next time you happen to be shopping for crafts and art supplies at your favorite store or online don't be shy. Visit the Baking and Cake Decorating Departments. If so full of wonderful neat cutters, molds and rollers that might be useful for your next Creative Paperclay® art project.
Cut and extra piece of clay and with your wet fingers shape the door. Now I was looking for a rustic classic look so they shape don't have to be that neat or clean since nature is beautiful with all the little rough shapes.
Play around and place the windows always thinking of the illumination effect that the tea light will have at night when the LED candle light is on and in place.
Now each Fairy House is different and to tell you the truth there is not a specific pattern out there.
Is all matter of taste and in each project I let the Creative Paperclay® speak to me. So when I was looking at the house it said I need a small welcome entrance. Easy roll a small ball of Creative Paperclay® and flat it place under your fairy door.
After I shaped the front door steps the fairy house seems like it need it something. Why not give it a very small green grass lawn. Roll a long enough snake to cover around the bottom of the Baby food glass jar.
To attach the lawn just wet the area including the rolled snake and using your finger gently padded in place. Adjust to your desired shape and cut any excess out.
After the lawn is sculpted.
Lets add some flowers to give the Fairy House a more happy whimsical effect. I so happen to have a few fondant flower punchers too. If no flower punchers on hand is ok. You can use the needle tool again and cut free hand a few flowers.
Now to give the Fairy house a more earthy look use your Sculpey, rubber or wooden tool and start by free hand some wood grain patterns. Make sure the clay still wet and also sprayed with a light mist of water to easy the veining sculpt process. I personally prefer to make these deep. It helps to create a more natural look when you paint then in a later process. Available soon titled
How to PAINT a Creative Paperclay®
Tea Light Fairy House
Use the same tool and make more indentations around the windows to accents them even more. Trust me all of this will come together in the painting process.
Now to give the law the grass effect I like to use this wire brush tool. Now no worries if you don't have one you can make a nice effect by using a few toothpicks tight up with a small baby hair band or even an old hard tooth brush could be use.
Use the same grass making tool and press it against even on the front door to give it a pumice stone look. Weather the front door with has many little holes you want.
Now you can add a door knob and you can see the Fairy House is starting to come together.
Lets set is aside to air dry or you can also speed the drying process by putting the piece in an convectional heat oven for about an hour at about 200 degrees. I don't recommend a non convectional or higher temperatures. Why? Well due to cracks and breakage the uneven temperatures can crate to you hard work sculpted piece.
While the fairy house dries we can start working on the house roof by rolling a little ball of Creative Paperclay® close in size to the metal lid.
Go ahead secure it and press it firmly on the metal Baby food Jar lid.
Grab a good amount of Creative Paperclay® and rolled it very thick. If you have a leaf cookie cutter this is the time to use it. Again I love the maple leaves so I will be punching these out of my thick Creative Paperclay® rolled sheet.
Create a trees stem of on the top of the metal baby food lid. Use your Sculpey, rubber or wooden tool and deep sculpt the tree bark veins for a natural effect.
Make sure the leaves are cut in a very thick rolled out clay. The thickness will help the roof to stay together once it dry. If you cut or punch them too thin they will break off when you are painting or worse after all your hard work is finished. You really don't want the roof to fall apart so make sure they are nice an thick leaves to work with.
The roof has two layers of leaves. For the first layer cut the maple leaves in 3 pieces like shown in the above photo.
One by one add the cut maples leaves to the bottom making sure you cover all the metal lid and nothing is showing.
More and adjust every single maple leave so the green on the metal lid do not show up.
For the top layer of the roof use the full cookie cutter form. Again make sure they are thick so when the Creative Paperclay® dry is strong.
Place the thick punched fondant or cookies cut shapes on the top arrange them has you like them to be. I was able to place 3 full maple leaves shapes and was pretty satisfy on how they turned out.
Lets set is aside to air dry or you can also speed the drying process by putting the piece in an convectional heat oven for about an hour at about 200 degrees. I don't recommend a non convectional or higher temperatures. Why? Well due to cracks and breakage the uneven temperatures can crate to you hard work sculpted piece.
Now it is time to have night time fun. I found these LED Tea Light at my local Dollar Tree Store.
