Creating Bracelets with Paperclay

How to make a Creative Paperclay® bracelet

Hi all I’m baaaaack!!! I am so excited to be back for a second term!!!! Did you miss me? ;)

You may see something new in my posts in this six month term. I am working closely with Creative Paperclay® and Petra from Zigzag.co.nz to help promote sales here in New Zealand (NZ). Why not keep this great product international? It also helps our NZ customers knowing where to find it closer to home.  I love finding my favourite products here in my own country and my own town. (Also saves a bit on postage too, therefore helps me afford to buy more. ****shhhh*** don’t tell the hubby!)

I am going to start this term by showing you how to make your own bracelets by stamping, painting, crackling and drawing on them. So let’s go!

You will need:

·         A block of Creative Paperclay® - available in NZ from Zigzag.co.nz

·         Terri Sproul Mixers (TS Mixers) Purple, pink, blue set– available from VLVstamps

·         3D crystal Lacquer - available in NZ from Zigzag.co.nz

·         Artline  210 medium 0.6 black pen

·         Archival Ink Jet Black stamp pad

·         Inkadinado 97615 Clear stamps

·         One Step Crackle by Decoart

·         Atelier – burnt umber acrylic paint

Take some paperclay out of its packet and roll a long snake with it on your work space the length it would take to wrap around your wrist.

Take a round container that would fit your current bracelets and put the paperclay snake around it and flatten it. Let it dry.

When it was half dry I removed the paperclay bracelet and then let it dry completely.

I stamped one bracelet with a clear stamp and the other bracelet I drew lines on it with a marker pen.

With TS Mixers I mixed them with 3D crystal Lacquer and painted the bracelets

After the TS Mixers where dry I applied One step crackle to the face of the bracelets.
When that was dry I applied burnt umber acrylic paint (dark brown) over the bracelet and then wiped it off leaving it in the cracks only.

Thicker the application of One step crackle the bigger the cracks.

With the stamped bracelet I sanded the edge of the bracelet applied burnt umber acrylic paint to the spot that was sanded and then applied the One step crackle as above thinly to get finer cracks.

And I have some groovy new bracelets

These bracelets I made are a little flexible. I also made them with a small gap instead of a complete round. Thickness of my bracelets are about ¼ inch or 2-3millimeters.

Thanks so much for dropping by

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Creative Paperclay Bracelet Cuff

Good morning friends

Today I want to share a project that was thought up almost last minute.  I love working with it for embellishments for my scrapbooking and cardmaking, but recently I've begun to think a bit outside the box and experiment a little.  This was extremely  fun to make.

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

First I layed out my paper clay and cut it with my blade

in the shape I wanted for the cuff

The I cut the ends off

I added some texture and wrapped the clay

around a bottle that was a close fit to my wrist.  

The paperclay will shrink a bit so make sure you have 

something a tad pit bigger than your wrist.

I didn't let it completely dry so that I wouldn't

be able to get it off the bottle.

I also added some holes for a chain if it didn't hold well.

I painted it with a glossy paint in black

and added a glossy pink over 

the top to seal it

and there is my cuff and it fits perfectly.

No chain needed, it actually fits tight enough.

Isn't it just gorgeous?  Well, I think so anyway.  I hope you liked my Creative Paperclay project today and I will see you again in about 2 weeks for another project.  I hope I've inspired you to create your own bracelet cuff using some Creative Paperclay.  You can view more of my designs here on my blog.