Showing posts with label eagle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eagle. Show all posts

Friday, October 17, 2014

Custom Fireman's Helmet by Rachel Whetzel

Hello, out there in Creativeland!! It's Rachel Whetzel, again! Earlier this year, I was contacted by a woman to make her husband a very unique gift. She wanted a vintage, steam punk style fireman's helmet made as a gift for his birthday. I have been working on the two part piece, and am FINALLY able to share it with you!!

WHAT YOU'LL NEED to make your own Helmet:
  • An old fireman's helmet as a base
  • Some rug hooking canvas, or other fibrous material
  • Creative Paperclay®
  • Sandpaper
  • Paints. I use Folk Art acrylic craft paints and Krylon Spray paints
  • Stain. I used Valspar antiquing stain
  • Paint brushes
I wanted to be sure my Creative Paperclay® stuck to the plastic surface of the helmet I was using, so I glued down some rug hooking canvas to the piece. The fabric of the canvas, and it's large holes were the perfect combination. They allow the clay to fill in nooks and crannies, and get a nice grip on the surface I was working with.
Once the glue was dry, I started layering Creative Paperclay® onto the piece.
I used the metal part that stuck off the top, as the base for an eagle that my client wanted on her helmet.
Once the eagle base had dried, I started layering in feathers, and creating a faux stitched leather look along the ridges of the plastic helmet.

After those layers of Creative Paperclay® had dried well, I started building up the edges of the helmet too.
Once ALL of my layers of  were dry, I sanded... and sanded... and sanded... and FINALLY, a few arm cramps and some raw fingers later, I spray painted the whole piece with a black base. 
Then, I painted the eagle with a few layers of gold paint, put red paint into my faux stitching spots, and used some stain to draw out the detail on my eagle.
When all that was finished, I put my client's custom made leather name plate on the front of the helmet to finish it off!! You can see the second part to this piece on the Amazing Mold Putty blog today! When my customer has given her surprise gift, I'll share the set on my Facebook page!

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 ~ rachel

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Canvas Creative Paperclay art

Hi all
I have done a lot of experimenting for this piece this month. Thought I'd go special since I'm 40 at the end of the month... ;)

For this tutorial you will need:
  • Amaizing mold putty - make a mold of something you love
  • Creative Paperclay(R)
  • Acrylic paint - your desired colours
  • Painting or palette knife
  • Canvas to the desired size
  • Terri Sproul mixers - your desired colours
  • Chipboard letters
  • Paper flowers
  • Fiskars texture plate or similar
  • Brushes
  • Fiskars paper boarder punch
  • Cardstock or papers
  • Sand paper


Step 1: apply paperclay directly to canvas with a painting or palette knife. Squishing it into the canvas.


























Step 2: Next press a Fiskars texture plate into the clay on the canvas surface.

Now set canvas a-side to dry for about 24 hours.

Step 3: use the Fiskars texture plates to make your own mini boarders
 
 set them a-side to dry on a drying rack - my drying rack is an old microwave rack



 














Step 4:  With Amaizing Mold Putty I made a mold out of my sons eagle on his toy bow and arrow set.
All I had to do was mold an extra wing to put on the finished eagle. I painted it up with acrylic paints.













Step 5: then finished the Eagle off with bronze Terri Sproul Mixer and 3D crystal lacquer















Step 6: 
Once your clay is dry on the canvas..
Paint up your canvas. I used different yellow browns to dark browns.

















Step 7: Let your paint dry and then sand your canvas down lightly

This shows up texture and white areas, its awesome.

















Step 8: Punch out some paper with the Fiskars Boarder punch. Then stick it on the boarder of the canvas.















Step 9: add your flowers - i glued the boarders and flowers down with crystal lacquer















Step 10: when your boarder strips are finished drying paint with burnt umber or a dark colour.
Then when the paint is dry..... mix up TS Mixer - I used interference green here and paint it on lightly to the surface. Its so sparkly and awesome and this reminds me so much of Jade or NZ Pounamu (Po-na-moo)















Step 11: now add the Eagle and the boarder strips to the canvas with your lettering....

























Congrats you have finished your Canvas! yipee!!!

The words are from a song that we sing at our church.
The flowers are hand made by me and are called "Kakabeak"

The swirl boarder strips of paperclay are very similar to the Maori carvings seen around New Zealand.

Stay tuned later on in the month for my tip and I'll be showing you how to make paperclay letters!!!

Yes the lettering you see here are also made out of Creative Paperclay (R). yipppe!!!





Happy Crafting
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