Creative Paperclay® Cheese Markers

I'm a cheese lover!! We always have an assortment of cheeses in our frig, and when they are served I like to have them labeled so folks know the names of the individual cheeses. So, I decided to make my own cheese markers using Creative Paperclay®.

To begin, I drew several different shapes that I liked as patterns. I've included a PDF file of my favorite cheese marker shapes. I cut the patterns out of cardstock.

I rolled out a slab of clay to a thickness of about 1/8", and traced around the patterns. While the clay was drying, I turned the markers over every few hours so they would dry as evenly as possible.

Next, a bit of sanding and they were ready for a sealer. I used two coats of PPA from USArtQuest, letting each coat dry thoroughly before added the next. I made my own chalk paint by mixing baking soda into acrylic paint. The proportions depend on how "chalky" you want the paint. I added enough baking soda to make a fairly thick substance. I started added a small amount of baking soda, and added more small amounts until I was satisfied with the consistency.

You could use any color paint, but I chose black. Here's the sanded, sealed, chalk-painted marker before I conditioned it.

To condition the marker, rub the entire surface with a piece of chalk. Then, dust off the excess. Now you're ready for your next wine and cheese party!! Here's one of my finished markers.

Carole

Adding Rope Letters to Your Art

This quick and easy trick allows you to create letters of any size or numbers in your art with Creative Paperclay®. It adds dimension plus adds to your visual story.

Supplies:
Creative Paperclay®
Alphabet stamps, texture plates
Paint or gold rub
Embellishments

Roll the clay into ropes and make them into letters directly on your art. Sometimes I dampen my surface slightly for better adhesion. If you want to keep the rope look I would let them dry then glue onto your surface.

Press a texture plate into the clay. I used a texture plate with handwriting on it.

Now I let the clay dry before adding color.

 

I finished it off with a gold rub and embellishments.

 

Hope you enjoyed learning rope letters. You can't add enough ticks to your art arsenal.
— Darlene Olivia McElroy

Once Upon A Time Paper Mache Book by Gloriann Irizarry

Once upon a time a beautiful story was written and a legend was born. 

A enchanted book capable of making all your wishes come true was discover and I will be here to guide your creative quest to conquer this project.

Hi my dear followers and friends it is Gloriann Irizarry here to help your imagination and open a book of enchantment . I will show you how to turn a simple paper mache book and transform it to a magic Home decor piece to delight everyone. Who know maybe you want to hide a special trinket or just make a one of a kind box to give to a special friend. It don't matter I will show you here step by step how to complete this OOAK Enchanted Book.

Brought to you by Creative Paperclay

Materials

1 package of Creative Paperclay Material

1 Paper Mache book

Xacto or hobby knife

White Acrylic Gesso

Paint brushes

Acrylic paints ( Martha Stewart Glitter paint, renaissance brown, metallic black, purple and pink)

Elmers school glue 

Butterfly cookie cutter

Flower cookie cutter

Jewelry Key charms

 Old hair brush

Light purple ribbon.

Scrapbook Paper Pack The Once Upon A Stack DCWV 

Once Upon A Time Book By Gloriann Irizarry 

#bygloricom

I start by preparing the paper mache book prime completely with the Gesso medium to reinforce the surface and to achieve a clean final look.

  

I use a big brush and apply the first layer of gesso and waited to be completely dry before I apply the second and final coat of the white acrylic gesso to the entire paper mache book blank.

After the second coat of white gesso dry I use one of my favorite acrylic color Metallics Renascence Brown. I use the X or crisscross painting technique. This will give some nice background feel to the book cover.

Make sure you use the Crisscross technique only on the cover and wait for the paint to be completely dry before the next step. You don't want to ruin the wet paint on our next step.

I place it like this to dry so it will not be marked or damage.

Now the to create the many pages of stories and spells. You might think Oh this is going to be hard. Im not an experience painter. Well don't let the fear take the best out of you. Look all you will need is and old brush and a nice wet coat of the Metallic Black on the page section of the paper mache book and with one even stroke use the brush and brush the paint away. 

The bristle of the brush will remove some of the heavy paint off and reveal amazing looking pages. Do this all around the book to give the box the sensation of a close book.

I had so much fun choosing the images I wanted to display in my book cover right from my Scrapbook Supply box. I choose The Once upon a time Stack by DCWV . The quality of the paper stock is amazing and the styles are super adorable. I love the many designs, embossings and my favorite all the GLITTER. Yes tons of glitter . The beauty is the glitter is not going to be spreading all over and the styles are so tasteful.

I decided to cover all the inside of the book in paper so it look very nice.

I choose Rapunzel golden glitter embossed locks for the left panel of my book.

I wanted to keep the book effect so I chose a letter printed story to cover the right panel of the book.

carefully measure twice and cut once the panel. I use my Elmers school glue and carefully attach each cut panel inside the book . Cut any excess paper .

I cut side panel of a similar style paper and use the Elmers glue to attach the side panel. Make sure you cut any excess paper off so you can close the book completely.

I look at the book and notice something was missing. The spell wasn't written right. So I decided to add some well need 3D details. I added some of my favorite jewelry charms and could not say no to this gold key. I added a nice purple ribbon and glued it to the left page of the paper mache book box.

Ok the left page is all set now we need to match the right side. Uhm! let me think it is going to be a magic story. AHA! nothing better than a magic castle found right on the The Once Upon A Time Stack.

I cut around it and use the Elmers glued to secure it in place. Added 3 pretty flowers and the spell has been casted in this beautiful ooak book

I wanted to give the spine of the book a unique style to match the cover so I cut 2 pieces of the beautiful glitter embossed paper and glued it to the spine to create the old style bind effect.

Now I wanted the give the cover some nice 3D effect so I rolled a clay sheet in to a 1/4 thickness. 

Choose your favorite cookie cutters or clay stamps to create your center pieces. I used my favorite the butterfly and a sunflower using this technique.

Let it dry flat over night or longer depending on how humid is your room at the time of crafting.

I wanted to add more details to pop so I use a nice flower cutter I have to create mini flower to decorate.

I did not wanted the flowers to be flat so I grabbed the other end of a paint brush and give the flower a little pinch here and there to bring those to life.  Let them dry .

I added more details to the flowers by using water down acrylic pink paint the centers of the petals to give them a natural feeling to them. 

For the butterfly I stated with a base of pink acrylic and work my color layers one by one.

Added purple to the center of the wings. 

Use the dry brush method for the yellow acrylic on the edges and accents on metallic green. 

The final touch was sealed with the Martha Stewarts red glitter paint to the center and pink glitter paint to the rest of the piece ans let it dry. this will seal the butterfly and give it the magic touch look.

Use this technique on the Sunflower Creative Paperclay cutout. 

For the cover I use my favorite pattern paper I found on the Stack . I choose a scrap from my paper stack and create the back ground for me to place the nice glittery Creative Paperclay Butterfly and Sunflower i created for this project. I tear the edges out to give it an antique look and glued it to the bottom front cover.

Now that the butter fly and the sunflower are dry we are ready to attach them to the book cover.

Use plenty of glue and place it to your top right corner next to the tittle.

Place the beautiful Creative Paperclay sunflower to the bottom left corner ans let it dry.

I wanted more details to be magical so I glued plenty of Lilly flowers to all the cover.

There is never enough flowers on magic gardens. 

Now I have to say when you open this book I'm very happy the way it turn out and 

 I love how the inside look.

My favorite has to be the Glittery Creative Paperclay cut outs and the Keys.

The more glitter the better. Well that is my favorite magic look. Plenty of fairy dust.

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No Magic book is ready with out some keys. I choose my favorites from my stash of jewelry findings and added to ribbon. I secure them to the book with more glue and let them dry.

Now you can hide your treasures in this book.

The Once Upon A Time Book is ready to cast his spell all over your kingdom. 

Now open it if you dare .

I hope you had a wonderful time and feel free to ask any question or comments bellow or email me at @bygloricom

Have a bless day and remember to always have fun while crafting!

Sincerely ,

Gloriann Irizarry 

Animal Tassels July Project with LuLu Lancaster

Hello! This is LuLu with a cute animal project.

I love red foxes and thought adding some around my home would be an adorable whimsical touch. You can create these tassels with any sort of animal head you can think of. :)

For this project you will need 

Creative PaperClay®

assorted ribbons

wire 

craft glue

 1 small paint brush and acrylic paints

Start by sculpting a small head.

These are easy about the size of a pingpong ball. 

The features are in the paint so a rough head is fine :)

Make a ball and with wet fingers pull up ears and shape.

Pull out the nose and two points below for the "fur"

Take a small section of wire and create a loop.

insert the loop into the top of the clay.

Let dry :)

using orange acrylic paint cover the fox head ;)

create two eyes with dots of black and a crescent shape black nose.

with white paint create some fur at the nose ears and bottom "tufts of fur"

take lengths of assorted ribbons simply glue to the bottom of the fox head

Now you have an adorable little animal head tassel!

Thank you so much for reading along. I hope I have inspired you to create your own animal tassels just think of the mini zoo you can make <3

LuLu

LuLus Apple Dolls

First Friday Fan Day July 2014 with Rachel Whetzel

Hello, once again, Blogiverse!  Rachel Whetzel here! Can you believe it's already JULY!? I don't think it's just me... this year seems to be flying by at a break neck speed. This month, I have been browsing the web, looking for creations from YOU using Creative PaperClay®!
I hope you hop over to the links I'm sharing with you today, and let your fellow Creative PaperClay® lovers know you saw what they shared too!

FACEBOOK

On Facebook this month,
Darlene McElroy shared THIS amazing piece she recently made, along with THIS ONE!

PINTEREST

Check these pins out!!
Ellen Harris' Dolls were pinned HERE, by Tere Wood 

Lisa Beem pinned THIS bracelet cuff on Great Craft Ideas

CraftersExChange pinned a SCARY TREE tutorial from MiniMotion.com

TWITTER

Diana Welte tweeted her DOLL IN PROGRESS

AROUND THE WEB

Design Team Member, Susan Owenby saw THIS amazing HARRY POTTER piece shared on the world wide web by Jen of Cake Wrecks on Epbot.

HELP ME FIND YOU!! 

Use the hashtag #CreativePaperclay on all your social networks. Be sure, when using Facebook, that you make your posts and images using the Creative PaperClay® hashtag are set to public, otherwise, I won't be able to find them. You can also share your projects to the Creative PaperClay® FACEBOOK PAGE. Each month, I'll browse the interwebs looking for projects from YOU, that I can share here! Be featured next month! START SHARING NOW!!

Thanks for reading! If you'd like to keep up with me, and see more of what I'm up to, I'd also love it if you'd visit MY BLOG and Subscribe! You can also find me on FACEBOOK!

Lynda's July Tips

One thing about being a part of this group of women - you learn a lot!  Each of us have our own style - or our own particular "expertise" you might say!  There are many different types of projects on this blog, with many different women sharing their Creative Paperclay projects before this team of women.  My area of "expertise" is more scrapbooking and card making - only recently making larger projects as I am more comfortable in creating, thanks to our fearless leader Terri!  So this month, you not only will get a few tips - but you also get a challenge as well!!!   

Now - your challenge this month - is to find projects from this blog that you want to recreate...and to look back at all the tips that everyone has put down here and start to keep track of the ideas and tips you like! If you have a Pinterest account - here is my link, and here is the Creative Paperclay link while you are at it, just type "Creative Paperclay" in the search bar and you will get a lot of projects you can do!  Find your favorites and get started!


A few tips for you:    
1.  Let water be your best friend when you are creating!  Don't be afraid of the clay and in using water to take care of the slight imperfections you might get when you are working with the clay!  
2.  Look at containers you would normally throw away - as a "base" for things you can make!  I turned a cleaned out creamer container into a snowman this past Christmas, so look at what you have - and have some fun!  
3.  Your scrapbook templates can make great one of a kind projects - such as magnets, embellishments for your pages and cards, or to add to larger projects!  Check out what you have at home already before you go out and spend a ton of money!