Dangling Dolly Postcards made with DelightTM

By Sandra Strait (aka molossus)

When I heard that the Creative Paperclay® design team would be working with art molds from Articus Studio, I was thrilled.  I chose the Dollie Dangles Flexible Art Mold. I had several ideas of what to do with my Dollie Dangles mold, but then I came across the International Mixed Media Postcard Swap.  And the mold was cast, lol!  The swap requires 10 Postcards, which seems a lot, but I knew I could do up all 10 quickly and easily using my Articus mold.  The most time required would be the drying time for the Delight™, and in folding the Origami outfits I had in mind. I decided to use  Delight™, another Creative Paperclay® product, because it dries to an extremely light weight. I won’t be able to send these as postcards, because they’ll be too bulky and I wanted to keep postage costs down

Supplies:  1 oz. Delight™  Dollie Dangles Flexible Art Mold  10 Postcards (not shown) 10 Pompoms for Hair 20 sheets of Origami Paper for Outfits White Glue Ceramcoat paints-Black, Antique White, Raspberry, and Bright Citrus Byzantia Paints-Seraphym, Illuminata and Cardinale Small paint brush Even smaller brush tip for painting eyes A toothpick or two Scissors

The Dolly Dangles mold comes with an instruction sheet that tells you the approximate amounts of clay product that you will need.

Molding the Pieces Before pressing the Delight™ into the mold shapes, I rolled it into a smooth ball to avoid creases in the finished piece.  To even the pieces, I rolled a toothpick across the top to flatten it out, then used the toothpick tip to cut away excess, and smooth the edges. After the  Delight™ dried, it was easy to flex the mold so each piece would pop loose, and I could just pick it out.

The Outfits While the  Delight™ was drying, I folded Origami outfits for my Dangle Dollies.  I sort of made up my own patterns based on basic Kimono and dress folds that I learned long ago.  You can find a similar Kimono pattern at Make a Kimono Girl, and a similar dress pattern at The Origami Club.

Painting The Dollies To get flesh color paint, I mixed a little Antique White, Raspberry, and Bright Citrus paints, and painted the faces, hands, legs and feet. The eyes were outlined in black, and a touch of raspberry added a blush for the lips and cheeks. I used the jewel toned Byzantia paints on the eyes, boots, thongs, fingernails and toenails. The next step was to pick which Origami outfits went best with the colors on each postcard.  The postcards I picked up for this project had some awesome artwork, and I wanted to complement the colors as much as possible. The last step before gluing everything together was to cut out bits of the pompoms so they would fit the heads.  I had a little trouble trimming them flat enough because they wanted to  fall apart if I cut very much. My faces were pushed out a bit, which made it difficult to photo the postcards. I was able to whip all 10 post cards out in three days, with only a few hours work on my part.

Please visit  Articus Studio for a full range of crafting supplies as well as the wonderful mold I used for this product. http://articusstudiodesign.com/     You can find  Delight™ at the Creative Paperclay® website.

Password Journal on Lock-down

Hi Everyone, it's Robyn here today.  This month I've been busily creating these handy little password journals.  They measure 3 3/4" x 2 1/4" and fit nicely into a shirt pocket, handbag  or small desk space.  Now, you would want to use discretion with these when storing sensitive passwords depending on your circumstances but they work great for all of the groups, sites and blogs that we seem to find ourselves needing to recall log-in information for.  Great for the kiddos, too!

Here is what I came up with...

I've used an Articus Studio mold called Key to My Heart, Large to create the heart-shaped lock and key.  I added my Creative Paperclay into the mold and left it to dry overnight.  I then painted the lock and key using pink acrylic paint and then dry brushed on some vintage white acrylic paint.

 This is what the inside pages look like.  I just typed it up on my computer using Microsoft Word.

 Then used my Bind-it-all to create the book

 The label for the front were also created on my computer.  I then used a die to cut out the label.

Here is the inside of the assembled book...

 This is a fun, quick project and make great little gifts.  Hope you give them a try!

This is the mold that I used to create my Creative Paperclay lock and key charms.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Creating,

Robyn

Butterfly pick

My daughter is expecting her second child and I am so excited for that event.  I am in charge of her baby shower and I wanted to make it special and use my own creations instead of buying them.  Today I am going to show you the first of a few things I am making.  Her theme for baby Alexis is butterflies and fairies and today I am showing you what I did for the butterflies.


I had a stamp of a butterfly that I absolutely love and decided I wanted to see if I could make a mold of it and make it as beautiful as the stamp is.  I then pressed my Creative Paperclay® into the mold and since I tend to let my clay's stay in the mold and dry overnight the underside was still a bit wet when I took it out of the mold.  I took it out of the mold gently and just let it dry to it's fullest.  The reason I leave my clay in the molds to dry is so I won't distort the clay before it has had time to dry at least a bit.  After it has completely dried I took my dremel tool with a sanding bit and shaped all the rough edges and try to get as much detail as possible.  You can use sandpaper or even an emery board as I used to until hubby bought the dremel for me.  This cuts down on time for me.

Then I painted the piece.  I used plum acrylic paint and I filled the crevices

with dimension medium and sprinkled pink glitter on top of that for glitz.

(I wish the picture were better because

it really is gorgeous in real life)

Using my dremel again I bored a hole into the back of the

butterfly and hot glued a bamboo skewer into it.

This was so easy to make and I can decorate them

in any color to match any decor.

Winner from the blog Hop

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by Feb 29, 2012

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India meets Steam Punk

I really didn't know what this was going to end up like.... I mean mixing two different cultures together.... I must be nuts!!!

I went to India in 1993.... I must say for a first trip ever from New Zealand, it really impacted my life. Seeing all the different culture aspects and the way people lived etc.... That country is amazing and its people are beautiful and creative too.

This piece is dedicated to the people of that amazing country.

 

This was only possible by using the Articus Mold - Caboshapes II Divas 

and Delight TM clay.

Here is how I made it:

I pressed the Delight Clay into the mold. And popped the clay out carefully to get several shapes the same.... Then let the clay dry. Delight has a polystyrene feel to it when dry.

I got some flower soft wire out and poked it through the shoulders and attached some hand shapes.

I wrapped some ribbon around the body and pinned it at the back. This clay is so soft it allows to be poked and pinned. So cool!

next is when I got out my inks and a water brush then coloured the pieces I needed to colour. Adding glitter only to the crown.

The next step was to glue it all together.... I added the hair (black wool) Glue used was a hot glue gun...

add face... and more hair

Then prepare the base that you will glue it onto....

I used 1" squares, a piece of paper doily and inked the edges....

I then added some cogs made with Delight TM and flowers etc....

Don't for get some bling in the form of glitter glue...

and there you are....Project done!

Thanks for looking!

You Are Just a Girl. Say Nothing.

Hello, Creative Paperclay® fans! This is Jingle and today I am bringing you a slightly darker art piece than normal, however, it is what I was inspired to create, so I followed that muse and created exactly what it was leading me to create. I began with one of the wonderful Frozen Charlotte Mold from Articus Studio to create the focal point of my piece.

To begin, distress an oversized playing card with sand paper and ink. Layer papers to create the base for your piece.



Mold your Charlotte doll and allow to dry for 2-3 days. Press the mouth area gently to flatten and essentially eliminate the mouth prior to drying. Paint with Luminarte Twinkling H2O's. This gives her a shimmer that suits her femininity.



Assemble the piece and add text.




You see, in much of the world women are still seen as a lesser being. They are told to keep quiet. To speak only when spoken to. To hold only the opinions of their fathers and husbands. Even here in countries where this is not obvious like the US, UK, and the like... we often find that many women are STILL, to this day, in these free and modern countries, put down and thought less of simply for being female. This piece speaks out against such treatment. It calls attention to the problem and forces us to face it. Woman are strong. Woman are capable. Woman are equal.

BLog Hop - Love Cast in Clay

Welcome to our first blog hop with both Creative Paperclay® Design Team and Amazing Mold Putty design team.  These two products are a match made in heaven.  Truly they are...  with Amazing Mold Putty you can mold just about anything, and that team has tried...  LOL....
once you have made a mold - you can put your Creative Paperclay® into that mold.  SEE what I mean..  match made in heaven....  As you hop through this blog hop you will see what I mean...   




We are doing blog candy with this hop also.  I have 4 packages of Creative Paperclay® and 4 packages of Amazing Mold Putty to give away...  All you have to do is leave a comment and become a follower of all the blog on our blog hop and you are entered!  I will post a winner on Feb 5th on both this blog and Amazing Mold Putty Blog

Here is the list of all the blog - just in case you get lost..  Thanks so much for playing along.