Creating With Clay - conclusion ~ New House Design

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Creating With Clay - conclusion

Posted by MAKMU ta On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 No comments

Creating with Clay
Part IV
Finessing

A couple of weeks back I featured
Heaven’s Walk. I was inspired by
these clay tags.

I then created some tags of my own.

Creating with Clay Part 1
Creating with Clay Part 2
Creating with Clay Part 3

In part one I took the clay, DAS and
rolled it out, cut it out with cookie cutters
and let them air dry.

In Part II I discussed 'babying your clay'.
They took quite a while to dry and
needed turning over every couple of hours.

for the first night - I placed another cookie sheet over
them and something heavy on top of that - to
prevent curling.

They will still need some smoothing once dried -
then- the fun begins!
In Part III,

I smoothed out the rough edges
with a sponge sanding block,
then I was able to create.
I used crafter's acrylic paints
in cream, pink and green.
Some of the colors were too
dark for my liking. I found you
could easily paint over anything
you didn't like -
so no worries if you goof!

Then I stamped and free-hand painted
the various shaped tags.
This was lots of fun!

Now

To conclude:

First, I painted the reverse side the same color
as the front, cream, pink or green.
Then once dried, I sprayed clear acrylic to protect
and to give it a glaze.

That's it!

Here are a few ideas I had as to how they could be used
for personal use or for gifts.

I think the possibilities are endless!
I was thinking of other ways to use these tags:

on lampshades
make a banner
on bed posts
as planter tags
on bottles

possibilities!

Thank you for stopping by!
Let me know if you try these -
I'd love to see your creativity!

Wishing you a very Delightsome day,