Saturday, December 14, 2013

a designer obsessed with pretty things, beautiful spaces, interesting ...

I'VE BEEN doing a bit of decorating around here and decided to create a few new ornaments for our little table-top tree...

Rather than making salt dough ornaments, I found some inexpensive FIMO air drying clay and decided to use that instead ~ no baking required ~ and it dries to a pretty matte white…



A few basic tools like cookie cutters, a rolling pin, parchment or waxed paper for rolling onto and whatever stamps, tools, etc you'd like to use to create pattern and off you go…



I played around with doilies, the round head of a sewing pin, the cap of a marker and some rubber letter stamps to create pattern and words on mine…




A stamp pad can be used to add colour to the letter stamps too…



Although they looked quite grey while I was making them, they dried to a pretty white. They can also be painted if you don't want an all-white look…



I love the way these turned out and they're so much fun to make. I only used 1/3 of the package of clay for these ornaments so far so I can still create quite a few more before the big day.


Have you made any ornaments for your tree this year?


lisa




Source:


http://www.lisaroy.ca/2013/12/clay-ornaments.html










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