Snowflake magnets

Good morning, and welcome to another Creative Paperclay® project.  I wanted to show you another project I made with all those embossed snowflakes and some others.  Remember, you can emboss your paperclay while it's still wet and using a cuddlebug folder or anything with texture just adds element to your project.  I love doing this.  Click on the link above if you don't remember the post or want to see it for the first time.  So let's get started:

After my snowflakes and other cookie cutter cut outs were completely dry, I painted them with acrylic paints and inked around the edges to give them dimension.  I do that allot. 

See how using different embossing folders gives them different looks.  I love this technique. 

So I wanted to turn them into memo holders... 

So I used Mod Podge and added some papers to the front of the clothespins.  Adding a bit of glitter here and there to make them sparkle and another layer of Mod Podge to seal them well. 

Aren't these cute? 

Now I wanted to turn them into refrigerator magnets...so off to my "hoarding" bin and there I found some old 2012 calendar magnets.  Yes, I keep "EVERYTHING" 

I cut them into strips that are the same width as the clothespins and glued them to the backside of them. 

Now they can hang on your file cabinet (like mine) or the 

refrigerator (like my mom did) to keep notes or cards or whatever your heart desires. 

These turned out so cute.  I wanted to make them for my mom, my dad's girlfriend and MIL 

but also wanted to package them up cutely...SO 

I used bakers paper to cut the bags from my TBBM cricut cartridge 

scored them. 

glued them. 

folded them. 

the bottom is also glued, but somewhat fragile if you were to put anything heavy into it, so... 

I just cut a piece of cardboard to fit the bottom of the bag and used an adhesive runner  

placed it into the bottom of the bag

my hand didn't fit, so I used my scissor to make sure it fit snuggly and... 

here they are packaged for gift giving.  I cut some tags using up most of my Christmas paper scraps, punched holes at the top and used some ribbon to close them up.  I gave them to my mom, my dad's girlfriend and MIL and they loved them.

I hope I've given you some more ideas for using your Creative Paperclay® and hope to see you here again in a month.  As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Hot Cocoa Bottle

Good morning and welcome to another Creative Paperclay® post.  With Christmas literally just days away I am scrambling for those last minute gifts.  Sometimes you just need a little something for someone and that is what I have for you today. I had made a project awhile ago using some snowflakes that I cut out of vinyl and then I was left with all these scraps of snowflake cutout from the vinyl.  I hate to see anything go to waste so I used them up like this... I started out using an empty bottle because I have soooo many and adhered those pieces randomly on the bottle. 

 

 Some of those pieces were pretty close to the edge and if I was to etch them I might go over, so I just used some scrap pieces of contact paper and adhered those close to those edges.  Then I added my glass etching paste and let that sit for about 10 minutes.

Because I hate waste I use whatever I have on hand and scrap the etching cream off of the item that's being etched and put it back into the bottle.  I've been using this same bottle of etching cream forever.  

 Once I removed those pieces of vinyl the snowflakes came to life.  

I LOVE IT!!!

 Now you might  be wondering why this is a paperclay post?  Well, the bottle was a Maggi bottle and the lid wasn't going to cut it.  

So I rolled out some paperclay and put it around the lid.  I wasn't worried about smoothing it out because... 

while it was still wet I rolled it over my "wood grain" embossing folder to give it dimension. 

Once it was all dry, I just used my exacto knife to cut away some of the clay so that it had a perfect fit  

and painted it brown, black, brown, watered down black, etc. until I got the "look" of a cork 

See the dimension?  Isn't that cool? 

and here is my faux cork.  (really baaaad picture) 

Next I rolled out some paper clay and 

used an embossing folder and sandwiched the paperclay between it.  

and gently used my rolling pin to get a good image embossed. 

Then I used my snowflake cookie cutter to cut the shapes out randonly

and let them dry overnight.

I made a boat load of these and have another project to show you soon. 

Very cool embossed snowflakes.

Then I painted them white and embellished 

them with some gold glitter glue.

I filled the bottle with hot cocoa mix and added two of my paperclay 

snowflake ornaments and now I have the perfect gift to give to someone. 

I am really liking this project and I have just the perfect person in mind to give this to. 

I really wished the camera could pick up on the etching better,

but in person this looks magnificent. 

I added a bow and now I have a perfect "gift"

I hope I've inspired you to use some Creative Paperclay® and hope you come back to check out more of my projects.  Until then, as always, have a great day and God Bless.

Gift within a card

Hi all

just wanted to share a quick card I made using some of my favorite things.  A while back I had won some papers from the Robin's Nest and fell in love with all the texture this glittery snowflake paper had.  I had used some of it when I created my Let It Snow house and I still had some left over.  I decided to make a card with the rest of the card stock and this is what I came up with:

I started with one of my Creative Paperclay ® snowflakes, painted white and added gold glitter glue. 

I added a pin back to it, but wanted to attach it to my card.  So... 

I took a piece of wire and formed a little loop 

and stuck it into the top of my card stock that I had put ribbon around and bent the prongs outward. 

See my loop? 

Then I attached the pin onto the loop.  I added some snowflakes

 that I punched out of gold vinyl onto the ribbon 

Cute 

I added a foam snowman after I painted his hat, added some gems for his buttons 

and a gold gem for his hat.  I also highlighted him with some gold glitter glue. 

After looking at the card a while I decided I didn't like the vinyl snowflakes, 

so I stamped the sentiment let it SNOW on some white card stock and 

trimmed with some decorative scissors and again used the 

same gold glitter glue to highlight the tag,

Again, looking at the card it still needed something.  I should have layered the snowflake paper onto maybe some black card stock to tie it all together, but it was too late for that since I had already "finished" the card. So instead I added some glue all the way around the edge and dipped it into some gold glitter.  Now it's all tied together.  LOVE IT.

Here is my finished card.  I plan on giving the card to my friend who will be leaving soon for the winter, snowbird...The pin will remind her of our WINTER here in good old South Dakota while she will be cozy warm in Texas.  (I sound a bit jealous, huh?)  

So the pin becomes a gift with a card attached!

As always, have a great day and God Bless.