Diy Nature Impressions Jewelry
Thursday, 27 October 2011
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Guest tutorial past times Becca Gardner (bybeccag)
This is a beautiful fourth dimension of the twelvemonth to last out inwards nature. Our family loves to become out hiking, last it inwards the forest, at the beach, along the creek or only downwards the street. And, inevitably, nosotros come upward dorsum amongst treasures. Rocks, leaves, nuts, bugs, shells, rusty metal, sticks. Lots of sticks. I could blame it on my boys who dear to fill upward their pockets amongst whatever together with everything but actually I dear it equally much equally they do.
After ane such adventure, nosotros came dorsum amongst a collection of eucalyptus mucilage nuts.
What to create amongst all this treasure?!
Today I'm going to demo y'all how I used the nuts equally stamps to brand clay jewelry. I role this same process to brand the buttons for the scarves in my Etsy shop. This would brand a fabulous vacation gift but it is also a cracking means to preserve special memories.
First affair to create is become collecting. Get outside! Collect a piddling something from your jaunt. Leaves, acorns, walnut shells, rocks, flowers, interesting twigs.
Next, accept the clay together with whorl it out. Normally, I role clay that must last fired inwards a kiln but for this projection I used air-dry clay. It is real calorie-free weight when it dries together with y'all don't need access to a kiln.
Take your "treasure" together with stamp it into the clay.
Cut unopen to the stamped expanse inwards the cast of your choosing using a fine, precipitous point. This could last a toothpick, a newspaper clip, or perchance fifty-fifty a pocket-sized cookie cutter. If y'all are making it into a necklace, y'all may desire to seat a pocket-sized hole through it amongst a straw or precipitous object.
Let the clay dry together with harden.
Now for the difficult part...deciding what colors to pigment it! Using acryllic paint, dip your finger into a piddling pigment together with brush over your print. This is a cracking means to demo off the texture of your nature imprint.
Add a coat of clear acryllic spray to laissez passer on it a piddling smooth together with seal the clay. Then brand your accessory of choice. Glue on some earring backs or recall base of operations or brand a necklace!
This is a beautiful fourth dimension of the twelvemonth to last out inwards nature. Our family loves to become out hiking, last it inwards the forest, at the beach, along the creek or only downwards the street. And, inevitably, nosotros come upward dorsum amongst treasures. Rocks, leaves, nuts, bugs, shells, rusty metal, sticks. Lots of sticks. I could blame it on my boys who dear to fill upward their pockets amongst whatever together with everything but actually I dear it equally much equally they do.
After ane such adventure, nosotros came dorsum amongst a collection of eucalyptus mucilage nuts.
What to create amongst all this treasure?!
Today I'm going to demo y'all how I used the nuts equally stamps to brand clay jewelry. I role this same process to brand the buttons for the scarves in my Etsy shop. This would brand a fabulous vacation gift but it is also a cracking means to preserve special memories.
First affair to create is become collecting. Get outside! Collect a piddling something from your jaunt. Leaves, acorns, walnut shells, rocks, flowers, interesting twigs.
Next, accept the clay together with whorl it out. Normally, I role clay that must last fired inwards a kiln but for this projection I used air-dry clay. It is real calorie-free weight when it dries together with y'all don't need access to a kiln.
Take your "treasure" together with stamp it into the clay.
Cut unopen to the stamped expanse inwards the cast of your choosing using a fine, precipitous point. This could last a toothpick, a newspaper clip, or perchance fifty-fifty a pocket-sized cookie cutter. If y'all are making it into a necklace, y'all may desire to seat a pocket-sized hole through it amongst a straw or precipitous object.
Let the clay dry together with harden.
Now for the difficult part...deciding what colors to pigment it! Using acryllic paint, dip your finger into a piddling pigment together with brush over your print. This is a cracking means to demo off the texture of your nature imprint.
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Add a coat of clear acryllic spray to laissez passer on it a piddling smooth together with seal the clay. Then brand your accessory of choice. Glue on some earring backs or recall base of operations or brand a necklace!
Have fun amongst it!
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