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Clay Push Mold - Mioka
By
Nancy Leimer
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced Stamping Team Designer
Push Molds can be used
for Polymer Clay or Air Dry Clay. The molds can by used to make jewelry, cards
or Scrapbooking embellishments. Give this technique a try, and it will become a
solid part of your everyday crafty notions.
Supplies:
Faces Clay Push Mold-(Poly Forms Products)
Air Dry Clay- (Makins Clay)
Black Cardstock - 8.50 x 11 (CTMH)
White Glossy Cardstock
Bird Stamp- (Stamp Magick)
Friend Word Stamp- (Stampendous)
Bamboo Stamp- (PSX)
Cranberry Ink Pad- (CTMH)
Black Stamp Pad- (Staz On)
Silk Iridescent Ink Gold- (Stampa Rosa)
Copper Wire- 26 Gauge- (Colour Craft)
Assorted Wire Cutting and Bending Tools
Perfect Pearls-Blush-(Ranger)
Pearl Ex-Misty Lavender- (Jacquard Products)
Pearl Ex-Mink- (Jacquard Products)
Clear Embossing Pad- (Rubber Stampede)
Clear Embossing Powder- (Ranger Industries)
Detail Gold Embossing Powder- (PSX)
Paint Brush
Water Spritzer
Misc. Assorted Beads-Long and Small Round-(Darice,
Art Accents)
Personal Paper Trimmer (Fiskars)
Rubber Brayer- (Speedball)
E6000 Glue
Zig Glue
Palette Stamp & Gluepad- (Superior)
Embossing Gun-(Uchida)
Fine Sandpaper
Toothpicks
Instructions:
- Use the clay mold
and push softened Makins Clay into the mold. Be
sure that the mold is completely filled. Try to make the back of the mold
flat using a ruler this will keep you from having to sand the project
later. Set aside to begin drying. Allow clay to dry for about 2 hours and
remove from mold, then clay will need to dry for a couple
days.
- Cut the glossy
cardstock to 8.5 by 5.5. Fold cardstock in half to equal 4.25 by 5.5
glossy side out. Using the Cranberry ink and the brayer coat the glossy
side of the card.
- Cut the black card
stock to size 8.5 by 5.5. Next, using Spritzer, wet one piece of the
cardstock with water. Crumple the wet cardstock into a ball squeezing
hard. This helps to create a leather appearance in the cardstock. Smooth
out the cardstock and set aside to dry.
- Stamp the oriental
words on glossy cardstock. Use the black stamp pad and be sure there is
plenty of ink on the stamp. Coat the black ink with the clear embossing
power. Shake off excess powder and emboss with the heat gun. Also, stamp
the two small birds on the glossy cardstock, but do not emboss. See photo
for position.
- When black
cardstock has dried, coat the cardstock with the Palette glue. Heat the
glue on the cardstock and use paint brush to coat cardstock with the Blush
Perfect Pearls. Shake off the extra blush color and recoat the cardstock
with the Palette glue and heat. Add Misty Lavender Pearl Ex with paintbrush
over the heated glue. Shake off extra Pearl Ex and recoat with the Palette
glue and heat. Add the Mink Pearl Ex with paintbrush and then shake off the
extra amount.
- Random stamp the
coated black cardstock with the Bamboo Stamp and the clear embossing pad.
Cover the stamped bamboo with Gold detail embossing powder. Shake off
excess gold powder and emboss. Cut black cardstock to 3 by 4.75 and glue
to the cranberry cardstock using the Zig glue. See photo for position.
- After the clay face
is completely dry, glue to a piece of scrap black cardstock. Paint the face
with the Gold Iridescent Ink and set aside to dry.
- Cut a piece of the
copper wire to 3½. Crimp wire and add this sequence of beads as follows
until the strand of wire is completely full: 1 Black bead and 2 red beads.
When wire is full, crimp the end and fold the wire in half. Twist the wire
together and glue strand to the center top of the head with E6000. See
pattern.
- Cut a second strand
of wire to 3½. Crimp one end of the wire and add beads as follows: 12
small black tubular beads, 1 small pink round bead, 1 larger red bead, a
small pink round bead and 12 small black tubular beads. Crimp end of wire
and fold the black beads in half towards the middle on each end. This
strand of wire creates a base for the next strand of wire. Glue the large
round bead in the middle of the head in front of the other strand. See
pattern.
- The 3rd strand of copper wire is to be cut 10" long.
Crimp one end of the wire and string beads in pattern listed below:
1 Black bead, 4 Red beads, 2 black beads, 4 red beads, 2 black beads, 4 red
beads, 2 black beads, 4 red beads, 1 black bead.
Crimp end of wire leaving beads loose on wire. Start bending the
wire in a comb fashion after ever two red beads and after each black bead.
When this is scrunched together, you will have four loops with all the black
beads on the bottom. See photo for example. Glue piece in front
of the 2nd strand of wire. See pattern.
- Wire strands #4 and #5 should be cut to 5" each. Crimp end of wire
and begin stringing Gold, pearls and champagne beads, including some tubular
beads to completely fill the wire and crimp end of wire. Repeat for
strand 5. At one end of each wire, wind beads into a small circle and
bend wire as indicated in photo. Glue bent wires to each side of the
head. See pattern.
- Trim toothpicks to about 1Ό" long to make adornments for the headdress.
Paint toothpicks with the iridescent gold ink and set aside to dry.
- Trim the black cardstock from around the face and glue face to coated
cardstock. Place three large beads at the bottom of the chin: 1
pink, 1 red, 1 pink. See photo.
- Glue toothpick pieces to headdress. See photo for placement.
Note: Be creative - design a headdress pattern of your own.
Headdress pattern:
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