The Craft Barn: Martha Stewart Clay

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Friday, 3 June 2016

Starlight Paints - Dawn Heald

Morning all,

Welcome to day 2 of

Starlight Paints!

If you want to see all the colours'

check them out here.

Today we have Dawn with her absolutely

stunning journal cover..

Dawn says...

These paints are awesome they're pots

of metallic colours that can be used in

a variety of ways and blend lovely. I've

gone for straight forward painting with them

to make the front and reverse covers for my

MDF art journal. I'll certainly be getting

more colours in the future. I'd like to try

making my own mister sprays with them

and get in with a brayer too. Hope you

like this week's make from me. X Dawn

For the front cover I glued lots of different

objects to the front. I used buttons,

found objects, beads, paper clay moulded,

old die cuts, tissue paper and grunge

grunge paste through diamond stencil.

When it was all dry I Painted all over with

a couple of coats of white gesso and let dry.

Then I went in with the luscious Starlight

paints and painted different colours in

patches all over the cover, blending

the edges as I went. I let this dry then

painted another with another layer of

Starlight Paints. I finished it off with

flat back pearls and gems painted with

white Pearl Starlight paint. I did this

so to match in the cherub made

from clay. Painted with Starlights.

For the back cover. I glued odd pieces of

die cuts and lace and doilies. Then used

Decoart Media Texture Sand Paste with

the butterfly stencil and then I used

Decoart Media Modelling Paste with the

Diamond stencil. I pressed some micro

beads into the wet paste for more texture.

When dry I simply painted two coats of

Starlight Paints similar to the front.

There's not many steps to this it's more a

time thing, and I enjoyed every bit.

So what do you think??

I think it is amazing!

Products used

Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints -

Antique Pink, Pearl, Orange Oxidised, Bright Maroon,

Topaz, Antique Gold

Imagination Crafts Stencils - Diamond, Butterfly

Decoart Media Texture Sand Paste

Decoart Modelling Paste

From stash - found items, odd die cuts, lace

You really must try these paints,

I've been playing with them

on an old glass decanter, I'll put some

pics on here soon....ran out of time!!

See you soon,

Jane x

Saturday, 15 August 2015

Honey Bee Day - Dawn Heald

Morning everyone,

First of all, sorry I was so late getting the post

published yesterday. It was all scheduled

to go on time but I obviously did not press

the last button for it to go and didn't realise
until later in the day.

Secondly, I would like to welcome all our new

followers who have joined us.....1518

whoop whoop, that is the most so far this year.

Hope you are all enjoying the Blog.

Ok, so today we are again featuring
National Honey Bee Day
and it is Dawn's turn to show us what she has
been up to.....

It's a real treat too......

Dawn says -

Hello, this week for our topic I've gone all summery

and 3d. I've made a quirky style honey bee.

Named as Berty Bee. I like honey and look

forward to be able to taste it straight from the comb

one day.

Top tip -

A word on paper clay. If you haven't used it before

I highly recommend it. I've used it for all sorts with molds,

shape cutters and free hand. You can easily cut it

before or after its dry.

Now as I tend to mess a lot being miss perfectionist, if

I feel it's drying out I wet my hands lightly and carry

on. Do let us know if you make anything with clay.

We would love to see what you have done.

To make this -

Pull off a handful of clay and colour yellow with some

paint. Split into to two pieces one larger than the other.

Also have two small bits to use later.

I shaped it all in my hands. Starting with larger piece

roll into a ball and then bring the outside edge of

your palms together and continue to roll back

and forth.

This will give a cone or egg shape.

Press thumb into neck end to squash and make a

crater for the head.

Roll the second piece into a ball and press onto neck

end of first piece. Smooth the joins together even

a paintbrush handle will do this job. Then roll out a

log to wrap around neck to neaten. At this point I

pressed two wooden skewers into the bottom.

Make a small pointy cone and Mold it to the tail

end for the stingy thing. Make a face into the clay

however you fancy. It can be simple a mouth

pressed in and add eyes with beads also works.

Paint over a layer of yellow acrylic paint let dry

then apply a thin layer of yellow embossing paste

and pat all over with a paintbrush to make

a furry texture.

When dry paint black stripes.

To make the wings stamp the top wings of the

butterfly stamp onto some plastic packaging

or acetate using black Stazon.

Let dry, cut out then cover the reverse with glitter

glue. The antennae are cut free hand and painted.

When dry curl the plastic shapes by applying some

heat I do it over the toaster just ad careful.

Use g craft knife and cut slits into the bed where

you want the wings and antennae to go.

Put some glue onto ends of plastic pieces

and push in. This was easy to do.

For decoration, remove skewers from bee, wrap

with masking tape and paint black. When dry,

drop some glue into the hole underneath and

reinsert the skewers. You now have a stable

handle for your bee.

Stamp, colour and cut out two Jofy flowers.

Take a round, doily pointy or similar die cut shape.

Score in half then turn score half again, I made

ten sections. Alternate valley and mountain

folds push together and it will look like

am umbrella.

Cut or punch hole in centres and push onto

black handle up near the bee then push on

a black folded die cut shape. Put some glue

underneath and leave to dry upside down.

I decorated it with Sequins. You can use anything

to hand like gems. It'll sparkle in the sunlight.

I'd love to know what you think.

Isn't that amazing???

Love that little face!

So if you want to have ago this is what you'll need...

Products used -

Tim Holtz Perspective Stamp Set

PaperArtsy JOFY 36 Stamp Set

Paper Clay

Acrylic Paint - Yellow, Black

Stickles Glitter Glue - Stardust and Gold

Cosmic Shimmer Clear Glue

Jet Black Stazon Ink

Alcohol Pens

Masking, Low Tack or Washi Tape

From own stash - Sequins,

two wooden skewers,

odd die cut shapes,

Plastic packaging from Sizzix die

That's another top tip.....always keep plastic
packaging, great for diecutting, a palette for mixing
ink, paints, glue etc. I always keep mine!

Well that's it for today, hope you have enjoyed
our bee posts, let us know what you think!

See you tomorrow for our new challenge...
hmm wonder what we shall have next week??

Jane x