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Materials:
- Sculpey
III in the following colors:
- Turquoise
505
- Navy
Blue 363
- Red
Hot Red 583
-
Red 083
- White
001
- sharp
knife
- scrap
paper or card stock
-
straight pin
- toothpick
- heavy
glass jar or an old rolling pin
-
small easel for display or coordinating ribbon.
Preparation:
All polymer clay
needs to be conditioned before using. Knead each color separately
in your hands until smooth and there are no air bubbles on the surface.
Before starting
this project, you may want to make some templates. From the scrap
paper cut a 4" square, a 2-1/2" square, and a ¾" square.
When working
on a large piece like this one, it will be easier to handle if you
build the tile on a piece of scrap paper. That way it will be easy
to pick up or turn on the work surface.
Let's Roll
Some Clay!
Directions:
- Roll out the
turquoise to 1/16" to 1/8" thickness. Place the 4" paper square
on top of the clay and cut around it. Mark an X lightly from corner
to corner to mark the center of the square.
- Roll out the
navy blue to 1/16" to 1/8" thickness and cut out a 2-1/2" square
and four ¾" squares. Press these into place with the large square
in the middle of the turquoise and one small square in each corner.
- Roll red hot
red into a long 1/4" thick snake. Press and flatten the snake
into place along the horizontal borders of the turquoise and navy
blue areas. Zig zag the red hot red back and forth as you position
it to make it look like rick rack.
- Repeat this
step using the red going across the vertical borders.
- Clean your
hands well before going on to the white areas.
- Make a large
flat oval of white to fit in the middle area. Press the oval at
an angle for the snowman head. Press two flat circles of white at
the sides for cheeks.
- Roll white
into ½" strings. You¹ll need 30 of these. Criss cross three strings
at a time to create each snowflake. Press these into place along
the sides of the tile. One goes into each Navy Blue corner and three
in the vertical Turquoise borders. With red, make a small flat oval
and press it into place at the bottom of the face. Also make a flat
triangle and press it on for the hat. Decorate the scarf and hat
with Red Hot Red stripes and a small ball at the point of the hat.
- Also, make
a Red Hot Red button nose. Add small Navy Blue balls for eyes. Make
these look like buttons by poking holes in them with a toothpick.
- Using a straight
pin, prick little stitch marks along all the borders, across all
the rick-rack, and stitch details in the snowman¹s face. Prick the
words "SNOW DAYS" at the top and bottom.
- If you wish
to use the tile as a hanging decoration, poke holes in the top two
corners with a heavy tapestry needle or you can cut large holes
by pressing the end of a drinking straw into the clay. The holes
need to be made before the piece is baked. If you wish to display
your tile on an easel, then the holes are not necessary.
- If you have
been working on a piece of scrap paper, you may bake on the paper
in a glass or metal pan.. Bake the tile for 20 minutes at 275 degrees
F in an oven that has been checked for accuracy with an external
oven thermometer. Allow to cool completely before handling.
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