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um I've been having a lot of fun working with air dry clay there's so many things
that you can make with it and i always head over to Pinterest and get so many ideas
and they swirl in my head um so today I'm going to show you how i make my little trinket dishes
so simple great project for a beginner if you've never used a dry clay before and I'm going to do a
step-by-step tutorial of how i make mine so we're going to get started this is the air dry clay that
I'm going to be using for this project i got this off of amazon i'll put a link down below in the
description for this product and you can also find it at the dollar store and it works just as well
break off a piece of the clay of the size of the project that you want to make
and then i like using these two little pieces of wood they're a nice guide for when you're
rolling out they're about a quarter of an inch thick and you'll the rolling pin will only allow
you to roll it to that thickness and it'll be even across your whole project that you're rolling out
after you've taken your clay out of the package make sure you put it back in a sealable plastic
bag because you don't want the air getting at it and having it dry out so store it really well
it's all rolled out nice and even and now we're ready to start the project
for this first little dish I'm going to use one of these stencils i bought these stencils on amazon
i think it came in a package of 10 and this is the one that I'm going to pick out
place your stencil right on top centered
on the air dry clay and then you're going to put your guides on and just gently roll your
rolling pin back and forth so you can have that impression of the stencil in your air dried clay
and when you peel off the stencil you'll see the beautiful imprint that it makes
you can see all the raised texture from rolling that into the air dry clay
I'm going to use this wooden bowl that i found at the thrift store as a template to cut around
where i put that stencil I'm just going to lay it gently down on the air dye clay you
don't want to press it down because when you do it's going to kind of squish the
clay down and not make a nice pretty edge so I'm going to take an exacto knife and just
trace around that whole bowl so it's got a little bit of a rippled edge which i really like
and I'm going to go around the whole bowl and then take off the excess
air dry clay make sure you're doing this on a work surface that it doesn't matter if you maybe put
little nicks and dents in your table this is my craft table so um i don't have to worry about that
I'm just going to gently lift off that bowl and just peel away any of that excess air dry clay
around the edge so i have the rippled edge all along that whole stenciled area and I'm just going
to dip my fingers in a little bit of water just to smooth that edge and just make it nice and pretty
okay now we need some cling wrap you're just gonna cut off the size of the bowl that we're doing
and we're going to set that air dry clay that we just did inside the bowl and as it
dries it will take the shape of that bowl and the saran wrap will prevent it from sticking
just very gently you don't want to touch it too much where we've gone over with
the stencil just very gently just push it into that bowl so it molds to that shape
make sure your cling wrap isn't wrinkled too much and now we're ready just to set it aside and let
it dry the process of drawing will determine your weather and how hot or cold it is in your area
okay now we're ready to do the second one and we're going to roll it out the same way
use the little pieces of wood so it's all the same thickness
if you have a chance you should go on Pinterest or I'll put a link to my Pinterest below because
i have a board just for air dry clay and there's so many projects that you can do with this um i
kind of don't even know where to start when i get uh in that Pinterest uh downward spiral because
really it's unbelievable what you can make with this air dry clay
and for this second trinket dish I'm going to use this
doily that i have I'm going to lay it right in the center and again I'm just going to
use my rolling pin and just gently roll back and forth until I've got that doily
imprinted into that air dry clay and this doily makes an amazing texture in this clay
I'm just going to very gently just lift it up so we don't distort it at all
and isn't this fantastic look at the texture from that doily you'll find if you start making
these that you'll be looking around your house for anything that has texture that
you can use for your air dry clay projects now this one I'm going to use this round bowl
and again just going to use my exacto knife cut around the edge so that it's the exact same size
and then we'll put the saran wrap in the bowl very gently put that um into the bowl and let it dry
these make really great gifts too and they're affordable and they're usually
one of a kind so it's nice when you can give that to somebody as a gift
and the only thing is is you have to kind of remember that you've got to let it set aside
and sometimes it takes a day or two for it to completely dry before you're ready
to finish it off so you have to take that into account if you are making it for a gift
I'm just going to very gently put the saran wrap in make sure there's not very many wrinkles in it
and just set that right in the bowl very gently because you don't want to press too hard and
lose any of that texture that you just made and press it right in set it aside and let it dry
and now we're ready to do the last one roll it out so it's all the same thickness
and i have a little plastic dish that I'm going to use as my template for this one
so I'm rolling it out to make sure that it's the same size so i can cut around it okay now
this is fun this is a piece of drawer liner from the dollar store and it has such a neat texture
to it when you roll it out you won't believe how cool this is when you roll the rolling pin
across it just really gently just so you can get that texture through in that air dry clay
and just look at the imprint that it makes on that air dry clay it is so cool almost like
a diamond grid and I'm just gonna put that dish over top and again take my exacto knife
cut around the edge so it's all um nice and even and then take off the excess air dry clay
I'm just going to really gently lift it up off that table you don't want to distort it or lose
any of that imprint that you just put on it and I'm going to just take my fingers with
a little bit of water smooth out the edge so it looks really nice and pretty and then
we're ready to put it in the dish I'm going to take the saran wrap make sure it's no wrinkles
in it get it as flat as i can and then just place that right in that square dish i found the square
dish was a little bit harder to get it even all around the edges so just play with it until it
looks like it's even along all four corners and then we're just gonna set them aside
and let them dry okay i actually was away for the weekend i let them sit in a corner where
it was nice and dry up in my craft room so it's actually been three days that these have
cured and they're completely dry now so I'm just going to really gently lift them out of the dish
and take off the saran wrap and we're ready to finish them off you'll know when
they're completely dry because there won't be any different colors of discoloration in it that look
wet and then dry it should be all one consistent color kind of like a white chalky color and I'm
just gonna take this some scuff pad that i have and just gently go around all three of the pieces
and just get rid of any little rough edges or any little bits just to make a nice smooth finish
you don't want to use anything rougher than this like a sandpaper you just want this scour pad
or scuff pad I'll put a link down below in the description for this one that I'm using
now we're ready to paint I've mixed these up with my acrylic paint you can use acrylic paint chalk
paint latex paint spray paint whatever you want it all works perfect on these i had a bunch of
acrylic paint and i had some colors that i knew that i wanted to do so i kind of mixed them up
together to get these and I'm just going to um just use a regular paintbrush and just brush it
on and now you want to make sure you get it all in the little nooks and crannies so it might take a
little bit of time because it's really textured but it looks beautiful when it's all finished
and i love the way this scalloped dish turned out and I'm going to paint it with this
nice kind of primitive yellow and it's just one that i mixed
up a couple different colors of my acrylic paint i put in some yellow
and then i added a little bit of some brown acrylic paint to make this color and I'm loving it
and for the last one I'm just going to paint
it black and i think it's going to really make that texture stand out
and i really want to seal these really well so I'm going to use this
polyurethane polyacrylic sealer spray paint and it will seal it right up
really nice and that way you can put your little bits of jewelry or a little home
decor or actually i really like the look of an air dry plant in these and just spray the
front and the back give them a really good coat and we'll be ready to finish them off
i thought these would be really cute if i use these little wooden beads to make
feet on two of the dishes so I'm just going to use my hot glue gun i use the gorilla hot glue
and these beads i got off of amazon I'm just going to glue them so they're kind of centered
I'm going to put three on this one and then four on the black one and that will finish it up
i love the scalloped edge on this and the imprint from the stencil was perfect for this
type of shape and i love that yellow color the terracotta on this using the doily is fantastic
make sure if you're at the thrift store pick up a doily to try this technique and i love just
the neutral color of the black and almost like the diamond pattern on this little square one
so if you haven't tried air dry clay you've got to grab some get some off of amazon or
grab some at the dollar store the next time you're there and give this project a try
leave me a comment down below if you've ever worked with air dry clay
and let me know what you think about these little dishes that i made