Tulips Made with Cold Porcelain

Create these realistic tulips with this tutorial from Russian artist Antonina Melnichenko. Antonina gives us some unique tips in this detailed, step-by-step photo tutorial, such as using a spoon to lay the petals in as they dry, assuring a cupped shape. She also collects real pollen to glue to her clay flowers!

Commercial cutters and veiners are used to cut both petals and leaves out of cold porcelain. You can make your own cutters or purchase an inexpensive set of flower cutters at Amazon (and other websites) such as the Wilton Gum Paste Flowers Set or one of the special tulip sets shown below that includes a cutter and veiner.

            

How to Make a Double Rose

In the following video, the well-known cold porcelain artist from Argentina, Jorge Rubicce, shows us another technique for creating realistic roses using cold porcelain. We've previously featured a few of Jorge's videos where he shows us how to make roses, but, this time, he shows us how to create a double petal rose, sometimes called a wild rose.

Little Farmer step by step

This  cold porcelain tutorial written by Fernanda Malzoni shows us how to create this cute "little farmer" figure step by step, with progress photos showing each step.  This tutorial is in Spanish, use Google Translate to translate page if needed (or other online translator).

Roses in Cold Porcelain by Tryny

Here's is another tutorial for making cold porcelain roses.  This time Tryny Designs shows us her rose technique, step by step with lots of photos.   With this method, the variegated shading of the petals is done after the flower has cured.

This tutorial is in Spanish, use Google Translate to translate page if needed (or other online translator).

Variegated Rose Technique by Rubicce

In the following video, the well-known cold porcelain artist from Argentina, Jorge Rubicce, shows us a very new technique for creating realistic roses using cold porcelain. We've previously featured a few of Jorge's videos where he shows us how to make cold porcelain roses, but, this time, he shows us how to create petals with gently variegated colors.

Azaleas by Rubicce

In this video, the well-known South American clay artist Jorge Rubicce shows us his methods for creating realistic Azaleas using cold porcelain. If you don't understand the language, just mute the video and follow along visually as he demonstrates each step for building the flowers and coloring with Petal Dust (or something similar).

Roses by Rubicce

In the following video, the famous clay artist Jorge Rubicce shows us his methods for creating realistic roses using cold porcelain. If you don't understand the language, just mute the video and follow along visually as he demonstrates each step for building a rose.

Make a Cyclamen Plant

Step-by-step demonstration from Lydia to create some cold porcelain Cyclamen. Slideshow instructions are shown in multiple languages, just pause the video when it comes to your language.

Cold Porcelain Petunia

Step-by-step demonstration from Lydia to create some cold porcelain Petunias.   Slideshow instructions are shown in multiple languages, just pause the video when it

Step-by-Step: 8-Petal Flower

Here's a step-by-step demo for you to create some easy and attractive yellow flowers with Cold Porcelain paste.  Pages are excerpts from the Portuguese language "Biscuit" magazine.   No need to translate...the photos show each step clearly!

Flower Covered Jar

Select a short glass jar to decorate with cold porcelain following steps in this flower basket tutorial  from Porcelana Fria magazine. This is a good beginners tutorial.  Not many tools needed.  Just shape the flowers and leaves using teardrop-shaped pieces of CP.  When covering the bottom of jar, be careful not to cover the part where you screw the lid (so jar will still function)!

Tutorial: Hearts & Roses Keepsake Box

Cover a heart-shaped box with clay roses and cording to create this pretty keepsake box.   A nice place to keep all those love letters and Valentine's Day cards! ;-)

Tutorial was scanned from a Portuguese-language magazine and kindly translated to English by our friend Evelyne. Please visit her blog 'Sowl Mini'.

Materials needed:
Heart-shaped wood or mache box
Cold Porcelain tinted in colors for roses and cording
(Salmon, peach, pink, rose, crimson, etc)
Golden cord (soutache)
Clay roller or pasta machine
Clay Scissors
Leaf shape cutter (Kemper cutters)
Clay extruder

 We'll be using the small trefoil disk (3 overlapping circles) which is part of the disk set included with the crank-handle Walnut Hollow Extruder (new), the twist-handle Makin's Extruder and the push-handle Sculpey Extruder.




      

Make an Easy 5-Petal Flower Without Cutters

Another easy flower to make from cold porcelain. Similar to previous tutorial but no shape cutter needed for this filler flower. This tutorial from Pakistan.

How to Make a Ruffled-Petal CP Flower

Video demo from Russia....how to make cold porcelain flowers using shape cutters.  I don't know what kind of flower this is, but it has ruffled-edge double petals and looks like it'd be harder to make than it actually is!

Quick and Easy Flower Magnets

Are you a beginner and need a simple project to get you started with cold porcelain? 

Or maybe you need to make a quick gift!  

Or maybe you're just a lover of fridge magnets!   ;-)  

I came across this easy magnet tutorial from French artist Brigida Clement    She has allowed translation to English, with proper credits to her original, of course.   Please visit her website at Babou Bricole

To create the flower magnets, first tint some cold porcelain dough the flower color of your choice.   Shape into 5 or 6 balls of equal size.   Size of balls depends on size of your magnet.  Make them large enough to make a circle of petals as shown in above photo.

With the modeling tool, mark an indentation in the middle of each ball, flattening each ball into a petal as you make indentation using photo below as an example.  Mold a yellow ball of slightly smaller size and place it in the heart of the flower.   There you have it!   A cute little flower magnet!    Make a whole bunch of these in lots of colors for your own flower garden on a magnet board...or on refrigerator!

Cold Porcelain Tips & Tricks

by Guest Author Kathryn Gray of Templewood Miniatures

Cold Porcelain paste is a lovely medium to work with.  It does not have to be oven baked as it air dries – depending on the air humidity,  it becomes completely dry between 2 – 3 hours.

Cold Porcelain can be rolled and worked  much finer than pastes which have to be oven baked.  It has a shrinkage rate of about 12%.

Cold Porcelain dries out very quickly and must always be wrapped tightly in cling film and then placed in a plastic bag which is then put into an airtight box when not being used.

It is important that a small quantity of white acrylic paint is added to the CP paste as you mix it - even if you intend to colour the paste -  or it will be translucent when it dries.  The semi-transparent characteristic of homemade Cold Porcelain is lovely if you want to make the aerial roots on orchids but not for anything else.  White should be done before any other