Happy New Year!

Wishing you a happy, healthy and creative new year!

(print out picture for kids to color!)

Create a Christmas Star with Cold Porcelain

Today we have another excellent video demo from Marisol Romero, showing us, step-by step, how to make a pudgy Christmas star using cold porcelain & a foam ball.

Happy St Patrick's Day

PaddysDay is a celebration of the Irish spirit in humor, art and music .   The Irish sense of humor and gift of gab is legendary and we've gathered a bit o' blarney to share with you. In addition to the jokes and folklore, you'll find a collection of Irish music lyrics, greetings and blessings plus graphics to copy and enjoy at Paddy'sDay.  

Make This Cute Easter Bunny

Create a cold porcelain Easter bunny by following this 3-part, step-by-step tutorial from Karin at Artisan Life.

Note: Tutorial is in Portuguese If your browser doesn't automatically translate the page, try Google Translate. http://translate.google.com/

Make these cute elves for Christmas or anytime

Make one elf or 100 elves as Christmas favors!   This clay tutorial for creating these expressive elves has been translated to English based on step-by-step instructions written by Sandra Gomez and originally posted as 'Duendes Magicos' at Manualidades y Artesanias | utilisima.com

Materials used include:

Cold porcelain 

Acrylic paint, red, flesh, green, blue, black and white 

White glue

Styrofoam balls No. 3 and 4

Pre-tint** enough clay with the acrylic paints to make:

Red body, shoes and hat,

flesh-colored head and hands, and 

a small amount for green stripes and buttons.

Begin with making the elf shoes......

Make Some Cute Angels

Cute and easy angels to make!   These video demos are using gumpaste and fondant, but the process is exactly the same for cold porcelain and other air-dry clays ....just use regular glue instead of "edible" glue!

Sorry, embedding of videos was not permitted, so you'll have to jump to these pages to view all 3 parts of demo. (links open in new window)

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtUCUz7bRSM

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSeA6IlZklE

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXASv7W38bY

Creator of demo says she forgot to show how to make wings.   Just make a wing shape you like ....do it your own way.   Note, however, that she laid her wings on something curved to dry (see in background of Part 2).   Doing that will give a nice shape to your wings!

A cute Mrs Santa Claus-step by step

Cold porcelain video slideshow from Eliane Sol demonstrating each step in creating a Mrs Claus figure and box topper.  Many details are shown for shaping and painting the cute face.

Make a Cute Snowman

Marisol Romero shows us, step by step,  how to make this cute cold porcelain snowman in the following 2 videos.   Dialog is in Spanish, but even if you don't understand the language you should be able to follow along.  Marisol clearly and carefully shows each step.

Part 1.... The Snowman



Part 2.... The Top Hat

Make a Cute Sitting Santa

The following 2 videos demonstrate the creation of a sitting Santa using gumpaste (sugarpaste), but we'll try it using cold porcelain clay!   Most gumpaste and cold porcelain tutorials are interchangeable because the same steps are followed to create the figures and cake toppers.   Cold porcelain is often used as a non-editable cake topper. There's a couple of benefits for using CP...glue can be used in the creation and the figure is more durable.

Part 1...Note that she sets the arms aside to dry a while before attaching.  This is a good thing to remember when handling parts that might get squished in assembly!



Part 2