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Tutorials favourites by Zhoira on deviantART. HOW TO: Create a Home Made Wax Seal (16 Pics. Dollhouse miniature mini food polymer clay fimo tutorial. You will need: green clay for lettuce flesh-colored clay for turkey red clay for cranberries artist pastels in brown, orange and gold (or whatever combination will give you a nice golden-brown color Gloss Varnish wad of aluminum foil paintbrush (to spread pastels) razor blade (to shave pastels) pic (to help move small items Platter for turkey--make or buy. Start by pulling off pieces of the green, and shredding slightly in your fingers to achieve a 'torn' lettuce look.

Go all the way around the platter. Next, take your flesh color and mold it into the shape of a breast of turkey. Pick off two smaller pieces from your clay, and form into drumsticks. Next--wings! Make sure your turkey is going to cover all the garnish on the tray. Shave off a small amount of each color, and blend until you have the right shade for a cooked turkey. Once it is done to your satisfaction, set it onto the tray. This turkey hasn't been baked yet, but this gives you an idea of what it will look like. Christmas tree ornament mobile, how-to. Here is how I made my Christmas tree ornament mobile, it was easier than it looks, promise.

The Supplies a 17″ steamer rack from a restaurant supply storeabout 5 feet of lightweight jack chaina small carabiner100 basic ornament hooksone roll, 500 feet, monofilament jewelry string (not the stretchy sort)200 jewelry crimp beads or tubesjewelry crimping tool100 lanyard hooks100 ornaments Note: In the photo above I show earring wire instead of ornament hooks. I changed that later as I found ornament hooks made it far easier to move ornaments around after they’d been hung. Also, my supplies are based on a 4 foot tall mobile using almost 100 ornaments, you’ll need to adjust amounts if you make one larger or smaller. Creating the Mobile Frame Creating the frame for my ornament tree mobile turned out to be fairly simple. For the top of the mobile I needed something that would allow me to easily secure a lot of hanging points without them sliding around too much.

Notes: Why so many hooks and bits? SimplyStella.com. A LOOONG Ice Cream Tutorial by *Zhoira. Tutorial - Lemon Cane and Halved Lemons. Hi everyone! Today I'm going to show you how I do my lemon canes. For most of you this isn't something new, but many still ask me how I do them, so here's the explanation! I didn't invent this technique and I learned it from Angie Scarr. Though of course I adapted her technique for my work. Materials: - fimo: white, translucent, yellow, green (7/8 blue + 1/8 yellow) - toothpick, pin, razor blade - sandpaper - glaze/varnish 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Bake accordingly and then varnish the flesh. That's it, I hope it will help at least one of you :D xx Stephanie.

‪video crema.avi‬‏ Belle maison. Polymer Clay Waffle Tutorial. DIY Shrinky Dinks. » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: shrinky_dink, how-to, DIY, art. My parents are both science teachers: which means they always ruined the secrets to magic tricks, they forced me to identify every tree by leaf and bark type, and we always created our own versions of ‘science-y’ toys.

We used to cook our Easy-Bake Oven meals with foil and a light bulb, and created our own slime with cornstarch and food coloring. And, when we wanted our own shrinkable art, did we get the sweet pre-printed HeMan or Strawberry Shortcake sheets? Nope. We freehanded it on blank sheets of plastic, and copied the designs from coloring books. (Luckily, neither of my parents could draw, or else we might have had hand drawn versions of those, too.) The process is simple. Ingredients: - Clean #6 Plastic - Permanent Markers - Scissors - Aluminum Foil - Oven and Tongs or Oven Mitt 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Please include more application ideas in the comments below. Interested in other creative craft ideas? Or maybe you want to do another science project? Technique and Tutorial: Ever use liquid Sculpey for your cakes? How to Make an Orca (Shachi) from a Plastic Straw (with pictures) Edited by TOHGIN minako, Krystle, Flickety, Eric and 12 others You might not think you could create a creature as powerful as the 鯱 (pronounced "shachi," which means "killer whale," or "orca" in Japanese) out of a plastic straw, but you can. Follow along with this step-by-step guide to make your own delicate orca.

Ad Steps 1Note the terminology applying to each piece of the straw. This diagram shows how the pieces of the straw will be used to make the orca. The short end will be the tail, while the two long, thin pieces will be the stand (stick in the diagram) and the backbone. 12 Add eyes. Tips When you're pinching the straw and cutting it into thin sticks, consider using safety scissors.