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Cold Porcelain Clay???

Well it is just the coolest thing since sliced pie! AH, not really, I really love pie! ROFL!

I have a cool new tutorial for you on how to make your own tags with this really cool medium. You make this dough your self with cornstarch, pvc glue and some baby oil and the things you can make with it are limited only by your imagination.

Here are some of the tags I made with this amazing (and cheap) stuff!

I know! Now you are thinking..OMG! Hurry up and tell me about this!

The best thing about it is that it is air dry and you can tint the paste before you use it or paint it after it is dry as well. I just love this stuff! You can tint it with acrylic paint while it is soft.  It does take a day or two to dry depending on how thick you make it so you do have to be patient.

Here are the steps. I will post the recipe for the paste at the bottom of the post.

Roll the dough out about 1/4" thick.

I used a pizza cutter to cut out tag shapes. Wash it well immediately after as this dough is made with PVC glue and will be impossible to get off once dry.

I used a small set of SU letter stamps to stamp the word on but you could use any sentiment stamp or even a shape.

Once you stamp your letters in use a small round object to punch holes in the ends IF you want to string the tag on. You could change the shape of your tags and put one hole. Whatever you want. I used a crochet hook! Now let them dry till they are hard as a rock!

I used some alcohol ink to "dye" the tag but you could use acrylic paint for a solid color OR mix the acrylic paint with some matte medium to give it a translucent or "stained" look.

Here is the stained tag. I used butterscotch to color it.

I then used my smooch spray in the logcabin color to add a dark stain to it. I thought it would look more sparkly but it just wasn't enough for me. It did however stain the letters nice and dark. Again, you could use acrylic paint to do this and even better make it like a dark stain by adding some matte medium. Let this dry completely.

Here is how it looked after the dark smooch spray was added. See how the cracks in the tag really show up. If you don't like the cracks just add a touch of water to your dough before you work with it to make it smoother. Up to you really! Want more cracks? Work with dryer dough!

And the grand finale is to use your little ole finger to rub a bit of iridescent gold acrylic paint on the finished tag to bring out the lettering and the cracked finish.

And here are the finished sweet tags:

I used acrylic paint completely on these two so you could see some variation. I also used silver paint instead of gold AND on the top tag I mixed the silver with the magenta paint for an over coat of shiny pink! I took it a step further and added a blue violet color over the shiny pink layer. That is why you can see that shiny pink peeking through. Kinda has a grunge look to it I think. Lotsa fun, that's all I can say.

I love dirty and stained fingers! Just ask anyone who knows me!

And here is the recipe

Ingredients:
1 cup pva glue (white glue like Elmer's Glue All)
1 cup cornstarch
1 tablespoon mineral oil (babyoil)
1 tablespoon lemon juice, witchhazel, or clove oil, tea tree oil (these are natural preservative that help prevent mold, optional but recommended)


Directions:
1. Combine ingredients in pot. Don't use your good cookware for this because it can be hard to clean off.
2. Cook on low heat stirring constantly for 10 minutes or until dough forms and begins to come away from the sides.
3. Remove from heat and allow to cool until you can handle it.
4. Knead to a smooth clay consistency.
5. Store wrapped in plastic and refrigerated.
6. Color is translucent cream but can be tinted with acrylic or oil paint. White paint gives a true porcelain look. If you are using this clay with children make sure the paints are also non-toxic, some paint pigments contain toxic chemicals so check the label.

That's it! Now go have some fun!

xoxoxo
the fairy!