Heart of Clay

Last week I made this Lunch Bag, as you may have seen, and to embellish it a little I hung a heart of polymer clay from it. Today I will show you how I made the heart.

What you need:

Red Polymer Clay

White Polymer Clay

Little Eyelet

Red Nailpolish

Black Permanent Marker

Cabochons, whatever you like

Cut the banner out of the white clay and the heart out of the red clay. You can also use a cookie cutter for the heart.

Fold the banner on both sides, like I did in the picture below.

Stick the banner on the heart. That's all you have to do with the clay, so you can put it in the oven now (read instructions on the clay package), but don't forget to attach the eyelet before! If you try it afterwards the clay will break.

After baking the clay let it cool down. When the clay is cool enough, paint the red part of the heart with nailpolish, if you like your heart shiny (optional). 

When the polish has dried completely, draw the LOVE-letters with an erasable pencil, so you can erase the letters in case you're not happy with how your letters turn out. 

When your satisfied draw the pencil lines again with permanent marker.

Make the sides of the heart and the banner black, to give it an old school tattoo kind of look. Finally you can attach cabochons to the heart. I used a pink rose and a swallow, but of course you can attach anything you like.

 

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