Bags with Plastic Insert Fronts

       

Drawings etched into a sheet of foam rubber using a bone folder are used as a printing plate. Black acrylic paint is brushed onto the printing plate and a print is made onto rainbow paper. The piece of art is inserted into the bag's plastic insert front.

1. Use a bone folder or a knitting needle for etching a design into a sheet of foam rubber (remember to write text backwards).

2. Apply a coat of glossy black acrylic paint with a flat foam stencil brush. Do not use too much paint.

3. Press the foam rubber sheet onto the rainbow paper.

4. Insert the decorated piece of paper into the bag's transparent plastic front.

A Leather Bracelet with Pardo Jewellery Clay

       

Pardo jewellery clay punched out with shape cutters. Fixed in the oven and tied onto a leather bracelet with a piece of leather cord, with a glued on hook clasp.

1. Warm the clay ball by rolling it in your hands. Put it onto a piece of baking paper and press it flat.

2. Punch out with small shape cutters. Smooth the edges with your fingers.

3. Make button holes with a thick needle. Remember that the holes get smaller when fixing in the oven.

4. Put onto baking paper and fix in an oven at 130 degrees for 30 min.

5. Varnish with special lacquer for protection.

6. Glue on the hook clasp.

7. Make two holes in the middle of the bracelet using revolving pliers.

8. Tie the pardo clay design onto the bracelet with a piece of 2mm leather cord.

Art Tiles with Prints

       

An art tile painted with black ceramic paint with a white foot print in craft paint. Or just a hand print onto a white tile with black ceramic paint. Write a text with white/black glass and porcelain marker pens.

1. Black tile: Paint the art tile with black ceramic paint. Let it dry.

2. Make imprints of feet or hands with white craft paint.

3. Write the child’s name with a white glass and porcelain marker.

4. White tile: Make a foot or hand print directly on the art tile with black ceramic paint. Let it dry. Write the child’s name with a black glass and porcelain contour marker.