How to make a Christmas tree toy from polymer clay - a ball, a detailed description and step-by-step photos of the work

December 29, 2017 handmadebase

Perhaps there is no other holiday that is so anticipated asNew Year. The pre-holiday bustle covers both adults and children. The menu, outfits, entertainment and, of course, decorations are thought out. Various interior decor elements, Christmas tree decorations, snowflakes and much more can be easily bought in shops. But if you create them with your own hands, such products will bring much more joy, because you will enjoy not only the beautiful appearance, but also the creative process itself. In this article, we will sculpt a Christmas tree ball with a snowflake from polymer clay. Thanks to the variety of colors and shades of plastic, crafts can be created for any color scheme in the interior. Thermoplastic material is quite weighty, but we will tell you how to make a large and beautiful Christmas tree toy with a small weight.We will create a Christmas tree ball from baked polymer clay using the salt (sugar) technique. You will need:

Foam plastic ball (diameter to your taste);
Thermoplastics blue and white;
Liquid plastic;
Salt or sugar. If you want a more homogeneous texture choose sugar, its grains do not differ so much in size as the crystals of salt;
Round form (suitable even for baking);
Sequins and powder with a metallic effect;
Stationery knife;
Roller or paste machine;
Toothpicks;
Pin with a loop on the end;
Metal cap (if left from an old Christmas tree toy, use it, just modify the method of attachment);
Varnish for plastics.

If you have worked with thermoplastics before, thenYou should definitely remember that it is sensitive to dirt (especially white). The workplace should be clean. So, now you need to thoroughly knead the blue polymer clay and roll out a layer of about 2 - 3 mm thick. Wrap the foam ball with our layer. Cut off excess clay, and smooth out all the joints so that the surface is smooth. Pour sugar into the bowl (if you want a more uneven and uneven texture, pour in salt). Now take our ball and roll it in sugar. You need to carefully roll it and press a little so that the entire surface is covered with grains.Now we put it to bake at a temperature of 110 ⁰With and no more. And here is the secret of a hollow plastic ball - polystyrene foam will shrink by about three times during heat treatment. To prevent our workpiece from bubbling and deforming in the oven, pierce the clay layer with a needle in several places. When the ball cools down, wash it in water, this will dissolve the sugar or salt grains and you will end up with just an original porous surface. Now take white clay, knead it thoroughly and mix it with liquid plastic. Add liquid clay little by little. You can stir it in your hands until it becomes viscous, then transfer it to a container and continue adding liquid polymer clay. Our consistency should be about the same as whipped cream. Apply white mass to one side of our ball. It will look like a snowdrift. Now take a toothpick and spread the clay around the perimeter of the ball, drawing snowflake rays with the end of the toothpick. This is what we got.We take a metal cap and insert it into itpin. The loop should be inside it. Now you need to “drown” the cap a little in our snowdrift of white thermoplastic and bake it again. Do this strictly according to the instructions on the package. After the ball has cooled, take metallic powder of any shade of blue and cover the blue part with it. Cover the entire toy with a thin layer of liquid plastic and sprinkle with glitter. Put it in the oven again. When it cools, cover it with varnish for polymer clay. Thanks to it, the glitter will not crumble. All that remains is to bend the loop at the end of the pin and hang it on a ribbon, chain or wire loop. Our ball is ready to decorate the Christmas tree.Astrology fans can even create a balloon in the colors of the animal whose year is coming according to the Chinese calendar before each New Year celebration.

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