How to make a candlestick made of polymer clay in the New Year theme, step-by-step photos and description of the sculpting process

February 17, 2018 handmadebase

One of the most beloved and expected by allholidays is the New Year. Time of magic, gifts, warm embraces, joy and comfort. The decorations of the house for this celebration are always chosen especially carefully. And how great it will be not to buy, but to make with your own hands lovely details for the interior decor. After all, such crafts not only fit perfectly into the environment, they always carry in themselves a piece of creative energy of needlewomen and masters of arts and crafts. In this article, we will create with our own hands a candlestick made of polymer clay. Plastic is an amazing material for creativity. It has a rich color palette, a mass of additional shade effects, for example, pearlescent or metallic luster, transparency, sequins and much more. Create a candlestick with your children or yoursecond half. On the eve of the holiday you not only get a colorful and actual element of decor, but also a great pleasure from the process of modeling. You can give your family and friends a warm souvenir that will last for many years, giving light, warmth and positive emotions. For a candlestick it is necessary:

Plastic of red, green, green, brown and orange colors;
Stationery knife;
Universal vainer sheet;
Golden color potal;
Candle (it is advisable to choose the one with a metal frame);
Round form (cutter). Its diameter should be slightly larger than the diameter of the candle (we have 4.5 cm);
Toothpick;
Stack with a ball on the end;
Stamp with a ribbed surface (we took a shaving machine);
Pasta machine or acrylic rolling pin (you can also use a glass bottle);
Glass with a diameter of 10 cm;
Artificial stamens (golden) are sold in floristic or needlework shops;
Green flora wire 0.8 mm;
Green flora wire 0.5 mm;
Tools for working with wire (pliers and cutters);
Sponge;
A bit of food film;
Varnish for plastics;
Fine brush and acrylic paint (brown).

Before you get started, you need toprepare the surface. Polymer clay very quickly absorbs small debris. Clay carefully stretch. Petals. Take the red clay and form from it sausage 1 cm in diameter. Fingers are neatly flattened on one side, so that a drop is obtained in the cut. It is necessary to cut the cane into the blanks of the petals. You will need pieces of different thicknesses. The thicker the cut, the larger the petals will come out of it. Of the most subtle we will make inner petals, of those that are larger - medium and outer. For one flower, we need 3 pieces of each size. Finges flatten the blanks and put them in the vainer. In order for the veins of the petals to turn out evenly, go with a rolling pin over the veneer. That's what we got from blanks of different sizes. From the polymer clay green we make a cane of the same shape 1.5 cm in diameter. The cut must also be teardrop-shaped. We cut large billets and with the help of a Weiner and a Roller we make these leaves (see photo). For one flower, we need 3 leaves. Stamens. We collect several stamens together. We need to tie a bundle around them so that our stamens stick together and do not crumble. Now on a piece of floras of a wire 5 - 6 cm from one edge we make a half-loop (just slightly bend the end with round-bends). Take the staminate bunch and fasten the wire, holding the loop to the end slightly below the nodule, fixing the stamens together. Cut off excess thread tail. We form flowers. We take three small red petals and fasten them around the stamens. The second circle, too, from the three petals we attach more under the small ones in a staggered order. Similarly, we fix the three largest petals. The last circle consists of three green leaves. The ends of each petal are carefully fixed, very slightly stretching the plastic wire. For one candlestick it will be enough 3flowers, with a diameter of about 4 cm. Of course, you can make flowers of different size and splendor as fantasy tells. Now at one end of a piece of wire 0.5 mm long 5 - 6 cm make a loop. It will take several such blanks. From plastic of orange color we roll balls with a diameter of 5 mm. We put the balls on the eyelets from the wire and smooth the joints neatly. Now on the opposite side of the ball make a toothpick groove, diverging from the center to the sides. They need not be cut, but pushed (see photo). From lettuce thermoplastic we roll a droplet 0,7 - 1cm in length. Now on the ribbed stamp (in our case it is the handle of the razor, covered with food film) put our salad drop and press it with your finger. We got a leaf with streaks. Do not remove it from the stamp and attach to its base wire 0.5 mm with a loop. A little pressing into the clay loop, the edges are wrapped and smooth the junction (see photo). We roll out the green clay into the 0.5 mm layer inthickness. Cut a circle with a diameter of 10 cm using a glass. Put a candle on the circle and look, there must be room for fixing our flowers and berries. Cut two more large circles. Now take a small round mold and cut out in two circles in the center of the hole. Put our circles with holes on top of the first large circle of thermoplastic green. Spread it neatly and smoothly. We have a place for a candle. It should be easy to fit and get out of it. Cut the edges of the cut strata. We take the flora of the wire of a larger diameter and makeat the end of the eyelet. From the red thermoplastic we form a ball 10 - 15 mm in diameter, fasten the loop inside the ball and smooth the joints. It is necessary to tear the foam completely and to roll a ball of red thermoplastic in it. Such blanks, as well as orange, you need a few. Stretch brown thermoplastic. It is necessary to prepare 2 pieces of 0.8 mm wire with loops, as we did before. From the brown plastic we form a droplet with a length of 2 cm, a width of the base of 1 cm and fix it on the wire. There must be two blanks, the junction of the droplet and wire, like the previous ones, must be thoroughly smoothed out. Now roll the sausage 7 mm in diameter and give it a drop-shaped shape in the cut (like in red). Finely cut. We put our blanks on a sponge (the usual one for washing dishes). We roll the workpieces from the balls, make them thinner and concave (well, or convex). Take our drop and begin to attach the lobes overlap. The topmost ones are closed, and the next ones are gradually opened. Assembly. Remove the candle from the metal frame. Now place the metal part in the space allocated to it. On all workpieces you need to cut off the excess wire. To do this, measure the height of the green base under the candle, and cut the rest. Now we integrate our red and brown flowers and berries in random order, who will like it. Berries can be twisted several times together. We put baked according to the instructions given on thepacking with clay. After the product has cooled, take a little brown paint and tint the orange berries in the center. When the paint dries, cover the product with varnish. After the final drying of the varnish, we put back the candle and our wonderful New Year candlestick is ready to bear light and joy.

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