Have you been looking for a fun Christmas project maybe to do with your
family or friends or some older children? These darling little elves are a fun
project to do, the sculpting is simple and the results are adorable, and I also
show you how to make the little presents that they're holding which open up so
you could tuck in a special gift. Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to part 2 of
our Christmas elves polymer clay tutorial. Here is our other little gnome
/elf all baked, and we have the bottom of the gift so now we need to
make the top of the gift box. What you're going to do is insert your form back
into the box. Now you're going to cover this again
with aluminum foil the same way you did before, trying to do it neatly,
from the block down across the edges. Just the same way, that way we can
build our box top right over the box base and you know it will fit perfectly,
just like this one. So here's some more of my clay for the box. I just cut a
clean edge and I'm going to cut a strip somewhere around a quarter of an
inch, that's maybe a good quarter of an inch thick, cut one end square just like we
did before. Now this one's a little lumpy because of the polka dots but that's
another good reason why we're building this right on the box itself so that you
know it's going to fit, because if you tried to do it all mathematically and
such and then found out later that, oh guess what?
Yeah, the polka dots made it so it didn't fit. So this is actually a good way of
doing it.
And just like we did for the box bottom place it on your clay, cut out all the way
around, add your polka dots and then you can put this in the oven just for about
15 minutes to firm up. It is gonna get one more baking once we add the bow.
While your box lid is baking you can gather together the pieces that we'll
need for the next steps. You're going to need the rest of the color that you used
for the shoes and the shirt, this should be just enough to make the arms which is
a somewhere around a quarter of a package so you'll need that. Roll that
into a smooth ball and then you'll want to mix a color for the mittens. For this
fella I used some of the wasabi that I use for the package, this bright green,
mixed together with some of this dark green and a little bit of white to come up
with this green for his mittens. So it's different than the other colors but it
goes because it's a mixture of the other colors. For the ribbon for this package I
actually mixed together some of the red and white and the cherry pie and the
white mixes together to make this really pretty pink color. For the mittens for
this figure I actually mixed together some of the blue and some of this pinky
turnip to get a different purple so you can see it's not the same purple here,
but it's related and it will go just like the green on the other figure will
go. And for the ribbon I mixed some of the turnip with a fair amount of white
which I think will make a nice ribbon for this orange and white polka dotted
package. So get all of those mixed, you'll want your ribbon color rolled out on the
thinnest setting of the pasta machine and for the gloves you'll need a piece...
you'll need approximately two 5/8 inch balls.
So once you've rolled the balls for your mittens just go ahead and roll them into
a bit of an oval and then flatten them into an oblong, and just like the shoes
it's best if you do this at the same time, work on them both rather
than trying to work on one at a time and ending up with two that are very
different. Then you're going to cut not quite halfway down and maybe a fifth of
the way over because we're gonna make our thumbs, and there you have a thumb.
Just pull that out and use your fingers to start softening those cut edges on
all sides, you may need a tool to get in there into that crease. You can flatten
out the finger area, this longer rectangle area, so that they become a
little bit longer than the thumb, and just kind of gently roll it up in your
fingers to make it round like a thumb, and then also pinch this area down here to
make a bit of a wrist. Kinda press it on your work surface so that you have a
flat spot to attach it to the arms, and then you can just go ahead and curve
those and repeat for your other hand. Once the mittens are made you can go
ahead and roll out your ball for the arms. You want to roll it out into a
snake that is tapered at both ends. This is going to be our two arms so try to
roll this out symmetrically. What you might need to do if it's not coming out
symmetrical is actually flip it around in your hands and roll this till it's
about about three inches long. Round these ends, so make sure they're nice and
round. Like I said. this is both arms so you
want this to be pretty symmetrical and then go ahead and cut that in half right
there. Soften that cut edge, this is going to be the end of the sleeve, make sure
it's flat, that it doesn't end up getting cupped, but just soften it just... see how
much nicer that looks than that? Just a few gentle presses. Up here, go ahead and
flatten that just a little, this will be the shoulder and if you need to make
sure that's round and give it a bit of a curve and you should also give your
mittens a bit of a curve, it's easier to do it now than once you've tried to put
them on your figure. Now you can just press the mitten onto the arm. Isn't that
cute? And then we can place these on our figure, but we're not going to yet, we're
going to wait until we finish the box so that we can get the box positioned just
right in the hands. So here's the lid for the box out of the oven and this is
actually cooled off but just a little wiggling and it'll come off and then
of course the box itself is wrapped up in here so don't mistakenly throw that away!
Get the form out. Because of the way we made this it may only fit well one way.
So there's a little box, so now we can put the arms on. For that since we're
connecting baked clay to raw clay we do want to add a little liquid clay just to
make sure things stick. Don't add too much because the problem with these arms...
if I had thought of it ahead of time I might have actually while this clay
wasn't baked, this little blue part for the top of the shirt, I might
have put a toothpick through there and let it bake with a hole in it and then
snapped it off with just a little bit sticking out as a support for the arms.
I could still drill a hole through and add a wire but I didn't on the other
one and it worked out so I'm not going to on this one either, because I'm lazy.
But what I am gonna do is just make sure I only put a very thin amount of
translucent liquid sculpey on there. If you put too much what happens is it gets
very slick and then things slide, but if you put a little bit and let it sit it
gets tacky and then holds really well. I've got the correct arms in place, and then you just
put that little shoulder right there where it goes,
wherever makes sense on your figure. Now because my feet are so big... actually
before I do that let me just check something. Oops, his hand come off! Okay, so
what I want, I'm looking at where the package is and I want the hands to be just
inside the feet so I actually probably want to put even a little bit more of a
bend in those, quote, elbows, just so that they whole assembly's a little bit
shorter.
And a little bit of liquid clay might not go amiss in any place you're joining
things. I'm just kind of... there we go, just making room for the package. And by the
way, I just recently realized that I have been terrible this past fall! One of the
rewards for patrons is that if you support me at the five-dollar level or
above you get your name in one of my videos and it just occurred to me that I
haven't done that since at least the summer. So I'm so sorry. To make it up I'm
just gonna thank everyone who has supported me at that level in 2017 just
so I don't miss anybody, and if I do miss your name on this list
I'm so sorry, please let me know. The Patreon interface can be a little tricky
to navigate. Now I think I do want his little mitten here to touch his shoe.
Let's see, oh there we go, that's awesome. I can fit that right in
his hands. So I'm going to take a little bit more of the liquid sculpey
and just put it right there to help that stick. Now if you didn't want to make the
present, it is a bit extra work, the figurine actually goes pretty quick
without it, you could just have anything you wanted -maybe that's a little big! If
you plan ahead you could have spread the legs a little wider and made some room
to have something like this little ornament in your gnome's/elf's hands. I just
love the idea of a little gift that could actually be opened. I'm going to
press this down a bit and make a spot for it. Now you could glue the box in
place but I think it's a whole lot easier to leave it not glued, so I'm just
making an impression on the hands. I kind of want to reveal the
buttons so I'm pressing it down a bit on the mittens and that way there will be a
place for it to go and pop right into once you've baked it. So back to my list
of patrons who have supported me for five dollars or more in 2017. Many thanks
to Hope, Tim, Anneke, Judy, Dinah. Manoel, Kathy, Ramona,
Susan, Tracy, Dolores, Kandi, Kay, Marilynn, Janet, Lynn and Rosie. You're all
awesome and I thank you so much! I'm guessing you
probably do not know how much your support means to me. So here's our little
elf, you can see the impressions are all ready to receive the gift.
And he's ready to bake. And now all we need to do to finish this project is
add a ribbon to the box. As I mentioned, my clay for the ribbon was rolled out on
the thinnest setting of the pasta machine and I just want to cut a couple
of strips and here's a really cool tip for you. If you have two rigid clay
blades grab yourself some magnets, I love the neodymium magnets but mine
have disappeared to parts unknown, I've got to get some more because I don't know
what happened to them, but look you can put two blades together... this looks like
a dangerous object, and now you can easily cut ribbons that exact thickness.
I found it's easiest if you don't start on the edge, kind of hold the edge and
then start near the edge and just cut, and look at that you've got ribbons.
Isn't that awesome? I think it's just the coolest trick. I don't know if I'll use that
one, and actually if I had been smart if I started with the section closest to me
I could have lined the blade up in the clay and used the previous lines but I
wasn't being smart. obviously. So here are my ribbons. So to add your
ribbons go ahead and put the lid on the box in the way you want it to go, grab
yourself some liquid clay, this one's a little tricky because of the polka dots,
but I'm just gonna paint a line across the center, over the top and down around
the bottom and up the sides. So for the first one start at the center top, just
put that in the middle cuz that join will be covered, just smooth it down over
the edge of the lid onto the side across the bottom and then up and over just
like that.
Trim that, you want it trim just up under that lid there and repeat to paint a
stripe of TLS going in the other direction and then for this one start it
on the bottom, you don't have to overlap because that just makes it lumpy. Just
put it right up against that other ribbon and bring it up and over the same
way.
And again cut right in between the lid and the box.
Now you can take those apart, that's all set to be baked, and I'm just gonna
add the tails, cut it at a diagonal, add a little curve and interest to it.
Try not to let it get too thick right here, I'll press that down. And here's our
final strip to make the bow, pinch it, make a loop.
If your loop collapses a tool like this is great for going in there,
you're not just opening it up but you can kind of give it a little bit of
movement and shape.
Just one more little piece to wrap around the bow.
The trick to doing things like this, tiny fiddly things, is to have just
a very light touch, especially with your non-dominant hand. That, I don't know
about you, but sometimes I end up sort of forgetting what I'm doing and and end up
grabbing it, holding it way too hard, so to have the most success just pay attention
and think about what you're doing. Yeah, it's tricky to get in there. I'm gonna
grab my needle tool, just kind of get in there under that
knot so I can press that down in there. Here's our little bow. Bake those and bake
your elf and your project is done. So if you're interested in the supplies I used
you can click on the link in the upper right of the video. It's also on the
lower left at the end or in the description box to go to my blog post where
I always have a complete supply list and links to products. Be sure to subscribe
if you haven't already and take a look at my patreon page for how you can get
bonus tutorials and help support these videos. Happy creating, bye bye.
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