My First Cold Porcelain Hand Crafted Flowers

Hello folks, When i made the first batch of Cold Porcelain Clay, i tried my hand at making some roses,lilies and other random flowers.
Do check out How to make cold porcelain at home in this post and
how to add color to the cold porcelain dough here.

In most of the forums i read about the flowers/dolls getting cracks while drying. Thank God my first trial at making the flowers was successful.
I think the most important part is to knead the dough , and roll it in between the fingers before we make anything out of it. All these flowers were crafted without any tools. With practice the roses can be perfected.
In my future posts i will do a tutorial on roses. Since it was a trial i didn't take ani images while making them.

Hand crafted beautiful porcelain roses

Cold Porcelain Roses

Cold Porcelain Flowers before drying

Cold Porcelain beautiful roses

Cold Porcelain random flowers

Cold Porcelain Mini Flowers

Cold Porcelain Flowers

Cold Porcelain Flowers

Whatever you make from this clay, will shrink by 15-20 % when air-dried. So keep this in mind while making flowers or anything. Some of my flowers are so tiny that i can't handle them in my hand. To seal the flowers i coated them with 1:1 of fevicol and water, since i did not have any varnish or mod-podge with me. After the coating dries off the flowers become very hard and durable.

So how did you find my Cold Porcelain Roses/flowers?

Thanks for taking time to go through this post.Will you try to make some at home? Do let me know in the comments section below. Your opinion matters, any suggestions are welcome. 

How to- color Cold Porcelain clay

In one of my posts i have penned down a tutorial to make Cold Porcelain clay at home. If you haven't checked it yet visit this link.
In this post i will show you step by step procedure of - How to add color to Cold Porcelain Clay.


Materials you will need:

• Cold Porcelain Clay
• Acrylic color tube of your choice. (Oil color can also be used)

             

Procedure:

Step 1:

• After allowing the clay to settle for a day in the refrigerator , take out some of the clay.
• Press and roll it between your palms. The clay should become soft.
• Take a little acrylic/oil color onto the clay.

                                           

Step 2:

• Roll the clay between your finger tips until the color spreads to the whole of clay.

                                 

Keep kneading the clay untill the color spreads uniformly

Keep rolling the clay until the color spreads to the clay uniformly and it feels soft in your hand.

                                

Magenta colored Cold Porcelain

Add more color to the clay until you get your desired color. 

TIP: Remember cold porcelain dries to a thicker color, So add as desired.

Green colored Cold porcelain

One can add color at the time of kneading the dough when making the cold porcelain or after making crafts. But colored clay has low shelf life. So color only the part you will put to use. Store the colored clay in air-tight container and Refrigerate. Knead the clay/dough well before you put it to use. Good kneading is the key to making no-crack clay crafts. 

Do check out another post on cold porcelain flowers.

       So how did you like my tutorial on How to- color Cold Porcelain Clay. Let me know in the comments section below. Looking forward to hear from you. 

                                                            Thank You!!!

My Newspaper Baskets

Hi as promised here i am back with the newspaper baskets i made at home. In case you didn't , do check out my post on a newspaper basket making tutorial.

Newspaper baskets

Newspaper basket

Newspaper baskets 

Newspaper baskets to store chargers and stationary

Basket to store keys and change.Made for my husband

A basket with a lid for storing chargers and other cords

Yet to be colored Newspaper basket

In the making newspaper baskets

Newspaper baskets for ipods and smartphones

Newspaper basket kitchen organizers

Dressing accessories Basket

Newspaper basket organizers

From magazine holders to paper curtains, baskets and much more, there are endless ways of recycling newspapers. Do give it a try and i would love to ear from you.

How did you find my baskets? Do let me know in the comments section. Your appreciation is important to me. Hope you had a great time reading this post. Thank you!!!