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DIY Fairy Garden Mushroom Gnomes - Creative Mom

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How to make some funny garden gnomes using jars, tin foil, hot glue, paper clay and watercolors. Its fun to make and you can use it as candy jar for a candy bar, birthday party, thank you gift for a baby shower, baby room decoration, piggy bank, jewelry box, cookie jar and so on. So you need an empty jar with lid, aluminum foil, paper clay (I used Das modelling material you can use any paper clay or even a homemade paper clay - I have a video about that - ) hot glue and water colors. (A lot of you asked me if you can use polymer clay on this kind of projects. Of course you can use polymer clay but for bigger jars like the ones I used in this video you will have to use a lot of polymer clay and the whole project will become expensive. You will be able to save a lot of material using thin foil but still, I would recommend you to use paper clay) Choose some jars and clean them with hot water and soap. Start shaping some tinfoil into your gnomes hat. Cover it with tinfoil and integrate the lid at the bottom. You can add multiple layers of foil until you get the desired result. Glue the tinfoil cap to the jars lid using hot glue. Cover the tinfoil shape with a layer of clay and smooth it using water. I made the mushroom dots in clay this time so they give a nice texture to the gnomes hat. Cover the jar with clay and start working on the face of your gnome. Make sure you make the face big enough so you get a nice proportion between the hat and the head of the gnome. Let everything dry. Apply another layer of clay to create textures and details if you feel like it. If the clay doesnt stick to the previous layer I recommend you to water the areas you want to work on. Also keep a water container near by to wet your hands and working utensils when they get sticky. Use water to achieve smooth and shiny surfaces. Paint your gnomes in the desired colors. For most of the gnome I used watercolors but for some details I used watercolor pencils. If you use watercolors for this step I recommend you seal them in the end with varnish or regular hair spray
Date: 2022-04-28

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Comments and reviews: 4

Linda
Thank you for this great DIY! I just finished my gnome. I used the diy clay, which you show in another video, and it worked out pretty nice! It's also a nice methode to work on with children/adolescent!
It's a pity I cannot upload my picture of my lovely, sleeping gnome. ;)
Greetings from Vienna!
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Jo
Your Garden mushroom Gnomes are amazing. Only thing I find being a newby to this type of craft is that the videos are very quick and cant always see properly exactly how you do some of the putting together.
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Gin
was not expecting this mom to be this good! excellent art job. talented girl. Thanks.
Will try to copy with cement art.
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Magda
Acabo de ver su video y es hermosisimo todo lo que hace usted me encanta muchas felicidades por su trabajo esta muy lindo
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