Collage Clay Crafts

Collage Clay Crafts

     Hi friends sharing a few projects made with Collage Clay , an amazing versatile product manufactured by Plaid [ the same company which makes the hugely popular Mod Podge] and brought to the Indian Craft scene by Crafters Corner

Collage Clay 

        Collage Clay is a type of clay which has the consistency of thick creamy icing .It comes in 2 colors vanilla white and strawberry pink,is packed in piping bags and you can use 3 nozzles to pipe the collage clay and use it to decorate  the same way as you would with regular icing !!

Collage Clay 

 Its called collage clay because not only can you use it on a multitude of surfaces  such as metal, glass, plastic, ceramic, wood etc etc; you can also embed  a wide variety of objects in it such as beads, shells,buttons, clay trinkets, metallic charms etc etc. 
You dont have to use any additional glue and it dries spongy and gorgeous !
Here are a few projects using Collage Clay

Decorated Jars and Plastic Containers

Recycling Plastic Containers

We all have plastic boxes and glass jars at home dont we..? Well I used collage clay to jazz up the lids of my daughter's empty play-dough containers.

Collage Clay Crafts

          I piped a layer of vanilla collage clay and embedded cute little resin "cabochons" into the collage clay while it was still wet. If you are new to using a piping bag it may be  a bit tricky to get perfect creamy swirls but the fun part is you can camouflage your imperfections by adding cute embellishments over it!

Collage Clay Crafts

I wanted the container to look like a cupcake so cut up a strip of corrugated paper and stuck it over the lower part of the plastic container with red tacky tape.

Collage Clay Crafts

And here is the faux cupcake- cute as well as functional!

Collage Clay Crafts

         The collage clay is recommended for use above 8 yrs and I think the main reason is because younger children would find it difficult to squeeze the collage clay out of the piping bags. Though my daughter is 9 ,she is a gentle child and try as she might she couldnt get the collage piping bags to work but she did enjoy decorating the "iced" objects with cabochons Shalini sent us from Crafters Corner!

Collage Clay Crafts

          The blue heats are all rhinestones and the shiny pink heart is actually an epoxy sticker. The cabochons and other elements such as beads etc need to be added while the collage clay is still wet [ clay takes 1- 5 days to fully dry depending on the amount you use !!]

Collage Clay Crafts

Decorate Stationary and Penstands

Stationary box

You can never have enough pen-stands isnt it ...well at least that is the scenario at our home !

Collage Clay Crafts

I wanted to see what all elements the collage clay could hold and so in this project I added crystal flowers , home made resin leaves and broken jewelry bits

Collage Clay Crafts

So if you have a piece of broken jewelry that is too sentimental or pretty to throw away save it for just such a collage craft!!

Collage Clay Crafts

Use with ordinary air drying clay or polymer clay to get the icing / cream effect!

Collage Clay Crafts

You can use collage clay with ordinary air drying clay or baked polymer clay projects to easily get icing or cream effects. I made the swiss roll above with ordinary air drying clay [ sponge cake texture effect achieved using a toothbrush] and iced it with collage clay and added tiny glitter balls atop!

Collage Clay Crafts

Made the tiny pink macaroons with air drying clay and sandwiched together with collage clay cream!

Make Jewelry

Jewelry bases

Since you can embed objects in collage clay without using additional glue its super fun to use it to make pendants, rings , brooches, hair accessories etc

Collage Clay Crafts

I iced collage clay onto a blank pendant and added a glass tortoise to make this pendant.

Collage Clay Crafts

The glass tortoise had such an odd shape that it would have looked odd on its own on the pendant but adding the collage clay base made this is a super easy pendant to make.

Collage Clay Crafts

         When you experiment with collage clay for the first time your piping may not look too good.Its literally impossible to put the squeezed out collage clay back into your piping bag.In such cases you can scoop it onto a pendant/ring base and add a large embellishment on it like the blue resin rose in my pendant !

Make Rings

You can use not only ready made cabochons but also create your own fun elements to add to collage clay crafts.

Collage Clay Crafts

The tiny fruits are my very amateurish attempts with  clay sculpting! The red clay I used to make the strawberry turned orange red after a coat of glue!

Collage Clay Crafts

Make Matching Accessories

Collage Clay Crafts

There are so many themed cabochons available at Crafters Corner and my kiddo just adored the Frozen character one which she used to make a pendant and a matching ring .The purple hearts are epoxy stickers!

Decorate Photoframes

Rotating Photoframe

Collage clay makes decorating photo-frames super easy ...just pipe  a design and add fun embellishments ...and not only the regular shaped ones but unusual ones like the rotating cylindrical photo-frame shown above!

Collage Clay Crafts

I made the little pink doughnut and the slightly off color strawberry using regular air drying clay. All the other embellishments are ready made resin cabochons sent to me from Crafters Corner

More Tips with Collage Clay

• Its not a craft meant for young children as piping the collage clay will be difficult for them but yes they can join in adding the embellishments!
• If you feel a surface is especially smooth you can sand it with a sandpaper so that the collage clay has a better grip on it
• Collage clay dries spongy and sturdy
• Drying time depends on the amount of collage clay you use and the object you are using it on. If for example you are using it to decorate a phone case which will be subjected to a lot of handling its prudent to wait 1-5 days for it to dry well otherwise the clay surface can crack
• You can color collage clay - if you are going to apply it on a stencil or smear it on a surface you can mix color into it and apply 
• You can paint over collage clay - I saw a demo of  spray painting on collage clay and it looked awesome.

You can see more collage clay projects here on my pinterest boards : Collage Clay Crafts  

Supplies : Collage Clay , Resin Cabochons - Crafters Corner

I hope you liked my projects.