Creative paper clay is a fun clay to work with. It feels alot like a fluffy dough.

The site recommends that you can paint it after its dry but I wanted to see if it would change color if I mixed paint within it.

It worked pretty well

but it does stick to your fingers as you are trying to mix it in. I recommend wearing gloves or your hands will look like this afterwards.

I then tried to mix in some dry pigment

It did not take the pigment well for me

there was no color change even with the dark purple. I guess the paint is my best bet wether I mix it in or paint it on afterwards.

You have to let it dry for like 3 days to let the water evaporate from the clay as it cures and gets hard.

These are some cute deco items that you can make with paper clay

If you want to make your own glue that dries white all you need to do is to take your glue and just add some white acrylic paint and stir and as easy as 1.2.3 you have glue that dries white.

You can also do this with other colors or create your own custom color glue. The possibilities are endless. Now you can make rainbows from glue, tie dye effects, make cute characters from the glue, add embellishments and make flowers, jewelry or on paper tags there is just so much you can do that this sentence is going on and on and on and on .

This is a really fun thing to do.

All you need is some caulk and some oil paint. So lets get started.

Step 1: Put your caulk in a plastic baggie to mix, Im only making a sample batch so you can put yours directly into a piping bag or squeeze bottle. When mixing the caulk you want to minimize the exposure of the caulk to air so it doesnt cure and allows you enough time to blend it and make your creations. Which is why I use a zip lock mini baggie and squeeze out the air, it gives me more working time.

Step 2: Put in a drop of your oil paint, you should start with a little drop of oil paint depending on the color you’re trying to accomplish. Then add more as needed to achieve your color.

Step 3: Then just squeeze the bag to mix the caulk with the oil paint, until its fully blended. I added too much red paint so it didnt turn into a light pink but a darker one. Its always better to start with a little bit of paint then too much.

Here is the final product, your very own colored caulk to make your fake whipped cream creations.

You can buy kits of oil paint tubes for about $5 bucks for a set at michaels or other craft stores.

OLD TIP BELOW: You can still use it but its much cheaper to buy the $5 buck kit as stated above

you can also buy oil paint kits like Craft House oil paint by numbers kits. They can cost from $15 to $25 and will give you a ton of colors. So much better than spending alot on big tubes of oil paint. Hope this tip helps.

Happy Crafting

I got a ton of goodies to use on some of my new deco creations, expect a huge deco charm post soon cuz Im gonna put all these supplies to good use.

I got some

Crayola Glitter Glue Pens

they can be used as deco sauce, I’ll show you how they come out in one of my next posts.

I got a ton of ceramcoat acrylic paint, scribbles 3D Paint, Oil paint, PPA Glue, Crafters Pick The ultimate glue, Gem Tac glue, some more liquid sculpey, Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue, few craft punches, cookie cutters

and I couldnt believe they had those cute erasers, they’re not iwako but they look just like them and they are super cute, 1 package for 4 erasers was a dollar and they were on sale so I paid just .75 cents for them. So cute

I hope they start having more kawaii at the craft stores, I know it will never be japan but a girl can dream.

MATERIALS

* All of these items are available in the U.S and cost very little and you should be able to find most of them at your local craft store or at online U.S shops.

1. Tulip Gellies – These are perfect to make deco sauce, I like to buy the clear ones so that I can add in whatever paint color I want to make any color sauce.  They cost like a $1 or less and its just like decollage brand deco sauce from japan. In japan decollage deco sauce cost like a dollar too but sellers are just way overpricing them and selling them to people outside of japan for like 5 times the price. Dont be fooled by pretty packaging and fancy names.
2. Puff paint – I love puff paint, it can make a thicker version of Deco Sauce and it pipes out just like decorating icing.
3. Gloss or Craft varnish - you can add color by adding in paints, powders ect.
4. Paints - The trick is to pour on instead of paint on. Just make sure the item you are pouring this on can be painted. Especially if you use caulk since not all caulk varieties can be painted.
5. Gels - Craft gels are fantastic to use
6. Liquid Latex – great to dip stuff and give melting effect
7. Liquid Rubber – great to dip stuff and give melting effect
8. Glue – some of the easiest ones are glue pens since they already have a tip
9. Hot Glue – You can buy hot glue sticks in colors like brown to make melting dripping hot fudge, or white to make melting marshmallows , golden yellow to make caramel. You can even get them in other colors like pink, purple and mint which can make cool effects for melting ice creams. There are so many possibilities.

TIP: Remember that some of these products are not waterproof and they will dissolve in water. So you may want to coat it in some sort of waterproof gloss. If you are just going to keep your creation inside lets say when making miniatures or for a dollhouse item that wont get wet Im sure it will be fine. If you are going to use it for jewelry or anything that has the ability to get wet like on decoden phones or something you gotta make sure you seal it properly or just use waterproof products.