The past few weeks I’ve been working on some handmade snowflake ornaments over at the local pottery studio. I’m planning on giving some of these as Christmas gifts, although they turned out better than I expected, and now I’m tempted to keep them all for myself!
These were about as easy to make as sugar cookies. I just rolled some clay into a slab, pressed a crochet doily into it, and cut out snowflakes with a cookie cutter. I punched holes in the tops of each flake with a plastic straw.
Then the folks at the pottery studio fired them for me. My favorite thing about using the pottery studio is that I don’t have to worry about dealing with the kiln. I just put my finished pieces on a shelf, check back in a week or two, and they are magically fired. Two of my snowflakes broke during the process, but luckily I made a few extras. After they were fired, I painted a couple coats of glaze on.
One more firing, and the glazes turned out like this! I love how the glossy semi-transparent glazes collected in the crevices and made the lace texture pop.
If you don’t have access to a pottery studio, you could easily make these with air dry clay like this and paint them with watered down acrylic paints to get the color-in-the-crevices effect.
Beautiful! (Personally…I’d be very tempted to keep them!)
Gosh they are stunning. If you sold them I’d buy them.
Thanks Vikki! Maybe someday. :)
You did an awesome job!! I love that snowflake cutter where can I get my hands on one?!
I got it on Amazon, right here: http://www.amazon.com/Old-River-Road-Snowflake-Cookie/dp/B00295QEJK/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&qid=1417619591&sr=8-27&keywords=snowflake+cookie+cutter
I LOVE these ornaments! They’re incredible beautiful and you were so creative in creating those patterns!
How lovely! Did you use an under-glaze?
Nope, I just painted a high fire glaze straight on there.
I love them! I hope I have time to make some, great idea!
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Wow, they are fantastically fanciful.
GORGEOUS – this is too cute!!
Clever you! I love the way they turned out!
Yay! Glad you guys like ’em! :)
Gorgeous! I took a ceramics class in college and made a bunch of bird ornaments using the same process. I ended up keeping a bunch for myself, too. ;)
Wow, these are so pretty! I definitely want to have a go at making these myself, although I don’t have access to a kiln so I’ll have to try it with air dry clay. I guess I’d have to find some other sort of glaze if I’m not firing it?
I haven’t tried it myself, but I think if you painted them with watered down acrylic paints the color would run down and collect in the cracks to achieve a similar effect.
gorgeous and so unique! i’m definitely going to try these with clay!
Oh, I so wish you were selling these. Beautiful! Also, I absolutely adore my “please deliver to” stamp. I used it on my Christmas cards this year. So charming.
Love those, they are beautiful! Good job!
Lovely! Where did you find such an intricate cookie cutter?