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I love creating things with my sewing machine to give as gifts. I love the ability to create my own fabrics with the Gel Press. It is so cool! If you are interested in making a similar item AlteredPages has so many beautiful stencils and other tools. If you don't sew you can use several of the heat bond products. I hope you enjoy my project and video! Supplies: Gel Press liquid acrylics embossing plates ( suggest Gel Press Impressables ) Pillow cases Sewing machine or fabric bond Another Suggestion ( stencils from AlteredPages). I hope she will like these pillow cases. I know that I enjoyed making them!

Welcome back.  I hope you are having a great weekend.  In order to get you back to your Sunday Funday quickly this will be a somewhat short post as this is a muli-part project and part II will be in a couple weeks.  I have to say I am REALLY excited about this project and the ACTIVA clay I've been playing with.  I am making a number of fun shaped clay ornaments using the Black Plus Air Dry Clay from ACTIVA.  I have found this clay to be so very easy to work with.  For this project I basically treated the clay as I would cookie dough and rolled it out to my desired thickness (less than 1/4 - 1/2 inch depending on the size of the ornament) just like making sugar cookies using cookie cutters.  I used a cutting board that is reserved just for crafting and an old rolling pin.  I skipped the pictures on the early process as most of have probably rolled out cookie dough or watched our moms and grandmas make a ba...