Magnets

the things you’ll need are:

Templates scissors acrylic paint Fimo clay (oven bake clay) an exactor knife small paintbrushes baking paper a cutting board magnets a baking tray a roller (sculpting tools) strong glue a pencil the specific clay colors I used are: white, black, hot pink, red, dark green, brown, yellow, orange, Christmas red, skin color, purple, grey and translucent. the specific paint colors I used are: black, brown, white, green, pink, gold, dark green, blue and grey.

cut out all of the drawings.

mix a little bit of pink clay with some white clay until you get the pink birthday cake color you like. roll the clay out with a thickness of about 0,5 cm. lay the template on top of the clay and use it as a guide to cut around it. if needed use your fingers or a sculpting tool to smooth the edge of the circle.

roll out you green, red, yellow or red clay and also cut out the 2 ‘head’ color pieces from one of the house shield templates. lay the 2 ‘head’ color pieces on the rolled-out clay and cut them out.

grab another one of the shield templates and cut out the black border. roll out some black clay and lay the black border onto the clay and cut around it. remove the excess clay and leave the black border on the clay. lay the 2 ‘head’ color pieces onto the black shield and use the black paper border as a guide to where to put them.

repeat the same steps with the secondary color of the houses (grey, yellow, black or brown) as what you did with the ‘head’ color of the house. place the secondary color also. on the shield and you can remove the black paper border.

Mix some orange with some brown until you get a kind of terracotta color. Roll out the clay and lay the mandrake template on top of the rolled-out clay and cut it out. add a strip of clay to where the border of the flower pot is to separate the mandrake part and the flower pot part of the design. mix some white clay with a bit of brown for the earmuff sign. Roll out the light brown mixed clay, cut out the earmuff sign from the mandrake template and place it on top of the clay and cut it out. place the square of clay on the middle of the flower pot.

mix some white with a tiny bit of brown and yellow to make a sort of parchment colored clay. roll it out and lay the envelope template on the clay and cut it out. cut the red wax seal from the template. roll out some red clay and lay the wax seal template on top and cut it out. grab a tiny bit of the Christmas red and make a little ball out of it and carefully press it onto the middle of the red wax seal. place the wax seal on the middle bottom of the rectangle.

roll out some hot pink clay and lay the template of Luna’s spectrespecs on it and cut it out. Cut the blue and purple glasses from the template. roll out some blue and purple clay and lay the glasses template on top and cut them out. place the blue circle on the left side of the spectrespecs and the purple on the right side.

roll out some translucent clay and place the potion or floo powder template on top and cut it out. cut the label from the template. roll out some of the parchment colored clay and place the label template on top and cut it out. place the label in the middle of the bottle.

roll out some translucent clay and place the love potion template on top and cut it out. cut out the label from the love potion. mix some white with a bit of hot pink clay. roll out the pink clay and place the love potion label on top and cut it out. place the label on the middle of the bottle.

roll out some white clay and lay the golden snitch template on top and cut it out.

bake the clay following the instructions and let them cool down. use a pencil to lightly draw the design of the birthday cake, love potion label and the envelope on the clay.

use a small paintbrush and some dark green paint and fill in the letters and the lightning bolt on the cake. use some pink paint that is a few shades darker then the clay you used and fill in the breaking lines of the cake.

fill in the cork part of the bottle in with brown paint (use the template as a guideline). fill in the name of the love potion in with black. paint the heart part of the label with pink paint and trace of the word ‘love’ again with black paint when the pink paint is dry. paint in the majority of the bottle a baby pink shade of paint. when. all of the paint is dry use some black paint to outline the bottle and the cork of the potion.

paint the circle of the golden snitch on both sides gold (or yellow if you don’t have gold paint).

fill in the lines you have drawn with black paint and also outline the envelope with black paint. mix some red paint with a bit of black until you get a sort of wine-red color and use this to make a little H on the wax seal.

paint the mandrake and his little hands brown (for the hands use the template as a guideline) paint the leaves on his head and the little leaf on one of his finger green. when all of the paint is dry use some black paint to outline everything, paint the label on the flower pot and paint his face. add some white dots in the eyes for some details (use the template for guideline if needed).

paint the corks of the potion bottle(s) and floo powder brown. paint the contents of the potion, if you made more than one potion bottle paint the contents of the bottles on different heights. I’ll also leave a fill with different potion names and what color the contents are of the potion. for the floo powder mix some blue paint with some white and grey paint until you get as light blue color with a little bit of a grey undertone. fill in the names of the potion on the labels using some black paint and a small brush and also outline the cork and bottle with black paint.

when you’re done with painting and all of the paint is dry you can use some varnish to seal in the paint and make all of them shiny and it also protects the clay a little bit.

When the varnish is dry grab your glue and magnets. glue one magnet on the back of each magnet design, for Luna’s spectrespecs I glued one magnet on each back of the 2 glasses.

And now your magnets are done!

I hope you have fun making these magnets!!