In addition to the clay Gold Evenstar, I have made several other Elvish clay creations based on the Lord of the Rings movies. To make these, all you need is some Sculpey clay.

 To make your thinner clay creations sturdier, paint over the peice with Mod Podge or another kind of glue. This will also work extremely well for gluing broken creations back together. My two year old brother smashed all of these pictured into at least three separate parts. Two coats of Mod Podge later, and you can't hardly tell they were broken. Also, for a more metallic, realistic look, coat with a glaze. I wore my Chase Buckle to a dance, and everyone thought it was metal and that I had bought it!

My brooch out of Sculpey clay

The brooch as sold by Noble Collection

 Arwen wore a butterfly brooch as a clasp on one of her many capes. I made my own version by rolling out the clay, using a toothpick to cut apart the main pieces (the wings, etc), rolled up bits for the antenna and swirlies at the bottom, and used a toothpick to carve the designs on the wings. Mine is two inches wide.

My simplified version of Galadriel's brooch

Galadriel wore a beautiful, intricate silver and mother-of-pearl brooch. Mine is all clay! I used the same techniques as above.

My version

Arwen wore this brooch (or is it a buckle? It is hard
to tell) on her Chase outfit. It was definitely confusing-- I realized that there are four "petals", two "leaves" and two "stems", with ends intricately wrapped and twisted around each other. My only suggestion, should you choose to attempt this, is to pay very close attention to the picture.

My Eternal Star, a failure in my opinion...

As sold by Tolkien Town

Now, this one didn't turn out so great. I have been using the pictures that came in a little booklet inside our Lord of the Rings DVD. You know, the ones where they try to sell you all the coolest, most expensive trinkets related to the movies? This was called the "Eternal Star" or something. I couldn't find the same picture online. I spiced up the clay with some beads.

There you go! My adventures with clay... and being a total Lord of the Rings geek. :)

Well, I have finally gotten around to updating. :) Theses are from my teaser.


Here are my Evenstars! (I've since given most of them away). The white one is actually the cheap $3 Halloween version that I refinished.

The gold evenstar on the left is made out of Sculpey Clay. I lay my evenstar on top of the clay, cut it out with a toothpick, pressed glass beads into the clay, pressed a wire loop in, and etched the designs. Then: I baked it! Voila! Were I to do it again, I would make the back more like the one in the movies, with a leaf design that stretches all the way to the back.

The very middle necklace is the very first Evenstar I ever made. It is part of my still-mostly secret Halloween costume (see here and here). The rest are the same, with different colors and some modifications to be sturdier.

Front

Back

The Front

The Back

Variation-- "Fair Isle" Flower

Now that I have effectively spent far too long online and have to finish up schoolwork, I thought I would leave you all with a teaser. :)

Instructions for ALL the crafts in this picture coming up! ...soon(ish)...
More Ink and Fairydust magazines with articles by yours truly...
And a description of why styluses don't work on iPod touches/iPhones, and how to make your own stylus that will work.

Another hair clip, made from beads and wire tightly twisted around a hair clip.

It was very difficult to wrap the wire around the clip so that it stays in place. I used floral (thin) wire, and wrapped it around my loops and beads, which were done with an 18 or 20 guage wire (I forgot). Remember: a good pair of pliers are your best friend!

EDIT:
Here is a much better picture of my first Elvish hair clip: 



SEE ALSO:

More Hair Clips

And this is featured in my posts:
Masquerade Costume
Shadow of the Bear Artfire

I am doing a Valentine's Day swap with some members of my fourm; I went overboard and took it as an excuse to make a bunch of little crafts... Not even related to Valentine's Day. :) I think I put most of them in that picture of random recent crafts on this post. Some of these things are for the swap.
Here you can see three rings that I made. I really can't give instructions because I made it up as I went along.

Gimli's axe is made out of Scupley clay. I cut it with a toothpick.

A few posts ago I mentioned Sir Herbert the snowman, who is pictured below...


We now have two more creations covering our lawn. All done out of two inches of slushy snow ontop of one inch of old snow.

I am pleased to announce the presence of Mr. George Snowman.



And The Dragon. The dragon was a full family effort. It used up much snow from the backyard, and spans THIRTY FEET. I made the head. :)


You might notice that the little dark spot on the right hand side of the picture is my brother. :)

I am going to figure out a way for you to see all the awesome pictures I took without cluttering up the blog with far too many pictures.

Like I said, these belong on the blog because they are snow sculptures and sculptures are art. :)

Yes, I am teasing you, my kind readers.With a photo of recent craft projects. I will write a post about each and every one, hopefully including some instructions. And, yes, the envelope is a craft. You shall see.

Oh, I am also working on a hand-drawn animation with someone who lives halfway across the country.