Attach a decorative gnome door to a bulky rock or garden constitution.
If your garden is dotted with ceramic gnome statues or they are condign there in spirit, you can add an extra touch of whimsy to your garden by adding a cramped door for garden gnomes or their fairy cousins to pass in and elsewhere. Principally adequate in House gardens or plantings following to children's play areas, a gnome or fairy door is decorative, rather than functional.
Instructions
1. Pre-heat the oven to the temperature on the directions to your oven-bake clay.
Subsume the baking phase in foil.
2. Allure an outline of the door you requirement to construct on a quantity of paper. You need the door to be at least 6 inches gangling and approximately 4 inches Broad -- it does not admit to in truth match the heighth of any gnome sculpture you keep in berth. Don't forget to add a window -- and be firm to shape To admit for colossal pointy hats. Decrease absent the decoration with scissors.
3. Put widen paper or some other bounteous of paper on your employment surface to protect it from the oven-bake clay. Due to the clay is non-edible you desideratum to protect any surface it comes into contact with expressly whether it is normally used for cooking.
4. Move the completed door to the foil-lined baking sheet. Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Remove it and let the door completely cool.12. When cool, glue one skewer to the back of the door with the pointed end down.
With the tip of a skewer, draw into the clay around the pattern.
6. Remove the pattern from the clay. Carefully remove the excess clay from the door with a butter knife or clay-cutting tool. Smooth out the edges with your fingers.
7. Work a small amount of yellow clay until soft. Again, use your hands or a roller to flatten the clay.
8. Cut out the window from your door pattern. Lay it on the yellow clay. Draw around it with the skewer and remove the excess clay with a knife or tool. Place the cut-out window onto the clay door.
9. Roll the excess door clay into a thin log. Lay the log onto your covered surface and roll it into a thin, long snake. Use the snake to outline the window and edge around the door for detail.
10. Roll a small amount of another color clay into a tiny ball for the door's handle. Place on the door.
11. Work the clay between your hands until it becomes soft and light to drudgery with. Flatten it gone with your hands until it is a mini better than the immensity of your door design. You can appropriateness something very your hands to flatten the clay, alike a rolling pin or bottle, though the uneven texture of hand-flattened clay lends caliber.5. Settle the representation on the flatten clay.
Let the glue dry completely. The skewer allows you to set the door into the dirt and helps keep the door upright.
13. Brush on a coat of marine varnish with a brush. Let the piece dry. The varnish weatherproofs the piece for outdoor use.
14. Place your finished door at the base or a tree, large rock or at the foundation of your own house.
