Next time I do a craft post I’ll show you how to make a potted plant monster with these little cute tiny terracotta pots. Considering I had no idea what I was doing I’m sure your crystal shards will look even more fantastic! If you’re really feeling ambitious do this with white clay, prime, then paint. I used a quarter of a block for each crystal shard. Your party won’t know what hit them.Ī block of Fimo clay costs about $2.80. Repeat steps 1 through 7 with as many color variations as desired. Viola! You have yourself a nifty little crystal shard. Back in the oven! Bake at 230☏ for 30 minutes. It’ll look like you actually spent time sculpting tiny little shards into the base. Slap them onto the base to cover up that messy base job. Did you save your scraps from earlier? Good. Using some more clay as a base assemble all your crystal shard pieces using whatever pattern you like. Facebook-1200圆30.jpg Shards of Creation After the four gods and goddesses created the world, remnants of their energy were cast out due to the immense power used. Kitty break! Everyone say hi to our cat Daniel. Cut facets into clay using a sharp tool such as a X-Acto knife. Bake at 230☏ for 15 minutes to harden slightly. If you are feeling fancy use a straight edge or mold. Slap the clay together in rough crystal shapes. For this project I will be using the purple one shown here because it’s sparkly. That is the extent of my sculpting skills. Not counting play-dough, the last time I worked with sculpting clay I was in sixth grade. Now I suppose I should put a disclaimer here. Plan B involved running out to a different craft store and coming back tonight with Fimo. Ben, who never knew the joy of growing crystals as a kid, looked at me like I was crazy. Adults get a giant color dye mess and stained plastic containers. Apparently only kids get the magic growing crystals. Today after I came home from work I came home to…. I rushed back home, boiled some water, followed the directions and set it aside in a plastic container for a week. The powder ones that you mixed with boiling water as a kid and watched crystals grow in front of your eyes. Thinking I was clever I ran out to a local craft store first thing Monday morning and bought several packets of grow your own space age crystal kits. Since Ben and I enjoy painting miniatures I wanted to have some crystal terrain present for our first game. The next Tales of 13th Age adventure, Wyrd of the Wild Wood, includes a lot of them. Deviating from our normal blog updates I wanted to make a post about crystals.