Make a Welcome To Night Vale Trinket Box and All Hail The Mighty Glow Cloud
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Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale. The glow cloud does not need to converse with us. It does not feel as we tiny humans feel. It has no need for thoughts or feelings of love. The glow cloud simply is. Now you can have a tiny Glow Cloud of your very own. Show your fandom of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast by making this tiny polymer clay trinket box with a Glow Cloud handle. It’s a great place to hide all your little secrets. And remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
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Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
DIY Welcome to Night Vale Trinket Box
MATERIALS YOU WILL NEED
a cookie cutter or glass jar
black and purple pearl polymer clay
Fimo fluorescent (nightglow) polymer clay
clay tools for cutting and shaping
translucent liquid Sculpey
black, purple and white paint
gloss glaze
optional glitter paints: purple, yellow, pink
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS
NOTE: If you are using a jar instead of a cookie cutter, wrap some tape evenly around your jar to mark the height of your trinket box .
Making the Sides of the Box: Roll out a strip of purple clay to about a quarter inch thickness. Trim one edge evenly and wrap the clay around your cookie cutter or around your jar along your tape marker. Trim and join the ends. Then evenly cut around the bottom of the jar. Once your edges are smooth, remove any tape before baking according to the instructions on your package.
Making the Bottom of the Box: Roll out some black clay to about a quarter of an inch thickness, around the baked and cooled purple shape to create the bottom of the box. Then carefully remove the baked purple clay from your jar or cookie cutter. You may need to use an Xacto blade to loosen it before pulling it off the mold. Use Translucent Liquid Sculpey to attach the bottom of the box to the sides and bake according to the instructions on your clay package.
Making the Lid for the Box: Roll out two pieces of purple clay, about a quarter of an inch thick. Use your baked and cooled trinket box to trace the lid shape onto one piece of clay. Trim away the excess and smooth the edges. Then cut a second circle of purple clay a little smaller than the first. Smooth the edges and attach it to the first circle using Translucent Liquid Sculpey. Bake according to the instructions on your clay package.
Making the Glow Cloud Handle: You can make your glow cloud look any way you want to. I started with several balls of glow in the dark clay. All of them were different sizes. I started with the largest one and added more as I went along, shaping and smoothing the clay until I got a cloud I was happy with. You can leave your glow cloud plain or decorate it however you want. I decided to add a little bit of texture to my cloud. I used an old toothbrush as a texturing tool. Bake according to the instructions on your clay package.
Painting the Details: Use black paint for the desert terrain, connecting the pattern to the black clay of the bottom of the box. Add the water tower and the house roof with the TV antenna. When painting the eye in the sky, use dark purple for the eye shape and white for the crescent moon pupil.
Optional Glow Cloud Paint: You can use glitter paint or neon paint to enhance your Glow Cloud, or leave it plain. The more paint you put on your cloud, the less glow it will have. If you want it to glow brightly, be sparing with the paint you use.
Use water based gloss sealer on the entire box and lid. Once it dries completely, your project is done!
Thanks for crafting with me. If you make a polymer clay trinket box or any other Welcome to Night Vale-inspired craft leave me a comment and let me know, or tag a photo on Twitter or Instagram #craftymcfangirl. I’d love to see what you do!
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