Sugar Skull Magnet

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  Step 1

  Gather all your materials. You need:

  *White Polymer Clay (Sculpey, Fimo, etc)
  *Acrylic Paint and Brushes
  *Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
  *Round magnets
  *Old Credit Card/Plastic Cutting Tool
  *Glass Baking Pan
  *Glass Jar (for flattening)
  *Clear Nailpolish (not pictured)

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  Step 2

  Preheat oven to 130 degrees Celsius/275 degrees Farenheit.

  Cut a 1/2" (39.10 mm)piece of white polymer clay. Roll into a ball or egg shape.

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  Step 3

  Flatten ball/egg shape to glass jar, making it 1/4" (19 mm)thick.

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  Step 4

  Bake in oven for 15 minutes. Let the clay cool down (about 1/2 hour- 45 minutes).

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  Step 5

  Coat the front with white acrylic paint, let dry (15-20 minutes).

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  Step 6

  While the paint is drying (or even when you're waiting for the clay to cool from the oven), you can sketch out sugar skull designs. I looked up pictures from the internet for inspiration.

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  Free-hand paint the sugar skull with acrylic paint. Wait for the paint to dry and you can detail with a fine-tip Sharpie.

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  Step 8

  Let the acrylic paint dry (30 minutes to be safe). Also, make sure to wait an additional 30 minutes for the Sharpie ink to set. I unfortunately messed some up when I varnished with the clear nailpolish. Here's a picture of the finished sugar skulls before I applied the clear nailpolish.

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  Step 9

  Wait about 45 minutes for the clear nail polish to dry.

  Glue gun the magnet to the back of the sugar skull and put some pressure on it. Let it set for an hour.

  Voila!

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