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Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks

Create these super cute painted decorative wall hooks. Use them to hang treasured objects, including jewelry, photographs or your favourite weaving projects.Sometimes, all it takes is a small detail to elevate the look of a DIY.  After completing these 3 mini wall weavings, I couldn’t help but add a little zhuzh to them with some painted decorative clay wall hooks (inspired by a post over at Fall for DIY). They’re super cute and easy to make using oven-bake polymer clay. These little beauties are versatile, too. Use them to hang photos or jewelry or any lightweight items you wish to display.

Let’s get started 🙂

MATERIALS

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - materials needed.

  • polymer clay (oven-bake variety)
  • rolling pin
  • round cookie cutters (2 sizes)
  • flexible clay cutter (or other sharp tool)
  • non-skid mat (or wax paper)
  • gorilla glue
  • removable wall fasteners
  • cookie sheet
  • (optional) clay softener (or baby oil)
  • gold acrylic paint & paint brush (not pictured)

STEPS

Step 1:  Roll Out & Cut Clay

Cut off a piece of clay using the flexible clay cutter (or other sharp tool).

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hook - cut clay.

‘Condition’ the clay by rolling it in your hands.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - condition clay.

This process warms the clay and makes it more pliable. If the clay you are working with is a bit dry (i.e., if there are still cracks when you bend it after conditioning) add a drop or two of clay softener or baby oil.

Roll the clay into a ball.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - roll into a ball.

Place on your mat (or wax paper) and roll out with a rolling pin to 1/4 or 1/8 of an inch. With a small rolling pin, I found it easier to create evenly flat clay in smaller portions, so I rolled out three portions.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - roll out clay.

Using your cookie cutters, press into the clay to create your circles. For each hook, cut one large and two small circles. For this project, I needed to hang 3 mini weavings which meant that I needed to cut 3 large circles and 6 small ones in total.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - cut out circles.

Remove the excess clay.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - remove excess clay.

Step 2:  Bake Clay

Place the clay mat (or wax paper) with your clay circles on a cookie sheet and bake in the oven according to the instructions on the clay packaging. As a general rule of thumb, oven-bake clay is baked for a half hour for every quarter inch of clay. For more on this process see Baking Polymer Clay Perfectly Every Time.

Once fully baked, remove the clay from the oven. Let cool before proceeding.

Step 3:  Paint Clay

Apply whatever fun colour or design you wish using acrylic paint (or anything else such as nail polish, sharpie, or even stickers).

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - paint clay.

Step 4:  Glue Clay

For this design, you will be gluing the two smaller circles to the large one – that is, one on each side of the large circle. When it comes to gluing clay, Gorilla Glue is a great choice, but feel free to experiment with different varieties.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - glue clay circles.

Make sure to follow the instructions on the bottle of your Gorilla Glue for optimum adhesion. (Gorilla Glue is strong! But it takes about 24 hours to fully adhere.)

Step 5:  Apply Wall Fasteners & Hang!

Once you apply the wall fasteners to the back of each hook, you are now ready to hang your treasures!

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hook - single hook up close.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - single clay hook up close.

Painted Decorative Wall Hooks - angled view.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - side view.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks - single clay hook - side view.

Painted Decorative Clay Wall Hooks

These painted decorative clay wall hooks are so versatile. Create them to hang your weavings, jewelry or other personal objects. It’s all in the details!

Create these super cute painted decorative wall hooks. Use them to hang treasured objects, including jewelry, photographs or your favourite weaving projects.

 

For more craft and DIY ideas from around the web, check out Dare To ShareSweet InspirationFlaunt It FridayPretty Pintastic Party.

6 Comments

  • Reply
    Celeste
    June 13, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    LOVE these! They are so cute and unique! How fitting that you have a DIY hook to hang your gorgeous DIY wall hanging! It looks fabulous and way more amazing than any hook you’d find at the store!

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      Jelica
      June 13, 2016 at 6:01 pm

      Thanks so much Celeste! SO sweet of you to say 🙂

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    Theresa @DearCreatives
    June 15, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    I’m loving the colors of your woven wall hangings. & the detailed hangers. Cute project.

    • Reply
      Jelica
      June 16, 2016 at 6:35 am

      Thanks so much Theresa! I had a lot of fun designing the wall hooks. Such a small detail, but I just couldn’t resist trying it out 🙂

  • Reply
    Keri
    June 22, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    Wow!! These clay hooks are so cool! What a great idea!

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