Heart Shaped Polymer Clay Tiled Chocolate Box

Want to make a pretty fun gift that will last forever? Create a Heart-Shaped Polymer Clay Tiled Chocolate Box from Candace Jedrowicz! Fill the box with polymer clay chocolates that can be displayed anywhere at anytime. This is a great gift that shows a friend you care.


 

Materials:

• Polymer clay – chocolate brown and two other colors
• Pasta roller or rolling pin
• Chocolate box
• Aleene’s Collage Pauge Matte sealer
• Aluminum foil
• Craft knife
• Dimensional Sealer
• Archival ink – brown
• Ink dabber or QTip
• Chocolate candy paper cups
• Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
• Dimensional frame – I used an 8” x 8”
• Paper for the background
• Gems, wire and trims

Instructions:

1. Roll out slabs of polymer clay in various colors.Cover the white surfaces of the box with brown paper and/or acrylic paint.
   
   
    
2. Using brown ink, stamp clay with patterns, words or anything at all. Press hard enough to stamp the pattern into the clay.
   
   
    
3. Begin cutting tiles with 1″ square cookie cutter.
   
   
    
4. Arrange the uncured tiles in a pleasing order.
   
   
    
5. If you have a template, you’ll be able to determine the best direction to lay the box top on the tiles.I cut and laminated my template to see how my surface decoration will look against a black background.
   
   
    
6. Lay the box, top down, on the tiles and cut around it with a craft knife.
   
   
    
7. Cut the rest of the uncured tiles in half.
   
   
    
8. The half tiles will decorate the sides of the box.
   
   
    
9. Shape balls of aluminum foil into small hearts or any shape you want to make your chocolates.
   
   
    
10. Flatten small balls of brown clay to cover the foil shapes.
    
    
     
11. Bake clay according to directions. Apply one coat of Collage Pauge Matte sealer to your chocolate pieces.
    
    
     
12. Before gluing your tiles to the box, edge with brown ink using a dabber or QTip.
    
    
     
13. Cover each tile with dimensional sealer. Allow to dry.
    
    
     
14. Cover the background of your frame and remove the glass.
    
    
     
15. Here you can see that I’ve glued the half tiles onto the outside of the box, added a paper trim, yarn on the op edge and gems.
    
    
     
16. To the top of the box, I’ve added three accent gems, yarn on the edge and paper trim with gems on the sides.
    
    
     
17. Decorate your chocolates with wire, gems and anything else you want.
    
    
     
18. Position the box top and bottom in the frame.I like to prop the top up to reveal the side decorations.
    
    
     
19. Attach the top to the bottom on the propped edge by gluing a strip of card stock to the inside edge of the top and the outside edge of the bottom directly below. Position the two centering them in the frame.
    
    
     
20. Glue into place.
    
    
     

For a comprehensive video tutorial of this project, check out How to Make a Polymer Clay Tiled Chocolates Box.