CONTEMPORARY TREE

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4 Sculpey III Oven-bake Clay in White (available at spotlightstores.com) rolling pin mug or jar lid scalpel doily needle or punch tool baking paper green and gold paints small paintbrush dowel rods (2.1m in total) twine scissors 1 Preheat oven to 130°C. 2 Roll out white clay into a large shape, about 5mm thick.

3 Using circle and oval shapes, such as a cup or lid, lightly press into the brush to paint in the etched pattern of the doily on the decorations. Use varying colours of gold and green, leaving some plain white to create variety.

10 While the paint is drying, make the dowel tree by cutting the dowel rods into 6 varying sizes. We used increments of 10cm (10cm, 20cm, 30cm, 40cm, 50cm and 60cm).

11 Use twine to tie together the 6 rods and hang on wall.

12 Cut small pieces of twine and tie around each decoration, securing with a knot.

13 Hang the decorations on each rod to create your very modern Christmas tree!