Materials: 

• Cookie Cutter* 
• Polymer Clay (Super Sculpey is recommended, but any polymer clay will work) 
• Basic Clay Shaping Tools (a cuticle stick from the beauty department of the 
   supermarket can be invaluable) 
• Screws (you can use the ones that came with the original hardware.) 
• Rolling Pin 
• Glass Baking Pan 
• Home Oven 
• Acrylic Paint & Paint Brushes 
• Clear Acrylic Spray Sealer 
• Emery Board 

Step-by-step: 

•Roll the polymer clay out to a 1/4" thickness. I like to do this on a cheap plastic place mat, so the clay doesn't leave residue on the table. 
• Use the cookie cutter* to cut out the clay. You may want to cut out a few extras now, in case you mess up one or two. 
• Carve any designs you want in the front of your drawer pull. You can also use clay to add details, like eyes on an animal. 
• Turn the cutouts over. Carve out an indention in the back of the design. It should be about 1/8" deep an about 4 times wider than your screw. 
• Put your screw through the hole in your furniture, and see how much sticks out. Make a clay cylinder that is slightly longer than this, and wider than your screw. Make one cylinder for every drawer pull you have. 
• Gently screw the screw into one end of the cylinder. Keep turning it until the tip begins to poke out of the other end. Then remove the screw by turning it in the other direction. DO NOT pull it. 
• Bake your clay pieces in your home oven, according to the package directions. 
• After they have been baked and cooled, take a small lump of clay, and fill in the indention in the back of your cutout. Take a clay cylinder and press the end into the clay. It should be at a 90-degree angle with the cutout.  You may want to include a glue like GOOP to glue 
the pieces together before baking for an extra bond.  Smooth the clay around the base of the cylinder and the surface of the cutout. 
• Bake the drawer pulls again, according to the package directions. 
• When they have cooled, You can sand any rough spots with the emery board. 
• Paint with acrylic paint and let dry. 
• Spray entire thing with acrylic sealer. 
• It's ready to be put on your furniture 

*If you have something in mind, and can't find the right cookie cutter, use a poster board template and a craft knife... 
• Draw your design on a piece of paper. You can trace a pattern off your bedspread, or maybe an animal or flower from a photograph (calendars are an endless source of these types of pictures).  If the picture is bigger or smaller than you want your drawer pull to be, simply take your design to a copy machine, and reduce or enlarge it. 
• Transfer your drawing to a piece of poster board or cardboard (a good way to recycle an empty cereal box), and cut it out. 
• Lay the cutout on top of your clay, and cut that by going around the edge of your design with a craft knife 

If you are looking for a particular animal or picture, try Barry's Clip ArtServer. It is the best free clip art site on the web. If you can't find what you're looking for there, it probably doesn't exist. You can always check out his links to other clip art sites though. 

Although I have never had any problems with Super Sculpey, it never hurts to reinforce it. Jim sent this suggestion for this project, so I thought I would share it with you. 

"Solid PC sounds a little weak for a drawer pull, especially the threaded part. Go to a hardware store and look for "tee nuts." They are small cylinders of metal with threads on the inside and a collar with some tabs on it intended to dig into wood and keep it from turning. I would suggest that one of those embedded within your drawer pulls would be much stronger. You wouldn't risk stripping the threads out and it would probably reinforce the knob. (I haven't tried this yet, but may do so soon.)" 

To make a leaf print, the first thing you have to do is go for a walk outside!  The longer your walk, the more types of leaves you will find!  Look for leaves that aren't brown and dried up yet.  Green leaves work great and those pretty colored ones are rather fun and inspiring also! 

Once you have a good collection of leaves, you need to mix up at least three colors of warm paints!  Tempera paint, water colors and acrylics all work well for leaf printing.  Red, orange and yellow are warm colors because they remind us of warm things like the sun, fire and...what else? 

Place one leaf on a piece of scrap paper with the back side (the side with all the interesting veins on it) facing up.  Using a paintbrush, carefully brush on one of your warm colors of paint.  The paint should cover the leaf, but don't get it too thick.  Once you leaf is covered with paint, place it, paint side down, on a piece of paper.  Cover it with another scrap piece of paper and rub it!  You can use your fingers to rub, or try the side of a pencil.  When you lift up your leaf, you will have a print! 
 

Now what can you do with all those prints?  Here are some fun ideas...