Showing posts with label liquid clay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liquid clay. Show all posts

Thursday, September 25, 2008

PB and J

I love rainy days......there's nothing like sitting inside, watching it pour outside~ reminds me of Wales!

Today, I decided to try my hand at a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich, out of polymer-clay of course. First I did my homework. You Tube has some good tutorial videos on how to make bread out of polymer clay. Then I visited http://www.norajean.com/ and read some of her tutorials. I didn't like how my peanut butter was looking, I just couldn't seem to get the color right...so then I goggled it and found this page: http://tutorials.theclaystore.com/miniature-food/making-peanut-and-jelly-sandwiches-out-of-polymer-clay/ I finally figured got the color right and made this:
Then I needed some bread for a PB&J sandwich. I got a little carried away with the chalk, and chalked the slices of bread, too....it would of worked~ if I had wanted toast, lol! Using some scraps, I made the cutting boards in the next few pictures as well. The jelly worked out pretty well.......I made a sandwich, and a piece of toast with jam.Then I made a piece of peanut butter toast....and took a mini bite out of it! I had a lot of peanut butter left over, so I cooked it on a piece of wax paper, and ended up with what will become peanut brittle. My son said it looks like baby poo, I have to say, I thought the same thing when I was making it, brought back lots of terrific memories, NOT! HahahahaNot to bad for my first time......one day I'll be able to recreate one of those beautiful mini food scenes that the professions make!!

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Halloween donuts! Yum!

After making all those bowls, I figured I better make something to go in them.......... So I made Halloween Donuts! Yum!!

I need to make the regular ones a little darker, they need to be more golden, in this picture...they almost blind ya! But, I'm really excited with how the chocolate donuts turned out! They have chocolate icing with sprinkles!! Now, how much fun is that??
The icing is liquid polymer clay, mixed with Sculpy III. I've tried to use acrylic paint before to color the liquid clay, and although it does work, I find it looks so much better to mix the liquid clay with the regular polymer clay!! Just look at how rich that chocolate icing is! (I did add a little bit of black clay to the icing to make it a little darker than the donut.) I made the sprinkles by first rolling out TINY snakes of clay and baking them. You will need a lot of sprinkles to make it look so yummy! After the 'snakes' have cooled, I cut them into little pieces with my blade and 'sprinkled' them onto the donuts before I cooked it.