How to make a miniature dessert from polymer clay for BJD MSD doll or for american girl scale doll

Fancy a sweet chocolate box for your MSD dolly?

 If you are keen to have a go and make this easy dessert from clay please check out my video how to:

This is an easy project for beginners in polymer clay. All you need is clay in 4 colours (brown, vanilla, green and red), square cutter (2cm) or just a square paper pattern, blade, texture sheet (if not, then do it manually with a dotting tool), liquid clay, rolling pin or pasta machine.

I have used fimo soft and premo sculpey. Liquid clay was Fimo gel. 

Gloss with any polyurethane varnish.

The model is Resinsoul MSD size doll Rong

Miniature cakes, donuts and cookies for MSD BJD dolls from polymer clay

I am spending my hols at home making miniatures for BJDs from polymer clay. It was long since I have touched my favourite modelling media and I've even missed dried fingers and achy hands after kneading the clay. I am happy, I am content when I am "claying":)

Cupcakes are about 2 cm tall depending on the design. I will eventually list these on etsy...

Doll nudity ahead. Male BJD doll gets himself a penis

Well, I believe that there is nothing wrong with making a doll realistic. I have always wanted one of these dolls with detachable penises, but usually these dolls do not fit my preferred BJD scale or I just simply do not like their bodies/faces, so I have decided to sculpt a penis ...or two for my MSD and YoSD male dolls.

It was not overly complicated, I've just used my partner as a life model a picture from internet to give me some solid anatomical ideas. I have used polymer clay (FIMO doll). Then I have just added a bit of black wool roving for pubic hair.

So, here is Souldoll Vito Lester in his naked glory. I have attached his new part via a blob of white tack. The colour of the penis is slightly different, but I know that this part of the body usually is darker in comparison to the rest of the body.

And here are two little willies for comparison (the bigger one is obviously for MSD). My partner was adamant that both of them are too big for the scale. Yeah... right.

Video tutorial: Birthday cake - polymer clay miniature

Here is a tutorial of how to make miniature cake from polymer clay.

This is a simple way of making a miniature cake from polymer or air dry clays with a rather cute result. You do not need a lot of equipment and the tools I've used in this tutorial can be substituted by the other objects you have probably already got in the house. For example, if you have not got a crinkled blade you can just use the x-acto knife to cut the same pattern. If you have not got liquid clay – not a problem, you can use PVA to glue not only baked polymer clay pieces together but also the unbaked decoration. 

In order to get “muted” or pale clay colour just mix white clay with the artist’ pastels. I have just scrapped the pastels with the knife and mixed it into the clay. The intensity of colour can be easily controlled.

The hearts can be effortlessly made into the petals, just roll from one wide side to another. This cake is not just for a doll house, but can be made into a pendant, key-ring or even used for decoden. The choice is yours. 

Thank you for watching.

Any questions please ask. And enjoy!

Chinese/Japanese book review about making cats and cute kittens from polymer clay or air dry clay

This is a review for Chinese or Japanese language book about making cats from clay. The book is amazing and I would recommend getting it.  In my video review you will see the whole book and I will show you couple of my cats I have made from the book. Hope you'll enjoy!

If you love cats - you'll love the book

First impression of FIMO Professional Doll Art polymer clay (Skin Colours Mixing Set) + Doll's Art Lilly Mould.

Hi craft-y folks,

Please check out my first impression video of new Fimo professional doll clay set plus included dolls mold (Lilly).

Fantasy Demon-warrior polymer clay figurine 1/12 scale

Continuing with the fantasy figures here is another creation of mine: 

Demon-warrior

He is 1/12 dolls house scale and completely made from polymer clay. Also he is a complete figurine, means that he has got all associated with the men bits and bobs lol

Though due to possibility that children can browse my blog I will not display my warrior undressed.

It took me 3 full days to complete him. And I think I have to work harder to improve my sculpting skills :(

His attire (apart from the boots) is made from real leather. The shield is also made from polymer clay with the cardboard base in order to make the structure stronger.

URO POLYMER CLAY REVIEW

URO clay is produced in the UK by "Newclay products" and relatively new on the craft market.

I wanted to try URO clay for some months now and finally have ordered 5 different colours to try: white, violet, magnolia, pink and orange.

I have paid £8 including postage for 5 X65g “bricks” of clay. But if you buy more packs you can get each brick as low as £1.35. There is a good choice of colours as well.

Packaging: plastic, similar to the more popular polymer clay brands, though it is very plain, as you can see, but who cares? I do not. What I did not like is that there is no colour/tone identification on the “brick”, but again it is not something that is able to turn me off URO.

Now, the most important bit is coming: physical appearance, performance and pliability. 

Smell: err… the smell reminded me my childhood. URO smells of plasticine, not overly strong at all. And to be honest – I like it.

The feel: Right! I was rather taken aback when I have opened the package and tear a piece. It looked “crumbl-ish”, but when I worked it out with my hands the crumbling disappeared and I was pleased with the texture of clay. What it feels like? Have you tried KATO polymer clay before? If yes, then it is very similar: stiff to knead, does not leave colour residue on hands and workable the same time. Very “sturdy” clay, keeps the shape well, not excessively responsive to the heat of the hands, thus it is difficult to smooth the seams out.

 

Actually, coming back to clay is being brittle before kneading: the texture is perfect for ice cream and insides of a cake. 

Colours: colours are lovely and do not fade once cured.

 

Personally I would name the URO colours that I’ve got as:

Magnolia = vanilla ice-cream

Pink = pink icing on the bun

Violet = “violets”

Orange = Halloween. Orange is a gorgeous bright pumpkin colour. I was immediately inspired to quickly model 2 pumpkins. 

I have not opened the white URO; I guess it is just white lol

Curing process: Though FIMO these days can be cured at 110C, URO as per instruction requires 130C. When I was baking it the smell of plasticine was a bit stronger, but not annoying.

Baked pieces

Please note that i have brushed some glitter to the gummy bears, aliens and middle of the cookie before baking

Overall:

-          You need to have strong hands or pasta machine to condition URO properly

-          Clay keeps the shape very well and will be perfect for making canes and jewellery

-          Takes texture well, but at the same time difficult to smooth the seams out

-          Does not leave colour residue on hands – big bonus!

-          Colours do not fade after baking

-          Easily mixed with other colours and other clay brands
-       There is no traslucent in URO range - may be one day

      -          Clay is not very tacky but pieces can be attached to each other effortlessly

I hope this review will help you to make a wise choice depending on your craft needs.

I will definitely use URO clay for making miniatures.

I bought URO clay from here:  http://pollymcclaycreations.co.uk/ArtShop.aspx

Also I think you can find it on Ebay, but it is more costly there.