Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Flower bouquet clay tutorial

Here's a tutorial on how to create a flower bouquet with clay.The flower bouquet is similar to the one in my previous post where the boy is holding on to. So let's get started!!

 
This will be how the final product will look like.

 
Time: 15-30 minutes

Tools needed: Small cutter
                        A needle tool
                        Pink,Green, brown and Purple clay (or any colour you want)
                        Liquid sculpey (Optional)
                        Glaze (Optional)
                        Brush (Optional)
                        An eye pin
 

 
The first part would be making the purple flowers. See the brown arrow pointing to the flower? That would be the flower that we will be making first.
 
 
First step to making the flower is taking a small piece of clay and roll it to a ball. Gently roll it to make it longer and flatten it. Follow the picture above.
 


Place the flatten piece of on your finger and gently roll it with your thumb from one end to the other. You should be able to get the flower. Be really patience at this part. Press the ends lightly to create a small 'stem' for it so it will be easier when you put the flowers together.


Create 3 of the same flower and place them together like the picture above. Put this 3 flower away at the side cause we are going to to be doing the next flower. REMINDER: Put your purple flowers away from where your hands will be working cause you don't want to be squashing them. I'm guilty of that *Blush*.

 
The arrow pointing to the pink flower will be the next flower we are working on. I sincerely apologise for the blur picture. I couldn't contain my excitement which resulted in shaky hands hands thus a blur picture.
 
 
To create this flower you will have to roll small little balls of pink clay like the one above the picture.

 
After you have rolled the balls, you will then have to place them together like the photo above. Line three small balls into a triangle shape and slowly stack it up. Put one small ball in the center to finish it off. Be really really patience. However, you can choose not to do this flower if you don't want to.

 
Place the pink flower in between two purple flower.....
 
 
....And this is what you should get.
 
 
Make more of the purple flowers and just go around it once to make a whole bunch of flowers.
 
 
Next, take a piece of green clay and flatten it........

 
......Using your pointer and thumb, pinch the top lightly.......
 
 
............and this is what you will get.

 
Using the small cutter, lightly press down and make one long line in the center and three small ones at each side. Remember not to press to hard!
 
 
Place the leaf that you have just made at the side. It has to stick out as shown in the picture.
 
 
Make the next leaf and overlap the previous leaf just by a little.
 
 
You have to make around five leaves.

 
To make the bottom of the bouquet, make a little bal and roll the bottom to make the top part smaller than the bottom.
 
 
Press the top and the bottom down lightly to make it flat.

 
 
Be very gentle with this part cause you might ruin the flower if you press to hard. You don't want to redo everything after coming so far.
 
 
Now we have reached the ribbon part! We are almost done! Take a samll piece of brown clay and roll into a long strand.

 
Place it around the part that seperates the top and bottom area.

 
To make the bow, make a small piece of clay and shape it to a small triangle shape.
 
 
Make two of this and stick them together.....

 
....and place on small ball in the middle.

 
Put the bow like how its shown in the picture above. We are almost there!!!!

 
Stick the eye pin in.......

 
.....bake (According to the instructions on the clay wrapper) and glaze it....
 
 
....AND WE ARE DONE!!!!!
 

 
I hope you guys enjoyed this turorial and have fun creating your own flower bouquet.
 


Saturday, November 3, 2012

I'm back with more!!!

(Read all the way down for a polymer clay tutorial)

Hello. I've been away for far too long. Its been crazy this past months. But I finally finished my portfolio, done with the PTM and I have only about two weeks to the end of the term. Also I quit my job and have at least one and a half months of break. So maybe I'll be able to work on my crafts more.

Although I have been away for a long time, I did work on more polymer clay charms. They are mostly made to be hung on bags or phone. I will show some pictures but more can be found at my Etsy shop.

These are some animals and other kinds like the bouquet and Rapunzal. Rapunzal is my favourite so far then it would be the rabbit. I think I did a not bad job on the bouquet but the details did drive a little crazy. The mushroom was actually one of my very first creations when i started on polymer clay but I decided to make a new and modified the eyes. I used beads last time for the eyes but now the eyes are all also made from clay.


Made some cupcakes inspired from mickey mouse and winnie the pooh. I think they look adorable. There's another scrump donut at the top which someone already bought from me. The macaroons and strawberries in the basket are one of my favourites as well. Actually learn the basket from one youtuber called sabyloves. The teddy bear is flatback which I decided to try instead of always making them round.

I have a few more charms that I made which can be seen at my etscy shop. I am still waiting to find a good bazaar to sell my creations. Maad seems to ba good place to do so, I might get a place there during the hols. WIll blog more about it if I decide to.

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Tony tony chopper's hat 

polymer clay tutorial
 
This will be the first tutorial that I do and I decided to make tony tony chopper's hat from one piece.
 
 
Its really simple to do so Let's get started!
 

Time: 5-10 minutes 
Tools needed: Small cutter
                        A needle tool
                        Pink and white clay (or any colour you want)
                        Liquid sculpey (Optional)
                        Glaze (Optional),
                        Brush (Optional)
                        An eye pin.
 
 
You will need to spilt the clay in to two because there will be two parts in the hat. One for the top part and one for the bottom.
 
 
Take one ball of clay and roll the bottom part so that the top will be bigger that the bottom. Take your time to roll this part.
 
 
Press the top and bottom down so that it will be flat at both ends. Be gentle at this part you don't want to press to much.
 
 
The top part of the hat should look like this. See how the upper part of the clay is slightly bigger than the lower part. Both ends should also be flat.
 
 
 
Now, take the other ball of clay and flatten it gently. It has to be a circle. If the circle is to big or thick just take some clay out.
 

 
 
Place the top part of the hat on the circle. Add a little bit of liquid sculpy so that it can stick better but this is totally optional.
 
 
We will now do the cross on the hat. Take a white piece of clay and flatten it. Don't make it do because it might be difficult to cut later.
 

 
Using the needle tool outline the cross that you want on the white piece of clay. Don't press to hard in case you do it wrongly you can easily redo it by rubbing the clay lightly.
 
 

 
Using the small cutter like the one in the above picture, cut of the cross. Be patience at this point cause you don't wan to ruin it now.
 
 
Gently place the cross on the hat, add a bit of liquid sculpey if you want to.
 
 
Place the eye pin into the clay. Bake the clay in the oven. Follow the instructions on your clay packaging to bake it. Let it cool after it is done baking. I suggesst making a few creations before baking cause it saves alot of time and electricity :).

 
You can choose whether you want to glaze it but it gives a much more shiny and clear finish. Add a bit of super glue to the eyepin to secure it.
 

And you're done!
 
 
I hope this tutorial is easy to follow and you guys will have lots of fun making it. Do tell me if there's any areas I can improve on or if you have tried making your own do tell me!
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, October 22, 2012

Long time no see

Hello its been long since I last blog been really busy but i'll be back soon.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Favourite songs this month- July

Here's another post on my favourite songs this month.

B1A4-Baby good night

I love this song! It's catchy, nice and the dancing is so cute. Although its about a boy cheating on a girl, it's still a great song!

JJ project- Bounce


Energetic song! Shake it Shake it for me. The butt dance is funny too.

Big Bang- Fantastic baby


I forgot to post this song. But hey I'm still addicted!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Donuts for sale!!!

I love eating donuts. Sadly we never have those small little pop in your mouth donuts. :(
I was browsing through the internet and saw different donuts which looked so good! SO, SO, SO, I thought to myself, why not make mini donuts out of clay! I can make them into earrings, ear studs, bracelets and rings!

I went into my room took my clay and tools and started working on it. I started with the bottom then the glaze and finally some toppings! So here are some of the donuts that I made.

I LOVE THIS! I think I mixed the colours pretty well. Yeah I love colourful stuff.

The pictures above are all earrings and earstuds. But I Think they look good to eat besides the one with the rhinestone cause its shiny. Have you ever eaten shiny food before? Cause I don't think I've seen one before.

There are some that i made with whipped cream too:


I have them in strawberries, blue icecream and miniature donut which I bought.

All this are for sale! You can head down to my facebook page and click on donuts collection!HutofPresents

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Earrings holder

Remember I did a post for sophie and toffee contest. I did a photoframe using all the cabochons I got from them. After finishing it I figured I didn't have any photos to put. So guess what I changed it into.
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I changed it into a earring holder!. I was looking through places to a earring holder cause im always losing them. So I thought og this idea and I love it!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Favourite songs this month-May

Se7en-When I can't sing





Heard this recently and I love it! So much emotions can be felt just hearing him sing even though I don't understand korean.


Shinee-Sherlock



I've always been a fan of shinee but this song is so addictive and not to mention their dancing gets better every single time!


B1A4-Baby, I'm Sorry



Okay so the English parts doesn't really make sense but the overall is great! Their other songs are nice too!


Taetiseo- Twinkle



Ignoring the name of their group, this song is fab! They have really good voices!


Cnblue- Hey you!



I love this group! Their really talented and their songs are always great!
Monday, Tuesday better day. We always have monday blues.