Sculpey Adventures #2



Today we have another Sculpey adventure! The first items I made from the clay are these cute Christmas tree cookies. These will be great for December!

The 'dough' of the cookie is tan clay. The frosting is puffy paint, and the ornaments are dots of puffy paint. On one of the cookies the ornaments are tiny balls of green clay.

To cut out the shape of the cookies I used a small cookie cutter.

 

Red ornaments:

 

No ornaments:

 

Silver:

 

Green clay ornaments:

 

Size reference:

 

I also made a little pencil! It is made entirely of clay, although I intend to paint the point black or dark grey.

 

Sculpey Adventures #1

I recently got some Sculpey to try my hand at making doll size items, like food.

I decided to try to make some candy canes first. They seemed relatively simple, and with Christmas coming up, I thought they would be great for my first try! For the most part, I followed a tutorial which I found here.

These are the colors that come in the Oven Bake Clay 'Brights' package. There is one ounce of each color.

 

To make the candy canes, I used about one-fifth of each of the red and white colors.

I softened the clay, rolled it, and stacked the red and white like so. I think since the white overlapped to the upper side, my candy canes ended up resembling a zebra pattern in a few places.

 

I rolled and twisted the colors together.

 

This tutorial suggested cutting the long strip into one 3" strip per candy cane.

 

I rounded the ends, and curved the clay to look like a candy cane.

 

After baking, the candy canes had a matte finish. This would be perfect for an old-fashioned candy cane. However, I wanted my candy canes to look shiny, so I painted them with Sculpey Gloss Glaze. It goes on a clearish white color, but dries completely clear and shiny!

 

 

Here is the finished product!

 

 

Size reference:

 

 

Thanks for reading!