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.

 

Purple Summer Outfit

Some time ago, I made an outfit to give to a friend.  I took some pictures of it to show!

The top is made from the CA Cami Top pattern from Pixie Faire.  The shorts are the Basic Shorts pattern also on Pixie Faire.



I also made a matching purple headband after I took these pics.

I decided to add rhinestones to the top!

November!

It's November! And that means it is less than two months until Christmas :)

I just wanted to share this picture of my dolls dressed in fall outfits with pumpkins and leaves!

Thoroughly Modern Millie Costume

My dolls didn't all dress up this year for Halloween, but I thought I would show you the costume that I sent in for the American Girl Fan photo contest!

Last year I made a Thoroughly Modern Millie 1920s Flapper Girl dress. This costume is based on Millie Dillmount's costume in the 2002 Broadway musical, which is based on the 1967 movie of the same name starring Julie Andrews. To read more about Millie and the inspiration for the dress, see the post I made last year here. That post also talks about what fabrics and pattern I used.

This year I paired the dress with a pair of black flats from Hobby Lobby and a human pearl necklace. The necklace was a little long, so I clipped it in the back. The style of the time was to have super long necklaces like in the picture below:

 

Happy Halloween!

Disney Tees :)

Today I am excited to show you two new shirts I recently made for my dolls! I think they both turned out really cute! :) 

 

The first shirt is up-cycled from a blue t-shirt. It says 'Sharkbait Hoo Ha Ha', which is a quote from the Disney movie Finding Nemo :)

 

The next shirt is made from the Banded Dolman Shirt pattern from Doll it Up. It is up-cycled from a light pink t-shirt, and says 'Faith Trust and Pixie Dust'.

 

I printed the words and a picture of Tinkerbell on a piece of iron-on transfer paper. When the paper is ironed onto the fabric, it has a plastic look until after the shirt is washed. Once the fabric with the transfer is washed, it gets a crackled texture. I prefer this crackled texture, so I may hand wash these shirts in the future.



 

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'Banded Dolman Shirt' pattern

Doll-it-Up recently published a free pattern called the 'Banded Dolman Shirt'. I was excited to see this style of shirt offered as a pattern, so I downloaded it!

I thought these shirts were cute, I had to make two!

 

The first one I made was of a purple and white striped knit fabric.  I believe this fabric has rayon in it, but I'm not completely sure.  It has a different texture than regular t-shirt knit.

 

The shirt is designed to be made of stretchy knit fabric, because it doesn't have any closure.

 

The second one is a little more dressy. I made it from a sequin t-shirt!

 

The back of this one is solid black t-shirt fabric. It is a little tight to get on.  I think the sequins make the fabric less stretchy.  I might add Velcro to the back.

 

I also made this hat from the Newsboy and Beret Hat pattern that was free on Pixie Faire last Friday.

 

The hat is fully lined, so it can be reversible!  I think the black side looks great with the sequin Dolman Shirt.

 

 



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:

 

 

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