Little Princess

 

 A Little Princess it is! Doesn't she look adorable, with those tiny heart shapes? I think she does, and would suit any Little Girls bedroom :)

 

I made another one, with a little more heart shapes all around. Originally I left a bit of space on the bottom of the frame, to place there a bigger heart with a child's name on, but it is all gone now ;)

 

 

Hawe you seen any fairies lately?

One of my favourite creatures from my childhood are fairies. I always felt they exist and often had dreams about flying and meeting them...I still would love to do that! Well no fairies come to me yet,  so I made myself a fairy polymer clay pictures instead...I like how they turned out, especially the second one as is more delicate. I think I will keep one of them for my daughters' room as they keep complaining I am only making things for others;)...

Angel Picture - part II - daylight

Having two young children pushes me to work at the night time, when the light is artificial and the photos of the process are a bit dull I would say. If I work more than one night I can take some more photographs on the next day, but not always I do. I finished my picture at night so in the morning I had only a little time left to do some more photos of the details and picture itself before I gave it away to its new home. This is how it turned out:

Little Angel for Hope - part I

I had a great pleasure to create a picture for the lovliest baby ever, Hope. She is nearly three months now and as adorable as you can possibly imagine.

So here it is, a frame to start with, some clay for my angel's dress and some other for the body parts...

After a bit of claying I manage to create sort of a flower cane for a frill....I am not good at canning yet but I hope to master those as soon as I have time to do so.

That evening I also I had a meeting with my new heart shape cutters...

I painted the frame and applied those hearts around, than I painted the frame two more times. The last one layer was with golden acrylic paint which I later distressed for a nice vintage finish.

After a few hours of gluing, painting, distressing and gluing the picture was ready.

at night inside a nutt shell....

Here is what is laying on my table at the moment, another polymer clay picture I just started to work on..I am really exited about this one :) I use Moon Push mold from Amaco for my sun and moon shapes and cookie cutter for my stars...it is going to be really lovely.

some new work.......... finally

I have tried to sit behind my polymer table for a while already. I just couldn't get into my routine again.
When I finally did sit, I wasn't happy at all with what I made and I squashed everything in one big lump of clay. I took some pictures of the process for a learning purpose, but I didn't manage to take pictures of the final pieces. It was too dark with my artificial light and I just remind myself I wanted to take the pictures in the morning. It is I just forget later on, and before realising I don't have those pictures, I squashed everything :( Obviously I regret now, lesson learnt - always, ALWAYS wait until next day before destroying your work!

Yesterday I tried to make another version of the pendant I am working on, but I am affraid it is too big again, means too heavy. Having in mind I want to add some beads here and there, it really can be too heavy at the momment. This is my first pendant I am working on and as I am rather a begginer with polymer clay - all is new to me. Mabye I should try to use ultra light polymer clay as a core bead...I will have to consider it.

Did you noticed I don't have streaks on the second photo? This is really a mystery to me, mabye it is just about particular settings and artificial lightining? I will have to check it tomorow morning.

An Angel picture - finish

I finally manage to finish my Angel picture, and today the picture happily wandered to the new owners. I hope they will like it as much as I do. I managed to take some photos of it to share with you.

I am quite happy with the final "look and feel" of it. Again it took me a while before I decided what

I would like to do with the background. I change my mind twice to finally came up with this one. I am not sure if it shows on the photos but colours match perfectly with each other. I was afraid it would turn to yellowish in the end but it didn't. I mixed some golden paint along with two shades of yellow and white paint, also I added some textures on flat stars as you can see on the close ups.

I also painted one of my Harlequin faces. The first two I made a year ago (you can check it here). I prepared them as magnets, but  this time I am going to do a picture perhaps.

An Angel picture

I have some commissions I am working on at the moment, another three polymer clay doll's pictures. Hurray!
One of them is An Angel, golden-white with some additional polymer clay bits on the background. Here is a quick preview of the angel:

I still need to paint it, add the wings, and feet. Obviously I need to do the frame with the background as well to finish it off.

While I am working on the pictures I do some canes in a meantime, from my scraps. With those ones left after making the angel, I made a cane I am going to use with my next Harlequin face.

I have to remember to leave it for a while before reducing, to minimise distortions. How long do you usually wait? Do you leave it for a night or just for a few minutes/hours? Do you wait at all? I will happily learn from the experience of others if you want to share :))

Hope you had a wonderful an peaceful weekend!

Obstacle is the mother of invention

I have finally finished the frame for the doll I showed you yesterday. Here is how it turned out:

I quite like it, although next time I will do some sort of ground/grass as well instead of just a coat of paint. Interestingly, my biggest struggle was the frame itself. This was my first time I had to distress or prepare a frame.
I had a different idea in mind. I wanted to place the doll on its own in the middle of the frame decorated with some polymer clay flowers. I planed to paint the background blue and the frame red. Later in the evening I found my acrylic paints to be dried out and I ended up just with gold and red one... Obstacle is the mother of invention and pure creativity. I learnt this very well when I was at my university. Each time when we were told just to "create something"the outcome was OK, but not spectacular. The more obstacles we had the more interesting and creative the final results were.

It was way too late to pop up to the shop to buy a new paint set and I HAD to finish it for today, so..here it is.. I think it looks lovely and I already have some ideas for whole new set.
Let me know what do you think, do you like how it turned out?
If you like it or would you like to have similar one, fell free to leave a comment or to email me :)

a gift for a friend

It has been a while since I made those dollies, but I made a new one a few days ago for my colleague's daughter who is nine tomorrow. 

She is a lot bigger than the ones I made as a magnets, here you have a photo for comparison:

They actually look like a mum with her daughter, when standing together :)

The detail on her dress isn't what I was looking for in the first place but I think it turned out rather nice.

I am going to frame her. I went to the car boot market on Sunday morning and found a few treasures there to work on:

Now I need to prepare this one for a bigger doll, just need to get rid of the bird first....

I think this one for a smaller doll will be perfect, just need a coat of paint and some finishing

Well, go back to my table now, I need to finish one for tomorrow.

unfinished...

When I started this blog I had a few project runing in one time, none of them was actually finished.
Now, over a year later I decided to finish all the pieces I started before moving into the new ones, soo...
One of the project was Pierrot faces, I made two back then, and I have around another fifteen to go (wow)!!

Face is made from a mold. For the frills I made a can inspired by the bird I liked. I am not very good at making those cans yet. Firstly because I don't have so much material as you guys have so my cans are very small to start with...secondly because I am very inpatient...and with cans...this is the biggest sin, is it(?) Photo below are just leftovers I decided to keep and re-use later.

I still need to find right colors for the flowers and feathers on the hat to match my frills beautifully and also I need to paint the face. First time around, I painted the face before baking and the paint actually melted slightly, you can check it here.