First clay human figure

I wanted to try and sculpt a doll but ended up with this instead. Sculpey is hard to sculpt not to mention that my clay is rather old. So here is a funny looking girl that I made.

She is very very far from perfect, but I still had fun making her. I need to get some sculpting tools

Busy Weekend

Now that November has come and gone and I am no longer writing frantically for NaNoWriMo, I am able to get to other things. I finally got to crafting up some things I had thought of while writing and was happy I could get to it. I had ordered some molds for resin casting on cyber Monday through Joanns and they arrived on Saturday. Saturday night I threw some things together and waited for the resin to set. The pieces are still very flexible but they turned out better than I thought.

Waiting for resin to set. The green piece is something I made a few months ago for my first attempt at resin. I coated the sticky part with some glaze.  The resin I am using is Easy Cast by Castin’ Craft that you can find in most craft stores. I got mine from Michaels. It is very easy to use as long as you measure correctly. It is 1:1 but I did not measure quite right this time.

The finished pieces are clear and very smooth, the opposite of attempt number one. They are very very flexible though so I don’t think I added in quite enough of the hardener. I added in a small amount of embossing powder to give the pieces some color as well as some seed beads.

While waiting for the resin to cure (which took two days) I pulled out some clay and made up some bases for pendants. I stuck some fancy stickers on them and coated with a product called Glossy Accents that I really like.


I need to coat the backs and add a loop so I can use them. I may add a second coating to the top but have not decided yet. I have a few ideas with these pendants for Christmas gifts, maybe use them as tags and have them be key chains. I realized after I used the gloss that I should have made holes in the clay first. If I tried now, the gloss would crack and ruin the piece. I already cracked one (one of the ones with the paper on it), but I’ll find something to use it with.

Once the holiday is over, I plan on trying out a lot more ideas that I have with the resin. There is one thing I have  had in mind for ages so I hope I can get around to trying it.

Next up, clay!

I have a bunch of Sculpey to experiment with this weekend and if anything turns out good, I’ll be posting. I just need to pick up a few tools at the store tomorrow and then I’ll be making stuff for a Halloween swap I’m in.

I also have an idea for my shrinky dinks that I haven’t tried since that first time. Too many distractions! XD