Baby impressions

Last month, a friend commissioned me to make a hands and feet impression of her newly-born son. For this project, I used sculpey ultra light clay. It's soft enough to make an impression without having to force the baby's limbs.

I met her at their house to take the impressions, then went back at home to bake it and embellished it some more.



Baby Ryan Karl's hands and feet impressions after baking



Finished!

I added a frame around it then added an oil-painting of the sky and clouds as the background. Then I also added balloons with his name stamped at the sides.

A moment frozen in history! :)

Wedding Cake Topper

A friend's friend is getting married. And what better gift to give is a cake topper to symbolize their new life together. The wedding's theme is peach and beach. The topper stands at about 5 inches high and 6 inches in width. 

I started with the bride, since it was the easiest for me. Using the reference design of the wedding gown the bride will be wearing, I tackled the project head on.

I started with the form and the gown

Back detail of the gown and head ornaments

After finishing the bride, I started doing the groom

And here is the finished wedding topper with the couple's monogram. The base is clay covered with white sand finished with liquid polymer clay.
 

Front view



Back view



Groom's view




Bouquet Detail in pink, peach and beige colors




Bride's view

Congratulations to the soon-to-be newly weds! :)

Globe Ring: Caty Pury

I was commissioned by a friend to make a globe ring with her beloved cat as the subject.



Caty sleeping in the couch



It took me 2 months to start the project due to some personal affairs which made me busy all throughout the holiday season. Here are some of the pictures of the Caty Pury ring in progress until completion.




Starting with the head :)



Unbaked yet



Finished product



Top view



Back portion

And it comes with a packaging like this:



Globe Ring packaging

 More stories to tell on my next blog!

Art Bead Scene: February 2013 Challenge

I'm back!

After months of blog inactivity and a short vacation from claying, I decided to go back to my craft with another Art Bead Scene challenge.

For this month, the inspiration was from Toshi Yoshida's skillful woodblock print "Heijinja, 1941".

Toshi Yoshida's "Heijinja, 1941"

 The flame red focal color reminds me so much of Love and Valentine's day and so as the Cherry Blossoms blooming.

With this I created an asymmetrical necklace using Red and the cherry blossoms as my main focal points. And I named my piece, "Sakura".

The flowers are all finished with alcohol inks, inka gold and mica powders. And I incorporated it with plastic and acrylic beads to complete my palette.

One of the Three Sakura flowers

With the focal bead depicting a Cherry blossom tree

Here is the finished product:

What do you think? 

Happy claying everyone!

Globe Rings

Between my erratic schedule at work, planning for the renovation of our new house, doing challenges for our polymer clay guild, compose layouts for the Global Pinoy Bazaar creatives for our guild and orders from clients, I managed to create these little creatures. I admit, I'm not so keen in making miniatures so this posed a challenge for me. But because of my hoarding syndrome (of materials and settings), I was forced to try my hand in getting out of my comfort zone.

Inspired by many things, but mostly of fairy tales, here are some of my globe rings:

Tea Party

The Shoe house

The Princess and the Pea

Caterpillar

I still have more settings for this, so I've got to go and create some more! :)

Philippine Polymer Clay Guild "Artist Trading Card" Challenge

This post is long over due already. But nevertheless, let me share with you my entries to our Guild's Artist Trading Card challenge. The challenge is to select a polymer clay artist, interpret their style via the ATC. My theme for this is fairy tales:

1. Once Upon a Time - (inspired by Ms. Laurie Mika) One of my favorite adaptation of the classic fairy tale "Cinderella" was "Ever After". Using Da Vinci's painting, I created a framed design utilizing the mosaic technique.


Once Upon a Time


2. Part of your World - (Inspired by: Mandarin Moon) Want to live under the sea? With all the corals and sea weeds? This is my adaptation of "The Little Mermaid", mandarin moon-style.



Part of Your World

3. The Princess and the Pea - (Inspired by: Ms. Sara Jane Helm) Ever slept on top of hundreds of mattresses and still not be comfortable? Such a princess indeed! Ms. Sarah Jane Helm's works on polymer clay quilts is the inspiration to this artist trading card.


The Princess and the Pea

Until the next P3 challenge!


SHAKE IT! Salt and Pepper Shakers

During my wedding preparations, I wanted to give handmade gifts to my principal sponsors. I chanced upon these egg-shaped ceramic salt and pepper shakers in a home store and a light bulb lit in my head!


Here are some of the salt and pepper shakers I made:

Kitty Cats

Pigs going out

Owlies

Watch out for more of these. I may be selling them through my Etsy account, whatcha think?