I had so much fun with last year’s Polymer Clay Challenge that I decided to participate again this year.
The start of a whole new year of polymer clay fun! 52 polymer clay items to make. Let the polymer clay fun begin…
For week 1 – 7, I made miniatures:
A miniature house
3cm high
Lots of fun to make except for the picket fence 🤣 … that was a bit of a mission 😁
A miniature vintage telephone
2.9cm high
I followed Maive Ferrando’s tutorial to make this telephone and had loads of fun in the process.
I also tried something I’d never done before. Last year, someone mentioned in the polymer clay challenge group that she uses her hairdryer to harden small pieces of clay. So, I wondered if I could do the same with my craft heat gun. I Googled and found a tips and tricks article by Ginger Davis Allman from The Blue Bottle Tree, where she wrote about using a heat gun.
Of course, I had to try it, and it worked!!! I was super excited about this! It opens a whole new world for me. Now I can cure small pieces of clay and don’t have to switch the oven on just to bake a piece for 5 or 10 mins! I can’t wait to use this more often. My craft heat gun is now permanently plugged in on my table…ready to use. 😀
A miniature vintage TV
2.7cm wide & 3.1cm high
When I was a child, we had a TV similar to this, a big wooden TV with no remote, you had to get up and go to the TV to change the volume.
And when there was nothing on TV, it looked like this… 😂
A miniature couch
2.9cm wide & 1.8cm high
… a bright pink one because brown is boring 😀
A miniature teapot
2.2cm high
Teapots are fun to make, quick and easy
A miniature bed with a quilt
3.1cm wide and 2.2cm high
Quilts are fun to make, and very easy, thanks to Manda Theart who taught us how to do it in her “teddies in bed workshop”
A miniature bath
3.3cm wide & 1.9cm high
… a bit tricky and lots of little balls to roll for the bubbles 😄
All my miniatures for the first 7 weeks of this Polymer Clay Challenge look very cute in my 3D printed printer’s tray that’s on my workroom wall.
