Week 42, already!! WOW!!! Only 10 weeks to go then the #2021pcchallenge is done. 😮
Miniature candy in miniature glass bottles
2.4cm high
Miniature iced coffee
2.7cm high
I had so much fun with the miniature candy bottles, that I decided to make another miniature bottle and this time I played with UV resin
I made some fun stud earrings for myself
Chocolate Donuts with sprinkles
I love making donuts 😃
Coffee mugs
because you can’t have donuts without coffee 😄
Cupcakes
Also, something I love making 😃
I love coffee and had to make a pair of coffee beans
Chocolate cake slices
with caramel between the layers of course 😄
Hot dogs
They were a bit tricky to make, but I love the way they looked in the end
Chips
because you can’t have hot dogs without chips 😄
Chocolate slabs
because I like chocolate, especially dark chocolate 😋
Pink and Chocolate cupcakes
Pink and white donuts with sprinkles
Flowers for Spring
Sunflowers
or as I call them … “happy flowers” 😄
Red flowers
because red is one of my favourite colours 😍
Liquorice allsorts!!
because I love it, actually any liquorice 😋
Purple Scrappys
because … why not?
Purple is also one of my favourite colours 😍
They are great to mix and match. Yes, I’m that person who wears mismatched earrings 😁
Week 26!! We are halfway through this year’s challenge!! 😮
A miniature birthday cake as a gift for a friend’s 60th birthday
3.8cm high
She loved her miniature cake
It’s time for new Scrappys
Coffee Scrappy
2.6cm high
Formal Scrappy
2.7cm high
Steampunk Scrappy
2.5cm high
Making steampunk things is so much fun. I add whatever I want (chain, headpins, screws, eye pins, steampunk gears, etc) until I’m happy with the end result.
Sweet Scrappy
3cm high
Lots of miniature sweets … so fun!
Winter Scrappy
2.7cm high
(my favourite season)
Baby Scrappy
2.5cm high
For the next 12 weeks, I’ll be doing Star Wars Characters for a wall clock I’m making for my husband (a VERY belated birthday gift) 😃
Since he’s a Star Wars fan, I asked him to choose the characters.
I enjoy watching all the movies with him, even though, most of the time I have no clue what’s going on. 🤣 But at least I know the difference between Star Trek and Star Wars … so there’s that. 😄
The first one is Darth Vader
3.8cm wide & 3.9cm high
On the clock, he will go at number 12 … since he’s on the “dark side” 😁
Princess Leia
4.4cm in diameter
Luke Skywalker
4.4cm diameter
He looks as if he’s ready to take over the dark side 😆
Obi-Wan
3.8cm in diameter
4 done, 8 more to go
I’m having lots of fun making these Star Wars characters, something different and out of my comfort zone
Yoda
8.3cm wide & 3.6cm high
The force is strong in this one 😃😃
Chewbacca
3.6cm wide & 4.2cm high
Bounty hunter, Boba Fett
4.1cm wide & 4.9cm high
C-3PO
3.8cm wide & 4.2cm high
C-3PO‘s friend R2D2
3.7cm in diameter
The way he speaks to 3-CPO in whistles and beeps is so cute
Millennium Falcon … of course!
3.5cm wide & 4.8cm high
The clock won’t be complete without it 😄
Stormtrooper helmet
3.5cm wide & 3.8cm high
The most challenging character of them all. I can’t remember how many times I had to redo him, but I got it right in the end.
The last Star Wars character is Darth Maul
3.8cm wide & 4.2cm high
I personally think he is the ugliest of them all 😂
For the clock, I traced and painted the death star and my husband decided where the characters must go. I also painted the clock hands green and with the red seconds hand, it symbolizes the lightsaber colours.
I must admit, this project was totally out of my comfort zone and I realised why it took me so long to start with it. It was overwhelming and scary. I decided to make it part of my #2021pcchallenge, that way I can make one character per week and get it done. As soon as I made the first character, I felt more confident, and seeing my husband’s reaction every time I showed him the next character, made me more determined to finish this project.
As the weeks went by I got more and more excited about it and was looking forward to putting the clock together.
I am happy I finally made his one-of-a-kind birthday gift … even though it’s a few years late. 😆
I have very talented friends and when Mandi from AJK Distributors (contact details in Gingy’s Directory) asked if she can make me an album of my 50th birthday party, I immediately said yes. I told her she can do whatever she wants … and this was the result!!
I LOVE the shaker box on the front!
She used my 3D printed cupcake topper on the back … how clever!!
Our party boxes and my invite
I love the papers she used!
The album has a few tabs that can be pulled out and have additional pics and places for me to journal if I want to.
I knew that Mandi makes beautiful cards, brag books, albums, etc, but I didn’t expect this! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my album!! 😍🥰
She really has an awesome talent for this!
Thanks Mandi! ❤️❤️
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.
Paperclips for my recipe book
This was loads of fun … planning and deciding which paperclip to make for the different sections
Now it will be easier to find what I’m looking for and I don’t have to page through the whole recipe book to find what I’m looking for 😁
Miniature honey bear
2.6cm high
A miniature teddy bear with an ice cream cone
2.6cm high
Miniature cassette tape
2cm high and 2.7cm wide
I love 80s music and I had a lot of mix tapes when I was young 🎵🎶
Miniature headphones
2.5cm high
A miniature gingerbread house
3.4cm high
I love making gingerbread houses, they are so much fun to make 🤩
Miniature Christmas teddy
3cm high
Teddy bears are also something I love making 😍
Miniature snowglobe bottle
2cm high
This was a bit of a mission to make 😆
Miniature wreath
2.5cm high
Miniature melted snowman
2.5cm in diameter
Christmas in South Africa is summertime, snowmen don’t last 🌞
Miniature reindeer
3cm high
Miniature Santa
3.5cm high
I did it!! 🤩
One polymer clay item per week! ✔
This challenge was so much fun
I enjoyed every minute of it and will participate next year again 😁
Miniature teddy bears picnic
2.6cm high
Picnic blanket 3 x 2.4cm
For the picnic blanket I used the new silkscreen I bought from MOIKO silk screens
Miniature choc chip cookies
3D printed plate: 2.5cm diameter
Miniature donuts in a box
4.7 x 3.4 cm
The box template I found online and with Gareth’s help, it became a miniature box
I didn’t want a white box, so I looked through all my scrapbooking papers and found this cute piece of paper 😍
Glasses Holder Pendant
I received a PNA voucher for my birthday and decided to buy myself a Fimo Clay Extruder.
My other extruder decided to break, and because PNA had their annual SALE, it was the perfect opportunity to replace it.
And having a new toy meant I had to try it out 😀
So I decided to make a retro cane and use it to make this pendant
This was my first time making a retro cane and I loved it!! It was SO much fun!!
I’m definitely going to make more retro canes in future! 🤩
A decorated glass coffee bottle
to use for our coffee
SO much fun to make
A miniature mask
1.3cm high and 3cm long
I must admit, I like this mask a lot more than the one I have to wear every time I leave the house 😷🙁
Miniature hand sanitizer
2.8cm high
To go with the miniature mask
Miniature iced polka dot cookies
3D printed plate: 2.5cm diameter
Miniature waffle with ice cream
3D printed plate: 2.5cm diameter
Week 40!!! Time really flies when you’re having fun!
Miniature robot
3cm high
The clay has these specks inside, I love it! So much fun to work with.
In my business, I never had a problem with deadlines – orders came in for a certain date and time, I planned and had them ready. No problem … until lockdown happened and I received orders for after lockdown. There was no “after lockdown date” as the number of days, lockdown levels and what we can and can’t do changed often.
I realised that I was struggling to get motivated to be creative. So, instead of telling myself to get over it, I gave myself permission to take time out from my normal routine and do something different.
I decided to rearrange my workroom. It was overdue and something I’d wanted to do for some time so now was the perfect opportunity.
It wasn’t a pretty sight at the start, as I used my work tables to sort things out
We had a nice hot day in the week and I decided to wash all my tools and use the sunshine to get them dry. Fondant tools, clay tools, pasta machines … all got cleaned.
This “time out exercise” was fast becoming loads of fun as I cleaned and rearranged and found new places for all my things. Also finding things that I forgot I had.
It took a few days, but I had so much fun that it didn’t bother me at all. Everything was cleaned and I got rid of loads of things that weren’t necessary anymore. I was in my happy place.
Finally, I was done and VERY happy with my newly organised room
My “time out exercise” worked out great and was just what I needed to get excited about being creative again.
So, for future reference … note to self … when you get stuck, take time out and do something different, and it doesn’t even have to be for a few days, it can just be for a short time. This really helped to get me excited again.
Let the creating begin…
