2023 Polymer Clay Challenge Week 45 – 52

Decorated coffee bottle lid
with another skinner blend

They are quite fun to make once you know how to 😁


Another decorated coffee bottle lid, this time with a patchwork pattern 😍


Miniature Christmas tree
3.3cm high


Miniature sleigh
3.5cm long
1.8cm high

After making a big fondant sleigh as a cake topper for a customer, I decided that I “NEED” a miniature clay one 😁


Miniature gifts
3cm high
Base: 3.1cm long


Miniature Christmas bauble
2cm high and 1.5cm in diameter

Oh my hat!! I had so much fun with this miniature bauble 🀩
(I should make a few for our small Christmas Tree 😊)


Miniature melting snowman
3cm high

This one just started to melt, not melted like the one of the #2020PCChallenge – Week 50
🌞


I made colourful flowers and decorated a small coffee bottle that I’m using as a vase

Week 52!! I made it!! πŸ‘

Phew! This year was challenging … I planned how I was going to do this year’s challenge, but life and work interfered big time πŸ™ˆ

At some stage, I thought of just giving up because I was so far behind and it looked as if I’d never catch up, BUT this was my 4th challenge and I was not going to give up easily!!

So I decided not to put pressure on myself to catch up and not to worry about being behind but to just keep creating in-between and put them aside for photos and posting later.

This is supposed to be fun after all, not cause stress. 🀣🀣

Proud of myself for not giving up and doing all 52 weeks (and I had lots of fun in the process)

Let’s do 2024 πŸ’ͺπŸŽ‰

2023 Polymer Clay Challenge Week 33 – 44

Who-Ville Christmas Tree
6cm high

For my birthday in August, I had a
Dr Suess theme party and made these as “thank you” gifts for all the guests πŸ₯³ 


Teddy
3.5cm high
and
Teddy face magnet
2.5cm in diameter

I was privileged to attend another workshop with Manda Theart
We had loads of fun making these teddies

My full teddy is a unique “Manda-and-San-Marie creation” 😁 I made the teddy and 1 rose, the rest was Manda’s work. She was so kind to help, because I struggled. 🀩😍 


Rugby ball stud earrings
in support of the Springboks

 

GO BOKKE!! 


Week 36 – 39, Prep for gingerbread houses …

Tiny sweets
0.3mm and 0.2mm in diameter


Tiny cookies
0.7mm in diameter


Tiny donuts
0.5mm diameter


Gingerbread house panels


Miniature Gingerbread House
5.5cm high


Miniature Gingerbread House
3.2cm high


Pasta machine handle
Purple

My clay pasta machine needed a new handle, so I made one out of foil and covered it with clay


Pasta machine handle
Purple

I decided my fondant pasta machine also needs a new handle 😁


Champion Scrappy
2.5cm high

Because we are the Rugby World Cup Champions!!!! πŸ‘πŸŽ‰πŸ† 


YES!! BOKKE!!
πŸ†πŸŽ‰Β 

2023 Polymer Clay Challenge Week 24 – 32

For Week 24 – 30, I mixed my Scrap Clay … 

Scrap Clay
Green


Scrap Clay
Pink


Scrap Clay
Yellow


Scrap Clay
Red


Scrap Clay
Brown


Scrap Clay
Blue


Scrap Clay
Orange

Mixing scrap clay is a lot of fun and I love all the “new” colours I get from it 😍


Rainbow blend

I used some of my new scrap clay colours and made a rainbow blend with only 3 colours

Pastel Rainbow blend

I added white to my rainbow blend to make a pastel rainbow

Tutorials from marko_lovrenski_art on Instagram … so much fun to do 🌈😍


2023 Polymer Clay Challenge Week 8 – 17

Miniature cartoon cake
3cm high
cake board 2.5cm in diameter

This cake was SO MUCH work, but lots of fun and it looks so cute 😍


Miniature Crown
2cm high
and
2.1cm diameter


Miniature Tiara
1.9cm high
2.5cm diameter

I’ve made this tiara as a fondant cake topper a few times already, obviously, it was a lot bigger and easier than this miniature one πŸ˜†


Miniature graduation set
1.2cm high
Base 3.2cm in diameter

It’s the same with this graduation set … the bigger fondant version is a lot easier


Miniature toy pyramid ring
2.3cm high
Base 1.5cm in diameter


Miniature toy teddy bear
3cm high

This one reminds me of those huge teddy bears … I just want to hug it πŸ€—


Miniature toy box
3.3cm high
Box 2.5 x 2.3cm and 1.3cm high

This toy box was a challenge!! But I’m not scared of a challenge πŸ˜†


Miniature toy xylophone
0.3cm high
and
2.2cm long


Coffee mug stud earrings


Smiley coffee mug stud earrings

2023 Polymer Clay Challenge Week 1 – 7

1 year, 52 weeks of fun and imagination

This challenge is a commitment you make to yourself to complete at least one polymer clay item each week

I am participating again this year – my 4th challenge πŸŽ‰


Decorated jumbo paperclips – school theme


Decorated soda can tabs – magnets and tags – school theme

I really enjoy doing these


Stud earrings – school theme


Valentine’s Day decorations for my letterboard


Decorated soda can tabs – magnets and tags – Valentine’s Day theme


I tried a skinner blend

Wow!! This was a lot of fun 🀩


I used the skinner blend slab and decorated a bottle lid