It's amazing what some people can make out of clay! I found several videos of just tiny creations, small pies and cakes. The videos make everything look so easy, so I started to gain confidence again.
First thing this morning, I woke up with my new found confidence, and a head full of ideas. My mission was to create tiny citrus fruits, e.g. a pink lemon.
Making lemons is a very intricate process.
First, you have to make the inside of your lemon, in my case, pink fruit and white to designate the different sections of the fruit. Then the outside peel (I used yellow).
I won't bore you with the details of the process (but maybe one day I'll put up a how to tutorial), but let's just say my pink lemons didn't turn out exactly how I expected.
Not exactly a lemon... but hey, when you make bad lemons, make bad lizards! (Or something else like a snail and a peach)
My attempt wasn't a total waste, I did get some cute bunny earrings out of it.
Needless to say, I put the clay up for a few hours until my pride had time to heal. Then I attempted the fated citrus again.
This time, well... see for yourself...
I think I did alright... I even had enough left over to make a cake
The most important thing for me is not getting frustrated when I mess up. I turned my mishaps into other things. Instead of wasting perfectly good clay, I just turned it in to something besides a fruit.
That's a good thing to remember if you ever get started making things out of polymer clay. Nothing should go to waste. If you can't turn your mess up into candy cones or lollipops, make funky beads.
Until next time...
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