minions!

I made these for a craftster swap. They are of polymer clay and they all have different functions, one is to solve difficult problems, one to find out stuff, one to do your shopping and my favourite, one to give you love when you are feeling down...

I am going to find these little guys very difficult to part with as they are so cute...they needed a minion house too...so I obliged.

these are a few of my more recent crafts,

This was a simple swap journal I made, japanese stab stitch binding over cardboard covers with scrabooking papers. I am having a small bookbinding obsession at the moment,

This (bad pic, sorry) is a soft suede bound book, again stitched, heavy watercolour paper inside with an exposed binding, leather ties and little brads for accents...such restraint is not something that i often manage!

for a swap a partner requested a little bird, this was from a tute online, The pictures are not fabulous, but they give you an idea of how he looked, he is about 4inches high

 

Work in progress a little blackbird with a wizards hat..plenty of glitter of course, he is made from poly clay

beaker USB key (stick drive) cover

I used to love the muppets as a kid and one of my favourite characters was Beaker. it occurred to me that he would be a great shape for a USB Key.

Tutorial...how to.

1-wrap the USB drive in cling flim (saran wrap)

2- mould a flesh coloured polymer clay around it to cover it to within about 10 mm of the plastic cover.

3- Roll two little balls of white and press on for the eyes, tiny balls of black for the pupils

4- Make a reddish egg shape for the nose and press it gently on

5- cut a diagonal line down for the mouth, go slowly at this point and cut little by little until you are happy.

6-take out the USB key and gently put in some chopsticks, knife handle, something like that to hold open the shape while baking, Bake as directed, Do not overbake or you will discolour it.

7-When it is cool take a fluffy orange feather (or piece of orange yarn, fleece,) and hot glue it on for the hair.

8-Glue in the USB key, Hot glue didnt last very long for this with me, so try E600 glue or epoxy resin (such as araldite)