Clay Flowers

This is the mold I bought from MoldMuse

I try to be creative or artsy whenever I possible can. Fortunately or not I don't really have a "thing" in art. Over the summer I went through a phase where I tried to make soap (soap is very sticky...who knew? Later I'll make a post on that though) Lately, I’ve been really in to making polymer flowers.

Let me 'splain. I while ago I was at my city's flea (kinda) market. There was this one table with these adorable earrings, necklaces, hairpins, ECT. It was all so cute! But due to the fact I’m not made of money, I couldn't buy everything (I did buy a hair pin and a necklace.) Later over the summer I was at a teeny tiny little store in Duck North Carolina and I saw almost identical things as a saw at the flea market. I don't live very close to Duck, so I seriously doubted this one woman drove like 12 hours just to sell these things to a tiny boutique. That’s when I pieced together that the adorable flowers weren't made each by hand as I originally thought. IT WAS A MOLD! I realized it when I Googled it.

So I got on Etsy.com and sure enough there they all were. (Which means I kinda used 30 bucks on cute stuff I coulda made but whatever,) I bought a mold I tried to figure out how to use it. And here it is:

You use Polymer Clay, which is Sculpy, Premo, Fimo, ECT. Soften in your hands. Mix colors of polymer until color is smooth and the right color. Then push clay into mold (some molds may need release agent so plan ahead) you'd want to press it in pretty hard so that all of the details of the mold make it on. Smooth off the top of the mold of any extra clay. Now this may seem bizarre but if your clay is super warm from your hands put the mold of clay into the freezer, if the clay is warm when you try to get it out of the mold it will collapse in on its self a little bit. When your clay is cooler put it on a sheet of aluminum foil, put the aluminum of a cookie sheet. Repeat, as many times you want to. When you’re ready to bake, heat your normal oven to 275 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake for 12-15 minutes. You could also follow the wrapper of the clay for this. There’s not really any "raw" or "well done" for clay but be careful that you don't miss-read that as 375 like I did at first because you may notice a large group of brown flowers on the right and it smelled pretty bad. Also the black flowers, those weren’t made with black clay.

So yeah... that’s how you get the flowers or what ever you may want to make. You can also order earring studs with nothing on them and charms, necklace chains, you know...  anything and turn them into stuff. 

Here are the links for everything you need! Enjoy!

For Molds:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MoldMuse

http://www.etsy.com/shop/moldsrus?ref=pr_shop_more

http://www.etsy.com/shop/WhysperFairy?ref=em

For Polymer:

http://www.polymerclaysuperstore.com/?gclid=CKa_6P64p6sCFQw65QodfVtE1g

*note, you can really get this anywhere... Michael's,or Target probably have a set with all the standard colors.

Extra help:

http://dinkalulu.blogspot.com/2011/03/fondant-flower-molds.html

I was going to add a picture of the ones I've made but iPhoto will not let me import them so if I can I'll add those later.

Mwah,

Izzy