Finished Hedgehog and Bird Wedding Cake Toppers

Yay!  The little hedgehog wedding cake toppers are done!  Cute, huh?  I made them in Fall-themed colours.

These are the finished bird wedding cake toppers.  They are also ready for an orange and blue-green almost Fall-themed wedding.  I made these two sets of toppers in preparation for my wedding, but I think I made them too small.  They are only about 1.5 inches tall.  I think they should be about 3 inches tall to be visible on a cake from a distance.  These would be perfect for a little cake  :)  So I will call them my prototypes for now. 

Here are some pictures from when I first painted them.  

At this point they were missing some detail on the eyes.

This is after the detail for the eyes was added.

 He looks very lonely when there is no one standing next to him. 

Here are the birds after I painted them.

 I gave them some cute, rosy faces.

 And lots of detail on the wings.  My paint brush magically creates a weird indentation as it dries and it makes the perfect feather stamp.

 The blue bird leans a little to the side.  For future birds, I will need to make a flatter bottom so it does not want to roll.  However, the leaning works with the interaction between the two birds. 

Here they are drying the night before.

Today I gave them their clear coats.  Now they are glossy and protected.  I love them.  Now I will make more (but bigger).

Have a great day!

Sculpey Creations Completed

The sculpey creations that I have been working on are finally complete!  Here they are in all their glossy goodness:

Sapelli the rabbit

 A reddish orange pumpkin

 A green and brown acorn

 A whole gang of hedgehogs

 Roly, Pip, and Sally the hedgehogs

Dewbert the mole 

 Irko the monkey

 A yellowy orange pumpkin

A reddish brown acorn

 Petunia the pig

 Hermione the sheep

 A small orangy red pumpkin

 A tall squash pumpkin

Meero the tiger

Ta da!  All done!  Now you can find them in my shop.

Have a happy day!

More Clay Animals, Acorns, and Pumpkins

Remember the little acorn, hedgehog, and mole ornaments I was painting a couple days ago?  They are almost done now!

I gave them a clear, non-yellowing outdoor gloss sealer and they look pretty awesome!

The pumpkins are still getting their final gloss coat.  

It's a bit tricky to paint them since I have to do one coat for the top, wait for it to dry, and then flip it over to give it a coat from the bottom.

My desktop looks like chaos, but it's kind of pretty too in a an artist-at-work kind of way.

In hindsight, I probably should have made all their metal loops reinforced with clay like this version.  The plain wire version is not very secure because the wire is too flexible and it can break through the clay.

The other option is to make them with no wire loop like the mole.  His glossy coat is spectacular.  I am quite fond of him.

I started painting some other ornaments too.  There is a monkey, a tiger, and a pig. 

There is also a sheep that looks a bit like Lambchops the puppet, and a brown bunny with a cute face.

I'll post more pictures when I finish giving them a glossy coat.

Have a great day!