Choco Eclair Squishy-Inspired Charms

I love making  pastries and very realistic polymer clay charms so I really wanted to replicate the new Choco Eclair squishies.

They were actually pretty easy and super fun to make and experiment with.

These charms started out as plain, unshaded, textured pieces. I used light brown clay as a base color. To get the vibrant yellow and orange colors that the actual squishies, I had to use paint because chalk pastels would not do the job. After baking, I coated the french loaf and sesame bun charms with a light yellow paint. Afterwards, I darkened the yellow paint by adding a tiny bit of tan paint and coated the charms with that. Then I darkened certain spots for the "baked" effect. After the painted dried, I added the sesame seeds (made with translucent clay) with layers of gloss glaze. Finally, I coated the entire charm with about 3-5 layers of glaze to ensure the paint and sesame seeds stayed on.

For the donut, I just used chalk pastels for shading, but afterwards I realized I should have used paint because the colors were not vibrant enough. The "powder" was made with white acrylic paint and a ball point tool.

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Polymer Clay Deli Sandwiches

These are my newest polymer clay creations, and once again, completely inspired by Toni Ellison. She is  seriously my favorite crafting youtuber and is so inspirational. I could sit and watch her videos for hours! I used her video tutorial to make them.

Her YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ToniEllison

Her blog: http://www.toniellison.com/

Close up shots:

Turkey and Bacon Sandwich

I will probably turn them into earrings.

Peppered Steak Baguette Sandwich

She used some kind of crafting dirt for the black pepper on the meat, which I don't have, so I substituted it with actual black pepper mixed with black chalk pastel. The sandwich didn't turn out perfectly because you can't see all of the cheese from the front of it.

front

back

Corned Beef and Swiss Sandwich

Poppy Seed and Cream Cheese Bagel

She also used the crafting dirt for the seeds on the bagel, instead I just cut tiny bits of black clay and placed them on top.

I might turn the bagel into a ring.

The pieces aren't perfect, but this was my first try, so I'll definitely find ways to improve and try out different techniques and experiment.

Polymer Clay Miniature Sweets - Candy & Desserts

This is a video of some miniature food that I made with polymer clay. You could also consider them re-ments. They were really fun to make and didn't take much time either (about 2 days). They are smaller than your finger nail and each individual piece is handmade, textured, shaded, etc. However, the extras (tea set dishes and clothes) were purchased from Hobby Lobby.

A few shots of the finished product (which are viewed in the video as well)

Like many of my creations, this was inspired by Stephanie Kilgast on flickr.

Her photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_sk/