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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Hello Kitty Donut Squishies

These are all the donut squishies I have in my Sweets Cafe collection!

The powdered one is my favorite!

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Cafe De N Eclair Squishy-Inspired Charms

Unlike my previous charms and replicas, these charms were made with pluffy clay instead of polymer clay. Pluffy clay is a soft, fluffy modeling clay. Like polymer clay, it never dries out and is baked to harden. Pluffy clay is a lot softer and lightweight than polymer clay and it can get sticky while you're working with it.

These charms were fairly easy to make. It was my first actual time making charms with pluffy clay and I think they turned out well.

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tutorial coming soon!

SQUISHY HAUL!

 Okay, so I went a little crazy with buying squishies. Here are my purchases.

TooTooKawaii

I bought a hello kitty jumbo donut, hello kitty mini donut, and a strawberry eclair (my first Cafe De N squishy!). The golden apple was an extra and it is soo soft and squishy! I love it!

Kawaii-Land

I'm a little traumatized from purchasing from kawaii-land. The first time I purchased from there, every squishy had defects, but I took a risk and purchased from them again. Bad move. The yellow macaron squishy has a small chunk taken out of it on the edge. Try enlarging the photo to see it. Slight disappointment, but my other sqiuishies turned out fine. I guess it's not a huge problem but it still bothers me and if I'm going to pay so much for it, I want quality items.

Its-Cute

This is a mix of two different packages from its-cute (formerly know as decoden-acc). My first package was two of the mini Cinnamorolls. They are so adorable! The second package is another mini Cinnamoroll and the peanut butter and chocolate Cafe De N eclairs.

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New Squishies!

I've purchased four more cute squishies to add to my collection :)

The first three are from kawaiisquishyshop.storenvy.com. She has great prices and quick shipping! She still has more of these squishies in stock so I'd get them while they're still available. I haven't seen these squishies anywhere else for a reasonable price (including shipping price).

Powdered Donut

Chocolate Donut with Sprinkles

Mini Chocolate Donut

The last squishy is from tootookawaii.com. She recently stocked up on a ton of super rare squishies for the best prices ever! I had to quickly get one before they sold out so if I were you, I'd bookmark her website and keep checking back for updates. Her package came in this adorable pink mailer with cute deco tape. The squishy was securely wrapped with bubble wrap and placed into a bag. I will definitely be purchasing from her again!

Strawberry Shortcake

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Hello Kitty Donut Squishy Replica

Another replica! I'm still obsessing over these adorable hello kitty squishies. I bought another one from decoden-acc.com and decided to do another replica since people enjoyed my last one.

Here is the actual squishy:

...and here is the replica!

 This one was fairly easy to do and didn't take me as long as my last one. I started by making the graphics for the tag using a photo editing software called Photofiltre, then I made the graphics for the back.

I made the charm with polymer clay and used brown liquid clay for the chocolate drizzle.

Here is a side-by-side comparison of the actual squishy and the replica:

Rare Hello Kitty Squishy Replica

I've been wanting a hello kitty squishy for forever and I finally got one to add to my squishy collection. I purchased it from decoden-acc.com. She has amazing prices and the cutest squishies.

This is the one I bought:

Her shipping price is great and you get your items super quick. Every purchase also comes with her adorable business card :)

Before receiving the package, I decided to make my own replica of it!

I made the actual charm, or "squishy" with polymer clay. I used dark brown and black acrylic paint for the "chocolate drizzle" and used triple thick sculpey glaze on top of it. I attached a black cellphone strap fom hobby lobby onto it to give it the full effect of a real squishy.

For the packaging, I used a small resealable bag I got from Hobby Lobby. I made all the graphics from scratch using my favorite editing software called Photofiltre. I started off by making the pink and brown striped background, then added the text on. I got the heart, tea cup, hello kitty head, and hello kitty bow from google images then edited them by resizing, cropping, changing the color, etc. to make them resemble the ones on the actual squishy package.

For the label with the barcode, I actually just scanned the one on the actual squishy and then edited it on the computer to fit. The red label, however, was made with Photofiltre. The official Sanrio♥ tag is from google images.

Here is a comparison of the actual squishy and the replica:

I'd say it turned out pretty well. The graphics aren't as vibrant, but there's nothing I can do about that. The polymer clay charm itself is nice, though :)

This was extremely fun to do so I might make more of these!