Sammy the Patissier

Sammy the Pâtissier is the name of Cafe De N's (produced by Nic) new squishy series. It consists of triple scoop ice cream cones, churros, donuts, and french crullers. I've seen the prototypes but the official versions have not been released yet.

I got the idea to make the inspired charms from Amy from tootookawaii.com. She suggested that I make them and I thought I'd give it a try.

I used homemade cold porcelain clay to make all of the charms. I mixed watercolor and acrylic paints for the dough pigment. The icing and drizzles were painted on with acrylic paint and for the sprinkles I used micro marbles and plastic sprinkles. Because the clay is not able to be baked, I used Sculpey gloss glaze as adhesive for the sprinkles to stick.

I made the tag with graphics from the Sammy Catalog photo on tootookawaii.com under the section "News." I used the illustrations and edited, resized, and color-changed them to fit the actual tag.

This is a comparison between the charm and the squishy prototype.

You can find more information about the Sammy series at:

http://www.youtube.com/tootookawaiishop

The prototypes are for sale at:
http://www.tootookawaii.com

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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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Toast with Jam Polymer Clay Tutorial

TOAST

You Will Need:

light brown clay

white clay

translucent clay

texturing tools (sandpaper, tooth brush)

shading tools (chalk pastels, paint brush)

ball point tool (or toothpick)

a cutter (i.e. blade, x-acto knife)

rolling pin

- Mix the colors of clay, roll into a ball, and flatten out to desired width using a rolling pin

- Outline the shape of your toast using a ball point tool or a toothpick

- Cut out the shape using a blade or x-acto knife and smooth out the edges

- Texture the toast with sandpaper or and old toothbrush on the front, back, and the edges (for a more realistic look use a ball point tool to texture the front of it, making small indents throughout)

- Shade the edges and the back of the toast using brown, orange, and yellow chalk pastels

-Stick and eye pin in and secure it.

-Bake and you're done!

JAM

You Will Need:

triple thick gloss glaze

red paint (acrylic, watercolor, etc)

- Pour out a small (depending on the size of your toast) amount of glaze onto a piece of card stock paper or wax paper

- Put a drop of paint into the glaze

- Mix together well and apply it to your toast (after it has been baked)

- Wait for it to dry and you're done!

TooTooKawaii Squishy Replicas

These charms were inspired by Amy's (tootookawaiishop on youtube) original squishy designs.

The squishy comes in four different designs, which you can view on her online shop @ tootookawaii.com

I made some cute little baggies to put the charms in, like an actual bakery.

AMY'S YOUTUBE CHANNELS:

http://www.youtube.com/tootookawaii

http://www.youtube.com/tootookawaiishop

AMY'S STORE:

http://www.tootookawaii.com

Charm Update - Clay Pastries

I put my Kutsuwa molds to use!

I had a hard time using them at first. The clay got stuck to the molds and it was just a mess. After letting them just sit on my desk for a couple days, I decided to wash them and try again. The second time, they turned out a lot better and I got used to working with them. They're actually really fun to work with, but a struggle to get the clay out of the molds.

I really like how they turned and I can't wait to make more!

WAFFLES, DONUTS, & CHURROS

Which is your favorite?

Kutsuwa Clay Molds!

I've been wanting these molds for a while and I finally got them! I purchased them from melovewhole.com.

I mostly wanted the waffle mold, but you can make eclairs, flans, tart bases, strawberries, bananas, hearts, leaves, and the long rectangular mold in the middle/top is for the icing part (you mold it and twist it around).

With this mold you can make four different donuts and, my favorite, churros!

The molds came packaged in this nice paper mailer and cool stamps.

They were also wrapped in these super awesome Chinese newspaper which I found really interesting.

It's fun to see things from different countries.