YouTube video: St Valentine's Day polymer clay charms

Hi! If you want to take a look at some creations I made for St Valentine's Day follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GABytROBAs

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Tutorial: Polymer clay Robot charm

Hi! Follow these steps to make a robot charm using polymer clay :)

Material needed:
- silver polymer clay
- any other color polymer clay
- toothpick
- eyepin
- black acrylic paint

1) Take the silver clay and make two rectangular shapes of different sizes; place the smaller one on top of the big one:

2) Make two small balls using the silver polymer clay and push them against the bottom of the robot; these will be the feet.

3) Take the polymer clay of the other color you chose and roll two short stripes that will go on the sides of the robot. Then add other two small silver polymer clay balls that will be the robot's hands.

4) Take the toothpick and make some holes all around the center part of the robot.

5) Add an eyepin to the top of the charm and bake it for 30 minutes at 100-110°C, then leave it cool down inside the oven and do not touch it until it feels cool and hard.

6) Take a toothpick and dip it in the black acrylic paint and draw the robot's eyes and then in the pink acrylic paint to draw the robot's cheeks. Glaze it for a glossy finish.

This is the final result!

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Contacts & Online Shops

Hi! I will list here all the links where you can follow me or buy my creations online :)

YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/liljulie99

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dreamfimocharms

Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/DreamFimoCharms

Dawanda shop: http://en.dawanda.com/shop/GiuliaFimo

Come and say hi :)

Advice on: starting with polymer clay (on a budget!)

Hi! Have you looked for a while into polymer clay and wished you could create your own charms but never actually started to do it? Stop procrastinating and just jump into it! :) 
What do you need to do next? If you do not want to invest a lot of money for a complete kit, here is what you should get straight away in order to work with polymer clay.

1) Obviously... Polymer Clay! :) There are several brands for sale: Fimo, Sculpey, Premo, Kato Polyclay, Cernit, YouClay. What matters is that it can be baked in the oven. You don't need to buy all colours straight away; if you get white, black, yellow, blue and red you will be able to recreate all other shades too like with paints.

2) Toothpicks! I find them extremely useful for lots of different uses, they are cheap and can always come in handy. 

3) An X-Acto knife or any type of blade: your creations might require you to cut and a blade of this type is absolutely needed.

4) Eyepins and pliers to cut them - they are essential if you want your creations to become charms.

5) An oven: obviously you need one to bake your polymer clay creations. You can buy a small oven at a reasonable price, but if you do not want to spend for it at the start you can also use the normal oven of your kitchen. Many people fear that polymer clay produces toxic fumes and therefore using the oven of your kitchen is dangerous, but if your creations do not burn they won't be dangerous for you. Just wait some hours before you cook your food where you have just baked polymer clay.

6) Hairspray! If you want to give your creations a glossy finish but do not want to spend money straight away for Fimo branded glaze use hair spray. Some people worry the hair spray might peel off or never dry thoroughly, but I never had this problem. The hair spray I used worked perfectly, dried quickly and made my creations look really pretty in the end.

7) Acrylic paints - necessary if you want to paint faces or other details on your creations. If you don't want to buy a full set of colours, just buy black and white for the eyes and pink for the cheeks. Also, you don't need to buy big bottles of paints, polymer clay creations are very small and therefore require very small quantities of colour, small bottles will go a long way and you won't risk that they dry out before you use them all.

I think these are the absolutely necessary items to start working with polymer clay, to see how you like it and if you want to do it "more seriously" then there are lots of other useful tools that you can buy later on. I'll write another post soon on "more advanced" tools to work polymer clay! 

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Tutorial: Polymer clay Peas in a Pod charm

Hi! Follow these steps to make a peas in a pod charm using polymer clay :)

Material needed:

- green polymer clay

- black acrylic paint

1)Take the green clay and make an oval flat shape like this:

2) Cut a small triangle shape on the top and at the bottom of it.

3) Fold the two parts one towards the other and push them together trying to blend in the edges.

4) Take other green clay and make 3 little balls (their size has to be in proportion to the size of the pod).

5) Place the peas inside the pod and add an eyepin on the side. 

6) Bake it in the oven for 30 minutes at 100-110°C, then leave it cool down inside the oven and do not touch it until it feels cool and hard.

7) Take a toothpick and dip it in the black acrylic paint and draw the peas' faces. Glaze it for a glossy finish. 

This is the final result!

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Tutorial: Polymer clay Choc Chip Cookie

Hi! Follow these steps to make a choc chip cookie using polymer clay :)

Material needed:
- light brown polymer clay
- dark brown polymer clay
- tin foil
- toothpick
- eyepin (if you want it to be a charm)
- glaze (if you want a glossy finish)

1) Take the light brown clay and make a domed shape.

2) Roll the tin foil into a little ball and move it around on the cookie.

3) In the end your cookie should look like this:

4) Take a toothpick and make some holes into the cookie.

5)  In the end your cookie should look like this: 

6) Take the dark brown clay, make tiny balls of the same size and push them into the holes of the cookie.

This is the final result!

If you want to add an eyepin, this is the time to do it. Then bake it in the oven for 30 minutes at 100-110°C, then leave it cool down inside the oven and do not touch it until it feels cool and hard. Glaze it for a glossy finish. 

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Just getting started :)

Hey everyone! :) I'm just starting this blog so as soon as it is all set up and ready to go I'll post some clay tutorials and pictures of my creations, so... stay tuned! <3 
Giulia