Ey to Zee

How’s your valentine? Me? I spent the whole day making Kawaii key holders for my most demanding costumers, my nieces. My sister brought it home, she just arrived yesterday. Hope they’ll like it.

Why kawaii? Kawaii according to Wikipedia is the quality of cuteness, especially in the context of Japanese culture. (Kawaisa – literally, lovability, cuteness, and adorable). I think these key holders deserve to be named as Kawaii, right? Hope you’ll agree with me.

 (click to look the front of these angry birds)

I have 19 nieces and nephews but I only made poly clay key holders for the youngsters.

By the way, those are uncured and I need to attach the metal for the key holder.

I would like to thank those who dropped by and left comment on my previous post.  You gave me reason to create more… you truly inspire me.

As promise, here’s the incorporation of the locket I made in my previous post and a nametag for my friend. The picture below is uncured. I usually take pictures of uncured clay projects in case the outcome is not good after baking.

I applied bronze antique color in the name tag. But the effect was not good. It doesn’t match the locket. I’m a perfectionist so definitely I cannot combine this with the locket.

By the way, I created kawaii name tags for my nieces. I’ll post it later…

I can’t wait to share this lovely project. This comes with a nametag but I have not applied the antiquing technique yet. Plus I need some metal findings to go with it.

This is for my BFF who requested me to make something unique for her. I decided to put rose since her name is Roselyn (I will post later my complete clay project for her).

I love the locket, since she can put a picture inside. It’s up to her if she’ll put my picture or her BF…. LOL

I uploaded this in one of my FB albums. And within a minute I got my first costumer. My classmate like it much and want to purchase for her wife (so sweeeet of him); and after few minutes a neighbour back home ask me if I can make 2 pairs of rose earring.

Now this made me wants to go back to Philippines and do business there. I know I can sell it but with the shipping fee I honestly doubt it. Perhaps a client nearby will be interested. For now I have to practice and master this craft.

~oOo~

Linking this to

What I love about polymer clay is the endless possibilities of creating something beautiful. It’s overwhelming looking at the finish poly product that other crafters did. That most of the time I end up doing nothing but browse about polymer clay finish products.

One of the techniques that I love to try is the polymer cane. I’ve watched several tutorials online and it seems very easy. So I tried!

As much as possible I don’t want to waste even a very tiny piece of clay. And since it’s my first time I decided to create a very small flower cane. I use the round extruder which is about 1mm in diameter for the petal. Since it’s very tiny I had a hard time putting the petals all together… so my [supposed] flower cane turned into disaster. You can’t even tell it’s a flower…. LOL….

I learned from a newspaper ad that Angry Bird is the #1 toy of 2011 and recommended gift for kids. Even my friend who went back to the Philippines last October talked a lot about angry bird! It’s an in thing.

I’m curious and so I tried the game. Indeed it’s addicting. I’m currently playing this game in my Google+ account. By the way you can add me to your circle to know my score. *wink*

So I was inspired to make angry bird replica out of polymer clay.

While chatting with my family last week, I showed them some of my creations and my nieces love them. They requested me to make name tags as well as this angry bird. Surprisingly my youngest niece ask for an angry bird, name tag and angel too! By the way she’s turning 2 this February 1, she’s sooo adorable.

My sister will go home this mid-February so I still have time to make clay creations for my most demanding costumers – my nieces and nephews.

Linking this project at Red Hot Thursday

Christmas season ends yet I was not able to finish my Ey to Zee Christmas Crafts Ideas Challenge. Okay I’m guilty! I have lots of reasons to post but I know it’s not an excuse.

I’ve been busy with polymer clays. Yay! I’m so in love with it and never thought I’ll received compliments from my friends. Some of them are surprised that I have this hidden talent.

These are just few. the angel took me a week to dot it especially the hair and it’s details. But I love the first angel that I made. This one is not the finished product that I envisioned.

Then  I made some name tags…. keychain? or ref magnet?

Well it’s magnetic….

I’m planning to give these finished products to my friends but I opted not to. I’m a little sceptical with my handcrafts.