My Little Pony Charms

Yes..Little Pony again ^^ but this time these cuties are made into charms, so their size are smaller than the one I made previously for cake topper and necklace. It's always enjoyable to make these cuties eventhough longer time needed to finish them. These 6 adorable ponies are made using Japanese air dry clay (my best friend).

This time I took the photo using my wooden floor as the background instead of white background. I can't decide which one looks better, because I like them both. Which do you think looks better? white or colored background? I upload photos using white background on my Instagram, though...

Here are the photos...enjoy ^^

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My Little Pony (part II) - Tutorial

Today I am posting a video of how to make My Little Pony character as I promised on my previous post. I picked Flutter Shy character because she is my niece's favourite pony, I am sorry for being a little bit bias ^_^ This cutie will be made into a necklace for her. She has been requesting for it months ago, but this super busy auntie can only make it recently. Sorry dear...but at least request is fulfilled ^o^

In this video, I am using Japanese resin (air dry clay) which is usually white in color and I am also using the colored resin clay to mix the color. 

Colored resin air dry clay

You can also use oil paint to mix the color, but it will cause the texture to be slightly drier which makes the clay hard to shape. If you are using polymer clay, you can still follow the steps in my tutorial, because the technique is basically similar, but they are a few things that you need to take note:

• For the instruction of leaving it dry, in the case of polymer clay, you pre-bake it.
• In the smoothing parts, polymer clay don't need water. Air dry clay blends well with water.

I am more comfortable crafting with air dry clay, that is why my tutorials are always using air dry clay as the medium. I also notice that there are very little tutorials on air dry clay available online. I hope my tutorials will be useful for air dry clay crafters out there, and of course for Polymer clay crafters, too.

I am also sharing some ideas on what you can do with this cute Flutter Shy beside a necklace.

 My Little Pony Strap

It could be bracelet, too when the strap is removed

 Dust Plug for your phone

 Mom, sisters or cousins could share this cuteness, too

Or just add on a pastel color tassel and hang it on your organizer, key chain or USB

Hope this post will give you some useful ideas and happy crafting \(^o^)/

By the way, what do you think I should make for the next tutorial? 

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My Little Pony (part I)

My little pony...cute little colorful horses that possess magical power and live in a magical wonderland. These cute characters are now very popular in my country and it’s also airing on our local cable TV. They are SO SO SO popular that all my clay students (age 6-9) requested My Little Pony as their project. You can see My Little Pony dolls, plushies and figurines everywhere in every malls. Even my niece will have a ballet performance next month performing My Little Pony and my other niece, who live in the same town with me, had My Little Pony themed birthday celebration last few months. My cousin asked me to create My Little Pony faux cake (made of clay) for her daughter as a surprise and the reason why she chose Clay cake because she wanted to keep the cake and the decorations forever which is not possible with real cake. The longest you can keep fondant dolls is only 2 weeks but my cousin wish to keep the whole thing.

Now let me share some pictures of my students’ works and My Little Pony clay cake that I made.

Princess Luna and Princess Celestia

 Kayla (8yo)

 My little pony characters

Freya (6yo)

This is the clay cake that I made

 Rarity

 Flutter Shy

 Twilight Sparkle

Rainbow Dash

 Pinkie Pie

 Apple Jack

Kayleen is my niece's name, the birthday girl. I tried to imitate the logo of My Little Pony and alter the words into My Birthday Kayleen

 Here is the birthday girl ^^ 

 Kayleen loves Apple Jack the most

Happy Kayleen

I guess you might have noticed that the clay seems puffy and somehow the texture is different from those that I posted in my previous posts. Yes, it is because I used paper clay to make this. I use paper clay to teach my little students, too, because it is soft, pliable and has bright colors. Children love it and it is easy to sculpt, Paper clay is great for making flowers, fake sweets and figurines, but not durable enough for charms. I always glaze my work, and for this clay cake I use Padico Matte Sealer, You can see the picture in my previous post.

This is the Japanese paper clay which I am using to teach my little students. You can get this clay in Amazon or Rakuten

I will post tutorial on how to make little pony using resin clay in the near future...please stay tune ^^

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