How to make fruit pieces from clay

This is my second tutorial for my Sweets Deco Series, the reason I made this tutorial because I personally like to decorate with them and it is not that hard to make. I want to share my experience to everyone so they can also make them instead of buying. When I first start making sweets deco, I aways want to make realistic fruits, but it is not easy to find the 'how'. After searching on the internet and research on other artists's creation I finally figured out the way to make it. It is easier than you think, so please do give it a try! I hope this would help all the clay crafters out there, and hope you enjoy this tutorial!

I used homemade cold porcelain clay, and coloured them with acrylic paint. I make lots of fruits at a time and let them sit on a foam board to air dry for one day. These are not big objects so it dries fast however it also depends on the humidity of the area you are in. 

These are the blueberries I made after filming the video because I had left over clay. The photo doesn't look nice to me because of the red stain on the toothpick left by the strawberries. =^=

So here is the tutorial, enjoy!

Happy crafting!
Lisa

Fancy Fruit Macaroon Charm

This is the most fancy macaroon charm I have decorated, and I really like it!! I like to have alot of fruit pieces, the chocolates and sprinkles made it extra cute! I feel more confident in decorating now, I used to make so much of these bases and tarts but was scared to put them all together. The total time to make this charm all together took me about one hour to one and half hour, excluding the drying time ( I used homemade cold porcelain clay, it is an air drying type). I am really excited to make more of these. 

This is now available in my shop! 

And a little promotion here, type in: HAPPYPUFF to get 25% off total sale! 

More cute crafts coming soon, have a Merry Christmas!!
Lisa

Pink Heart Fruit Cake Tutorial

I made this cake February this year- the Valentine's season. I wanted to make something really girly and sweet. I took some photos of the work process but never got to post it. This is not a tutorial because I forgot to take photos started from the begining, so this is the process when I made only the cake. I will have tutorials on the felt fruit pieces up soon. 

The cake needs a template, I traced over a heart shape and drew on a piece of cardboard, and that shall be my base.

To make the body you need to trace over the cardboard to a piece of white and pink felt and cut out one heart shape each. They are going to be the top and the bottom of the cake.  

Cut a strip of pink felt that has the enough length to cover the heart shape, it is best to leave an extra of 1cm because you can always trim it off at the end. The height of the pink strip can be whatever length you want. Sew the white heart to the pink strip and the pink heart together, but leave a space to insert the filling. Then cut a wavy shape white strip and attach to the white heart and the pink body. 

That's what it looks like when you finish the above steps. I filled in the white strip pockets, you can skip this step if you want to.  

Place the heart shape cardboard into the cake to give it more support. 

This is the cake without the cardboard support, it is not flat and hard to place the fruit pieces on.  

So cut out another heart shape and put it on the top, now the surface looks smooth and clean. 

Insert the stuffings, and now sew off the edges. 

As said before, I left an extra 1cm to my body just incase if went wrong. However the came was sew perfectly and now I can trim it! :D

Sew off the end.

And now it's done! Ready for the toppings! 

I feel like this wasn't a well explained post, if you have any questions just comment below. I will try my best to help you. Any requests are welcome too~  

Have fun crafting!

Lisa