How To Make A Sweets Deco Roll Cake

Deco Den Roll Cake Tutorial 

I was surfing around in my files and saw some old Japanese sweets deco tutorials scans. This one in particular is about roll cakes. I haven't been crafting like I wanted too in a while, but seeing these really gets me in the mood!

I have no idea what I'm going to do with all the materials I gathered a few years ago but I know that if I want to do something, I just have to do it. I really want to make my first sweets deco picture frame but I've been busy with so many things, I never got around to it. I really need to clean up my space first if anything, it's hard to be inspired if your crafting space looks like you're just moving in.

But in any event, if you have a taste for a REAL roll cake, especially a cute one, here is a super sweet tutorial from ochikeron on how to make one! Enjoy everyone!

Thanks for viewing and happy sweets crafting! 

Three inspirational sweets deco den blogs

Hey all, I just wanted to show you my favorite deco den blogs. I bookmarked a lot of blogs over the year. Yet, there are a few that I love to look at for inspiration, ideas, and just to lift my mood. All three sites are in Japanese but have pictures and crafts that are just to die for! The colors and materials they use is nothing short of amazing and I would love to be as good as them one day!

The first blog is the one and only Sweets Circle! The number one reason I love this blog is not only the great fake sweets but the tutorials and advice given on them. When I first stumble upon this blog I was amazed at all the tutorials and tips this person gave you. A lot of which is hard to find since deco den not overly popular in the states yet. Time and time again I found this blog not just inspirational but very informative as well, my favorite combination in any blog!

Candy Colored Ticket is my most recent favorite! If you want to see great sweets deco den work with resin then this is your blog. It never cease to amaze me how wonderful and creative her work is. It really pushed me to work with resin and other materials along with clay. The way she uses the clear resin to show off the bright colorful sweets in her accessories is nothing short of amazing! I'm always excited to see what she makes next and I follow her on twitter for her updates. Unique, colorful, and sweet is just the tip of the ice berg with it comes to this blog. You will be on her site for hours on end looking at her creations!  

Last but definitely not least Rainbow Cream! If you love looking at those small realistic details in sweets deco then look no farther. This is by far one of my top 5 favorites! It combines everything that I want to see in my work, detail, realistic look, and drop dead color!  I didn't know such sweets deco exists till I saw this blog. The first time I saw the blog I was looking through it for hours, I couldn't even help myself, I just had to see more! The part that I love most about Rainbow Cream's work is the realistic detail in it. The ice creams looks amazingly good as well as everything else. I was floored to know that it was fake and it was possible to achieve that level of realism! This is definitely the type to level and skill I want to get to in my own work. Making my sweets as real as possible was always on top of my list since I first started. Now seeing this blog gave me even more inspiration and respect for the sweets deco craft. 

 Rainbow Cream also has a twitter which you can follow here.

This was just the few of the many sweets deco blogs that I love to look at. I hope that this will bring even more inspiration to your crafts as it did mine. Thanks for reading and I hope you all have a great day!

Polymer Clay Icing for Donuts!

 (edit: if the text formatting it wonky near the bottom then blogger must of exploded on me. I tried to fix it with no solutions)

Hey there! Another week has passed so that means a new posting. Before I go into it you will notice that I changed the design of my blog! This super pink design is to celebrate the cherry blossoms and the coming of spring! I decided to "simplify" my graphic design style and do something more simple and clean. I loved how it turned out so I hope you all enjoy it to!

I want to show you my experiments with donut icing. I don't make donuts often or often enough, but I know there are several way to make icing for donuts. I'm a perfectionist so I always want my clay food to look as real as possible. I want to achieve that icing that's smooth, thin and well, perfect haha. I never went through all the ways I knew how so when I was looking at all my naked donuts I thought "This is my chance!".

The three donuts that you see are the three ways that I did it. I wanted to find a sure fire way that I can make that donut icing perfect all the time. That and just expand the ways I can make icings and glazes.

Before I go to the method that obviously worked I want to talk about the other two. The first method that I tried is what I normally use. I took a bit of some already made white icing made from white polymer clay and TLS. I revived its "icing" texture again since it was like a super soft clay texture from not being used and being dried out. From there I used a brown chalk pastel to color it, I didn't want to thicken it up again so I didn't use brown clay to colorized it. I used a small knife to shave as much pastel as I wanted in the clay then mixed it up. After the color was completely mixed in, I got a tooth pick to start laying down the icing on the donut. By the time the whole donut was covered with the icing I noticed that the icing was too "stiff" and I added more TLS to thin it out. It was easier to try to smooth over but again the icing was too stiff. So I did what I could to make it look nice and called it a day haha. Needless to say unless you like the "cake look" icing on your donuts I would skip this method for donut icing.

The second method was a really out there one that I wanted to try for about a year. This is more of a chocolate "glaze" look rather then an "icing". I took some Liquitex Gel Medium and added the same chalk pastel to it. I mixed it in really well since it got a little lumpy. After I mixed it all in I put the gel on top of the donut and try to smooth it out with a tooth pick the best I can. The end result when it dried was pretty good! It wasn't the perfect icing look that I wanted but I love how nice of a glace it turned out. Doing this specific experiment have open my eyes to the gel medium!

The last and best way to make donut icing is the same method I explained in the first process. But instead of using old icing clay, I used all TLS with "maybe" a tiny bit of clay to thicken it up. I just got some TLS and added the pastel. Then I mixed both up till I had the shade I wanted. Then I used a tooth pick to lay it on. I spread it around to all the areas till I had it the way I wanted. Since this was my second technique at the icing, I had the unbaked donut sitting around. So I the icing dipped down more while I was working on the other methods. So my tip here is once you get the icing the way you want it throw it in the oven asap! Or the icing will pour down onto the surface of whatever you got it on.

Overall, I learned a lot from this experiment and I'll definitely will be using my last method to sweeten up my donuts every time. I hope this was useful to all of you as well.

Before I go I want to give you all a sneak peak at some new rings that will be on sale soon. I like to call them "Yummy Rings" haha. I used some unused waffles and other clay pieces and made them into rings!

I hope you all enjoyed this post, take care!

Headphone deco tutorial wip and updates

Look time no post huh? Well a lot has happened since the last post. I gotten more commissions on latale. I started taking free angel card readings on a law of attraction forum that I go to with HUGE results. I decided to make my own website for my online store instead of Esty, and started the design the layout. Then I started getting stressed out by everything and took a break. My friend Brandon came over and after he left I got into a huge rut with everything I'm doing and such. Luckily, I didn't stay stuck there for no more then two days. Today I woke up like a totally new person! I'm back on track with everything and being positive again. The thing that helped me most get out of that rut was forgetting everything that was pissing me off and simply distracting myself from the world.  

With better news, I started (well set up is more the word) on my headphones deco and will do a tutorial on it! That and I made two cookie necklaces to celebrate Valentines day! I will post those sometime today. They are quite lovely too, here are wips for both projects. 

Don't they look good! *3*

These are pancakes from the left over polymer clay.

So through the troubled days I've been having a lot came out of it! I hope everyone enjoyed the post, take care!

Sweets Deco Macaroons Tutorial

How to make sweets deco macaroons

I love macaroons hands down. They are by far my favorite things to make in sweets deco so far. They just have this cuteness like no other pastry or sweet. Short, tiny, colorful and ever so sweet the macaroon! 

 

Another reason why I love making macaroons so much because they are super easy to make and decorate! Great for any decoden project from sweet frames to sweet hair clips. Whatever sweets deco adventure you’re on count on macaroon to get the job done! Top them with syrup, whip cream, crystals, cookies just to name a few things you can do the macaroon! 

If you want to be super adventurous with the macaroon try a macaroon tower! Who can deny such sweet awesomeness? Each one laid out one by one to create something beautiful, you can’t beat that.

I got all kind of tutorials some for air clay, polymer clay and even a video tutorial on macaroons.

http://community.livejournal.com/egl/11224061.html

http://gaiamini.deviantart.com/art/tutorial-3-french-macaroons-118741576

http://karen117.blogspot.com/2009/03/macaron-charm-tutorial.html

http://skookyspry.deviantart.com/art/Macaroon-Tutorial-Method-1-118680408

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWPH2fwD4CE&feature=player_embedded

http://www.miseducated.net/?p=2166

And a Japanese tutorial I found on Google while on my search!

Happy crafting!

Thanks for visiting my sweets deco macaroon tutorial post!

Polymer clay ice cream tutorial

How to make polymer clay ice cream

Soft served or out the container ice cream is surely one of my favorite treats. There nothing like making a charm of your favorite sweet cold pleasure! Better yet, a beloved flavor like cookies and cream (my fav) or what ever you want. They make really cool pendants, hair clips, and charm bracelets.

You can make the ice cream in bowls or cones. Add whip cream, fruit, cookies anything you want. The sky is the limit!

The clay store

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Video tutorials!

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Polymer clay strawberry tutorial

How to make a Polymer clay strawberry

Polymer clay fruit can be hard to make so when I saw a fellow blogger’s tutorial about making a strawberry I jumped at it! I never did make a strawberry before but know my confidence in making one has sky rocket seeing how easy it is to make! Now if only I can get my hand on making the cranes…

Anyway you can use this tutorial to enhance any jewelry accessory or charm you have in mind.

Stawberry charm Tutorial


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Polymer clay whip cream tutorial

How to make polymer clay whip cream

So if you saw my last post “polymer clay cupcakes” I think you know where going over.
“Polymer clay cream”

One the biggest challenges for beginners when it comes to making clay pastries are the icing/whip cream. I know when I wanted to start making cupcake charms I wanted to look realistic but really cute and the whip cream look is right on top of that list. But once again I have no clue how to make it; people want to keep it “secret” which makes looking for tutorials and ways to make it super hard. Do not fret; there are easy tutorials on making polymer clay whip cream and icing. Which I will show you and have links to.

First and foremost you will need TLS, Translucent Liquid Sculpey. TLS is just liquid clay that turns clear after its cured. You can use for a lot of things like.

Use is as a glue to mount clay pieces together.

Make clay whip cream/icing/syrup out of

Use it on your head pin before sticking it in your clay and baking it so the head pin it won’t fall out easily.

Transfer images on to clay (we’ll go over this later on)

The second thing that you will need is white polymer clay. A small container to mix it all in. last but not least some kind of thick stick or something to mix and mash the clay into the TLS.

Here are the steps.


Take some TLS and pour some in the container as much as you think you will for your cupcake.

Take some white clay (a nice equal amount to the TLS) to and soften it up as much as you can by shaping and molding it with your hands. The warmth of your hands makes it softer.

Break it up into small pieces and throw it in the TLS.

Now take your stick object (something that can smash and stir the clay up) and still smashing the clay into the TLS. It’s a little hard at first but you have to keep smashing till it turns into a creamy texture.

Depending how thick or thin you want the cream to be you can add more TLS or clay in it.
Take your stick or a tooth pick take some of the clay cream and start wrapping it on to your cupcake.

Play with the cream to make it a swirly shape farther till you’re happy with it.

Congrats you’re done! Easy stuff…


Now on to the video tutorials!


misslove889’s tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQG9JnqXLo8

GentlemanBunny’s tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG8YbRoXOqg

Who knew making whipped cream out of polymer clay was so easy!

Cute Clay Tutorials: A little more insight

How to make cute jewelry

I made Cute Clay Tutorials so that I can help people who have an interest in making such, cute things! I remember how I started getting into the whole charm thing and really wanted to start making my own. All the necklaces, bracelets, and cell phone trinkets , it was all so creative and I would do anything to start making my own. So did a little research or what was on the web at the time (about late 2008/early 2009) got my last 20 bucks and spend it on everything I could buy to get started. I got down and made a little charm of a chibi devil character. Cute yes, but I wanted to make some of food charms like cakes, ramen, ice cream, etc. I made one of those square chocolates but it didn’t out as well as I wanted. Not to mention I wanted to make a whole stock of candies and sweets like the ones on the net like.

http://notmaggot.deviantart.com/art/Pretty-Rose-Cookie-Pendants-96522988

http://oborochann.deviantart.com/art/February-Charms-47913634

http://blackmago.deviantart.com/art/Cute-Food-Paradise-charms-124155319

The only trouble was that I wasn’t skilled or knowledgeable enough to just start making them on my own, not enough tutorials and surly artists wasn’t going to tell you their methods right off the bat. Since then I searched up and down in books, websites, and forums to get all the details of making cute foods, charms, and jewelry out of ploymer clay to make my dreams come true in making a business out of it too.

I came a long way since then and I’m not a master yet, but I’m surly getting there. And with more and more valuable info finally getting shared in the internets I can only get better and I want to share them with everyone who felt the same as I did. Searching all over the web to get a little piece of info.

So now I want to put all the pieces in one place where anyone can come and get all the info they need to start this exciting adventure!

That’s how Cute Clay Tutorials came to be.

I’ll go over the basics on what you need to start like the polymer clay, paint, findings etc. Some simple beginner tutorials like cookies, candies, sweets, and beyond! I enjoy what I do and I love sharing the info so I hope you’ll give me a chance to show you step by step how to get there! :) So get your tools, creativity, and hands ready for an awesome ride.

Cute Clay Tutorials opening.

Welcome to Cute Clay Tutorials! This blog covers tips, techniques, and tutorials on how to make cute jewelry and charms. If you have questions that isn’t covered in cute clay tutorials feel free to email your question at cutefoodtuts@hotmail.com