This
week I am going to show you how to make some simple sliced cheese
for your dolls from polymer clay.
This
is a super easy project and you get to practice measuring out the
clay too.
The
first step is actually to decide how much clay you want to label as
“1 part” this will determine how much cheese you end up with. It
also allows you to make one slice or hundreds of slices. The
proportions of clay colors stay the same.
First
we will make some cheddar slices. I based the color on the color of
my favorite brand of cheddar. If you favorite brand varies in color
feel free to adjust the colors of clay to reflect that.
The
basic formula is-
8
parts white (I used Fimo)
2
parts yellow (I used Fimo Sunflower)
1
part orange (I used Fimo Tangerine)
You
can use the brand of clay you have just try to get colors as close to
what I used as possible. I think all the brands of clay have these
colors (by different names) in their lines.
I
cut my cheese squares to 1 ¼” because my slices of cheese in my
fridge were 3 ¾” a very easy size to translate to 1/3rd
scale.
Since
I needed a larger baking area than my normal paper plate would have
provided I baked on some parchment paper on a large tile. Without
the paper between the clay and the tile the bottoms of each piece
would have been shiny after baking.
For
the Swiss cheese the process is clay mixture is as follows:
8
parts translucent (I think I used Sculpey III, not sure they are
all in the same bag)
2
parts white (I used Fimo)
½
part yellow (I used Fimo Sunflower)
The
process for this one is almost the same as the cheddar you just have
to add the holes. I used a combination of some clay cutters and my
ball stylus. You can add as many holes you want. I have to watch
myself on this step, I tend to get carried away and add way too many.
Both
kinds of cheese are baked at 250 degrees (Fahrenheit) for about 5 to
10 minutes.
Now
wasn't that easy???
I
think we had better make the dolls some crackers next week to go with
this cheese.
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