Peachy

'Today I am making little peach tarts to go in my cake tin. I used Super Sculpey sculpturing compound for the pastry as I had a huge block of it to use up. It's a little different in texture to Sculpey 3 so hope I can still get good results.

After lining a pastry tin with the pasty I first also lined the pie with scrap clay which is a little darker than the peaches. I then cut rough peach shapes by making a ball and cutting it into segments. The clay could probably done with resting in the freezer as it distorted easily but I figured this wouldn't show under the glaze. The glaze was made by mixing pastels shavings with Liquid Fimo.

I added the glaze with a pointy tool generously coating it.

The top was made by weaving thin strips of clay.

These were then coloured with pastel shavings and pressed onto the pie. I carefully cut a slice of pie and added extra glaze to the pie dish to look like sauce oozing out. 

Today I am making carrot cake. I started by mixing orange and flesh and light brown clay roughly. Carrot cake has quite a few tones in it so didn't mix the colours thoroughly so,they would all show.The circles for the cake are 2cm in diameter and I cut 4 to make a taller cake. 

All the cake slices were brushed with powdered pastel with a brush to simulate the baked look and a slice cut out of each, I cut this before assembling the cake otherwise the icing would squeeze out (I found this out the hard way!!!)

I iced each cake layer separately to avoid squashing the icing out. The edges of the cake were textured with scrunched up foil,and a needle tool, to resemble crumbs. I assembled the cake and added tiny tiny carrots. Tada!!!

This is my tiny little online cake tin where I will be showcasing all the polymer cakes I have been making. It will be a way of collecting all my pictures together and charting my progress as I develop my skills.