Air Dry Adventures 2

I recently purchased some Creative Paper Clay. This material had me at Air Dry so wanted to experiment with it. I LOVE cloud clay and Makin's Clay but wanted something that I would be able to build on and work with a bit longer and would still give me that Air Dry bonus! SOOooooo, here are a couple of things I have made thus far and am in the process of letting them dry before painting them. These were taken a couple of days ago so the painting will start very soon. I am giving them 48hrs to completely dry before attempting the painting process. Now you can put your pieces over a heat vent if you want to speed things along, place them in your oven according to manufactures instructions which I believe is 250degrees for 30minutes. NOW, let me warn you that if you are using Styro Foam for your body armature do NOT use the oven at this temp. I used it at "warm" with the door cracked. My BIG MISTAKE was closing the door even on "Warm" (my oven has to be nuclear powered) which then caused the foam to begin to contract and distort. Nothing that couldn't be fixed but good to know lol.

My snowman is the first picture at the top, LOVE snowmen so of course we had to come up with a couple lol. Trisha is my LadyBug fairy doll and she is the second picture with her wings being the third pic. My little Snowman bust is really cute and came out just fine even after the Oven debacle. Will post pictures soon since some of the stuff had to be fixed so we are waiting for it to dry completely. Trisha has come away basically unscathed so I have started painting her already. Will keep you posted! Lj