I have always had a love affair with candy: especially chewy, fruity things like Starbursts or fruit snacks. I don't even take my vitamins unless they're the gummy kind. Maybe for this reason, I was craving sugary snacks all morning at work.
I went into the studio, picked up this basket of bottle caps and thought about what I could make with them. My head must be filled with sugar plum fairies today, because the first thought I had was about cake. The plastic water bottle caps looked like they could be the right size to make miniature doll house sized cakes. With acrylic paints, I 'frosted' them in several layers of chocolate and vanilla icing.
I picked out supplies that would be ideal for decorating mini cakes: tiny fake flowers, beads, glitter, paint and foam shapes. Translucent plastic pellets from a sun catcher craft kit were used as sprinkles on the the sides of a few cakes. The little eclairs with chocolate glaze (on the chocolate cakes) are made with leftover beads from my jewelry makeover post with some brown paint.
A hole punch is the perfect tool to transform colored foam into fruit slices with some paint. For the fruit covered pie, I used red heart shaped beads as strawberries, slices of kiwi, lime, lemon and peach punched from the foam shapes along with seed beads used as blueberries.
I also used brown foam to make tiny macaroons and heart shaped cookies. To create the rolled wafer cookies, I cut segments from an unfolded paperclip and painted them brown. Everything is held together with super glue and hot glue.
For other decorations, I used cream colored fake flowers, a pink rose earring (the mate was eaten by the vacuum) and melted caramel colored Pearler beads. The cherries are red seed beads with brown thread stems. I seriously want to eat them, but I know that they will make some little doll family very happy.
So inspiring I can finally face the fact that this is what I want to do with my work life and my 3D maker degree I gained 15 years ago Fab Heather!
ReplyDeleteThis would be perfect for the Barbie/Jem dolls I have. I plan on making tons of stuff for my parody doll comics and your ideas are totally inspirational! Now to incorporate these into a storyline! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this - I think I can do this too :D. I am wanting to make some desserts for my miniature house with things I have around the house rather than investing in lots of polymer clay supplies. Great ideas!
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