Monday 29 April 2013

Leopard Spots - Soap challenge week 4

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This is so sad - the last challenge with Amy from Great Cakes Soapworks.and the rest of the world who joined in.

This was fun to do but I must say I had a few things test me.

  • Make sure you plan your project from colour to pouring to cutting BEFORE you start. I did my stripes the wrong way so had to cut my soap differently to make sure I had spots in the soap.
  • Make sure your piping soap is thick enough. Mine was too runny and I made a BIG mess. I had a great fragrance Cassanova that allowed me a long time to work.
  • Have fun with your colours. I was a little conservative using Brown pigment and Titanium Di Oxide

See the video on Youtube here.

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Sunday 21 April 2013

Soap Challenge, Mica Tops - Week 3

I am LOVING all the challenges, thanks Amy from Great Cakes Soapworks.

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This was really a fun challenge and I learned a new technique which I really love and will definitely do more of. I love the shine of the mica on the top of the soap but I will add more next time. I think I was a little conservative. More is better.

You can see the short video here

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Tuesday 16 April 2013

Swirling M&P soap

A few weeks ago I posted about swirling Melt and Pour and I promised to show the video making it. I started the soap challenge with Amy from Great Cakes soapworks  and so I didn't post this as promised. Well here it is.

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You can see the video here. I hope you don't get see sick - the angle is a little off.

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Monday 8 April 2013

Pumpkin festival - What fun

Yesterday was the annual pumpkin festival in our area and as you can see there were a lot of fun entries. Mine is the tiny one on top of the VERY large one. I cheated a bit because mine is actually a SOAP. But hey they didn't specify that it had to be edible!

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See here how I made the soap:

I decided to make a a mould for my pumpkin soap as I did not have time to search for one. I used a plastic pumpkin that I had bought last year for a photo prop. I am glad it came in handy again.

I used a different product to make my mould this time. It is something called Flexy Fast moulding putty and you can buy it from Bramble berry. I have to say it is not the easiest stuff to work with and OMG is it sticky. I think I read somewhere that I should not use silicone gloves. So with this in mind I used silicone gloves. What a mess.

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The cute little pumpkin that I based my mould on. Mixing part A and part B

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Mixing and mixing then realising it was really sticking to the gloves.

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No way was I going to waste it so I took an old knife and scraped it all off the gloves.

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The knife worked so well I decided to use it to mix with, so I scraped it all onto a piece of brown paper and mixed away. Much easier.

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I then used the knife to spread it onto the plastic pumpkin and then I moulded it so it was evenly distributed.

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I left a hole at the top - which would be the bottom of the pumpkin when made up.

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I have to say this was fun but pretty messy. I am sure I probably did something wrong - hence the mess. But all's well that ends well.

You can also see my other mould making escapades here, here and here. There are also some textured moulds here 

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