You are going to love sculpting these cute little elf figures! There is
absolutely no complicated sculpting of faces, hands or feet. It's all simple
shapes put together into this really adorable package, and speaking of
packages, the elves are both holding packages that actually open and you
could put a gift inside. What a fun idea! Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to another
Christmas polymer clay video at keepsakecrafts.net. When making your
little elf you can make him or her in any colors that you want. The first one I
did was in traditional Christmas colors. I used sculpey souffle in cherry pie,
Jade and igloo, and also it's nice to add in another color that just kind of gives
it a bit of a pop, a little brightness. So I use Premo wasabi for that and I really
like the way those look together. I decided for the next one to do a little
bit more non-traditional colors and so I pulled out sculpey souffle in royalty,
turnip and robin's egg. For an accent I chose Mai Tai. For the accent colors
both times I just chose something that was went well, contrasted nicely and was
a little bit bright. So to make our bodies we're going to take some aluminum
foil. I have here about a six inch wide by 12 inch piece, and just crumple it up
into a ball. You'll end up with about a one-inch ball and make sure it's nice
and round and smooth as you can. Yeah, the smoother and more round you make it, the
easier it is to cover smoothly. And we want to do this instead of using solid
clay because if you have a piece of clay that is this big, as big as his head, it's
very thick and you end up with cracking problems, and then you have to bake it a
long, long time, you would you end up with darkening problems. So it's better just
to have a ball of foil or something in the middle to help conserve your clay
and make sure you don't have any cracking problems, and you're going to
make two of these, one for the body and one for the head I decided that my
colors were just a little bit dark and I lightened them up a
little. I added three parts of the royalty to one part white to get just
this lighter purple. I did the same with the turnip to get just a lighter pink
because they tend to darken in the oven and these were just a little dark to
begin with and I added I think maybe one part white to make four or five parts of
this robin's egg just to tone it down a little bit. By the way you'll need
about an entire block of clay for the color that you want for the pants and
the hat and half of the stripey legs. Then for the shoes and the shirt and the
sleeves you'll need about half a block and you'll need half a block for the other half
of the legs as well as other accenting bits and then scraps for other things. So
we're gonna start by making our legs. Now the first ones I did were these candy
cane legs and they drove me crazy because red is one of the strongest
colors of clay it was very difficult to keep the red off of the white, it was
difficult to keep the white clean. So this time I'm using a fairly low
contrast mix for the legs, but if you have trouble with the red and the white
91% rubbing alcohol is your friend. You can just put that on, put it on
with a little brush, wipe it off and get yourself some nice clean white clay. So
take half of your mix that you're going to use for the pants and the hat and half
the legs and roll that into a smooth ball without any creases, pull off a
little bit of this in case you want to use it for something else,
and then do the same with the second color. In my first figure this would have
been red and this would have been the white. I really, the only other place I
used the white I think was on the pom pom for his hat mostly because the white
was driving me crazy getting all dirty. Once your balls are nice and smooth
without any creases go ahead and roll them into about 1/2 inch thick logs. I
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bonus tutorials every month. So once you have your two logs kind of just flatten
them out a little, this just makes it easier to get started on our twisty bit.
Put them on top of each other and now roll these into a round, and it's at this
point when you have all the rolling done so that this line between the two colors
is smooth again if you're using colors with a high contrast, this is the point
when you want to take your alcohol, put it in a little dish, get a brush, wipe it
down with the brush, and then wipe it off with a clean paper towel and if you're
using red and white, the red, will which is like will be this pinky haze on the
white, will actually come off. Also make sure to clean off your tile, clean off
your hands, try to touch it on the red part and not the white part because
astoundingly this clay will get into your fingerprints and then come off
later when you're conditioning clay. It's really amazing how persistent, especially
the red color, is. So once we have that now you can start twisting, just hold it
on one end and twist your hands in opposite directions. Don't let it get
too rough before you go ahead and kind of smooth it out cuz it'll get lumpy and
bumpy and I don't think his legs ought to be lumpy. Oh, that's cute, I like that.
So you keep twisting as much as you want so you can have as tight or as as wide
or as narrow stripes as you want to. To really smooth everything out I like to
use one of these, an acrylic block, this is for rubber stamping, but this does a
great job of just smoothing all of that out. Go ahead and cut that right in half
this should end up being about a half an inch or a little bit thicker. So we'll
set these aside for a moment while we make the body. For that you're going to
take your remaining purple clay or red clay or whatever color you've decided
you want for the pants and cover the ball with that, and then at one end you can go
ahead and let it overlap a little and be a little thicker. Let's take off the
excess, try not to trap air bubbles in there, and then roll this into a smooth
ball. Now I can sort of feel the end where that extra bit is and that is what
I want to roll up into more of an egg shape. So once you're happy with how
smooth that is take a look at your legs again. I think these legs look a little
thick for that body so I'm just going to take my acrylic roller and roll them down
closer to a half of an inch thick. I'm using my fingers to gently round this
and this will be underneath but if somebody were to pick up the figurine
and look at the bottom they would see it so I like to make it neat. It doesn't have
to be perfectly finished but at least a little tidy looking. Put those together
just kind of use your thumb to
squash those down. I'm going to make that kind of neat,
and now you can put the body on there. If there's one part that maybe looks a
little better or a little smoother put that on the front. Hey, cool.
And now you can trim you legs. I trimmed that mine so they are just under an inch
and a half from the front of the belly, so about one and three-eighths here, just
do what looks right and proportional to your figure, I'm gonna thin this end just
a little, sort of make an ankle, it just looks a little better to have it be
slightly tapered here. So do make that flat.
These you could use for another pair of legs or something else. I am just gonna
take my blade and shave off that part that kind of caved in as I was pinching
it so that we can stick the shoes on nice and neatly. Next I'm going to take
my blade and trim off some of the top of this because these are his, this
shape actually represents his pants and his shirt so we
need to cut off some. Here's a look at what we've got so far. I am going to take
my blade and cut off about 1/3 right about at that line, cut off that top of
the cone, and if the shape distorts when you do this that's okay, we can fix it.
And some of the foil may actually be in the way and that's okay we'll just cut
around it.
Fix your shape if you need to and then this cut edge you just want to take your
fingers and softly round it. Now the color I'm using for the shirt and the
shoes is a much lighter color so I'm going to get out a baby wipe and wipe my
hands down as best I can before handling this lighter blue. Take about half of
that color that you mixed, roll it into a ball, then you're going to cut off
somewhere around a third to a half of this. I think in this case probably close
to half, it really depends on where you cut this piece, how big it ended up and
then just kind of test it on there and see if that'll work. I think that'll be
just about right. So you kind of want to reshape that into round cuz it probably
got distorted when you cut it and I'm also using my fingers to soften this cut
edge, rolling it under and then I'm gonna pinch and squeeze and try to kind of get
a little bit more of a point up here, basically get it back to the shape that
we started with for the body,
more a bit of a cone like that. and let's see... that needs to be wider.
So I'll just try to match up the two shapes so they, so basically we'll make
one smooth teardrop, a little bit pointier than your average egg. Now I
have chickens and we actually get some really pointy shaped eggs, it's funny
how they'll come out, there's all these different shapes that you don't usually
see in the grocery store. And there, it kind of looks like he's got a shirt
tucked into his pants. Take my remaining blue clay, cut that in half, roll that
into whatever shape you need so that you can cut that pretty evenly in half, and
as always, roll it into a ball. So the shoes get rolled into a nice long pointy
teardrop and I suggest you do both of them at once, don't finish one shoe and
then go back and make the other because it can be hard to get them the same size.
It's actually at this point that you really can compare and see if you've got
equal amounts of clay. Once you have both of your long pointy teardrops just go
ahead and flatten maybe three-quarters of an inch to an inch around that bottom
end, hopefully you see where I'm going with this, put them side by side lined up
and that makes it easy to do this next detail which is kind of fun. Place your
clay blade, oh maybe a little under half an inch from the rounded end which
is, of course, the heel end of the shoes, press it down not quite halfway and then
bend it forward and you have just created little heels! Isn't that cute?
This is why I wanted this to be flat and I'm going to actually have a tiny bit of the
heel of the shoe sticking out, so you just place those on there like that,
just like that, and then this part is fun. You just take those little pointy ends
and curl them up.
That's funny, these have much bigger curls than the other pair, it's funny how
they all come out a little different even though you're trying to do the same
thing. Haha. So there's the shoes, aren't they're fun?
Those are cute. One more detail before we give this its
first bake and that's to add some, actually a couple more details, but add
some suspenders and buttons. I have a sheet of my royalty purple pants clay
rolled out on a medium setting about a 5 on an atlas, just a medium
setting, and I'm going to use my blade to cut a couple of nice straight strips
somewhere around a quarter of an inch thick. If you'd like these ends to be a little
rounded which i think looks nicer, one thing you can do is take a cutter, this I
think is a half inch, just under half an inch cutter, just tilt it at an
angle so that you can just cut that little roundy bit. Place them on like
suspenders, let's see if I can tilt this up for you so you can see what I'm doing.
So it'll overlap the pants by a little bit and go around the back over what
would be the shoulders.
Oh look at that, it did that for me. Crisscross it around the back
and then I'm going to put my finger under there and use the cutter so that
that's cut off. Oops! I was afraid of that, if you're doing it you won't be
picking it up so that somebody off camera can see it, so pieces won't be
falling off, but I'm trying to hold it so that you can see what I'm doing.
Here I'm just gonna use some of this blue and roll a little 1/8 inch ball, cut
that in half,
roll those into balls for buttons. Now you can just put on flat buttons but I
happen to have this stamp. It's a leather stamp, I'll have a link to it in my blog
post and it makes the cutest little buttons when you press into it just like
that. Now for the more traditional red and green elf
I made his buttons gold. I just dusted them with some perfect pearls in perfect
gold. You can leave your buttons as is but I'm going to just dust them with a
little bit of mica powder, we're using the color perfect pearl.
Oh that's purty, and then use whatever tool works for you, I found a craft knife
is great to slide under it, pick them up pop them right in place, just a little
bit of pearly shimmer but with the blue clay it matches. Let get this shape back, there we go.
That's probably the smarter way to do it, it would be to roll the balls, dust them
with mica powder and then press them on with this. Let me see, okay, I'm gonna add
two more balls and we'll see if that works better. Flatten them slightly cuz I
don't want the mica powder getting underneath cuz then they won't stick.
If you don't have the stamp you could just put them on like that and use a
needle tool to poke a couple little holes so they look like buttons. Let's see...
now that's on there,
that's pretty good, too. I think that's much neater. She's ready for the first
baking except for one thing, we want to make sure when we put her head on that it
doesn't fall off. No heads falling off of elves. So grab a
toothpick, jam it straight down through the aluminum foil ball and now go
ahead and bake this. I baked mine for an hour because this there's some fairly
thick areas, the legs are a half inch thick so that would warrant an hour
right there. So here's our little figure's body and legs and feet out of the oven. I
had to laugh when I went and compared the these feet with these. It's funny
how different they are but these are cute, too. So sometimes it's fun to just
try different variations on things. Obviously I used a lot more clay on
these and made the heels smaller.That's kind of funny, kind of goofy-looking, I
like them. So what you want to do now is grab a pair of pliers and trim that
toothpicks so if there's only about a half an inch sticking out, then go ahead
and pull it out and put it back in point up. This will make it much easier for
inserting and supporting the head. The next step is to add the head so you're
going to take your flesh color clay, pull off a bit for the nose, this guy got a
fairly big nose, you can make them bigger you can make them longer, you can make a
little teeny-weeny nose, whatever you like, but just pull off more than you
think you're going to need for the nose because the rest is going on to the head,
and I just realized I'm not actually rolling this into a ball I'm wrapping it
around the second clay core. I know I'm just gonna try to wrap it evenly this
time. So when you wrap... I know other people do this much more neatly than me,
when you see it overlapping, just kind of tear it off,
pinching it around, trying, like I said on the other one also, not to incorporate
air bubbles, and once you get one layer take the rest of your clay, this is about
an ounce of clay for the head and nose or half a package if you're buying it
that way, and this is, um, this is sculpey living doll I believe in baby. It's not
actually my favorite. I haven't found a favorite clay for sculpting doll colors,
they just all seemed so soft to me, they kind of make me crazy
they're so squishy and they often have to be leached but this will do for this
particular project. So obviously we've got to make that nice and smooth.
It's up to you, you can make your figure's head any shape you want. This
guy's faces is an oval, a little bit wider than it is tall, but you could actually
make it going the other way so you could have it taller than it is
wide, you could have it perfectly round, you could have it egg-shaped. It's going
to go like this and then grab an awl and jam it down in there, it's okay if you
come out the other end because there's gonna be a hat and that way you can just
put this right onto that toothpick. Now even though your figure is top-heavy
you're not gonna lose that head because of the support that is in there. By the
way, I put this here to remind me to remind you that when you put your pieces
in the oven things like this which are kind of heavy go ahead and just tuck
some batting into it, gently into it, you'll be able to peel it off, it may be
stuck on there when you take it out of the oven but you'll be able to peel it
off, but give it some support. This fella is leaning back a little so I made sure
when I put him in the second time with his big
I head on top then I put a bunch of batting all around him and the arms I
was a little concerned that they might slide off because they went
on last, and I put batting all around him like this and had him like up against
the foil container that he was baked in but then with the batting all around him
like this and under it supporting his arms. Just
because clay gets soft when it's in the oven and it's heating up it gets soft
and that is when it will slump. You can take some time and smooth out your head
a little bit more. Of course you don't have to put it on straight, you can put
it on at a little bit of an angle you can turn the head at an angle. So now
I've got my piece for the nose and I would say that is, well goodness, well
you know you could use, that but I think I'm gonna maybe give a slightly daintier
nose. I kind of like the little oval nose, so I just rolled a little oval and
I'm just putting that there lightly to sort of get an idea where it want it and
then we're going to make this exceedingly complex nose. No, kidding! Get
yourself a cutter, it can be any, it can be round, it can be oval anything you
want. You might want to practice on some scrap clay and see if you like what you
get. So I've got an idea where the nose is gonna go which is just about halfway
down the face. I'm gonna take my cutter and go below that and just tilt it at an
angle and press. Oh, that's a happy little smile! I have a needle tool which
I like to just poke into the corners of the mouth because it makes these little
dimples and now I can pop the nose on. Oh that's cute, that is adorable.
One of the things that made me think of this particular project is that I have
been making figure sculptures this year in 2017 and I consider faces, hands, feet
my worst enemies. They're just so much work, and when I saw this the simple
little face that's so cute and it occurred to me I could put the hands in
mittens, put the feet in funky shoes and have all the fun of making an adorable
little figure without all the trouble of sculpting a complex face. Although there's
something rewarding about that. So now what you're going to do is grab up all
of your remaining purple or in his case red or any color you want but I just
made his hat and his pants match but you don't have to, but you the way I've
measured it out for you is that the remaining half of that clay that is used
for his pants and his legs will be his hat. One more time I roll it into a
smooth ball. And this is kind of fun an very satisfying to do. So you' re going to first roll this into a cone,
don't let the wide end get too narrow,
you're gonna leave that fairly wide and we're gonna widen that even further, but
roll this out until it's pretty long, just keep tapering it out cuz this is the part
that we're gonna curl and spiral around to make his jaunty little hat. So, yeah,
somewhere around, yeah, five inches long.
Now this wide end, I'm gonna just kind of press that onto your work surface to
flatten it out a bit and then start to go in there with your fingers and open
it up. You can use a tool and awl will help you get started, just kind of crank
around in there, I find sometimes finger nails on... my long nails on my thumbs can
be a detriment be cause they kind of dig in instead of letting you get this
smooth transition. This tool is also useful for just kind of going up in there
sort of rolling... another tool that's useful for that although I wish
it was a little wider for this purpose is this Christi Friesen tool cuz it's a
nice smooth taper, you can use it as a rolling pin on the inside, but I'm always
watching this transition edge because what I want is a nice smooth taper. I
don't want big stair steps there, and I'm also gonna thin this edge down pretty
thin because that's the edge that'll be around your figure's face. So you just
keep working that, here we go and it's smoothing out and of course
what you want is to be able to pop that on the head and have it come down almost
to the nose. So that needs to be a little bit wider which I think will be just
right because this needs to be a little thinner so as I thin it out it'll get
wider, and up here it's starting to not be smooth so I'm just gonna roll that
some more. So this takes a little bit of time but like I said, it's very
satisfying that you just went from a ball of clay to this great shape and if
you have rough spots just stroke your fingers consistently. The
fingerprints will make, leave a texture but if you understand that and
don't do this so that you're leaving fingerprints, but if you do this, then
that's going to give you kind of a nice almost satiny smooth texture. So keep
going until you're happy with the shape and the size. I like the hat, that's fun. I
kind of like the head tilted a little. Oh, that's cute. All right, I just want it
to come down a little further so that it definitely looks like it's hiding the
eyes.
And this wants to curl this way, so you know what, we'll let it. It doesn't seem to
want to go the other way and that's just the way it wanted to curl, and so there
we go. I'll put that there, I could put a little
pom-pom there. Oh my goodness, that it's just the cutest thing. The only thing
remaining to be done is to add a little pom-pom. If you want to make it look
fluffy take your needle tool... I'm just gonna hold it very lightly, mostly
holding the bum in my hand cuz I don't want to wreck everything around the back...
and just stab it repeatedly. This one is behaving much nicer I must say then the
white. The white was giving me fits and it had all kinds of schmutz in it, when I
tried rolling it into a ball it pulled all the red out from my finger prints
and became pink, and... white clay it's just, it's tough. But this one's cute, I like
that. So now it's time to bake this but let's do one more thing first. We need to
get started on the present. Earlier you were looking at this fellow without his
arms. The reason is that you kind of need to get the gift all done and made before
you can add his arms so that you can get the gift perfectly positioned. Wou want
to get the gift going and get that baking because that actually bakes in
three steps. This is where your accent color comes in I'm going to use this,
that'll be really pretty. You need some kind of form. This is just
a piece of wood. You know, somewhere I have blocks of wood that my husband made
for me ages ago that I had in mind I wanted to use. They've been in the same
place for I don't know how long. I reorganized maybe a couple months ago
and now I have no idea where they are, so annoying. But all that to say find
yourself a block of wood. This I found in my husband's scrap pile and lopped
off just a small section and that's just a perfect sized gift. You'll want to
cover this smoothly with a little bit foil. As you're covering it think of
covering a present that you would cover smoothly rather than crinkling it around.
I'm going to get the bottom and two sides and smooth it and then I'm kind of
gonna tuck in these edges just like if you were wrapping a present you're
trying to make them smooth, the corners may not be perfect and what shows from, what
texture shows from the foil will be on the inside but you know, make it as nice as you can.
Oh, this is what I mean when you get the corners, that one behaved so nicely, I don't know why, but yeah, you
just do this, pinch in your corners, smooth them out, this crumpled bit down here
it's kind of a handle to hold it. Now when you wrap your clay around it you'll
be able to easily remove it because you'll be able to peel off the foil. So
whatever color that you want your present to be condition about a
quarter of a block of that and then roll it out on a medium like a number five
setting. I've mixed up and rolled out some colors for the gift box. This is the
Mai Tai which I don't know if you can tell I added a little bit of white to
just to lighten it up, this was also a scrap of the turnip this pinky color
that I added probably four or five parts white to, this will be the ribbon, and I
also rolled out some white on a very thin setting. I'll show you what I'm going to
use that for in a moment. So first I need to cut a strip that is the same width as
the package. These little quilting rulers are fantastic, I have found so many uses
for them for things other than quilting. You can cut one end square, then you can
wrap it around your box. So start at a corner, if you have some corners that are
cleaner than another, just try to start at a clean corner.
Smooth out that corner, if it's being stubborn you can use like a little
rolling tool, something smooth that will roll that nicely. Then set your box down on
your sheet and use your blade to cut around all four sides. Take a little
time to smooth out those seams. Now you can decorate your box in lots of
different ways, and this one I just used a rubber stamp.
I showed this in a Friday findings video recently it was a new one and I wanted
to play with it and I just used the same section on all sides and then I lightly
brushed it with some interference green perfect pearls. Now if you want a
perfectly fitting lid like this one you will have to bake it in three stages
like I said. First we bake the base and then we'll bake the lid then we can add
the ribbon and put it all together. This one I decided instead of doing the
texture which is cute but I had it in my mind to do polka dots and that is why I
have this sheet of clay rolled out as thinly as it will roll out on a number
nine on my pasta machine. If these edges get a little ragged, which they will
probably do especially if you add a texture, go ahead and take a minute with
your blade and you can just press them down. I wouldn't try to trim them, not
right now, it's hard to do with the foil all crinkled in the way but you can
smooth them out a little like this got kind of uneven and if it's really bad
after you bake it you can sand it and it's really easy, you just hold it upside
down on a piece of sandpaper. And what I'm doing with this because I'm not
adding a texture I've actually got this tool and putting it down on my surface
and rolling and that's doing a great job of not only smoothing out those sides, but
kind of crisping up those corners. Once you do have it all smoothed out you can
just add on some polka dots. Then you're going to bake your box and your figurine
with now the finished head and hat. The figurine bake for an hour. The box, of
course, being so thin if you think of it you could take it out sooner, and let it
cool for a few minutes, but it actually is easier to kind of wiggle it off of
the foil and the form while it's still a little bit warm. So although this project
isn't complicated, a lot of the steps take some time and this video is getting
to be really long so I'm going to stop here and then next week I will post part
two showing you how to add the rest of your sculpture and finish the box. So if
you're interested in the supplies I used you can click on the link in the upper
right of the video it's also on the lower left at the end or in the
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