A little update

I've been working on a restock of my current charms. After that I"ll work on the new styles I want to do. For now this is where I am at. I have a long way to go.

As always I usually post updates on these sites as well.

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kristelskreation
Deviantart: http://kurisuteru.deviantart.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriadaya
Tumbler: http://omenswolf.tumblr.com/

Way too long...

I wasn't intending to be gone so long. Honest.

Life too a turn for the crazy.

I'm back now though as the dust settles.

And I didn't come empty handed. Unfortunately there isn't a construction aid this time, but I'll get around to one soon,

For now it's just updated images.

These charms will be sold at Emerald Valley Comic fest in eugene in two weeks.

They all still need detail work, but so far I like them.

How about you?

Another Dragon

Just a quickie post.

This guy just poped out of nowhere. I was mostly just playing with clay, trying to get rid of that brawn. No matter how much of it I use it just doesn't depreciate lol.

Overall he's cute, but I might do more painted detailing on him.

Current events

Things are quite hectic here as usual. We've been hunting for a home quite hevily and finally, hopefully found one.

*crosses fingers*

In the mean time. I've been trying to get refocused for Seadogs in July. To do that I've been making another series of dragons. Little pirate dragons.

The links to some tutorials on how I started are in this blog post: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8755801839259003474#editor/target=post;postID=3842668546627630216;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=39;src=postname

And quite a few more momma dragons too. 

Anf finally a new thing. Dragons in an egg. 

Hopefully people will like them at Seadogs.

Making Molds Round 1

Hello Everyone! I'm so sorry I've been absent for so long. I hope you weren't waiting too long. There are tons of great bloggers for crafts out there.

However, today I'm doing a post on making molds. There are many different ways to do this, but I'm doing silicone ones.

This is one of the myriad of videos I followed to make my putty with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aElFs2XsOHo

A quick search on youtube will bring up many more. It's fine to use one you're more comfortable with.

My ingredients/tools are:
Dap silicone100% silicone. It has to be 100% or things go wrong
Corn starch and a binder
oil. veggie oil is suggested, but i used penut oil. seemed to work the same
a tub to mix them in
and a mixing implement.
Things to make molds of
some sort of coloring agent if you don't want them to be white.

Now then. first a formost wear GLOVES! This crap is sticky. I probably did this round wrong, severly wrong. I also got the wrong color of silicone.

If you look closely my molds are cracking. I don't know where it went wrong but the drying process went really fast. That's not good when you wanna make a lot of molds.

Overall this is going to be a few parts post. At least untill I get this right. Not everything works out the first or even second time.

So keep an eye out as i try again.

Comments, questions, advice are always welcome. :)

Absence and Horns

Sorry dear readers. It's been a rough start to the new year. My husband began a new job, a bunch of bills pilled up and have been taking their toll. The house is up for sale. I've been working small events that haven't brought in much. And the big event I was lookign forward to exploded. All of this didn't add u pto the doctor visit.

Yes, I went to a doctor.

The world blew up from there.

You see I haven't been to a medical facility in years. However my husband decided it was high time to do something cuz I was and am having a hard time focusing, had massive head aches, and terrible moodswings. And I"m not pregnant!

Thus something was off. I've always known something was off, but never worried about it. Long story short manic depressive with high spurts of manic.

Steps are taken.

In the mean time I said there would be horns.

Doing these is very very simple. It's just a lot of twisting and playing around. It's a great beginner craft for clay.

New dragon style

This is really just a quicky to show of the new dragon. I have a few blogs in the works, but things have been hectic here. This one is a lot lighter than the last ones as she has a tinfoil core. It really does help spread out your clay, especially when those bricks are rediculously expensive.

Dragons!

I dabble in a lot of various crafts. You'll see a lot of different things from me over time on here. It all depends on my moods, my interests, what's needed from me, what's wanted, who's asking for something, etc.

At this moment I've had a request for mini dragons out of clay. Now if you do any sort of searching on etsy, deviant art, or any crafting site, various types of dragon statues will show up.

Some amazing creators are http://dragonsandbeasties.deviantart.com/, http://angeniac.deviantart.com/, and http://ninafimocreations.deviantart.com/ to name a few.

Furthermore, with a little patience, and some help from tutorials on deviantart you can make anything. For the dragons I'll be making I used this tutorial. http://www.deviantart.com/art/HTTYD-Toothless-Clay-Tutorial-238606963

In my attempt to have fun and learn to make a few of these for friends I may have...gone a  bit over board! :)

Since I linked the tutorial above this will be less of a tutorial in it self and more of a I just had fun post. When I make these I generally work on the heads first. In this round I figured out different styles of eyes. While i was using dots before, here I used slits.

 After the eyes I work on the horn designs. There are so many different ways to do these it's really up to your imagination. Dragons and Beasties linked above has tons of different ways she does horns, but I don't recomment copying styles. Lookign to learn is good but coming up with your own horns and spots can be fun too.

 After heads were done with horns and eyes the heads got put on the bodyies. Then I began exploring different styles of designs on the bodies.

 This one got little purple stripes and the bottom one got black stripes.

In this pic I show these little guys after firing. It doesn't change much in looks, but they are fairly solid now. I put them in at 275 degrees for about 30 minutes.

This last pick is after they've been glazed and I let them sit overnight to dry. I think I might need to reglaze them or something. I'm not very sure one coat is enough? maybe it is.



Overall, there's many different styles that can be done and this is really easy, with a little patience, to build.
Feel free to ask questions, leave comments, etc. I"m always up for a chat!