Have you ever admired those cute sculpted fairy dolls and wished you
could make one yourself but didn't know where to start? If so I have a product a
kit with instructions that you might find helpful. Hey there creative
people, Sandy here with another Friday findings video at keepsakecrafts.net.
So when I recently saw that Apryl at makingfairies.co,was putting out
sculpt boxes I was intrigued and she sent me one to review - it's a pretty
clever idea each month there's one project that you get all the supplies
and instructions for all sent to you in a box - just like all the boxes that are
so popular these days - the one she sent me is flower Pixies - one of the things I
love about this project is that Apryl made one and her friend Sherrie made one
and you get instructions from both of them - that's really helpful because while
their projects are very similar they do have slightly different approaches and it's
nice to see that and I'll get into more of that in a bit -so what you get in the
box is some DVDs you also get access to this same instruction plus more and I'll
talk more about that in a minute too online so you get the two DVDs on these
two DVDs I believe this one is an hour long and I think this one is two
and a quarter hours long so you get a lot of instruction some of its redundant
but it's great to have up in front of you as you're working so you can refer
to it - by the way you'll find Apryl on YouTube her channel is Aprylian -sorry I
don't know how to pronounce that: Aprylian, Now in the box one thing you get is
a big chunk of pro sculpt polymer clay - I'm really excited about using this
Apryl and a couple other doll artists that I'm familiar with swear by Pro
sculpt and I've wondered if some of my frustration with sculpting comes because
I'm using the wrong clay so I'm excited and this is enough to make a lot of
these dolls - so once you get the hang of it you can make but a bunch more and
then in the box you also get a whole bunch of
materials for making your doll. Now I will have to say I would have found it
really helpful if they had had a supply list explaining what the things are for,
example in her YouTube video April mentions this product and she says will
tell it she'll tell us more about it but she never really does not in any of the
videos I've watched - now I did watch all of the DVDs but then there were more
many of the same ones online and there might be another one where she talks
more about this but I didn't have time to watch it I watched three and a
quarter hours and of the DVDs. You get wire to make your armature as well as
some foil tape and this was one thing when I was watching the DVD I there were
no explanations for how to make the armature, it just suddenly appeared but
online there are directions and you can also download this, this I printed out and
just cut out and Sherrie shows how to use that and the lengths to cut these and
how to wrap it to make the armature for your little pixie which is about five
inches tall so that's helpful and of course this is information you can use
in future projects for making armatures. I've made armatures different ways this
is a good way so it's good to just add them all to your toolkit. This is batting
for wrapping your doll again Sherrie shows how to do this Apryl and Sherrie both
show how to use the clay in sculpting a head and the hands Sherrie shows how to
sculpt boots and also how to use this bias tape to make little cloth covers
for the boots which is pretty cute and these are eyes that Sherrie made so you
get those in your kit which i think is pretty awesome and I can't read this
Sherrie N. Gilson I think so you can look her up and I believe she sells
these eyes, they're kind of a pretty green yellow which makes sense for a Flower
Fairies so that's a nice kind of special thing to get in the kit. I mean you could
obviously go to the fabric and store buy piece of bias tape or buy some
flowers but those are nice to get, you also get a few flowers which you know
she kind of shows how to use but you can also use other things. I don't remember
what this wire is for, again it would have been nice to have a packing list so
that we'd know exactly what everything is. I think April mentions this in the
video that these are for antenna but I don't think either of them use them I'm
not sure about that - this is for hair and they don't show how to use this for
making the hair - somebody did refer to a video that Apryl put online showing how
she did hair but even that video kind of had details left out - this is a pretty
cool product and there actually is an information sheet in here so that's
helpful because it's something I was totally unfamiliar with it's China paint
and it's a powder and I guess it's, you can see the teeny tiny amount you get
in there but she says it's very very concentrated it's often used on
porcelain and china dolls and plates so if you like them they show you where you
can purchase more. So I think that's everything you get in the kit, now let me
talk a little bit more about the instruction because for the price that
you pay really the instruction is the most valuable thing. You know most of
these things with the exception of the eyes the china paint you know these
things and the wire and the batting I have around my house. I have clay
although I'm excited to try this brand which you can't find in like Michaels or
anything you have to order it online, yeah these things you know these I have
all of these in my house that I could assemble but it's nice to kind of have
it all assembled for you. Really what I think the most valuable thing is the
instruction, now when I watched the DVDs I was a little bit dismayed, I hadn't yet
gotten the information to log in to the online course and the DVDs seemed rather
disorganized to me they don't have any chapters on
them so if you just had the DVDs you could find it very frustrating you might
have to make your own notations as to where the sculpting for the head is and
where the sculpting for the hands is and where the costuming... oh and I missed this
one speaking of costumes this also came in the kit which is kind of fun this
fabric was interesting Sherrie and Apryl use the this a little bit differently in
their two projects so I thought it was kind of fun to see different ways that
they did the costuming - oh that's what this wire is for I just remembered this is
for making the wings that's right, Sherrie shows a really cool way that she
used that she makes wings. Back to the DVDs I thought it was a little bit
confusing it was all mixed up so I was really happy when I went online and I
was able to download my armature pattern because I was looking at the DVD like
What? So I was able to download and print this and online you have everything
that's on these two DVDs plus some, online you have directions for building
your armature you have a few more things that were missing in the DVDs the only
thing that I was hoping to find online that I didn't was how to put the hair on
the doll everything else was there and it was separated into sections so you
could see Apryl making the head part 1 Apryl making the head part 2 Sherrie
making the hands Apryl making the hands and so on so it was much better
organized online so if you're not online if you're in a situation where you don't
have internet access the dvds are a great resource but hopefully you'll be
able to access the online information and have a little bit more easily
accessible and organized. So I'm going to take my kit and have a little fun and
build myself a flower pixie. So here's my little flower pixie mostly done it was a
cute little project to make I'm not a hundred percent thrilled with it I
think largely because not because there was anything wrong with the box but just
because it wasn't my own project and it wasn't I didn't really have my own clear
vision for what I wanted to do with it. So I just sort of used what they had and
used some of those suggestions, changed some things to do it my way and I
suspect if I were to use the hands and the head and the shoes and remake it in
my own vision I'd probably be much happier, that being said it was a really
cute project a great way to get into sculpting if it's not something you've
done before and you could use some direction. The instructions were
excellent, I thought. As I said Sherrie and Apryl both teach most of the parts
there's some things that you only get one of. Apryl tends to zoom in very
closely but not explain every detail she does and Sherrie explains in great detail
which is fantastic but she is quite zoomed out so we can't always see it - so
between the two of them I thought it was a pretty good learning experience. There
were a few things they didn't explain how to do, like how to use the hair. I've wigged
dolls before although you couldn't tell by this one I was kind of in a rush to
get this done so I could do the video. I didn't put the wings on because they're
not dry. I sort of followed Sherrie's directions for making the wings but then
ended up using Pebeos and they're not dry, so so yeah that'll have to come later.
Just to show you what I had leftover I had this much of the clay left so that's
like all I used so you can definitely make a lot more use it if you're new to
sculpting then this is just press and seal that will protect it if you're new
to sculpting don't be afraid to practice. I've sculpted many heads and faces well
not many a good handful and this was my fourth go
and I still wasn't a hundred percent happy with it. I will warn you I tried
something that they suggested in the videos and I've seen suggested before
which was to get your face to where you want it and then take a heat gun and
heat set it before moving on to the next step - that's
a great idea because then you set your features and you can't wreck them.
However what you can do is forget that it's just the surface that's cured and
that the clay underneath will still move and when you forget about that and start
squishing and pressing you end up with cracks which really showed up through
this China paint the blue and green powders that I showed you earlier that's
what's used to paint the hands and the face. I opted to just do plain clay boots
and I didn't cover them with the seam binding but Sherrie shows you how to do
that you have little cloth boots. So this
forehead, I think it looks like a little man, his forehead is kind of a mess so so
do be warned of that that if you're heavy-handed which I can tend to be and
I get lost in what I'm doing and I forget that I'm holding it and I end up
mashing it I think I prefer to do my usual method which is to just do a full
bake in between every step and not the partial baking. I'm sure if you're doing
production work that saves their way saves a lot of time. So I thought I'd
show you what I had leftover from this project: I didn't use this for the boots,
that fine wire was for the wings, this was all I had left of the foil tape and
that was a pretty good method for making an armature I'd never done it that way
before I liked it I didn't use much of this I only used a little tiny bit so
this will go in my doll making supplies. I used most of the fur for wigging
although don't know that I would use this again
for wigging I've done other things, little bits of the flowers left I used a
little bit of I think I have a tiny bit of the China paint left I don't know where
I put that. Now neither Sherrie nor Apryl showed how to use these little
antennae. I'm not even sure what this is actually yeah I think these are meant to
be for antennae because they had in mind to make sort of a bug like creature but
neither of them showed how to use them and I didn't think of it either,
although Sherrie shows how to sculpt on a little antenna on her creature see, oh no
in the photo they're on, okay but they don't show it in the video that I saw at
all - and almost enough wire left to make another one and lots and lots of clay. I
loved using the eyes that was really cool.
So all in all if you're learning how to sculpt and you want to learn how to
sculpt figures and you like having all the materials assembled for you then I'd
recommend it. I think it's a fun thing to get in the mail a fun project, and since you
spent money on it it's kind of an incentive to practice and and work on
these things. So thank you so much to April for sending along the sculpt box
for me to try out, it was a fun little project and I enjoyed learning a few
tips and tricks that I didn't know already. So if you enjoyed this video and
you're interested in sculpt boxes go to my blog post where I will have a link
for how you can get one yourself. Thanks so much for watching, happy creating, bye
bye.
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