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DIY Silcone, Whipple Cream Frosting & Polymer Clay Experiment
Experimentation with mediums & frosting polymer clay tutorial
Welcome Crafters! I made a YouTube video of the various mediums I used to make frosting for my miniature food charms. I encourage all here to watch the video above. My tutorial included experiments stemming from some burning questions that I had about different ways to make frosting for diy polymer clay miniature food charms. Specifically I was looking for a less expensive and easier way to make frosting. Usually I make polymer clay frosting from sculpey liquid clay and fimo decogel. But I had never tried whipple creams or silicones. Here are my results.
Air Dry Whipple Cream: I used a brand from Clay House called Clay Cream. It came out of my Wilton 16 frosting tip beautifully. It was not messy or gooey to work with. The texture was beautiful and very matte. It felt almost chalk-like. Did it work? Yes and no. This air dry clay did not sufficiently bond to the layers of my strawberry layer cake and the frosting on top would not stick at all. I used a little gorilla glue gel and it bonded just fine. Next up was the strength test. I wouldn’t recommend air dry whipple cream clay for jewelry and heavy charm wear. It is not as strong as liquid sculpey frosting. Can you fixit and make it stronger? Well, kind of…. You could add UV resin to coat the frosting. But in doing this you will loose the pretty matte finish. What air dry clay is really good for is light-use dollhouse miniature polymer clay food. It has a beautiful texture and look. It just doesn’t have the strength for jewelry in my humble opinion.
Silicone Frosting: There are two kinds of silicone caulk to choose from. One is Silicone I & the second is Silicone 2. I had tried Silicone I with polymer clay and metal with excellent results as seen here in the tutorial with the whipped cream and strawberry frosting necklace. Silicone I takes a day to dry. This time I tried Silicone II. It is advertised as a quick dry 30 minute caulk. The results: I LOVE IT. It worked just as well as Silicone I, and dried faster. Both Silicone I & II stink, & they are messy. I recommend a well ventilated area and using gloves while working. If the caulk is sealed after use if may be used again. Note: You may use paint to color the silicone, but this does make the silicone seize up faster and become hard to pipe, so work fast if you add paint to either clear or to white caulk.
Bake-able DIY Whipple Cream: Bakeable whipple cream is a lightweight marshmallow textured polymer clay that bakes at 275 degrees farenheight. I used a quarter sized amount of Elmer’s Glue to a 1.5 inch cubic segment of lightweight clay, and just a tiny bit of water. I tore the clay first into tiny bits and added a teaspoon of water slowly. It really didn’t start mixing well and turning into a paste until after I added the glue. My mistake was adding too much water. Now I believe I should have only add a bit of mist to the clay with water from a mister spray bottle. Yes, even 1 tsp. was too much water. But, I did make a frosting that looked identical to real whipped cream on my first try. The result: BEAUTIFUL! STRONG! CHEAP! I’m all about bakeable polymer clay whipple cream. Using too much water made it more viscous and the grooves in my icing tip didn’t show up very well, but that was all my error. I am positive that using less water (or perhaps just using glue and no water at all) will result in a thicker whipple cream that holds the shape of the frosting star tip. I have great confidence this will work.
Polymer Clay Liquid Sculpey: All I have to say is that it’s awesome, but I wanted to try something different. Liquid clay and TLS is strong, easy to use, and old liquid frosting can be revived by adding more TLS. I have experienced a brittle crumbling type of frosting when the frosting is spread too thinly, and too much TLS or liquid sculpey is used with not enough clay. This is rare though.
Conclusion: TLS, fimo decogel and liquid sculpey can be pricey. That’s why I was thrilled with how easy and cheap it was to make bakeable lightweight clay frosting. If your store your DIY bakeable whipple cream in an airtight ziplock it will last a few months. You can add a little more water to it if it gets too dry.
Also Silicone I & II are great! They bind so well to polymer clay. Silicone II should be used for quicker projects as it sets in 30 minutes.
As a miniature food polymer clay artist, understanding frosting in different media is crucial to making high-quality strong and durable charms. Know your media!
-Nice Tutorials on Mixing Air Dry Whipple and Mixing Bakeable Whipple Cream works the same way:
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