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Edit: this is not the ‘normal’ way of doing strawberry slices. Painting air dry clay is common in Japanese deco books and sites, but with polymer clay this is not how you’re really supposed to do it. With polymer clay you are supposed to make a cane and slice strawberries off it. Here is a thread with many links on different ways to do the cane. Personally, I have failed at every attempt to make one and instead of wasting more clay, I decided to find an alternative way.
Guys, I was just reading one of my favourite sweets deco blogs and found that they had written a strawberry slice tutorial today pretty much identical to the way I do it. It’s here.
The general premise is that you make a long sausage out of your clay and then shape it into a long triangle shape. Then paint the outside of the cane with red acrylic paint. After that, slice the cane into small slices, and then using really diluted red acrylic paint, paint the outer edges of the slice red like a strawberry.
Some notes about doing strawberry slices this way:
- This uses air dry clay, which is what I use also to make my strawberry slices. After years of failing horribly at making polymer strawberry canes, I gave up. The air dry clay I use for this is a Japanese brand called ‘Grace’ which dries translucent. It seems that she is using Modena clay, which I personally haven’t tried yet.
- She, being an incredibly patient person, actually bothers to make the white ‘veins’ inside the slices. I’ve read over and over again as to how she did it, and she just says that she used a ‘fine point brush to draw lines from the outside to the inside’, but I don’t know whether with paint, or water, or while the paint is still drying? I’m sorry, but I personally don’t do it so I have no idea how you could do it.
- I don’t bother to poke seeds on the outside either.
- If you want to do this with polymer clay you’d have to work very fast. Since you can’t bake acrylic paint you’d have to bake a long sausage of translucent clay first, then quickly while it’s still somewhat soft out of the over paint the outside red and slice while still sort of soft.
Anyway I hope this helped, any questions please ask me 
. I’m sorry I didn’t make a proper tutorial for this, the reason is because I really hate making them, and I also wanted to plug a favourite website of mine. I’m sorry.
I’m so sorry about the camera issue… it wasn’t really a technical issue, I just couldn’t find my charger haha… but i’ve found it now, so i’m back! So I said berries were up next on this sweets deco tute but I just remembered that I already have a tute for strawberries and blueberries. So i’ve updated the existing one here with an additional raspberry tute. Therefore today’s tutorial is actually the final one: how to put it all together . Yay!
Sorry i’ve been a bit late with this one… I got my med exam results and they’re not good. Not bad… but not good. My mark is very borderline, so I might get in or I might not, there’s no way for me to know whether i’ve made it or not until later this year. So i’m a little upset about this, it’s a bit devastating after all the work you put in. It’s taken a lot out of me and right now i’m not in the mood to do anything else including deco. Moooo. Ah well, i’ll get over it eventually. Today’s tute is on biscuits and wafers. I realised that when I wrote ‘wafers’ I was kind of ambiguous… I’m sorry if anyone was expecting a cream sandwich wafer as opposed to a stick wafer!
Anyway onto the tute:
It’s really, really cold right now and you can really feel that autumn is kind of saying goodbye and winter is peeking through. So i’m going to keep this ice cream tute short so I don’t freeze today from a combination of actual cold and cold imagery! When making ice cream, always use air dry clay or a very, very stiff clay. Soft clays simply won’t work.
Like this:
This is my premade stash of deco parts. Eventually i’ll probably teach you guys how to make everything from it, but for this series of tutorials i’ll teach macarons, ice cream, cookies, wafers and berries. In my opinion those are the most common parts used in sweets deco, and also the easiest. The difference between making sweets jewellery and parts for deco is that you want to keep it as simple as possible for deco. For one, you’ll be using so many parts that if you made each deco part as detailed as possible you’d be there for months! And the other thing is, sweets deco is a very over-the-top cute decor style, anything too realistic and detailed and it’ll just look odd. Anyway, today i’ll be teaching you how to make the macaron, which, in my opinion is one of the most basic parts of sweets deco.
