Friday, August 23, 2019

A little creativity non fiber related + Lowcarb cake at the end



So one of the things I can do with out alot of pain (still get pain if I do it to long) is draw.

I had been watching a lot of videos lately on drawing, while taking a break from doing all the long and very tedious felting on my Falcor project.

It seemed like everyone was playing around with Posca paint markers, and shrink film.  So I wanted to do the same.  This is my first test batch  of keychain/zipper pulls.

In the first image is the unbaked pieces, and a six inch ruler.  The second image is of the baked pieces with the same ruler to show the shrinkage.

I baked them at 300 (the package says 300-350) for two minutes.  There was a ton of curling, and Deadpool had flipped completely over by the time I pulled them out.  I did have to press them flat from some curling,  Deadpool also kept a bit of concaveness if I had a heat gun I might be able to blast him and press again to get him flatter since I dont want to reheat the oven for it.  The right edge of the pokeball also curled in some what and I just wasn't able to uncurl it where it touched itself but it still came out nice.  Also Pikachu's eye shine did not seem to shrink at all making his eyes look almost all white, not sure what happened there as the white for Deadpool eyes shrunk nicely.  Happy's foot snapped off while I was pressing on that piece which means if I do more pieces with smaller details I need to leave some of the clear around  them like I did with the whiskers.  Happy also did not shrink as well as the other pieces, but he was the largest, and possibly should have been left in longer -- learning lesson for me. He is a bit wavy and after snapping on foot off I didn't feel like I could finish pressing him till flat without damaging him more.

Out of them all I am loving how the Hyrule Shield turned out it has a bit of buckling to it but it came out just as I had thought it would.

Now that they had cooled off, I wanted to seal the painted face's with mod podge.  That was a mistake. 

I did not realize it right away as the mod podge I use is opaque while wet, but the black, and the yellow both reactivated when the MP went on smearing them both.

Its not as obvious on the shield but I did the Pikachu first and some of the yellow transferred over.  Luckily non of the other colors on the shield seemed to bleed.

Deadpool is taking quite a while to dry, but it looks like he did bleed over a bit as well which is sad, I was pretty happy with him.  The black was the only part that smeared all over.

Outside of that I am also baking a cake today -- its my Hubbys birthday!! 
Its a low carb vanilla cake, they fell just a bit while cooling, but I am hoping they are tasty.  I used a keto pancake mix (1cup) as a sub for sugar and 1/2 of the flour, coconut flour (1/4 cup), real butter (1/3 cup),  4 eggs, 1 vanila bean scrapings (as well as a few splashes on extract), 1 box sugar free vanilla pudding mix, and 5 splashes of milk (till the batter looked 'right'). 
I mixed all the wet +vanilla scrapings+pudding, then shifted in the dry and threw it into a 350F oven for 25 minutes, it two 6in round backing pans lined with parchment paper on  the bottom, and sprayed with coconut oil on the sides.
I plan on icing the outside with a Cool Whip+SF Pudding mix, I plan on putting a layer of SF strawberry preserves between the layers.