Fairy gardens are utterly adorable and a miniature one in a tea cup is especially cute.

It was SO much fun creating all the details for this tiny fairy garden in a tea cup!

In today’s video I will show you:

• How to fill your tea cup and prepare the ground
• How to make teeny houses with doors, windows, and textured roofs
• How to make itty-bitty mushrooms with a fun and easy way of inserting them into your garden
• How to create tiny polymer clay succulents that never need watering
• And how to make minuscule flowers, because what is a fairy garden without flowers?

Since I had so many ideas for details to add this is part one of a two-part series.

Be sure to check back next week when I’ll show you how to make ladybugs, bunny rabbits and a sweet little arbor for your flowers to climb on. Then we’ll put it all together and finish the project.

Tools and Materials:

• Teacup
• Aluminum foil
• Scraps of green and brown clay for the ground
• Scraps of clay in colors of your choice for houses, mushrooms, succulents and flowers
• Toothpicks
• White acrylic paint
• Translucent Liquid Sculpey
• Clay blade
• Acrylic roller and/or pasta machine
• Dotting tools
• Needle tool
• Marking tool
• Paintbrush
• 3/16 inch flower cutter
• Chalk pastels and/or mica powders for dusting succulents
• Magnifying light (I could not do this project without it!)

A few notes from the video:

• There are LOADS of tutorial on YouTube for all different types of succulents.
• The issue of Polymer Café that I mention in the video is Vol. 15 No. 1, Nov./Dec. 2016. I could not find anywhere online to purchase back issues of this magazine.
• I do have one extra copy of this issue, if you are interested feel free to contact me. (And if you find a source for back issues, let me know and I’ll pass along the info!.)

Enjoy the video and happy creating!

Watch the Fairy Garden In a Teacup Polymer Clay Sculpting Miniature Tutorial-Pt. 1 of 2 video at YouTube.

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