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Hello all.
Welcome to the February SMF Challenge- Soap dough!
You must use soap dough for this challenge.
You must manipulate the dough with your hands to create something with it. You can use it to sculpt something, like a bear or a swan and have it be entirely 3-D. You can sculpt something that will be placed on top of your soap. You can use it to create something that will be embedded in a soap, as the entire design or part of the design. You can use it like polymer clay to make an element, or to make a pattern. You can create an entire bar of soap if you would like. The rule in its essence is that you must make something from soap dough and it is free rein!
You may use tools while making your soap, like a rolling pin, picks, skewers, things to make a nice indent, blades to get a clean cut. You may use one of my favorites, a Play-doh Fun Factory. You may use an extruder. You may NOT just press dough into a mold to get a shape and call it a day.
This is extremely free in terms of what you would like to create. Think as creatively as you can and even push out of your comfort zone. Whatever you do, do more than rolling a single color ball to embed in the middle of your soap.
If you have not made your soap dough yet, there is a link to Sorcery Soap's recipe for it. You may be able to use your own recipe by keeping it airtight after pouring for 5-7 days but if you are uncertain, Bee has tried a number of recipes and feels hers is well-vetted. You do NOT have to use her recipe, you just have to use some soap dough. M&P dough is also fine to use.
I do not want to curb anyone's creativity. Sometimes I feel by providing specific examples of something to do, it focuses peoples ideas on that. I'm still going to give some examples but please, dream, imagine, experiment, try, do, fail, and by doing so, you will be brilliant.
You must enter one photo of your process, where ever in the process you feel like, and one photo of the completed dough work. If it is stand alone, that's all. If it goes on top of a soap as decoration, the you will also need a picture of the end result. If it's an embed, you will need to enter a process picture, one of the of the thing before it's embedded and then a pic of the bar.
Some of the caning videos are more complex and time-intensive but they are good for ideas.
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Sorcery Soaps recipe page:
http://sorcerysoap.com/sorcery-soap-dough-recipe-2/
Lovin' Soaps vegan soap dough page:
http://www.lovinsoap.com/2017/08/a-vegan-and-palm-free-soap-dough-recipe-soap-clay/
M&P soap dough recipe:
https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/melt-and-pour-soap/making-play-dough-soap-2/
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Black Cat soap does a lot of soap dough work. Channel is worth checking out.
This is a tutorial using polymer clay to make flowers but it can be done with soap dough as well:
A nice tutorial on making wood grain with clay, but can be done with soap dough:
Sorcery Soap has many videos on sculpting things from dough, as does Rhonda Scorpio:
Here are some videos on polymer clay canes. The techniques can be useful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq8idbcao4c&list=PL-2TBAnigDME9rI49l3AK_7keBq_xjKUV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJrzSpspSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAKAnWBoao
Entry thread will be open February 19th and close on the 25th. Voting will start the 26th and close on March 2nd. Because it's a short month. I'm stealing a couple days form March for voting.
Welcome to the February SMF Challenge- Soap dough!
You must use soap dough for this challenge.
You must manipulate the dough with your hands to create something with it. You can use it to sculpt something, like a bear or a swan and have it be entirely 3-D. You can sculpt something that will be placed on top of your soap. You can use it to create something that will be embedded in a soap, as the entire design or part of the design. You can use it like polymer clay to make an element, or to make a pattern. You can create an entire bar of soap if you would like. The rule in its essence is that you must make something from soap dough and it is free rein!
You may use tools while making your soap, like a rolling pin, picks, skewers, things to make a nice indent, blades to get a clean cut. You may use one of my favorites, a Play-doh Fun Factory. You may use an extruder. You may NOT just press dough into a mold to get a shape and call it a day.
This is extremely free in terms of what you would like to create. Think as creatively as you can and even push out of your comfort zone. Whatever you do, do more than rolling a single color ball to embed in the middle of your soap.
If you have not made your soap dough yet, there is a link to Sorcery Soap's recipe for it. You may be able to use your own recipe by keeping it airtight after pouring for 5-7 days but if you are uncertain, Bee has tried a number of recipes and feels hers is well-vetted. You do NOT have to use her recipe, you just have to use some soap dough. M&P dough is also fine to use.
I do not want to curb anyone's creativity. Sometimes I feel by providing specific examples of something to do, it focuses peoples ideas on that. I'm still going to give some examples but please, dream, imagine, experiment, try, do, fail, and by doing so, you will be brilliant.
You must enter one photo of your process, where ever in the process you feel like, and one photo of the completed dough work. If it is stand alone, that's all. If it goes on top of a soap as decoration, the you will also need a picture of the end result. If it's an embed, you will need to enter a process picture, one of the of the thing before it's embedded and then a pic of the bar.
Some of the caning videos are more complex and time-intensive but they are good for ideas.
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Sorcery Soaps recipe page:
http://sorcerysoap.com/sorcery-soap-dough-recipe-2/
Lovin' Soaps vegan soap dough page:
http://www.lovinsoap.com/2017/08/a-vegan-and-palm-free-soap-dough-recipe-soap-clay/
M&P soap dough recipe:
https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/melt-and-pour-soap/making-play-dough-soap-2/
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Black Cat soap does a lot of soap dough work. Channel is worth checking out.
This is a tutorial using polymer clay to make flowers but it can be done with soap dough as well:
A nice tutorial on making wood grain with clay, but can be done with soap dough:
Sorcery Soap has many videos on sculpting things from dough, as does Rhonda Scorpio:
Here are some videos on polymer clay canes. The techniques can be useful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq8idbcao4c&list=PL-2TBAnigDME9rI49l3AK_7keBq_xjKUV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cJrzSpspSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAKAnWBoao
Entry thread will be open February 19th and close on the 25th. Voting will start the 26th and close on March 2nd. Because it's a short month. I'm stealing a couple days form March for voting.
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