Spring soap

I did a run to Otion yesterday (well not literally, I don't think I'd even run around the block without hurting myself) and managed not to spend all my allowance in one shot. ;) The only thing I really needed was the 25lb box of clear MP soap, but that didn't stop me from buying some dark chocolate FO (I need it, really!), some stearic acid (Cee and Silvia inspired purchases), citric acid because I keep looking at the bath bomb tutorials and getting all excited, and the aluminum free deodorant base. I think I'm going to have enough to keep me busy for a while.

So after I purchased all those goodies, what do I make? Something with what I've had on hand for a while of course. My sister had given me a lovely 3D dragonfly mould when I first got her stash of soaping supplies, and I never tried it out. Don't ask me why, laziness mostly. Again, I had in mind how I wanted it to look but how it turns out is not quite the same.

One thing I knew for sure is I didn't want the whole thing the same colour, I wanted a pretty sky blue background to make it spring like. The dragonfly, by rights, should be more greenish, but being a purple gal, I went that route instead. The lighting was starting to go when I was scraping off the excess yellow for the stars and moon, and the moon didn't want to come out completely so let's just pretend some clouds are covering part of it, okay?

For some reason, they cornflower blue turned more green than blue, maybe something I had in the soap? For whatever reason, the background turned more greenish than blue, but it still smells nicely of Crafter's Choice Raspberry Kisses. I was going to try Silvia's technique of mixing a floral with a fruit scent, but I got…squirrel! But there's always next time right?

The end result accompanied by a card my sister made with dried flowers from her garden.

Hope you all have a great week.

Area 51 in Vancouver?

I wish I could have the X-Files music playing in the background right now but I'm sure it'd be breaking all sorts of copyright rules. In my post last week, I had included a link to a 3-D soap tutorial by Brambleberry and then it hit me, I have some 3-D soap moulds!

I was lazy and tried to pour his eyes (that sounds weird doesn't it?) instead of using a syringe or dropper, hence why they're a little outside of the lines. Once I perfect it, I'm going to make the eyes with silver glitter to give him that more ethereal look. Hubby likes it because it fits in his hand well. I'll have to make more for the next craft fair I attend and put it next to my spaceship gift box. This one was fun, and the picture makes him look menacing, which is what we think of those little green men anyway right?

Thanks for stopping in and have a great weekend!