Racoon Honey Whipped Cream Clay

At the moment, I'm doing a lot of decoden! Since I refuse to use caulking silicone (why yes, I do like taking things to extremes!), I've had to look for alternatives that are actually meant to be used for decoden.

I'm currently looking for a product that has little odour (this is probably the most important point, as strong smelling products tend to give me a migraine), is soft and looks quite realistic. Another point that isn't so important is that I could do with something that feels like real whipped cream when you pipe it, as this would make it easier for me to use for decoden as I've already had a lot of practice piping real whipped cream (on real food of course, I wouldn't use real cream for decoden!!!)

This isn't really meant to be a review, but I've recently found a product called 'Racoon Honey Whipped Cream Clay'. It comes in lots of different colours, and where I live, is a lot cheaper than caulking silicone. Another point I'd like to make if you're in the UK: I found a website called 'Candy Crystal'. It's based in the UK, and only takes two or three days to ship to where I live. They have lots of cabochons, Japanese deco supplies, canes and lots of other things! They also stock this whipped cream clay in 30g bags and 100g bags.

This is what it looks like (ignore the rubbish in the background and my shadow please!):

this is a 100g bag in 'vanilla white' colour.

As you can see, it comes in a piping bag ready to use. It also comes with one metal piping tip:

Which is in the top of the piping bag... At first this worried me, as I wasn't sure if the clay would stick to it or dry up if I opened the bag to get it out. Although, when I opened it, it came out quite well and didn't get covered in clay! All you have to do to get started is cut the tip of the bag off, and attach your piping tip. I find it's best to secure the piping tip on with tape (but if you prefer having messy fingers, you can hold it in to place with your hand).

Sorry I don't have any pictures for this, but the next thing I did was test it out. It's extremely soft, and feels like real cream! However, it does have a very strong smell.

So the next thing I did was try it out on this box. It's very nice to pipe! It's so smooth :)


After leaving to dry...

So, here's the finished box. With cabochons. And ribbons. And rhinestones.

Here's the biggest problem:

I don't know if this happened because of the whipped cream clay, or the air dry clay. All the charms that were made from air dry clay had this problem. As you can see, parts of the air dry clay broke off and stuck in the whipped cream clay. I had to glue them all back on using a glue gun:

Oh yes, look at the lovely picture of me glueing the charm back on
with my PINK glue gun.

I didn't really mind having to do this, as I already needed to use my glue gun for something else. I'll be using this cream again to find out if the same problem happens with polymer clay, as all the other things I put on this box stuck fine. For this reason, I'm not sure if I want to use this whipped cream clay again as I shouldn't have to glue the charms back on, but it's still a nice alternative to caulking silicone.

EDIT: I've found that this happens because of the sort of air dry clay that I'm using. At the moment, I've been using FimoAir, which is ok because It's so easy for me to get and has such a nice texture to it. However, it is NOT waterproof. I find that when I use it with the whipped cream clay, it gets soggy and breaks up, leaving a few tiny pieces in the whipped cream clay.

Apart from this, this clay works quite well. I've even tried it on a notebook and it came out very nice. I'd like to see how well it does in water, though. I doubt that any of my deco stuff will get wet, but it would be nice to find out whether it is. I'll definitely be using this again!