This week I thought it would be fun to make some enchiladas for the dollhouse family to enjoy. This is a project I have been meaning to get around to doing for a while now.
We start out by making our “meat” filling. It is simply made by using at least 2 colors of brown polymer clay, I like to use a reddish brown and a dark brown then chopping that up fine and pressing it together then rolling a snake from that clay. This gives the illusion of the cooked meat mixture very easily. We will only see a tiny bit of the clay and the tiny bit of detail will work nicely in the finished project. Roll this into a snake about the diameter of a toothpick and set aside.
The next part of our enchiladas the tortillas, since once again we are only going to see a small portion of the tortillas we are going simple. I used some Original Sculpey but any off white clay would work just as well. Roll it out as thin as possible and use a ½” round cutter to cut the tortillas. Since I lost most of my clay cutting tools when I moved a couple of years ago I had to get creative, I found the lid to a chap-stick tube was just the right size for cutting these today and will be a welcome addition to my tool collection until I get some more clay tools gathered up.
Now that we have the basic parts to our enchiladas it is a simple matter of placing the “meat filling” snake on top of a tortilla.
Rolling the tortilla around it to make an enchilada shape,
and trimming the meat filling even with the edges of the tortilla.
Then using a pointed tool. I used my dental pick texture the bit of filling that shows at the ends.
Make as many as you need. I did add a small amount of a light yellow ocher chalk to the tops of the tortillas wrapped around the enchiladas so they will look a bit more baked when finished.
Now we need to make some sauce for our enchiladas, I used some oil paint and TLS (Translucent Liquid Sculpey) to make my sauce. The colors of paint I used were: Rose Madder, Vermilion, and Yellow Ocher.
I first mixed the paints to give me a color I thought was close to what I wanted then mixed just a bit into some TLS, not too much or the TLS won't cure properly. Since red is a very hard color to get correct I baked off a small amount of the TLS mixture to test my color and adjusted it to make it what I was looking for.
Once I had the TLS/paint mixture the way I wanted it I coated the bottom of the baking dish I was going to use with a thin layer and added my enchiladas. I then added a good generous layer of the “sauce” to the top. I also placed a pool of sauce on a piece of foil added a couple of enchiladas and sauced the top. These can be glued to a plate in the future.
The casserole dish I used for the project was just one I quickly made a while back from card-stock. Let me know if you would like a tutorial on these.
Now everything can be baked at the recommended temperature for your clay for 10 minutes and allowed to cool.
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