brides and bridegrooms head?

Question

Can anyone tell me if and where i can get a mould for just the heads of the bride and bridegroom. I am wanting them for making card toppers

Answer 1

Could you make them out of polymer clay? I'm a little confused as to what a card topper is.

Answer 2

Did you meant for "cake" toppers? If you did, I'm assuming you want 3-D molds, though I guess that slightly 3-D shapes could be glued onto "cards" too.

There are several ways that people do this, and polymer clay is one good medium. You can use the clay in a baked polymer clay mold, or in another type of mold.

You can begin by sculpting a face or half-head from clay and bake it, then make a mold from that. If you do that, you can later "cast" raw clay in the baked mold then use as is, or you can "distort" the raw clay face/head first before baking it to create different looks.

If you can't sculpt, you can get someone to sculpt one for you, or you can use a doll or figure from a sculpt or a toy (it's best to distort-change this first before making a mold from it though because if you're *selling* the results, you could run into copyright issues.

You can get info about making faces/heads like this, as well as some places to buy molds on these pages, if you're interested in the idea:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/heads_masks.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/molds.htm
And there are some cake toppers discussed on this page:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/gifts_men_teachers.htm
(... click on "Miscellaneous," then scroll down a few screenfuls to "Wedding Gifts & Decorations"...)


Diane B.