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Custom Littlest Pet Shop Ladybug 

I thought I would share this custom ladybug idea more for entertainment purposes. However you are certainly welcome to try and recreate what I have created here.

When I was finally lucky enough to get my hands on a highly coveted Littlest Pet Shop ladybug for my daughters it occurred to me that they would each want to have their own and it would really be fun if they could somehow have a collection of them. I knew in reality that this was not going to happen unless I became wealthy and or happened on a store full of them on sale.

If you are familiar with Littlest Pet Shop ladybugs you know that the original is really difficult to find unless you want to pay mega bucks on ebay. The second edition, while still available in stores, takes some considerable effort to find.

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I decided to create my own custom Littlest Pet Shop Ladybug using art supplies that I regularly have around the house. I have been drawing, painting & sculpting for many years so creating this ladybug for my children was an enjoyable experience for me.

Making a custom Ladybug

This project involved using standard white Sculpy (plastic clay), acrylic paint, Glossy Clear Coat, paint brushes, Sharpie pen, Micron 05 pen, and access to an oven. You can pick up these supplies very cheap at dickblick.com and ebay has some of these items cheap as well with free shipping.

Step: 1 - Build the Basic shapes of the Ladybug

I started by studying the basic shapes of the real Littlest Pet Shop ladybug and creating those shapes out of my Sculpy clay. You will find that fundamentally the Ladybug figure is just a few basic shapes: A large oval head, a warped cylinder for the body, a half circle cut in half for the back, 2 cylinders for antennae and then 6 little cones for feet. After this point it is really a matter of working through the details of the ladybug.

Step: 2 - Sculpt the Details in the Ladybug's Head

I then took what would eventually turn into the head and started sculpting probably the most difficult details; the eyes & mouth. This entails a bit of patience, a steady hand and I recommend a toothpick or some other sharp device. I used the toothpick to start carving the shape of the eyes and mouth and scraping away excess plastic clay. After scraping away enough clay with the point of the toothpick I used the side of the toothpick to smooth out the edges of the mouth and eyes.

Step: 3 - Merge all the Pieces to form the Ladybug

After I finished details on the head I merged all the pieces together simply by sticking them together with a little pressure and finished all the finite details. Some of these details include cutting grooves into the body to create the exoskeleton, removing little scratches and imperfections and any excess clay that might be sticking to the little ladybug.

Now that I had completed the modeling & sculpting process, I was left with a ghostly looking Littlest Pet Shop Ladybug!

Step: 4 - Cook the ladybug Sculpture

The ladybug then went into the oven for about 30 minutes at 275 degrees. I placed it on a piece of aluminum foil folded over a few times so that it was rigid. If your foil is rigid enough you can stick it directly on the oven rack. I preferred in this case to stick it on a cookie sheet. Since it was on the foil, there was no mess to clean up and the cookie sheet was clean and reusable.

You need to cook your Sculpy creations for 15 minutes per half inch of thickness in order to reach adequate hardness. The head of my ladybug was approximately an inch thick so I left it in for about 35 minutes for good measure.

Step: 5 - Paint the Ladybug

Time to paint the Ladybug! I started by laying down a base coat of red since that is the color you will see most of and followed with the light flesh tone on the face.

Next I colored the whites of the eyes and then started to do the black using a combination of paint, Sharpie and detail work with the Micron 05 pen.

The pen sometimes plugs up when writing on acrylic so it is good to mark the paint a little and have a piece of paper handy to scribble on to unclog the pen.

Step: 6 - Give the Ladybug a Clearcoat

I gave my custom Littlest Pet Shop Ladybug a paint on clear coat. Krylon Crystal Clear works really well but there are many other brands out there that do just about the same thing. Be careful though a few of them will take on a yellow tinge with time. The Krylon however, dries really quickly and it gave my ladybug a really great protective coat.

It works best in comfortable temperatures (70-80 degree range) dries to the touch in about 10-15 minutes and dry to handle in about 2 hours.

I recommend letting your clear coated ladybug creations air out for a 3-5 hours to really dissipate the odor of the clear coat.








Step: 7 - Display and Enjoy your finished Ladybug!

With the the clear coat protecting my work and enhancing the color, I have a finished little ladybug that I am very happy with. It is pretty durable as well, though I don't let my girls drop it off of any balconies.

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