The Gingerbread Man Escaping
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One of my earlier scenes, inspired by a thrift shop "find" of a wooden, kitchen punch out kit. Back then I used 1/4" foam core for walls and base, more recently I have switched to 1/2" foam core. Putting the kitchen components together was fun and since I had a blue enamel set of pots and pans, I decided on a blue theme. Blue decals, blue beads for drawer and cupboard pulls, blue print cushions for the chairs.
Contact paper for the floor and walls. I had used the same contact paper in another scene, but the hearts were originally pink. I painstakingly painted all the hearts blue. Polymer clay helped create handles on the utensils and the faucets over the sink, which one can barely see into but which is filled with dirty dishwater (gel candle gel with a tad of brown crayon melted in it). The blue glasses on the counter are electrical wire connectors gathered near a home project from the street while out walking.
The gingerbread man is also polymer clay which can easily be baked to become rigid. If you remember the book, the gingerbread man said "I can run, run, run as fast as I can, you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man." So here he is running out of the kitchen right off the cookie sheet. Needing some way to make it look like there is someplace for him to go, I bought a roll of sky paper with a few clouds at a teachers' supply store and papered a second layer of foam core on top of the first. The distant scene was a cut out section of a roll of border paper with a gravel path leading away from the house.
