(Until I make more of a given kind.)Īnd here is a request for this cute little sock puppet monkey. Stacked together to form flowers.Īquatic themed. With samples of what you can make with these below (when available.) That photo above shows an altoids tin, a nice twist pen and some puffy pillow beads all made with that cane. you can apply very thin slices to any surface that can take baking, smooth with a roller to form a veneer, and bake. Slice thicker pieces and a hole can be drilled through from side to side for stringing. That's it! The clay cures to a nice easy to work with plastic. (So if you slice thin, less baking time is needed. Lay your clay on that and prevent shinny sides.īake in your oven at 265f for 30 min per quarter inch. Better still, pull out a plain piece of paper, printer paper is fine. Ceramic tiles can be had at any home improvement store though and work great for clay. Place on a tile, or you can use a tin foil covered cookie sheet. With a straight blade, half a razor blade will work, or a long exacto knife, or better yet, buy a tissue blade specially made for polymer clay. To Use ANYONE can use polymer clay canes. If you need help, by all means drop me a note. I keep seeing people land on this page looking for instructions on what to do with clay canes. I already have several clay canes listed, as well as a few other things. But I'm easy enough to find, my user name is the same as my domain name here. I don't yet have an "ebay store." I will once I get enough listings to merit paying rent. Code is just beyond me, and software to build sites is also proving to be more of a headache than it's worth. Well I sort of gave up on opening a store on my own site. (Lots of images on this page, be patient.) Jenny Mehlenbeck is the creator and owner of Artmakers Worlds © 1999 - now.Welcome to my collection of every polymer clay cane I ever made. Baked sheets from the block then cut into little chips make fantastic mosaic pieces. (though much more colorful.) Faux stones or faux abalone can be made this way as well. All this gets compressed further and finally, when slices are taken from the block, the result is very attractive and resembles the pattern of burl wood. Balls of clay are made with these stacks, layers of all these clay are wrapped around the balls. Pearl clays, translucent clays, some opaque clays, pearl powders, and even gold leaf are included in the stack. Many layers of clay are rolled very thin through a pasta machine. The technique can be applied to polymer clay. "Mokume Gane" is a term taken from metal workers who fuse multiple sheets of metals together, distress them, pound, hammer, and when smoothed the resulting pattern resembles burl wood. Many of the items pictured are still available for sale./td> I wanted longer flower petals just as in the bead, but ran of yellow half way into this. She makes spindles for spinning wheels and wanted to use polymer clay to add weight. The original image (pulled off the net) and my clay cane version.įor this one, a customer of mine asked for a cane that matches the beads in this photo. Welcome to my collection of every polymer clay cane I ever made.
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