Veneer bead tutorial

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bead, free tutorial, how to, polymer clay, scrap clay

Here’s a video showing my method of making polymer clay beads using a core of scrap clay and a decorative veneer on the outside. Previously I did a picture tutorial of this technique.

Enjoy.

Sanding tip

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free tutorial, polymer clay, sanding, video tutorial

Here’s a little sanding tip for when your polymer clay has wire embedded in it.

I’m working on a series of short tutorials around this project, but I’m a bit inexperienced with video editing so I started with something small.

Rustic stack beads

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beads, earring, free tutorial, gradient, handmade, necklace, polymer clay, rustic, Sonya Girodon

I was inspired by Sonya Girodon’s necklace “Skeleton Coast“ to make beads by stacking layers of polymer clay.

I was quite pleased with my efforts at the time but unfortunately now that I look at them in comparison to hers they look horribly juvenile. Or maybe it’s just because I’m having an “everything I do is horrible” day? 😦

Gradient stack bead earrings by Cate van Alphen

Earrings with dangle by Cate van Alphen

Anyway check out Sonya’s work, she even shares a tutorial for making beads similar to the focal ones in the necklace.

How to make mobius Christmas ornaments

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christmas ornament, Christmas ornaments, craftworkshop, decoration, extruder cane, free tutorial, how to, jelly roll cane, metallic clay, ornament, polymer clay

Here are some videos of the demo I did at Craftworkshop making mobius Christmas ornaments.

The first video has some information about using metallic clay, and I made a jelly roll cane.

Next I made a surface sheet with an Easy Peasy Extruder Cane thanks to Ron Lehocky (see this article about him – he’s made over 24,000 hearts to sell for charity!).

Finally I make the ornament and… it all goes wrong!

I used a different brand of clay for the second try ornament and I had some issues when I baked it 😦 I’ll try to do another post about that with images, but in the meantime I suggest you do the following:

1. Put a drop of liquid clay on the tips before you pinch them to make sure they stick together
2. Don’t rest your ornament on a tile to bake – suspend it from a bead pin or try to support in some way (perhaps with balls of foil).

* Edit: see my follow up post about the problems I had *

Fine marble cane tutorial

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Here is a marble cane that I first made for baby’s lantern. I always get stressed when marbling beads about …

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