Translucent polymer clay canes software#

Experiment around until you find a combination that you are happy with. This way your fourteen pieces that end up going into your bubble cane will have varying diameters. Try reducing your translucent bullseye log, cut off a few pieces and then reduce it some more. You can vary the appearance of your cane by adjusting the sizes of your bullseye pieces. Lay your clay on that and prevent shinny sides. 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. Simple, but a very effective polymer clay design element. Place on a tile, or you can use a tin foil covered cookie sheet. When you're happy with the shape of the cane, reduce it until you achieve a diameter that you are happy with.Īnd that's the translucent bubble cane. Try not to create any odd angles as this will cause the circle to distort as you reduce the bubble cane. Now carefully begin to place your pieces together to form an overall circular shape. You may cut more pieces but you will need at least 14. Reduce your cane until it is long enough for you to cut at least 14 pieces from it. Repeat this process with the translucent polymer clay sheet wrapping around the white. Trim away any excess clay at the join and neaten it up. Wrap the white sheet neatly around the translucent log. Roll out a log of translucent clay with a diameter of around 2cm or 1 inch. Start with a sheet of white polymer clay and a sheet of translucent polymer clay, both rolled out on the thickest setting on your pasta machine. Jenny Mehlenbeck is the creator and owner of Artmakers Worlds © 1999 - now.Steps To Making A Translucent Polymer Clay Bubble Cane 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> It consists of multiple translucent bulls eye canes combined to create. I wanted longer flower petals just as in the bead, but ran of yellow half way into this. The translucent polymer clay bubble cane is very similar to the translucent lace cane. 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. (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. Widely regarded as one of, if not the best Translucent Polymer Clay Cernit translucent polymer clay is fantastic for canes, miniatures, jewellery and so. Lay your clay on that and prevent shinny sides.īake in your oven at 265f for 30 min per quarter inch. 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.

Translucent polymer clay canes software#

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.) Welcome to my collection of every polymer clay cane I ever made.