Polymer clay stained glass cane tutorial

These stained glass canes can be made with any shapes of clay. Just squish the colors together with black in between. If your triangle wedge gets too messed up when you reduce it, just use parts of the triangle to slice and arrange individually instead of trying to make a whole circular cane.

Polymer Clay Easter Eggs

Covering eggs with clay is one of my all-time favorite projects!
1)  Empty the egg.  Poke a hole in the top and bottom with a pin or small knife.
2) Blow out the egg. A warm egg will empty more easily.  It also helps to break the egg white and yoke by poking the pin in.
3)  Wash or bleach the egg.
4) Pre-bake it it the oven for at about 150 degrees for about 15 minutes to dry it out.  If there is any moisture left in the egg it will poke out the clay where it covers the hole.  If you plan on carving out that part of the shell, you may not want to cover the hole at all.
See this post about how to make the color blend or just mix up a few shades and make each spiral a different shade.

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If you want to break out sections, make a little hole and remove a small piece at a time.  Or you can carve out sections with an exacto knife.

The following eggs were covered with millefiori cane slices.  I've added links to the tutorials for these designs.

Since mica powders don't always work well with cane work, this tutorial includes a recipe for gold effect.

This one features the complex cane tutorial.

Nature Kaleidoscopes in polymer clay

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Polymer clay is the perfect medium for nature kaleidoscopes because the millefiori techniques allows for multiple identical slices.  

kaleidoscopes cane be square round, 6, 8, or 10 sided.  This one is an octagon.  The pattern is repeated eight times.  It could easily be squashed into a square or circle!  

To make a triangle with the a 45 degree angle (360/8), simply fold a square piece of paper in half and use it as a template!

This nature kaleidoscope incorporates butterfly wing canes.

 Here's another, more intricate one, adding leaf canes.

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Dollhouse Miniature bread tutorial

Polymer clay is perfect for dollhouse miniatures, food charms, or dioramas.  There are so many different textures and effects you can achieve.  Soft pastels can be crushed up and painted on the clay before baking.  For this bread, the chalks add a toasted effect.  This project is from my kid's clay e-book.  The elementary students did a terrific job!  You can see their baskets below!

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This video shows how I made the basket.

And while your at it, check out all these adorable clay foods!

Polymer clay or fondant swan wedding cake topper tutorial page

This cake topper was made with polymer clay.  Perfect for a wedding cake or Valentine's Day cake! It's important to frost some kind of paper or plastic to the bottom before putting it on the cake since polymer clay isn't food safe.  I've never used fondant before, but the shapes for the swans would be the same.

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Polymer clay houndstooth cane tutorial

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It absolutely fascinates me that clay can be made to look like fabric.  Press the slices of this cane together, press it against real fabric for texture, and use it for miniatures, beads, or veneers for crochet hooks etc.  As a matter of fact I've made a long list of things to do with canes slices.

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I also have tutorials, for knits, lace, argyle, plaid and ribbon in my etsy shop!

Free Leaf Cane Tutorial in Polymer clay

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If you have trouble reducing this cane you can watch as I reduce a fall leaf cane in this video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZEhk2QnfN4

Faceted checkered pattern beads out of polymer clay

Or stack them three by three using nine sections.

Slice off all eight corners.

You will have a lot left over, so it's best to use colors that will mix up well to use again.  Use warm colors, cool colors, or primaries together.  Use complimentary colors only if you need to mix up a ball of brown!

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Polymer Clay Valentine boxes

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You can also cover boxes with slices from canes.  Visit my etsy shop to see the tutorial for these beginner canes.

Or, see this free post about how to build slice-and-bake valentine canes.