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Use them as stand-alone charms for necklaces or earrings. Translucent canes: Choose your design, including jellyroll, kaleidoscope and butterfly canes, and cut repeat patterns.Faux gemstones and crystals: Mimic your favorite stone, such as agate, tiger’s eye or amethyst, with your chosen color and create a unique pendant or home decor piece.Translucent polymer clay offers plenty of ideas to fuel your next design!Ĭheck out some of our project ideas below: Choose from various styles to help you make jewelry and home decor pieces you’ll love! Translucent Polymer Clay Project IdeasĪs an avid clay fan, you can use new, innovative techniques to take your creations to the next level. This uncolored, transparent clay has opened the door for many to craft projects they hadn’t considered. Arrange them around the center.Skyrocket your creativity when you use translucent clay in your home projects. Step 6: Reduce the petal cane and slice it into 7 sections. You can always use any left over center for other flowers. Reduce this new can and use only as much as you need to fit the center proportionally.

Cut the roll into seven equal sections and arrange them as pictured. Wrap the log in the leftover dark red or brown or black. Step 5: Make a center by taking a small amount of yellow and rolling it into a log. I do this by making logs of translucent clay and then pinching and forming them to make exactly the shape pictured below.

Step 4: Pack in the background of the petal. Step 3: Formed the block into a petal shape by pinching the top and bottom of the block together along the whole length of the cane. Cut it in half and stack it so that one dark side is touching one light side. Step 2: Reduce the blend so that it’s like a long rectangular cane. Add one more sheet of red, or even red mixed with a little white to the top of the stack if it looks too dark. I used Premo brand: half Pomegranate Red and half dark red which mixed from 1 part Pomegranate to 1 part black. Here is a video I made a long time ago about how I stack blends. The following instructions are for the poinsettia cane. The snowflake and gold canes are on my Patron site. However, for this particular design, rectangular or cylindrical seem to be the easiest and most effective. Actually for most shapes I form it carefully into a ball before I decide what’s next.

For the round flat beads or cabs, I roll it into a ball and then flatten in.

Now that the log is covered it can truly be formed into any shape.

Slowly roll and pull the clay together to cover the log.

If not, it will stick too soon and you won’t be able to make adjustments. You can adjust the size of the log, or press and pull at the slice until the sides come together as smoothly as possible. It takes some time to get the seam to fit perfectly.

Cut a slice and wrap it around a log of clay.

If rainbow isn’t your thing, try to imagine this with the most beautiful kaleidoscope canes you’ve seen. If you had a square cane, like a kaleidoscope or tile, you could do this same thing by putting two side by side to make a rectangle. Here I’ll show one way to make beads with a rectangular, geometric cane. The tutorial for this pattern is on my Patreon page. It’s finally time to make them into something! I’ve open a new Esty shop, PolymerBeadWorkshop, where you can get inspiration for all the many ways to make canework beads. These canes rely on translucent clay and are most effective when they are shiny. Īlso, many of these canes feature a unique murrini technique that is also taught on Patreon. Most of these canes are taught somewhere on my Patreon page. You don’t have to make them nearly as complicated as I have here. Now, I have to admit, making the thin strip isn’t easy. The beauty of these bracelet blanks is that all you need to do is to insert the strip into the end pockets and crimp them shut. When these strips are thin enough, they bend very easily. Guess what!? These bracelets can be baked flat! (as you already know if you just watched the video). Unfortunately, most projects aren’t perfectly flat, so this trick is useless. The easiest and most effective way of all is to simply bake it against glass (watch out for air bubbles and burning!). However, just like agates in a rock tumbler, translucent clay is much more translucent after being sanded or coated in resin. If you’ve ever experimented with translucent, you quickly realize that it’s no as see-through as you hoped. It can be found at : ĭid you know that if you bake clay face down on glass, every part that is touching the glass looks like glass!!! This is especially helpful for canes with translucent polymer clay.

Translucent polymer clay canes how to#

I made a complete video about how to make this bracelets. My new favorite thing to make is cuff bracelets! One place to purchase these is at