Polymer cane

A clear step by tutorial showing how to make a polymer clay rose cane. This tutorial begins be detailing how to make a skinner blend so that your rose petals will fade out to white helping to give the impression of the light catching the uppermost parts of the flower whilst the rest remains in…

These canes from PolymerClayWorkshop's Meg Newberg look very convincing. If you're a cane aficionado, this will tickle your fancy. Building the cane with translucent means that thin slices will take on the color of any background clay. Don't yo [...]

In this mini-tutorial presentation I share with you a new approach for constructing a sunflower cane. It starts the same, making the base pe...

When making rainbow themed canes there are a lot of preparations and work, but the outcome is always bright, happy and surprising. About a year ago Lucy from Czextruder send me a present, a prototype of the Czextruder and since then making clay gun canes is a breeze; this tool is designed very thoughtfully, it is sturdy and also very easy to use and operate. What can I say,… Thank you Lucy, I love it ! At the end of this post there is my Step-By-Step guide on How-to use the Czextruder with…

Sometimes, when I start a project, I carefully plan everything out with sketches and color chips and recipes. Sometimes I just grab some cl...

I made so many watermelon and other fruit beads this summer I was looking through my hoarded links for other Fimo fruit canes to play with. Here’s one from a French artist for a kiwi cane. Th…

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