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Friday 18 March 2011

Polymer Clay Cupcake Charm

Ingredients:
Cake:
3/8" (1.6 cm) ball burnt umber
Frosting:
1/8" (3.2 mm) ball cadmium red clay
1/4" (6.4 mm) ball white clay
Cherry:
1/16" (1.6 mm) ball cadmium red clay
Supplies:
Needle or stippling tool
Headpin



1. Start with the cake part. Roll the ball of brown clay into a small cylinder.


1a. Then set the cylinder on end and gently press to flatten the bottom and top.

2. Use a needle or stippling tool to make tiny indentations all over the surface. Don’t forget the bottom!


3. Thoroughly mix the larger ball of red and the white clays to create an even pink color. Flatten the pink ball into an uneven pancake about twice the diameter of the top of your cake cylinder. The edge of the pancake should be a bit thinner than the middle.


4. Center the frosting on top of the cake, then gently fold down the edges of the frosting onto the cylinder.


5. Press the edge of a safety pin into the side of the cupcake to create parallel, evenly spaced lines all around.


6. Push the headpin through the center of your cupcake until the head is flush with the bottom.

 7. Roll the remaining red clay into a very smooth ball. Slide the cherry onto the headpin and down until it rests on top. Bake for 10 minits 100c.
To Make a Cupcake Charm
1. Finish the headpin in the cupcake into a closed, wrapped loop.
2. Add the charm to a cell phone lariat.

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Polymer Clay

Polymer clay, modeling clay, oven bake clay



Polymer clay hardens by curing at temperatures created in a typical home oven (generally at 265 to 275 °F (129 to 135 °C), for 15 minutes per 1/4" (6 mm) of thickness), and does not shrink or change texture during the process. Polymer clay is sold in craft, hobby, and art stores, and is used by artists, hobbyists, and children. Few tools are essential for use with polymer clay, and these can often be found around the house. A pasta machine is often used to create evenly flat sheets, to mix colors, to condition the clay, and to create patterned sheets.The clay gun, or "extruder", as it is also called, works like a cookie press.You can find these products from us.Polymer clay is available in many colors. Special-effect colors such as ,containing "metallics," and "stone" colors are also available. Clays can be mixed together to create new colors, gradient blends, or other effects. With a technique to use the pasta machine to create a gradient blended sheet of color. Polymer clay can be colored with other media. Paint, ink, colored pencil, chalk, metallic (mica-containing) powder, metallic leaf and foil, glitter, and embossing powder can be applied to the surface. The same materials also can be mixed in as inclusions; this is often done with translucent clay. When acrylic paint is cured onto the surface, it forms a permanent bond with the surface. After it has cured, the clay surface can be left as it is, it can be sanded and buffed, or it can be finished with a varnish. Uses and Techniques




Sculpting. Hand-shaped items can be any size from "miniatures" to quite large. can also be created; clay clothing and accessories can be made for sculpted figures.



Creating beads and jewelry of all kinds, such as pendants, earrings, barrettes, and buttons.



Forming "canes," which are logs of clay with patterns running through their entire length, from which identical slices can be cut and used in various ways. The patterns created in canes can be simple, complex, or anything in between; they may be pictorial or simply geometric. Canes (and therefore their images) can be "reduced" so that they become quite small, and then combined to make multiple images.



"Cover"ing items made from materials such as glass, metal, cardboard, terra cotta, and some plastics. Some popular items for covering are pens, eggshells, votive candle-holders, and switch-plates. Larger items, such as tables, can also be veneered.



Creating vessels large and small. Jars, boxes, bowls, and container pendants can be created freestanding, over , or over removable armatures.



Impressing textures, lines or images into raw clay with rubber stamps, texture sheets, sandpaper, needle tools, or other items.



Making with hardened clay, then pressing raw clay into the molds to create casts and to duplicate textures, shapes, whole faces. Molds made from metal, glass, and silicone can be used with clay as well.



Using polyclay to accept "transfers" of black-and-white or color images from photographs, drawings, computer-created images or text. Images can be transferred onto freestanding liquid clay films or decals.



Creating simulations or of many natural materials such as ivory, jade, turquoise, wood, granite, metal, leather, , or .



Carving or drilling polyclay after it has been cured (and backfilled, if desired).



Inlaying tiles or chips to create a clay or other materials to create collages. A "clay gun" can be used to uniform rope shapes.



Creating with polymer pastes, and bas reliefs.



Creating practical utility items, such as frames, games and game pieces, dioramas, toys, mini-books, notebook covers, greeting cards, and postcards.



Shaving off thin slices from layered but distorted stacks of clays, powders, and inks.



Using clay together with other media, such as wire, paper, beads, charms, stamps, and fabric.



Skinner Blend: Gradient color blending technique for two or more colors 1] using triangles of clay and a pasta machine.