Clay Techniques with a Pasta Machine: Checkerboard, Stripes, Skinner Blend, Mokume Gane, and More (Design Originals) Inspiring Ideas for Working with Polymer Clay, plus Color and Pattern Variations
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Create beautiful and unique gifts using polymer clay and a pasta machine!
Easy projects for polymer clay jewelry, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, switch plates, pins, and paperweightsVariety of techniques to try, including stripes, jelly rolls, nine-patch designs, marbling, and moreInspirational ideas for adding beads, embellishments, and baubles to your crafts and giftsPolymer clay basics, instructions for using the pasta machine, and step-by-step project instructions
Pasta machines are terrific tools for making more than just pasta!
Polymer clay is easy to handle and fun to work with. It hardens to a permanent finish in a regular kitchen oven, or in a toaster oven. Pasta machines allow you to easily blend various colors of polymer clay to create stripes, marbling, and intricate patterns for making unique beads, embellishments, and baubles.
With a pasta machine, you can make the perfect collection of polymer clay in the colors you want without leaving your home or studio for more supplies, so the possibilities are endless! You’ll find the best projects and techniques for using a pasta machine right here in this little booklet.
Clay Techniques with a Pasta Machine will lead you through the basics and inspire your ideas and creativity with these polymer clay designs. Learn techniques that include basic skinner blend, skinner cane, skinner loaf, stripes, jelly rolls, checkerboards, nine-patch designs, mokume gane, marbling, and watercolor mixing. Exciting color and pattern variations of each technique are shown, to help stimulate your imagination and encourage creative experimentation!
Making the patterns is only part of the fun! The projects presented here will stimulate your imagination with ideas for turning your clay into awesome art. Learn how to use the resulting sheets of patterned clay for everything from light switch plates to book covers to beads. In no time at all you will be designing original jewelry and gift items your family and friends will treasure!
Try all these gorgeous, fun-to-make projects:
Layered PinsHearts and Strips Necklace & EarringsDecorator JarsDecorator Light Switch PlatesCrazy Quilt Applique PinsWatercolor Necklace and Earrings”Polished Stone” PaperweightsPendants and Focal BeadsAnd more!
Whether you are an experienced clay artist or a first-time beginner, you are in for an exhilarating adventure with Clay Techniques with a Pasta Machine!
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Publisher : Design Originals; First Edition (January 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 16 pages
ISBN-10 : 1574212583
ISBN-13 : 978-1574212587
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.39 x 0.05 x 10.72 inches
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Customers find the book helpful, with one mentioning it’s a must-have for working with polymer clay. Moreover, they appreciate the ideas and picture quality, with one noting the illustrations are appropriate to the content. However, the content quality receives mixed feedback, with several customers describing it as a pamphlet rather than a book. Additionally, customers find the book dated and overpriced.
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