Cracks on the Sides of Polymer Pieces
These cracks can be prevented or fixed. Here’s what you need to know about these cracks on the sides of your polymer clay pieces.
Category: Polymer Clay
Can You Color White Clay to Make New Colors?
Coloring white polymer clay isn’t as simple as it sounds.
Polymer Clay Needs Flexible Glue
Bonding two rigid materials together is easy for glue. It’s not so simple with polymer clay.
Always Stir Your Liquid Clay
Sometimes it pays to read the directions. Always stir your liquid clay!
Plaques Can Be a Design Feature
I don’t know a sure-fire way of preventing plaques. Why not use them as a feature?
Use These Products to Soften Polymer Clay
All of these products can be used to soften polymer clay
Does Gold Polymer Clay Look Like Real Gold?
Looking for a great gold polymer clay? Here’s what you need to know.
Super Sculpey Ultralight
This lightweight white polymer clay from Sculpey has many uses in your studio.
How to Store Polymer Clay Scrap
Once you’ve opened your package, how do you store your polymer clay?
Cernit Pearl – The Sparkly Polymer Clay
Cernit is a Belgian brand of polymer clay with an array of many lines with special features. There is opaque clay (Number One), half-opaque clay (Opaline), Translucent, Metallic, Neon, Nature
Translucent Polymer Clay: Pardo vs. Cernit
Which translucent polymer clay is best for making earrings, jewelry, vessels, faux stone? Compare Pardo vs Cernit in this article.
Pardo Polymer Clay – A Tale of Two Pardos
Pardo Polymer Clay is a brand from Germany that deserves another look. It has a full range of colors, metallics, and translucents. The translucent clays are among the clearest available anywhere.
The Hidden Feature in Translucent Polymer Clay
Optical brighteners are fluorescent dyes that take invisible UV light and reflect it back in the visible spectrum. If something contains this dye, you will see it brighter than if
Baking Kato over Premo
What temperature should you use when curing Kato Polyclay over Premo polymer clay? The baking temperatures are different.
How flexible should polymer clay be?
How flexible should polymer clay be after baking? Learn how soft it should be and how much you should be able to flex it when it’s properly baked.
Can you mix polymer clay brands?
Which brands of polymer clay can be mixed together? And is there a duplicate mixture to make Sculpey Souffle?
About metals for polymer clay earrings
A few years ago, I noticed that wearing earrings annoyed me. I’d start to get grumpy and annoyed, fiddling with them and pulling on them. Soon, I’d take them off
Bonding Polymer Clay to Itself – Testing Bakeable Bonds
Do you know the best strategy when bonding polymer clay to itself? Raw to raw, raw to baked, and baked to baked polymer clay are tested with bakeable glues.
Look, we need to talk about painting polymer clay
Painting polymer clay shouldn’t be this hard, right? Here’s the scoop on choosing a paint, why it gets sticky, if you need to seal it, and how to deal with peeling and chipping.
