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Remove Polymer Clay Bubbles
Use this great tool to remove bubbles and trapped air in polymer clay.
Sculpey Bake and Bond Oven Bake Clay Adhesive
Bake and bond is a commonly used bakeable glue to polymer clay. Here’s what you need to know about it.
Dimensional Glaze on Polymer Clay
When you hate resin but still want a thick, shiny coating, you can try dimensional glaze, but there are things you’ll want to know first.
How to Leach Polymer Clay
Have you ever opened a brand new package of polymer clay and it was so soft, sticky, and goopy that it was almost liquid? It’s easy to assume that you
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
Spray Varnish for Polymer Clay: We have a winner!
Sometimes a brush-on varnish won’t do. Is there are spray varnish that works on polymer clay? Here is a matte varnish and a spray gloss varnish that work very well with polymer clay.
Nail Products for Polymer Clay
In the world of polymer clay, we’ve long “borrowed” art materials and tools from other crafts and activities. From pasta machines to floor scrapers, from oil paints to varnish, we
Do You Need a Website?
It’s a common question among those of us who make and sell jewelry and art beads – Do you need a website? Many jewelry artists think that they don’t need
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
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