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Traveling with Polymer Clay
Whether you’re flying to a polymer clay retreat or just going to visit relatives and want to bring your clay, it’s easy to wonder what you need to know about

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?

Sharpening a Polymer Clay Blade
Rather than sharpen my polymer clay blade, I like to use this strategy. No more sliced fingers, too.

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
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