Author: Katie Oskin

Top 5 Polymer Clay Tips to the Perfect Millefiori Cane

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Top 5 Polymer Clay Tips to a Perfect Cane by Wendy Jorre de St Jorre

Top 5 Polymer Clay Tips to the Perfect Millefiori Cane

Top 5 Series Continues

with Wendy Jorre de St Jorre

I’m so excited to introduce you to Wendy Jorre de St Jorre today. She’s been an online friend for almost a year. I love her polymer clay canes, which have quite literally made her famous. Today, she’s going to share with us her top 5 polymer clay tips to making the perfect millefiori cane. Thanks for joining us today, there is much more fun planned from other polymer clay artists coming up in two weeks. Don’t miss it. Sign up for the emails here.

Get FREE Millefiori Cane Tutorials for Beginners Here on KatersAcres

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Polymer Clay Marbling Tutorial – “Shattered Marbling”

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Polymer Clay Shattered Marbling Technique by Katie Oskin

Knowing how to marble clay to your liking takes time, patience, and experimentation. I’ll be honest, in many cases when I was first starting out I made some major mistakes … not enough marbling, too much marbling, choosing the wrong colors to put together. Marbling is a fantastic technique that can bridge the gap from a delicate and lightly streaked look, like Christi Friesen’s “lookat technique” (click here to get the free tutorial from the Friesen Project) to flat out striped!

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Pen & Pen Holder Desk Accessory Set

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August - Pavelka Project | Make Your Own Extruded Desk Accessories

Polymer Clay Desk Accessory Tutorial Set

Welcome back for month 8 of our project. This month finds us with a tutorial that is more than beads, techniques, or jewelry. This month you are going to make a desk accessory set. Lisa demonstrates 3 separate “office” project in her Polymer Clay Extravaganza Book. You can use these as a springboard to make your own projects. Or if you are an extruder junkie, you might have some fun with this tutorial too.

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Top Five Polymer Clay Caning Techniques with Teresa “Pandora” Salgado

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Top Five Polymer Clay Caning Techniques with Pandora

 

Welcome back to the “Top Five” series! This summer series will feature ‘top five’ polymer clay artists tips from around the globe. Today it is my honor and privilege to introduce Teresa “Pandora” Salgado. Today, Teresa is going to be sharing with us her Top Five Polymer Clay Caning Techniques.

Get FREE Millefiori Cane Tutorials for Beginners Here on KatersAcres

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DIY Book of Polymer Clay Color Recipes

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DIY Polymer Clay Color Recipe Book Project | Make your own book of color for your #polymerclay recipes

Here’s a Simple & Fun Way to Make Your Own

Polymer Clay Color Recipes

After gathering several of my polymer clay color recipes (you can see them all here), one of my readers asked me how I kept those color recipes. So today, I thought I would take a moment and show you my system for keeping my colors. Please know that there are literally dozens of ways you can do this. I have chosen to organize my colors this way because it is the most helpful and useful to me. Feel free to use some, parts, or all of these ideas to make your own polymer clay color recipe book.

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WIP Wednesday Polymer Clay Studio

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WIP Wednesday in KatersAcres Polymer Clay Studio | Join the Conversation: What are YOU working on?

WIP Wednesday

in KatersAcres Polymer Clay Studio

WOW! What a busy past few weeks in my studio. I had plenty of tutorials to write for Club Members, lots of playing to do, and even a few challenges to figure out as well. I think I kept myself plenty busy. I’ve separated the above graphic into quadrants so you can better follow along and see what I’m doing.

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July Pavelka Project – Sutton Slice Technique

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Sutton Slice Technique Tutorial | Make your own DIY birdhouse with the 2015 Pavelka Project hosted by Lisa Pavelka & Katie Oskin

July Pavelka Project

Polymer Clay Sutton Slice Technique

The 2015 Pavelka Project by Lisa Pavelka & KatersAcres

Polymer Clay Covered Birdhouse Tutorial

Welcome back for month 7 of our project. This month finds us with another tutorial that is based around a technique. What does this mean? It means that you can make whatever you want and enter it to win, as long as it uses the Sutton Slice Technique.

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Polymer Clay Tutorial: Flower Head Pins from Scrap Canes

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Polymer Clay Tutorial - Flower Head Pins Using Scrap Cane Ends & Leftovers by KatersAcres | FREE Tutorial - PIN NOW, Make later
Polymer Clay Flower Head Pins by KatersAcres | CLICK for tutorial

 Why throw out all those tiny little cane ends? You can still use them, even if there’s not enough for a large project. I’ve been making these little flower head pins ever since I began making my own canes. For those of you who don’t already know, I have a thing for flowers. I LOVE them. But … I live in the woods. Flowers don’t grow well here. So instead, I made a TON of flowers in the spring & summer months from clay.

This project is a fun & quick way to use up those wonky ends & slices you may have cut from your canes. Placing these flowers on longer pieces of wire will allow them to be used as plant pokeys, tied into the center of a bow for a gift, jewelry head pins, and so much more.

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Top Five Polymer Clay Books

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Top 5 Polymer Books by KatersAcres

Top Five Series

Polymer Clay Books

If you are a bibliophile (like I am) then books are your thing. This also means that books are very personal. Books take on a life of their own, even instructional based books. I have assembled the “top five” polymer clay books, based on my opinion alone. I will also recommend an additional 3 books that also rank very high on my list, and in fact made this a very hard decision in 3 of my categories.

If you are a polymer clay artist and would like to recommend a polymer clay book that perhaps didn’t make my cut, feel free to do so in the comments below.

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Polymer Clay Studio: What’s In My Spinner?

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Inside KatersAcres Polymer Clay Studio, What's In My Spinner | Come and See the Tools I Use Daily

One of my favorite posts that other artists do is a glimpse into their studio. I love to see their workspaces, how they create, and even the tools they use. While this post will NOT be exhaustive by any stretch of the imagination, it will definitely give you some great insight into my daily grind in my polymer clay studio.

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Top Five Polymer Clays

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Top 5 Polymer Clays by KatersAcres

Top 5 Polymer Clays

Top 5 Polymer Clays by KatersAcres

Welcome to this summer’s Top Five series. If you missed the announcement, check it out here. This series will pick the “top 5” of various things in my polymer clay studio. We’ll cover everything from tools, clays, tutorials, and so much more. For the first post I’m going to talk about the “Top 5 Polymer Clays” that are always in my studio. These are the clays that I can’t live without. These are the clays that there are always multiple bars of in my clay drawers and I often purchase in bulk.

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