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Faded Blue Jeans

Polymer Clay Premo Color Recipe

Faded blue jeans … is there anything in life more comfortable than your favorite old pair of faded blue jeans? This polymer clay color recipe will show you a simple and basic recipe to mimic those old worn favorites.

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Willow Tree Green

Polymer Clay Premo Color Recipe

Royal Purple Fleck polymer clay color recipe for Premo polymer clay is a velvety purple color with just a hint of metallic. It’s vivid purple color will help to pull color to it. This cool toned purple is sure to be a winner in your next palette.

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Royal Purple Fleck

Polymer Clay Premo Color Recipe

Royal Purple Fleck polymer clay color recipe for Premo polymer clay is a velvety purple color with just a hint of metallic. It’s vivid purple color will help to pull color to it. This cool toned purple is sure to be a winner in your next palette.

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Easy Faux Crackle Technique Tutorial – Overlay Technique

This easy, faux crackle technique can become the base for a multitude of clay designs. It works the best the easiest as a veneer technique on raw clay designs. And like many happy accidents and tutorials here at KatersAcres, this faux crackle technique has a story too. It also pairs nicely and easily with the Faux Collage Veneers tutorial too! Are you ready to try it? Let’s get started!

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Dark Green Shimmer

Premo! Polymer Clay Color Recipe

Dark Green Shimmer Premo Polymer Clay Color Recipe is reminiscent of Christmas, holly leaves, and the sparkle of a Christmas tree. I love green polymer clay, especially green polymer clay with a blue undertone. This metallic and luscious polymer clay will  brighten up those dull greens!

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Blue Ribbon

Polymer Clay Premo Color Recipe

Blue Ribbon polymer clay color recipe for Premo polymer clay is that blue that first place dreams are made of. Reminiscent of country fairs, motor race ways, and 4H clubs. This blue means something … you’ve won! This blue carries a subtle purple undertone that doesn’t translate as well on camera as in real life.

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Easy Faux Beach Glass Tutorial

This Faux Beach Glass Tutorial will make the perfect summer accessories for home, decor, or even jewelry! Parker’s Clayful Tutorials Club is taking a dive into the sea with our Ocean Commotion theme this month and started things off with our über cute Puffed Fish duo. With all our ocean tutorials, it seemed only fitting to offer a free Faux Beach Glass tutorial here on the site for all my readers too!

Materials:

• Premo! Polymer Clay – Frost
• Ranger Alcohol Inks: Lights (Wildflower) & Lights (Lakeside)
• Pasta Machine
• Cutter or clay blade
• Sculpting Tools
• Your Hands

Faux Beach Glass Tutorial

• Separate one full block of Premo! Frost polymer clay into 8 equally proportioned pieces.
• Fully condition each piece of  Premo! polymer clay individually.
• Choose 6-8 light colored alcohol inks (I chose inks by Ranger) to tint your clay.
  • If you choose 6 colors, you will use only 6 sections of your block. 7 colors, 7 sections, etc, etc, etc.
• Add only 2-3 drops of each light colored alcohol ink per mini conditioned clay sheet.
  • NOTE: These drops will bake DARKER thank they currently appear. For this project, less is more.
• Tip: If you are using a “bright” or “bold” alcohol ink by ranger, use ONLY 1 drop of alcohol ink!
• Use a dry finger to swirl the alcohol onto the surface of the mini sheet.
• Allow to dry fully.
• Once the alcohol ink is dry, condition the clay again fully combining the ink into the clay.
• When the ink is combined into the clay you will have new vibrant sheets of clay!
• Form these sheets into small shards/pieces of beach glass using your fingers.
  • I got about 3 pieces of faux glass from each 1/8 portion of block I used.
• Pierce with toothpicks or bead pins before baking.
• Bake your faux glass for 45 minutes at 275 degrees covered in foil.
• After baking use your faux beach glass pieces as desired.

To achieve a more realistic faux beach glass result, please see this fabulous tutorial from The Blue Bottle Tree.

Thanks for joining me today,

Happy Claying,

Free polymer clay tutorials are made possible by Parker’s Clayful Tutorials Club Members.

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Raspberry Puree

Polymer Clay Premo Color Recipe

Raspberry Puree polymer clay color recipe for Premo polymer clay is a bright fuchsia pink color with just a hint of metallic. It’s bold color will help brighten your palette.

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Sea Green

Sea Green Polymer Clay Color Recipe

Sea green polymer clay color recipe for Premo polymer clay is a bright sparkling green with a touch of metallic glitter. It’s bright, it’s vivid, and you’ll instantly fall in love!

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Polymer Clay Sunset Pendant Tutorial

This polymer clay sunset pendant tutorial will introduce you to some basic steps on how to make your own easy pendants to wear this summer. With just a few basic tools and basic skills, you too can create a delightful summer pendant to wear around town.

Materials:

• Premo! Polymer Clay
• Pasta Machine
• Cutter or clay blade
• Sculpting Tools
• Mica powders / chalk powders
• Your Hands

Polymer Clay Sunset Pendant Tutorial

• Fully condition your Premo! polymer clay.
• Choose colors to make a simple Skinner Blend. This particular blend was made using my Sunset Skinner Blend recipe.
• Cut out a small portion of the blend.
• Place on a sheet of black clay rolled on the 2nd largest setting of your pasta machine.
• Cut out any shape (using cutters or a blade) that is pleasing to your eye.
• Use your finger (check out the Christi Twisty technique) or a stamp to lightly texture the background.
• Add some light blue (or white) lines in various places for clouds.
• Add a few green “islands” if you’d like as well.
• Use a sculpting tool to “paint” the clouds and give them texture. Do the same for the islands.
• Now you need a focal point … why not some lovely palm trees? Not only that, but you could also use birds or a hammock, an owl or some deer, or how about a bear? Not to mention that you could add some water to the bottom for a wide variety of other options too.
• When you are finished add some highlights with some mica powders or chalk powders.
• Bake your pendant for 45 minutes at 275 degrees.
• After baking, add a bail to your pendant. Finish as desired.

See this article for an example on backing your piece and why it’s important to finish your pendant properly.

Thanks for joining me today,

Happy Claying,

Free polymer clay tutorials are made possible by Parker’s Clayful Tutorials Club Members.

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Purple Dusk

Premo! Polymer Clay Color Recipe

Purple Dusk Premo! polymer clay color recipe is a deep purple with a touch of old gold. It’s dark, mysterious, and almost foreboding…

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Polymer Clay Faux Cloisonne Beads

Love the look of Cloisonné but can’t afford it? Make Your Own.

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Golden Green

Premo! Polymer Clay Color Recipe

Golden Green Premo! polymer clay color recipe is that touch of old gold. As an illustration, gold that has tarnished with age. Surely reminiscent of pirate’s or fool’s gold. Indeed this is a unique color with attitude! This polymer clay color recipe is the perfect metallic to spice up Steampunk designs & metallic old world pieces.

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Dark Waters

Premo! Polymer Clay Color Recipe

Dark Waters is that hint of the deep. It’s the darkness of the underwater. It’s the depth of the ocean, the magic of the tide. This Premo! polymer clay color recipe is perfect to add depth to your summer color palettes.

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Ready to Learn How to Make a Color Palette in Polymer Clay?

Make a color palette in polymer clay? Yes please! Is it something that you struggle with? Is it something that you are great at? Do you struggle to duplicate colors you fall in love with? Today I’m going to show you a quick, easy, fun, & basic approach to make a color palette in polymer clay. The polymer clay that we are going to use today is my polymer clay of choice: Polyform’s Premo! by Sculpey. So are you ready to make a color palette in polymer clay?! Let’s go!

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