Polymer Clay Tutorial

This polymer clay tutorial will teach you how to take a glass jar and cover it will polymer clay to give an organic and “rustic” look to your design.

Materials:

• Your choice of polymer clay
• Pasta Machine
• Glass Jar

Instructions:

• Gather your polymer clay in any color you wish for your background.
• Condition all your clay.
• Take your clay and organize them into a log with colors alongside each other.
• Twist and roll your log.
• Do this many times to achieve a nice color blend.
• Run through the pasta machine on a mid setting and see what “pops out”
  • Feel free to repeat this process, but do not over blend or you will create mud.
• Cut out your clay in sections to show off the most interesting blends.
• Place your cut pieces of clay over your jar making sure to cover the rim.
• Cover your jar completely.
• Add any decorations that you would like to enhance your jar.
• See the tutorial to add Koala’s in the Christi Friesen style from the Friesen Project.
• Bake in an oven covered with foil at 265 degrees for 60-75 minutes.
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Tips for an “organic look”:

• Do NOT blend all your seams.
• Create folds in the clay.
• Create pockets in the clay where things can “grow” or “bloom” out of.
• Use the most “interesting” patterns that emerge from the clay to give your jar character.

Thanks for joining me today,

Happy Claying,

Here’s what I did with my jar….

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