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Canes - long rolls of polymer clay set in patterns |
If you design and make polymer canes you probably have boxes of them stacked in shelves like I do. And if you sometimes look at all the cases of canes and wonder "What am I going to do with those rolls of patterned polymer clay?" then we are a lot alike!
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One of many boxes of canes - waiting! |
This week my attention span was just long enough to take a few of the canes and put them together in new ways and make some beads and buttons. The color choices were blacks, gray, white and a little rusty red wrapped in thin black casings. The canes needed a little massaging to activate the clay since they were older.
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unfired buttons |
The buttons are 1/8" slices with the pattern going through the button. Be sure and notice the color change from the unfired clay to the fired clay. I try to make a couple of sizes of each pattern.
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fired buttons
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The beads are made of thinly sliced canes applied to scrap clay and then rolled in my hands for the shape. They have a depth of color because there is some translucent clay in the canes.
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finished bead |
I usually make just a few buttons at a time and I make 3,5 or 7 beads depending on how I'm feeling or if I have something in mind for a finished product.
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finished beads |
I derive a lot of pleasure from the colors, patterns and shapes when making buttons and beads and love the instant gratification I get from polymer!
link to buttons:
https://img0.etsystatic.com/125/0/6037243/il_570xN.854582928_mk1y.jpg
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