For this project I ended up with cylinders ranging in size from 3/8” x 1.5” to ¾” x 2.5.” Repeat the process of making the ombre cylinders until you have a nice variety of sizes to work with. Then take each half and gently roll and shape it back into a cylinder. If you find yourself with a cylinder of clay that is simply too big, or you need more smaller sizes, you can cut one in half lengthwise. If you want to lengthen it simply roll it out with even pressure. This will compress it without distorting it. If it is too long, you can reduce its length by alternately compressing the ends and gently rolling it out. ![]() Here is a chance to modify the size of your cylinder (that will eventually become a crystal point). Go slow and press down gently from the center outwards as you roll to ensure that you are not trapping any air bubbles. Starting from a short side of the rectangle, tightly roll it up into a cylinder. Make your rectangle as large as your clay sheet will allow, conserving the most of your ombre sheets of clay. Square off your sheet of clay into an elongated rectangle. ![]() You should end up with some sheets of clay with a nice ombre effect, like this. This will prevent the clay sheet from widening. Crank the clay through with your other hand, keeping your pinky in place. Take your pinky and place it up against the other side of the clay. To keep it from doing this- while you are feeding the clay into the pasta machine, place one side of the clay against the side. Often if you feed through your pasta machine, or roll it out with a roller, your Skinner Blend will widen out. Fold over length-wise again and repeat the process several times, making sure you always fold the clay in the same direction.įor our purposes, we want to keep a long thin shape. Fold rectangle over length-wise and feed through your pasta maker, or roll out. (There are many good tutorials that go into depth about this technique, and I am soon going to write my own soon). We will now take this bi-colored rectangle to make a Skinner Blend. Square off your stack into an elongated rectangle.Ĭut your rectangle on the diagonal and separate the layers, creating 2 rectangles like the one shown (bottom). You may want to place a sheet of waxed paper between the layers at this point. Roll both balls out in an elongated oval. Here I am using Sculpey Premo- White Translucent and Peacock Blue. Pictured, about ¼ of a standard block of polymer clay constitutes 1 “part.” Knead 2 parts translucent clay. Knead and blend 1 part translucent polymer clay and 1 part color of your choice. I hope you enjoy this photo based tutorial, and I hope you find it thorough and easy to follow. ![]() These polymer clay crystals are so cute and super fun to make! I will show you how to create crystal points that fade from deep color to light translucent points. Hello and welcome! This is my very first post on my very first blog! is a blog centered around a broad range of craft tutorials.
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