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Butterfly-wing cane tutorial

Learn how to make your own polymer clay cabochons with a few tools. This shows a few different methods, but the basic idea is to take a (transparent) stamp, dampen it, and push it into the polymer clay to give a textured design. The variations occur as to at what point the clay is flattened and cut out into rounds/balls; before or after the texturing. Then the clay is given an oxidised/metallic look by rubbing mica powder on the raised parts. Then baked as usual. It can be left as is, or made more dome-like by putting doming resin on it.

How to make your own bangle bracelet form for molding in silicone - Resin Obsession This tutorial goes through how to make your desired shape for a bangle out of polymer clay (and bake and sand it) and then use that bangle form as the basis of a silicone mould.,

Also known as 'crazy stripes' -- it's a sort of zig-zag of stripes.

Decrease the amount of wastage when reducing a cane by putting two transparent plastic lids on the end of the cane. This helps keep the ends even, thus one doesn't have to cut off the uneven bits (or at least not so much).