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Haven’t made many beads throughout my short polymer clay journey, so I thought I’d remedy that today. As most polymer clay artist know you end up with a rather large amount of scrap clay and you know the old saying waste not want not.
So I gathered together some scrap clay and went to town and here are the results about to go in the oven.
I don't have one of those fancy bead trays (would love one though) so I improvised with bamboo skewers and binder clips. It worked a treat.
I’m dreading all the sanding though. Maybe that’s why I haven’t made many beads!
The beads really look wonderful! You might be able to save time sanding by getting a rock tumbler machine and polishing them in that first. I think that a final buffing would be best done by hand from what I've read.
ReplyDeleteA rock tumbler is on my wish list Dawn. After taking them out of the oven I'm quite happy to find they don't need a lot of sanding thank goodness. My binder clips didn't fair too well though, but that's another blog post titled Heat and Plastic....Not a Good Combo!
DeleteWow...great beads Davinia!!!
ReplyDeleteI was going to congratulate you on your ingenious idea of using your binder clips for this but then I read your comment above... :~)
It was a great idea though...can you get metal binder clips??
Cheers
Like with food. Amazing things can be created from scraps.
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ReplyDeletelovely blog........fantastic work
ReplyDeletegreat use of scraps of polymer I love the use of binder clips too saves much needed dosh to buy more polymer Who needs a tray lol xxx
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