polymer clay

Cathy and I had some time to play....decided to make some pens out of Premo (Polymer Clay) All comments welcome! Have a nice weekend, Karen Wood Safari www.woodsafari.com

I have seen several ideas for PC canes. I offer these for what they are worth. Put the cane into a refrigerator for a few hours to stiffen it. Makes it easier to cut without deforming the cane. Before slicing the cane, press the teeth of a comb or saw lightly into the clay. Use the teeth...

They're in an old toaster oven right now I have set up in my warehouse. I'm more excited than when I carefully put a lemon meringue pie in the oven night before last! I doubt the pen blanks would taste as good though :) I'll post pix here as soon as it comes out of the oven and I get it...

Half-way through a project I wasn't happy with how it was going. I grabbed the clay:mad: and started mixing it together to go into the scrap pile. After a few kneads I looked down and had to stop in my tracks. This twist pen was the result. I need to be careful and pay attention the next time I...

So this weekend I went out and did a major splurge. 1 Craft Pasta Roller - $25 16 packages of Premo clay - $2.50 each except one at $3.50 ($41) Toaster Oven - $19 Oven Thermometer - $5 Total outlay - $90 I came home and confiscated one of LOML's glass cutting boards and grabbed some...

I felt inspired by the start of training camps this past week. Pretty soon the cool air will move in and the sound of crashing pads will fill the air. Go Bears!!

What a find! I can't believe I didn't find this site sooner. About 2 years ago I got this crazy urge to make pens. All of my work to date has been with polymer clay. Reading through some of the old posts I see some have experimented with Polymer with mixed results. Being familiar with this...

I Have only had a lathe for a couple weeks and am finally getting some pens done that I am happy with. I still have tons of questions, but wanted to share with all of you to see what you think so far. Thank you all for your wonderful posts. I would have never gotten this far without all of...