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Nov

Picture this!!

Categories: Art, Craft, Do it yourself, ooak, paper and Polymer clay
Tags: Cernit, DIY, Easy technique, frames, ink, instructions, Marie Segal, pinata inks, Polymer clay, scrapbooking, tutorial

I found these little frames, which are actually slide holders.

These look great in scrap books.

I used them for templates and made some clay frames which can also be used in scrapbooks, made in to jewelry, or magnets.

What about Christmas ornaments with pictures in them?

You will need:

Cernit Biscuit, White, or Opaque white (You can use other colors, I just used these for these pictures)

Exacto-type blade

Slide frames

small stencil brush

Metallic inks (brilliance, MicaMagic, these heat set and are permanent)

All links above lead to my husband’s on-line store, the Clay Factory, as always thank you for looking

Condition and roll out your clay on the 3rd thickest setting in your clay machine.

Lay the slide frame on the clay and trace around it cutting with your blade.

I have better luck cutting with a exacto type blade on the inside of the frame.

You can stipple with a stiff stencil brush.

Put on a little Pinata alcohol ink.

Then add another color and daub with a paper towel to blend (Kind of) ;-D

You can bake this one just like this or…

Stamp with gold metallic ink and bake. Tah-dah frame done! Scrapbook and flexible frames.

What about a necklace?

I will play with this later for ya!

Here is another way. Roll out the sheet of clay and then roll through with a piece of lace fabric to texture.

Cut out frame from this sheet.

Highlighted with Distress ink so you can see the texture. This wonderful ink (love for my cards) is not the best to use with Polymer clay, it really never dries and will rub off. Great for step by photos though, YAY!

Here it is colored with another metallic ink and then blushed with a gold ink to further accent.

Bake and go! That scrapbook is waiting. Also you can glue to the cover or paper with a small bead of glue along each side and the bottom and you will be able to slip a small photo in and out of it when the glue has dried..

Here is another way. Roll out your clay on the above setting and then roll through with a texture plate.

Ink and bake.

Back with more on this later.

Happy Tuesday, ya’ll.

Have a great week, go play now!

I love you to the moon and back!!

Nov

Finished onthe 15th, Fave Crafts Blog hop

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, Do it yourself, Fave Crafts Blog Hop, giveaways and Polymer clay
Tags: Cernit, DIY, fave crafts blog hop, favecrafts, FaveCrafts.com, Marie Segal, Polymer clay, recycle art, recycled, recycling

Today is the Fave Crafts Blog Hop Finished on the 15th. It is about recycled products.

Click on the blog hop button above to go there and see all of the recycled crafts. Or cut and paste below

http://www.favecraftsblog.com/november-blog-hop-recycling-crafts-giveaway/

It is a contest again if you feel like voting.

I have been busy with life and finding less and less time as we are getting towards all of the holidays. There are so many things to do when your granddaughter is almost 3. Santa pictures, play, Christmas crafts, play, play, play, play, and more play. She is in to role playing now and I have been all of her friends, her stuffed animals, TV friends, swiper, and Uniqua (TV characters). It is fun, so I am behind.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone and may someone like my grand daughter light your life up and show you how to remember how to play and imagine!!

Here is my latest tin can project “Tin Can Taco box”.

Just add food.

The instructions to cover the box are from the last Blog hop and here.

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/10/finished-on-15th-tin-can-pumpkin-box.html

You could even make a pumpkin with out the face for thanksgiving treats.

Have a great Holiday.

Nov

Let’s talk Turkey!

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, Day of the Dead, Do it yourself, Holidays, Polymer clay and Uncategorized
Tags: Cernit, gobble gobble, How to, instructions, Polymer clay, step by step, step by step photos, Thanksgiving

Gobble, Gobble!!

I thought it would be fun to have a tutorial on a simple turkey.

This could be made in to a magnet or pin.

You will need:

Caramel Cernit

Opaque White Cernit

Poppy red Cernit just a pinch

Orange Cernit

Black Cernit just a pinch

Clay Machine

Clay Slicing Blade

Bamboo skewer

Sun like cutter from Flowers and leaves Makin’s clay cutter set

5/16″ Kemper Kutter flower

3/4″ Kemper Kutter Round

Condition Opaque White clay and roll out in the clay machine on the 4th thickest setting. You can roll through the machine several times to get a nice smooth sheet.

Cut out one of the sun “like” shaped cutters and lay on work surface.

Condition and roll out the caramel on the 3rd thickest setting. Cut out one of the sun “Like” shapes.

Place the caramel one on top of the white one and off set it so the whites points show between the Caramel points.

Flatten the two together with the palm of your hand, preferably the rounded cup of your palm.

Cut out two circles of Caramel out of the round 3/4″ cutter. Put them together and roll into a ball. Then using your forefinger roll on one side of the ball and rolling in to a bowling pin shape.

Like so!

With the back of the clay blade (careful now!) Make a mark about 1/8″ to 1/4″ down from the top of the small end of clay bowling pin shape.

Bend the tip over at the mark.

Place the bowling pin caramel shape on the two cut out sun “like” shapes and press the thicker end to the shapes like you see in the picture.

Make marks with the end of your blade around the turkey body where the indents are around the outside of the sun points in the brown flower/sun are. This step is optional, but does add a little more to the turkey.

Roll out the orange clay on the 2nd thickest setting and cut out two of the 5/16″ flower.

Push them out of the cutter and pinch two of the petals of the flower together.

Place the flowers that are now feet, with the pinched petals in the back,under the thick flattened end of the bowling pin caramel shape.

Cut out another flower shape.

We are just going to use this for the size, so roll that flower in to a little ball.

Roll on one side of the ball to shape it in to a shape it in to a little teardrop.

Just like this.

Place this little teardrop thick end first on the end of the bowling pin caramel top of the bowling pin.

You will able to see it in the picture after I put the eyes on.

Roll out a very small coil of black and cut off a tiny, tiny section.

Cut two of them and roll them into balls.

They a will be very small, like a 1/16″.

Here is the placement of eyes and beak.

Now we are going to make the pieces for the waddle. Roll out a small coil of the poppy red.

Cut off two short pieces and one long one.

Roll them all in to balls and then roll them in to elongated teardrops.

Place one of the two small ones on top of the head.

Then place the other.

You can see where the red pieces go, here.

Looking a little like a turkey now.

Poke two holes in the beak, so he can breathe.

With the side of the flower cutter mark the chest with marks for feathers.

Like this.

Use the flowers cutter and cut out four flowers out of the caramel sheet that is rolled out on the 3rd thickest setting.

Put two together and roll in to a ball.

Do that with the other two.

Roll those into teardrops.

Flatten those teardrops.

With the back of the blade mark both wings on the tips.

Now mark the wings with the flower cutter and mark horizontal marks on the tips too.

Place the wings on the thick end of the body.

Your turkey is done.

I thought it would be fun to have a tutorial on a simple turkey.

This could be made in to a magnet or pin.

You will need:

Caramel Cernit

Opaque White Cernit

Poppy red Cernit just a pinch

Orange Cernit

Black Cernit just a pinch

Clay Machine

Clay Slicing Blade

Bamboo skewer

Sun like cutter from Flowers and leaves Makin’s clay cutter set

5/16″ Kemper Kutter flower

3/4″ Kemper Kutter Round

Condition Opaque White clay and roll out in the clay machine on the 4th thickest setting. You can roll through the machine several times to get a nice smooth sheet.

Cut out one of the sun “like” shaped cutters and lay on work surface.

Condition and roll out the caramel on the 3rd thickest setting. Cut out one of the sun “Like” shapes.

Place the caramel one on top of the white one and off set it so the whites points show between the Caramel points.

Flatten the two together with the palm of your hand, preferably the rounded cup of your palm.

Cut out two circles of Caramel out of the round 3/4″ cutter. Put them together and roll into a ball. Then using your forefinger roll on one side of the ball and rolling in to a bowling pin shape.

Like so!

With the back of the clay blade (careful now!) Make a mark about 1/8″ to 1/4″ down from the top of the small end end of clay bowling pin shape.

Bend the tip over at the mark.

Place the bowling pin caramel shapeon the two cut out sun “like” shapes and press the thicker end to the shapes like you seeinthe picture.

Roll out the orange clay on the 2nd thickest setting and cut out two of the 5/16″ flower.

Push them out of the cutter and pinch two of the petals of the flower together.

Place the flowers that are now feet, with the pinched petals in the back,under the thick flattened end of the bowling pin caramel shape.

Cut out another flower shape.

We are just going to use this for the size, so roll that flower in to a little ball.

Roll on one side of the ball to shape it in to a shape it in to a little teardrop.

Just like this.

Place this little teardrop thick end first on the end of the bowling pin caramel top of the bowling pin.

You will able to see it in the picture after I put the eyes on.

Roll out a very small coil of black and cut off a tiny, tiny section.

Cut two of them and roll them into balls.

They a will be very small, like a 1/16″.

Here is the placement of eyes and beak.

Now we are going to make the pieces for the waddle. Roll out a small coil of the poppy red.

Cut off two short pieces and one long one.

Roll them all in to balls and then roll them in to elongated teardrops.

Place one of the two small ones on top of the head.

Then place the other.

You can see where the red pieces go, here.

Looking a little like a turkey now.

Poke two holes in the beak, so he can breathe.

With the side of the flower cutter mark the chest with marks for feathers.

Like this.

Use the flowers cutter and cut out four flowers out of the caramel sheet that is rolled out on the3rd thickest setting.

Put two together and roll in to a ball.

Do that with the other two.

Roll those into teardrops.

Flatten those teardrops.

With the back of the blade mark both wings on the tips.

Now mark the wings with the flower cutter and mark horizontal marks on the tips too.

Place the wings on the thick end of the body.

Your turkey is done.

Oct

Dem bones, dem bones, dem fish bones! Part 2

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, Do it yourself, ooak, Polymer clay and Skulls
Tags: black and white cane, Bones, Cernit, cernit canes for halloween, cernit polymer clay, Cernit tutorial, DIY, Do it yourself, fish bone cane, Happy Halloween, How to, instruction, instructions, millefiori, part 2

This tutorial post is continued from

Dem bones, dem bones, dem fish bones! Part 1

Spooky fish skeleton that is not just for Halloween.

At least that is what I think anyway.

I love this cane.

I hope you have fun making it too.

You will need:

Clay slicing blade

Clay machine

Ruler if you wish

I mixed the black clay with Biscuit and the white clay with porcelain in equal parts

Condition and roll out the black in to a sheet on the thickest setting in your clay machine.

This is the last picture from part 1 here

Dem bones, dem bones, dem fish bones! Part 1

Add a sheet of white to the center of the cut on one side. The sheet will be rolled out on the 3rd thickest setting.

Put the stack back together with the white sheet in the middle…

Roll a 1/2″ coil of the white clay and press in to a triangle with your thumb and forefinger.

Add the triangle point up to the fish bones. Like this.

Roll a 3/4″ coil of black.

Press that coil into a triangle too.

Make the points of the triangle pretty sharp.

Trim the triangle black piece to fit the stack of rib bones.

Cut that triangle piece in half.

Make the points even sharper if you have too.

Add one half to one side of the tail and the other half to the other side of the tail. Press in to the tail evenly.

Add a sheet of black clay rolled out on the thickest setting in the pasta machine to the bottom of the tail.

Like this!

Roll a 1″ coil of white clay and trim to the length of the stack of bones and tail.

Press this in to a triangle shape and see if it is the same size as the stack of bones and tail.

Cut straight down and cut off one point of the triangle.

Like so!

Place a bamboo skewer or brass rod on the cut side of the big triangle on the top 1/3 of the triangle.

Press the rod gently in to the triangle.

Add the other cut sections right back to the triangle with the brass rod still in place.

Form the 2nd cut half around the rod to form a half circle cell in the both pieces of the triangle.

Peel the one section off the other section and remove the brass rod.

Roll a coil of black clay the size of the brass rod about 1/8″ and place in the channel of the big part of the white triangle.

Cut off the black coil so it is the length of the white triangle piece.

Place the smaller section of the triangle together with the larger one leaving the black coil inside.

This will be the eye for the fish bone cane.

Using your blade again cut into the opposite side of the cane at more of an angle. Cut all the way through to the bottom edge of the white triangle.

Like so.

Pull off the small section with never changing the orientation of the pieces.

Roll out some black clay on the 3rd thickest setting and place a strip about 1/4″ in width on the length of the small cut off white piece of the larger triangle.

This piece will slide under the bigger white piece of the triangle, so the black strip will go along the outside edge of the small piece.

Like so!

Using your thumb and forefinger compact everything together. Shaping back in to a triangle and pressing the small piece with the black together with the large piece of the triangle as if it is one piece.

Place the triangle head in the center of the bones on the stack.

Roll a black coil that is 1 1/8″ in diameter and the length of the stack of fish bones.

Press in to a triangle shape and cut the pieces in half.

Make the points of the triangle more defined.

Place one half on each side of the head of the fish.

Wrap all sides with a sheet of black rolled out on the thickest setting.

Reduce by compressing all sides one at a time with the palm of your hand and then flipping the cane from end to end and compressing all 4 sides of the cane again.

Repeat this slowly and gently until the cane is smaller by half the size.

It is best to be more forceful in the center of the cane to force the inside of the cane out.

As Katherine Dewey once told me “Oh, you are pressing on the “x” and the “y” axis which forces the “z” out through the center”.

EXACTLY!

This is the inside of that cane using that method!

Enjoy and have a safe and fun Halloween!

Boos and hisses!

Oct

Something else I got side tracked on

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, Holidays, Life and living, Polymer clay and Thoughts
Tags: bat cupcakes, beads, Cernit, cernit polymer clay, fall, halloween, ideas, light, lists, Lucky, Marie Segal, planet, sandy camp, sky, spring, wiggle your toes in the grass

Halloween cupcakes!
I was making molds and had to try some of them out.

I got stuck here for a while, I made one for everyone on the Sandy Camp committee. I really appreciate all of these ladies.

No wonder I do not have enough time for everything.

I keep adding stuff to my list. ;-D

Do you do this?

Are you having a wonderful start to your fall or spring?

I am loving our weather.

The light is changing.

The sky is so beautiful.

What a planet!

We are so lucky to be here.

Go outside and wiggle your toes in the grass before it is gone and too cold to do it.

My favorite time of year.

Sep

I just won this book!

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, friends and giveaways
Tags: artistic wire, Beadwright, Cernit, giveaway, I won, Lark Crafts Sterling Publishing, Nicole Campanella, Nicoles BeadBacking, stainless steel wire, www.clayfactory.net

I am so excited, my friend Nicole Campanella at Beadwright blog reviews books for Lark Crafts/Sterling Publishing. When she is done with the book she gives it away on her blog and writes a review on it.

Very cool, yes?

I won this book Steel Wire Jewelry by Brenda Schweder!!

I am even more excited because Artistic wire just started making stainless steel wire and we are carrying it at ClayFactory.net. Wooooo Whoooo!

If Howard doesn’t have it up there, bug him about it. Sometimes he needs a push.;-D

The book is actually suggesting you use wire from the hardware store too and I will, but I think some of the designs will lend themselves to the stainless wire also. Stainless wire and Cernit polymer clay even.

I mean how perfect is that, that I win this?

Thank you Nicole and Thank you Lark Crafts/Sterling Publishing for being so generous. I appreciate both of you!

one of Nicole’s patterns

And guess what? Nicole not only does some beautiful bead-work and carry some awesome products (Nicole’s BeadBacking) and bead patterns in her Etsy store, she has a wonderful blog and is a very nice person and….

She is giving away another book now.

Here is the link

http://beadwright.blogspot.com/2011/09/win-jewelry-book-of-year.html

Be sure and visit Nicole’s blog and get your chance to win a great book from Lark Crafts/Sterling Publishing.

Jun

Finished on the 15th- Fave Crafts Blog Hop- a little hope

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, Do it yourself, Fave Crafts Blog Hop, Life and living and Polymer clay
Tags: boh, bottles, bottles of hope, Cernit, cernit polymer clay, DIY, Fave Crafts, fave crafts blog hop, FaveCrafts.com, finished on the 15th, How to, Marie Segal, Polymer clay

Well, another 15th of the month and a Fave Crafts Blog hop is here. Welcome to all of you new to my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit and come back again sometime.

To all of you that visit here regular like, HI!!

Can you believe that it is the 15th of June? The year is half way over and the second half will be here soon.

http://www.favecraftsblog.com/finished-on-the-fifteenth-favecrafts-blog-hop-for-june/

Is it that my life is so full of stuff, that things are moving so fast?
How about you? Do you feel as if time is whizzing by?

Just a reminder for all of you that make your Christmas presents, START NOW!

Well, the thing that I got finished this month is a flower cane with and with out background and the instructions on how to make a Bottle of Hope.

Here are the links, there are 4 parts to this:

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/06/flower-cane-and-bottle-of-hope-part-1.html

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/06/flower-cane-and-bottle-of-hope-part-2.html

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/06/flower-cane-and-bottle-of-hope-part-3.html

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/06/flower-cane-and-bottle-of-hope-part-4.html

Bottles of Hope http://www.bottlesofhope.org/ were thought up by a wonderful woman name Diane Gregoire who was going through breast cancer treatments in the late ’90′s.

She would take the bottles used in hers and others treatments and place polymer clay around them, then she would return for more treatments and pass them out to the people who were there for treatments too.

I met Diane in 1999 and fell in love with her attitude and lust for life and thriving through one of the most horrific diagnoses one can receive in life. Her large lovely grace gifted my life and I went out and taught about the program and talked to others about Diane and her bottles. I was travelling all over the world at the time and it was fun to spread the word.

Little did I know how much it would mean to me later in life when my mother and Sister in law were diagnosed with this dreaded disease.

I made 300+ bottles for my sister-in-law while she was going through treatments and before she died. I would get a call every week when I sent them, from her saying “oh I am keeping this one” or “I have a special person to give this one too”. I loved it. It gave me some thing to do. I felt like I was helping somehow.

My guild and I have been making bottles of hope ever since and have been closely affiliated with Moore’s cancer center and Dr. Casden over the years, we even have Bottles of Hope Clay Days. Yay Team!

It has been most rewarding and fulfilling even in the tragedy of it.

Isn’t that what life is about, finding something of value and light in the dark parts?

It is for me!!

Go out and find some light!!!

Go out and make the light!!!

Go out and spread some light!!!

Go out and be the light!!!

Jun

Flower cane and Bottle of hope- part 2

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, Do it yourself and Polymer clay
Tags: boh, bottles of hope, Cernit, cernit polymer clay, DIY, flower, flower cane, instructions, millefiori, part 2, Polymer clay, Skinner shaded canes

Here is the second part and it is continued from part one here http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/06/flower-cane-and-bottle-of-hope-part-1.html

You will need:

Violet Cernit- 1,
2.2 ounce packages

Opaque White
Cernit- 2, 2.2 ounce packages

Black Cernit-1, 2.2
ounce packages

Yellow Cernit- 1.
2.2 ounce package

Porcelain White
Cernit- large package 1.1 pound

Clay
Machine

Clay Slicing
Blade

Acrylic roller

Ruler

All links lead to my hubby’s store www.clayfactory.net

Thank you so much for looking, we appreciate that.
;-D

Mix all of the colors, even the black and opaque white with an equal amount
of porcelain white.

17. Flatten the shaded coil that you made a little on the work surface by
standing it on its flattest end. Cut through the length of the cane with you
clay blade.

I stand over the top of the coil and watch as I cut down.

Leave the cane exactly this way after you remove the blade.

18. Make another cut in the top half of the cane, fan it out from the center
of the last cut.

Leave the cane this way after removing the blade again.

19. Make another cut in the lower half of the cane fanning it out from the
center cut.

Remove the blade and leave the cane standing with the everything the way it
was cut.

20. Roll out some of the black clay on the 5th thickest setting and make it a
long sheet.

Trim off the leading edge for a straight edge.

Separate the bottom section of the cut cane.

21. Lay the cane section along the straight edge with the cut edge of the
section facing down on the clay. Trim the black sheet to match the bottom
section of purple shaded cane.

Place the cane section and the black sheet back together with the shaded coil
exactly (or almost exactly) the way it came apart.

22. Take the half section of the coil apart and place it on the black sheet
cut face down on the sheet.

23. Trim the black sheet around the cane half.

24. Place the cane half back together with the black sheet in the center.

You do not have to smash these together now. You do not really have to touch
the cane that much. Just place it back together and match top and bottom.

25. Remove the last section and place the cut edge on the black sheet and
trim the black clay away from that section.

26. Place that section back together.

27. Place the shaded coil and its inserts on the black sheet of clay on the
last trimmed edge and wrap the cane with that sheet.

28. Roll the leading cut edge over on the
opposite edge of the sheet of black and gently make the mark. Roll the coil and
the sheet back.

29. With your blade cut just inside the line you made with the leading
edge.

30. Roll the coil up and the edges should meet almost perfectly.

31. Pinch a waist with your thumb and forefinger like we have already done on
the African trade bead canes, you cane see them here

http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/05/african-trade-beads-part-12-shinning_22.html

Turn and press all the way to the top of the cane from the middle section.
Turn the cane over and press and rotate a little at a time to the top again
until you have reduced the cane to half the diameter it was.

32. The cane section might be quite knobby, it is OK!

33. Start to roll the cane down with one hand and when it gets longer add
both hands. Roll over 360 degrees and draw hands out gently away from each
other. If you roll with short little movements you will place lumps in the coil.
360 and nice and smooth.

34. Roll down to a little over half-inch in diameter and cut in half with a
rolling cut by roll the coil forward at the same time that you move the blade
forward.

35. Your cane cut should look like this.

36. Cut off a 2″ section of half of the cane.

Roll down section to 10″.

Should be about 1/4″ to 3/16″ in diameter.

Cut in to 5- 2″ sections.

37. This will look wrong because the section is bigger that yours will be. I
made it that way so you could see it better.

Pinch the end of the cane section right where all the black lines meet.

Turn the can over and pinch the other end where the lines meet.

38. The pinches should line up. If they don’t you rock the ends of the cane
back and forth to line them up.

39. Like these do.

Pinch all the way down the edge of the cane to the other mark or pinch you
made. If I do this I do not have to use registration marks on the outside of the
cane. If when you roll your cane you flip it from end to end once in a while and
roll on the other side too.

40.
Place the sections together with the points in the middle forming a little well
in the center as you go.

Place
three together.

41.
Like this!

42.
Take a small amount of yellow and roll it in to a tiny coil, this one is less
than an 1/8″ in diameter. Place it in the center.

43.
Place the other two petals in around the center and look at the end to move the
petals around so they all come out from the center at the same distance and are
uniform.

Take
the ends of the coil with your fingers and rock the ends back and forth opposite
from each other, to pull out the cane gently.

You
can also run your fingers down the edges of the cane to move it down. This is
very gentle and slow process that takes patience so not to smash the edges of
the cane together. You place your fingers in to the dips in between the petals
as you move down the cane.

44. If you cut the cane in the middle you will have a flower with out edges
and is in the shape of a flower. Set this aside and we will add canes to the
outside of another flower to fill it in also.

I use this flower just like this by taking slices off it with out having any background on it. The next flower will have a background and the two will be used together on a BOH (bottle of hope) along with just the petal slices too, Oh and some of the background canes too. You will see step by step… ;-D

Coming next part 3…

Apr

African Trade beads-part 10c

By mariesegal Leave a Comment

Categories: Art, Craft, Do it yourself and Polymer clay
Tags: Cernit, DIY, heart cane, How to, instructions, millefiori, part 10c, Polymer clay

This is continued from the second part http://mariesegal.blogspot.com/2011/04/african-trade-beads-part-10b-and-my.html from there you can find the first part.

This is the last picture from the second part.

Condition and roll out the black clay on the thickest setting in the clay machine.

Make the sheet as wide as is the can above is long.

Trim the sheet to that width. Your cane should be about 3″ long but it might be a little longer from working with it.

It should be about 5″ long.

Make a white sheet of the same size and stack these two together.

Cut the black and white sheet 1/8″ slide the blade forward to attach the slice to it.

Place the slice and the blade over the sheet using the last cut on your blade to measure the next cut. Cut the next cut and slide the blade towards you to attach the next cut. Place the slice and the blade over the sheet using the last cut on your blade to measure the next cut.

I just love it when this happens.

Lots of stacked cuts.

Wrap what you have cut around the cane and then cut some more.

Here it is wrapped all the way around the center heart cane.

I place the cane in my hand between the thumb and forefinger and grip it to make it smaller (a little at a time mind you) and squeeze, rotate the cane a little and squeeze again, rotate a little and squeeze, rotate and little and squeeze. I move towards one of the ends and start again, rotate a little and squeeze same as before while I continue moving up to the end of the cane.

I reduce the cane to half the diameter before I start to roll it on the work surface.

Working my way up to the end a little at a time.

I then turn the cane over and start in the middle and proceed the same as before to the other end of the cane.

I start in the middle of the cane and roll from the tip of my fingers all the way to the end of my palm, short rolls will roll in dips in the cane. I do this while moving my hands gently out to the ends of the cane.

After my hands reach the outside I start with them together in the middle again and roll out again

while roll from the base of palm to the tip of my fingers.

Roll down to 3/4″ or you can leave it larger if you wish.

I cut the cane in half by rolling the cane forward and moving the blade forward at the same time. I call this a rolling cut and works well with clay that is warm from working with it.

There you go you have it all now!

Go make something.

Have a great friday and a lovely weekend, no matter what you celebrate.

Peace.

Apr

Fave Crafts Blog Hop- April 15thAfrican Trade beads and giveaways

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Welcome all Fave Craft Blog Hoppers. This is the April Blog Hop and you are all so welcome to my blog.

And a Hey Ho to my regulars. I hope spring will bring me springing out to the world with bells on my toes!!

I hope you all are doing well and enjoying spring or fall depending where you are.

This month and part of last I was working on African Trade Bead tutorials. I have 8 of them so far and they include the canes, or primary patterns, for the beads and then how to make the beads also. I also have several giveaways going on, see below.