Grate up super hard clay into fine particles for adding to other clays for faux stone effects like Faux Lapis Lazuli, Faux Rose Quartz and Faux Turquoise. You can even grate up baked clay to add to raw clay to make your own version of Granite.
Pastry cutters work the same way. The pastry cutters with the wavy blades are especially fun to play with. Pile some cornstarch in the center and draw up sides of cloth to make a pouch. This creates a great little pouncing bag to lightly and evenly dust cornstarch onto clay, rubber stamps, molds, etc. Dust the end with cornstarch and twist when removing from clay. What are some of your favorite tools that you have stolen from the kitchen?
Try using a potato peeler for taking slices off of Mokume Gane slabs of clay… just make sure to never do potatoes with it again. Look for the ones with the smooth blades not the serrated ones if you want a really clean cut! Anybody ever get good cane slices or mica shift pattern slices by using a dedicated fine slicing metal French mandolin sp? Since many plastics react with polymer clay, I have found ziploc bags to be the best solution. Test your bags first to make sure they are non-reactive.
You do this by leaving a small piece of clay lying on one of the bags. Check after a week or so to see if the plastic beneath and surrounding the clay has gone cloudy.
If it has, the plastic is reacting. If it hasn't then your bags should be safe for storage. I use the ziploc bags carried by FireMountainGems. When you think that you could blow that on one or two over-priced gadgets, getting started with polymer clay really doesn't need to be too expensive. Just a quick word about the clay itself. Some polymer clay brands are more suitable than others for polymer clay art. Sculpey III in particular is not a good choice.
It is cheap and readily available, but brittle and it breaks easily. I have heard so many stories of polymer clay beginners going out and buying buckets full of Sculpey III only to be frustrated when their projects don't come out the way they should. It can be very discouraging.
If you are just getting started with polymer clay I recommend either Premo, or Fimo Professional, or Kato at a push. If there are any other must-have polymer clay tools that you think should be added to the list on this page, please let me know in the comments below.
And as always, please do like and share with your friends if they are just starting out with polymer clay. Polymer Clay Leaf Cane Tutorial. How to Finish Polymer Clay. Dragon Scale Mica Shift Technique.
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