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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 13
4th Apr 2020

This week I followed two tutorials. “No Such Thing as Scrap Clay Tutorial” by Katers Acres … I love this idea of blending scrap clay into new colours and will definitely do this more in future. And I made a miniature Scrappy (and friends) – “Polymer Clay Scrappy Tutorial” by Martin Pottjewijd.
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 12
30th Mar 2020

A while ago I made a fishing net type curtain for our bathroom and this week I decided to made these sea creatures to add to it. I need to make a lot more sea creatures for this curtain. 🙂
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 11
19th Mar 2020

This week I decided to do something off my polymer clay bucket list – decorated soda can tabs. It’s something I was curious about and wanted to try, and this polymer clay challenge gave me the perfect excuse. 😀 It was SO MUCH fun!! Now I’m on a mission to collect soda can tabs. 😀 😀 😀 😀
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 10
15th Mar 2020

We are in week 10!! Yay!! This week I made a miniature bunny. She is 3cm high. Loads of fun to make and I just love her long ears. 🙂
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 9
6th Mar 2020

This week I followed a tutorial and made a Jelly Roll Cane. It’s so simple to do … make a jelly roll cane, press holes in it and slice it lengthwise. I rolled each slice through my pasta machine so that they are all the same thickness. The patterns are amazing!
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 8
29th Feb 2020

Miniature penguin for week 8 of the 2020 Polymer Clay Challenge. He is 2.6cm high. The more miniatures I make, the more I love doing them. 🙂
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 7
20th Feb 2020

This week I tried the mokume gane technique. Mokume Gane is a traditional Japanese method for laminating various colors of metals together and manipulated them to create patterns. Polymer clay works perfectly to create patterns from layers of clay, manipulating them and removing slices. I made a stack of clay out of layers of different colours polymer ...
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 6
14th Feb 2020

For week 6 of the 2020 Polymer Clay Challenge, I decided to make two miniature dachshunds and used Tinky and Gina as models. And off course Tinky’s tongue had to be out 😀 😀
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 5
7th Feb 2020

My first attempt at making a miniature dachshund for week 5 of the 2020 Polymer Clay Challenge. This one is 2.8cm high and off course there had to be a cupcake as well! 🙂 🙂 This was not easy at all, I battled to get the ears right, but I am happy with my first attempt ...
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2020 Polymer Clay Challenge – Week 4
31st Jan 2020

A miniature teddy bear for week 4 of the 2020 Polymer Clay Challenge. I followed SweetMiniDollhouse’s tutorial on YouTube but decided to make mine into a fridge magnet and not 3D like hers. My teddy is 3cm high.
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