Polymer Clay Zipper Cane Mini Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มี.ค. 2016
- Video #723: Starting with a Skinner or Teardrop Blend that has good color contrast, is key to making Zipper Canes that work... More Info: www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?... Polymer Clay Tutor.
In the previous video, I showed how to get more color contrast in your polymer clay color blends. This can be very important when making certain polymer clay canes... especially a Zipper Cane.
If you don't have enough contrast between the darkest to the lightest colors in your blend, your Zipper cane design will lose its impact, visually. Colors that are too close to the same value, will blur together and the pattern will be difficult to see. This is especially the case if you reduce your cane to a smaller size.
So... before attempting this Zipper Cane Tutorial, make sure to first watch the "More Contrast In Your Polymer Clay Skinner Blends" video, so that you end up with a pleasing result for your zipper cane.
As you will see in the video, once you have a good Teardrop Blend with nice contrast, you can easily transform it into a Zipper Cane in just a few steps.
The first step is to manipulate your cane into a long strip between 1" to 2" in width. The blend should go from side to side down the entire strip, rather than from end to end. In the video you will see what I mean.
This strip is then cut in half, leaving you with two long strips that you will flip one side to side and stack on top of the other. Making sure that light edge of Piece Two is now on top of the dark edge of Piece One... and that the dark edge of Piece Two is on top of the light edge of Piece One. Again, this makes the most sense when you can see it done in the video.
Then, to make this double layered alternating stack into a cane, you simply cut in half and stack... repeating until you have a rectangular cane that suits your needs.
This Zipper Cane can then be reduced to a smaller size as needed, and sliced to be used for whatever you want. Zipper Cane slices make great earrings, beads, buttons, pendants, polymer clay background sheets, slices to add to bangle bracelets, frames, candle holders, etc., etc.
Try this cane out in lots of different color ways.
Have fun!
Related Video: Managing Color Contrast With Skinner Blends... www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?...
Related Video: Lietz Teardrop Blend Color Gradients Made Easy... www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?...
Related Video: Is Your Skinner Blend or Teardrop Blend Too Wide... www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?...
Related Video: Reducing Square Polymer Clay Canes Mini Tutorial... www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?...
And... more info about today's video is at my blog... www.beadsandbeading.com/blog/?...
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It's nice to see you're still commenting on your videos and continuing to help people just starting out, despite the videos being a few years old! Great work
Thank you I appreciate you saying that! I try to respond to as many comments as possible. Although many of the videos are several years old in my channel, the content is still relevant, so to the person who has just seen it for the first time, they deserve as much interaction as the people who saw it when it first came out. I can't always reach every question, but I do my best.
i have made jewelry over the years working with metal, etc. I now have turned to polymer clay and I am a very first time beginner, who loves it. Thank you for your videos they have helped me and given me hope. I have also worked with natural clay and so polymer is totally different and a new experience.
Great tutorial cindy as always 👍🏻❤️Thank you for all your time👍🏻
Cool, thank you Cindy, blessings to you and yours.
Thanks! Love your tutorials so much!
Love these simple, but very effective techniques
Love your videos I learn so much from watching them. Thank you.
Thank you... I love learning new things..
I see your videos are older however I'm just now learning about polymer clay. Your tutorials are amazingly helpful!! Thank you!!
Thanks for another helpful video!
Thank You so much for showing how you put your clay through the pasta machine, And guiding the clay through. So many videos never show that step. This really helps me a lot. Thanks I really like the way this zippier cane came out. I need to go and watch more of your videos. I am new to polymer clay and every little thing helps. You are a great teacher. Thanks 😊
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words! 💖
Het Cindy, that was really cool. Ty so much! 💕👍🏼
just to say thank you from the UK for all your video's......:)
You are just amazing, Cindy!!!
+Tazzie012 Thank you! You're sweet!
Wow this is wonderful
Thanks, this was really helpful!
Awesome love this tutorial ...thanks for sharing ...now off to check out some more...🤩😍💖
Cindy, I just want to encourage you! You are so wonderful about sharing details and all those little things most of us or some of us don't know! Thank you for all the time and effort you and your husband put into these videos. They are always very helpful and your upbeat attitude and encouragement to us to "just try it" is wonderful and needed! Yes, we need you! 😊. Gcd bless you and the work of your hands!❤️
Thank you Joannie for going out of your way to say such kind words of encouragement. It is a lot of work to bring information like this to everyone and it is very much appreciated to know that we are bringing you enjoyment and value for your time.
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I love watching your tutorials they are very thorough and you're a excellent teacher
Thank you so much for the kind words Janet! 😍
wonderful
hanks Cindy for another helpful tutorial. Off I go to make one! :)
Lovely video! x
Fun, fun and more fun..Thanks
very cool!
Love the tutorial! More techniques please. Maybe a new color shift?
love
It's cool.
Great instructer
Cool thanks
Thank you so much! I think I might be able to make this one. 😊💜👍
You’re welcome 😊
Wow
Would love to see more surface techniques using translucent.
Thanks for such a great video! Can this cane be cut into slices for tiles for a mosaic?
these are real pretty. can you use these canes to make millefiori?
awesome tutorial!!
what kind of pasta machine do you use?
Hi Cindy, Just found ur channel and subscribe!!! :D Really love ur tuts!! I'll need a lot of time to watch them all :D
Can you please answer one question I have? The little clay I've work on it is Fimo and I really hate Premo cause I bought 2 blocks of Premo (black and blue) and I never opened them until 2 years later and I had to throw them... It's impossible to make anything with them even warm it... it's just like plastic scraped... soo my question is... which is the longest time you have been able to work on a fimo you had opened before?
Thank you!!!
I was wondering about those black organizers again. Are those big enough for putting beads on too? and what's the sku number again? Thank you sooooo much 😊
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I have watched this video great learning tutorial can you tell me what colors are on the brown zipper cane thank you
Thank you! I am not positive which colors I used on the brown cane, since it was so long ago... but just guessing by looking at it, it appears to be a teardrop blend from Premo Bronze to Premo Gold to Premo Pearl. Hope that helps!
@@PolymerClayTutor thank you l watch all tutorials thank you again
you can do that to look like water in a background on an old book
Hi I watch you all the time I have only just got in to claying am using fimo an just got a paster machine can I put any oven bake clay in it an can I condition sheets and put them in a box till I want to use them or will I have to re put them throw each time thanks if you read this xx
You might need to run them through the machine again to soften them up and make them workable, but it shouldn't take as long if they were conditioned well once before.
@@PolymerClayTutor thak you so much for relying to me I love watching your videos thay are so hlep full xx
@@PolymerClayTutor hi cindy it's me agin I have noticed you never use fimo clay can I ask why an is the clay you use soft for binggers like me also can it go in my oven that I use every day I hope you can understand this meassage hope to hear soon thanks agin xx
I used the same amount of clay but couldn't get the blend long enough to cut. Instead of a square I had a half of the square.
My guess is that your clay was either thicker or wider and that is why the blend wasn't as long. You can cut your stack in half and stack again, so you end up with something closer to what you want. Go back and watch the video carefully again and see if you can figure out what you may have done differently. Good luck!
It says this was posted 3 hours ago, but there's comments that are from a day ago
+Berra Larkin It must have been a glitch because it was posted a day before your comment not 3 hours.
Oh ok thx for explaining
Excellent well planned and executed video. Thank you for making the zipper cane look so easy. Hope I can make it just as easily!!
Wondering if you can keep cut out designs in one place until it efficiently makes sense to bake. Saving a buck…..but if they don’t hold up it’s waste a buck.
Watch out for your fingers
That blade came very close
Thank you , I will be careful! :)