Leaf Clusters | Polymer Clay Cane Tutorial

Polymer Clay Multiple Leaves Caning Tutorial Today’s polymer clay caning tutorial showcase leaf clusters canes! This is a great cane for beginners. Some of the polymer clay techniques i’ll be employing in this video are: bullseye gradient, cane reduction, cane packing and working with translucent clay. You’ll see how you can take a simple shape like a leaf to turn it into a more complex design by assembling them into a larger component — the trick is to wrap extensions (like the stem of the leaf) with translucent before combining. Tutorial on skinner blending: In this video, I used a variation of the skinner blend called, the “Simmons“ skinner blend. Instead of the Simmon’s, you can use the regular Skinner Blend, which I go over step by step in this video: Tutorial on Bulls Eye Canes: List of Clay Ratios: Simmon’s Skinner Blend (actual amount of clay used in the cane) • 4g dark green • 4g medium green • 5g light green * NOTE: if doing the Simmon’s Skinner Blend, multiply the amount times 3 so the shape you cut out will by about one-third of what you started with. Packing Clay • Roughly 36 grams of Sculpey Premo Translucent Jennifoo’s List of Recommended Tools: MARCATO Atlas 150 Pasta Machine (this is the machine I use!): Sculpey Clay Blades 3 Set Pack (for general cutting): Tissue Blades (dedicated thin & sharp blade for cane slicing) Sculpey Satin Glaze (for sealing surface treatments): Acrylic Roller and Tiny Hole Cutter Set: Large Circle Cutters: Cute Earring Clay Cutters: Earring Ball Post with KC Gold (my favorite earring finding!): * If you use the Amazon affiliate links above to make a purchase I will receive a small commission. I greatly appreciate your support! Contents of this video 0:00 - Introduction 0:14 - #1: Create Simmon’s Skinner Blend 2:08 - #2: Create Bulls Eye Cane 3:18 - #3: Form Leaf Shape 3:53 - #4: Wrap Leaf with Translucent 4:32 - #5: Reduce Leaf Cane 4:48 - #6: Cut Leaf into Three Sections 5:22 - #7: Lengthen Stem 5:44 - #8: Assemble Leaves 6:03 - #9: Cane Packing 6:55 - #10: Cane Reduction #polymerclay #polymerclaytutorials #ovenbakeclay