Make Polymer Clay Flower Cane Beads

Clay jewellery’s popularity has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years. And so has experimenting with not just clay, but polymer clay too. What you need is an Oven Toaster Grill, or the OTG oven as it is known. Sankgetha Sripathy, who loves to experiment with clay and polymer clay, gives us this easy to follow tutorial to make polymer clay beads.

You need

•   An OTG oven
•   Pasta making machine
•   Polymer clay in a few colours
•   Round cutters for the clay, or cookie cutters of different sizes
•   Little silver colour balls in jewellery finings
•   A polymer clay knife
•   Roller
•   Head pins and fish hooks in jewellery findings
•   Jewellery pliers
•   Jewellery wire

Step 1

Flatten the lumps of of clay with the roller, and feed the clay into the pasta machine at Setting 8. One colour should be rolled into a tube, while the other colours need to be used to cover this.

Step 2

Roll between your palms to elongat the tube, and use the knife to cut it into five or six pieces. This will give  smaller tubes. To make floral patterns, pile them one on top of the other.

Step 3

Roll another gold sheet around these tubes.

Step 4

Make discs from another sheet of gold, and roll them into balls. Cut discs of the flower tube and place them on these balls, and roll them.

Step 5

Use toothpicks or needles to make a hole through them, and bake according to the instructions are given on the cartons of polymer clay. String the beads into a necklace.

(Article courtesy: www.imprintshandmade.com; Pics courtesy: Sankgetha Sripathy)