Softening Clay for Mushroom Incense Burner

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Melina and welcome to Expert Village. Today we are going to make a beautiful mushroom and butterfly incense burner out off polymer clay. The next step that you want to do is you want to take each clay color and soften it and get it ready for work. Since this is going to be our mushroom, we are going to take a pretty good amount. This is going to be the biggest thing. Roll it and always make sure that you have something covering your work area. If not, that clay is going to get in there and it is going to be there for the rest of your life. Once it gets in between those little cracks, you can never get rid of it. I like to put a big piece of wax paper right over the top that way the clay does not get all over. I can work comfortably. The red is being very difficult. It is very hard to soften it over your roller. The roller is going to help soften it. A few years ago it was almost impossible to get polymer clay that was really soft and I remember it would come in a very hard block. But now they really have made it softer. You can believe softer than this. This is relatively new clay but it a little bit hard but normally you can get softer clay."