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How to Soften Polymer Clay

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Summary: Learn how to heat the clay for polymer clay bead necklaces with expert crafting tips in this free online jewelry making video clip.

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Melina Piroso was born in Argentina and raised in the USA. She studied Fine Arts at FIU in Miami, and Fashion Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Her art is surrealistic in...read more

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"Hi, I'm Melina and welcome to Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make a beautiful necklace out of polymer clay. The next step is to soften your clay as soft as the clay is. It is still not workable right out of the bag. So the first thing you want to do is you want to take your clay and you want to really get it soft. Just by rolling it around, smushing it, making it workable. My personal brand that I like to use is Sculpey II. I find it very soft, very workable, friendly on the fingers. You don't end up with achy hands. After just a few quick rolls around like this, you would find that it is already soft and ready to go. So we are going to go ahead and soften all of our clay. Before I can continue rolling out my clay, I'm going to put a piece of parchment paper or wax paper underneath so that I don't end up with a table covered in clay. If you have a table where you can tape something to it, I suggest it. Cause if not every time you roll your clay around the table, the paper is going to lift up. So I'm just going to quickly tape the paper to the table that way I can work comfortably."

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