Cane design from patterns - 50 of 366 creative days

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  I celebrate the fifty day of 366 creative days by doing a floral cane design.
  For this I used pieces from 4 pattern templates and one of my palettes. My favorite is the second. I know that making this into a polymer clay cane is very very hard work, but I am ready!

Cane flower design version 1

Cane flower design version 2

Cane flower design version 3

  I have placed them on white and black background. As you  know, the white make the colors more vivid, and all the details contrast better so I think I will choose the white background floral canes designs. Also, all the petals and leafs will have gradients and a bit more details: dots, stripes, etc.

The credits for the pattern templates belong to:
http://www.colourlovers.com/pattern/template/85511/FLY_DRAGON_FLY_!
http://www.colourlovers.com/pattern/template/91931/Morning_Glorry6
http://www.colourlovers.com/pattern/template/85611/o2b_Floral-Jul
http://www.colourlovers.com/pattern/template/93723/papillon_vagabond

Kaleidoscope canes - 49 of 366 creative days

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   For the forty ninth day I have tried some Kaleidoscopes from my weird cane. They are done only on computer so far, just to test out how they will look like, I have made 12, but I am sure I could have done way more if I have chosen a different angle.

Kaleidoscope canes

   All these are made with slices cut from the previous cane like slices of pizza with different angles. You can also chose to make squares, triangles from the full cane, following different lines and getting 2-3 or more together. Depends on the patience and canes.

Weird polymer clay cane - 36 of 366 creative days

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  For the thirty sixth day I have tried a cane, and I did one.

Ugly weird polymer clay cane

   I used random little canes from leftovers just to test.

More extruded polymer clay stripes - 35/366

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  For the thirty fifth day of 366 creative days I have did more polymer clay extruded stripes from those rainbow striped canes.

Polymer clay extruded stripes

  I have done new arrangements for the cane slices, the only one in common with the first extruded polymer clay stripes is the second one here, same with the third one there.
   I got my hands on white Cernit polymer clay and I will test it. But probably after I am done with these stripes.

Extruded polymer clay stripes - 31 of 366 creative days

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  For the thirty first day of 366 creative days I have done some testing with extruded polymer clay rainbow stripes from those logs done in the third day.

 
 You can see the stripe combination before extruding and after extruding you can see the heads, tail and two randoms middle. The extruded shape square is about 5 mm, so it wasn't a good idea, probably with more material and a bigger extruder gun would look better.
  I like the rainbow variation very much, I will try on white next time, maybe some transparent as well when I will get my hands on some.

PMC extruder canes earrings - 26 of 366 creative days

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   For the twenty sixth day I finished a pair of polymer clay earrings from some previous tries on extruded canes with some leftover oranges, transparent and matte as well with some canes from the turquoise emerald beads on sixth day.

Polymer clay extruded cane earrings

   This is my second pair of finished polymer clay earrings, first I have done some years ago and gave it to a friend.

Stripes polymer clay cane - 3 of 366 creative days

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This is for third day of 366 creative days.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

1. Polymer clay colors and tools

          1 -1x9(black)
          2 -1x63(plum)
          3 - 1x35(Windsor blue)+1x37(pacific blue)
          4 - 1x56(peppermint)+1x39(emerald)+1x014(translucent)- next time use 56(emerald) instead
          5 -1x26(cherry red)+1x42(tangerine)+8x16(sun flower)
          6 -1x7(caramel)+5x24(indian red)+5x26(cherry red) - not sure about the quantities
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b - Tools

          1 - Tissue blade
          2 - Ruler

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c - Techniques

2. Stripes made out of black and colors

          1 - Black stripes thickest setting, colored stripes on the 5-7 setting(here is 5, I wish I used thinner)
          2 - Stripes cut same width and length before layering them

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d - End result

3. Beads done from uneven ends

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          Unbaked beads. The initial idea was to make 1.5 mm thick hexagonal slices, but those round ones got the best versions with what tools I have.

e - Used for
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           Will be added later

f - Other info
          - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

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Clay gun Experiment - day one of 366 creative days

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This is for day one of the 366 creative days project.

a - Materials
b - Tools
c - Techniques
d - End result
e - Used for
f - Other info

a - Materials

Polymer clay colors and tools

          Fimo polymer clay
          1 - 1x70(sahara)+1x014(translucent)
          2 - 1x35(windsor blue)+1x37(pacific blue)
          3 - 1x56(peppermint)+1x39(emerald)+1x014(translucent)
          4 - 11(gold)
          10 - 75(chocolate)
          9 - scrap from random amount of those 4 polymer clay colors

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   b - Tools


           5 - clay extruder with a square cap
           6 - circular cutter(I didn't have a cookie cutter so i used the inner side of a lipstick)
           7 - 3 circles cap
           8 - blade

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   c - Techniques

Tube made from polymer clay buttons

            I stashes the colors in a random order and then thinned the snake a bit to fit the extruder diameter

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d - End result

 

           1 - all 5 colors and 3 circles extruder cap, not cured

           2 - all 5 colors and square extruder cap, not cured

           3 - only 4 colors, haven't used color 1 and square extruder ca, not cured

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   e - Used for

           Will be added later

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    f - Other info

        - this is not a tutorial, was posted to help me remember some things and to keep track on "366 creative days" project. If you want a tutorial with detailed pictures about this method let me know.

    Thank you for your support!

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