I’d love that “rose cane” tutorial, too. I’ve begged Cindy to add this to her list several times…keeping my fingers crossed!

And Cindy’s beautiful copper-wrapped earrings: I have some some of the foil tape she used (in both silver & copper,) but I haven’t tried it with clay. I wonder if Cindy’s planning an upcoming video of this technique? I think it would be an awesome tute. The foil tape adds a great effect, but I can see where some tips & tricks would come in quite handy. Either way, the “Tuscany” earrings of Cindy’s you pointed out are very, very cool!

The trouble with resin on a round bead is that it can create large unsightly drips. It is something that some people have been able to do, but as of yet, I do not know their secret!

I plan to play around more with resin on round beads and see if I can come up with a satisfactory technique. If anyone else has done this successfully we would all love to hear your secrets! ;-)

I have crafted pandora-style beads out of clay using flowers from my father’s memorial service for my sister and mother for Christmas. I now need to apply a finish and was leaning towards a resin. I am unsure how to maintain the hole in bead if I use the resin. Any suggestions??

Tiffani

One more thing, Michaels has their clay on sale for 4 for 5.00 this week , time to stock up.

Thanks for answering my questions so fast.

And thanks everyone for welcoming Alexa, that is lovely of you all to do that!

@DJ: I had no idea you lived so close to me. Someday we’ll have to meet up!

@Sue: Your input is excellent as always! I will definitely take your ideas into consideration in my future planning.

@Helen: Yes there is more than one way to do the Skinner Blend. I will consider ways to share some of them. However, you’ll probably find my Tear Drop Blend is the quickest and easiest though. :-)

@Mary: Baked cane slices can be added to raw clay but there will be a little seam that shows all the way around since they won’t ‘meld’ together like two soft clays will. I would use a liquid clay like Studio by Sculpey’s Bake and Bond to ‘glue’ the baked slice to the raw clay before you bake it. If you are under a time constraint, I would stick to simple designs and techniques otherwise you will run out of time to do quality work. You are better off with fewer good quality pieces than a bunch of low quality ones if you want to make sales.