March 14, 2008
Polymer Clay Baking Instructions
Tip #38: Baking Polymer Clay - Keep Your Oven Clean and Your Beads Tented:
Dirty ovens can often yellow your polymer clay, especially with the lighter colors.
To help prevent this from happening, you can tent the beads or bead rack with parchment paper during the oven baking process. Tinfoil works for tenting your beads and pendants as well.
Just don't let the parchment paper or tin foil touch the polymer clay pieces in the oven because the beads will blemish.
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"Baking Your Beads" Video Description: The full version of this tutorial is available in my Beads and Beading Membership Club. How to bake polymer clay? There are all kinds of techniques some of which include using:
- A professional bead rack.
- Home made bead rack.
- Cardboard folded into an accordion shape.
- A bed of cornstarch.
- Clay ceramic tile.
- Quilt batting.
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Keep the temperature of your oven below 350F (between 265F and 275F is best). Use an oven thermometer to monitor the temperature to avoid over heating or burning your clay. Tenting your beads with a sheet of parchment paper will keep your light colors from darkening. This is especially important for white clay. Brownish-blackish snowman beads are really not that attractive. Super dirty ovens can make your beads look smoky as well.
I understand that you should use a toaster oven for clay baking that will no longer be used for food, but, I read that if you place your beads in a metal pan and then clip another metal pan of the same size over it you can bake the clay in a regular oven and there is no problem.
Does that really work and if so, how, and who's doing it?