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By: Cindy Lietz@Polymer Doll Artist Bonnie Jones

Cindy Lietz@Polymer Doll Artist Bonnie Jones — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:59:12 +0000

@Marcia G: That is an interesting request, haven’t gotten that one before! You might be able to use polymer clay to repair your doll, but I would remove it from the doll first. I probably wouldn’t be a good idea to bake the doll, since it would be difficult to really know what was inside it. There may be some glues, plastics, and or paints that would not fair well with heat.

You may be better off repairing the piece with an epoxy clay or an airdry clay. Epoxy would be very strong. I do not know much about either clay though, maybe someone else from here can help you better?

By: Marcia G

Marcia G — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:55:54 +0000

I gave my granddaughter a porcelain doll. She has a cloth body with porcelain arms and legs. One leg is broken at the top. Can I bake sculpey oven bake clay onto the broken area to repair the missing area? Thanks

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:51:10 +0000

Sue, thanks heaps, that is so easy to understand now.
Cindy, can’t wait to do the rose cane, I love roses, I do have a couple of tutes already, but am looking forward to your one as well.
Cheers

By: Sue F

Sue F — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:11:05 +0000

@Sandra: Yes, for something like 1/8 of a part, you take a part, cut it into 8ths, and use one of those 8ths. It’s easier to cut such fractions when you use a square cutter for your parts, as you can cut diagonally from corner to corner to get an even division (rather than having to guess where the centre is on a round cutout).

For small fractions like 1/32, you could use something like this neat grid stamp by Elise Winters. The bottom right part that it marks is subdivided into 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64: stamp it onto your clay and cut along the lines:

polymerclayexpress.com/tools.html

Personally, I just multiple everything up until I have whole parts to work with (fractional parts are less precise even when you cut carefully, and I’m very pedantic about that kind of thing). So if I had a recipe that used 1 part of Colour A and 1/32 part of Colour B, for example, I’d multiply all the quantities by 32 and use 32 parts of Colour A and 1 part of Colour B. (If you don’t want to cut so many parts, just multiply it by a smaller number to get more convenient fractions.)

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:44:10 +0000

quick quesiton re colour mixing. When using a cutter to do parts, like 1/8 of a part do you cut one part into 8th’s? and if you are using small one does that mean a smidgen of that colour? example for the glacier colour you need 1/32, how do you work that one out?
Thanks

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:51:12 +0000

Thank you Cindy for the suggestions. I am going to try to bake the fingers seperate then glue on like you said. I have found another princess doll since I wrote and have purchased it. I should be getting in the mail any day now. So if this doesn’t work I now have another doll to use. I might even end up liking the 2nd doll better. Who knows. Will let you know how things work out.
Thanks again, Peggy

By: Cindy Lietz@How To Make Polymer Clay Beads

Cindy Lietz@How To Make Polymer Clay Beads — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:44:59 +0000

That’s too bad about breaking the fingers on your doll Peggy. I would worry about baking your ceramic piece in the oven, even though it was probably fired at a much higher temp, you can’t be positive whether the paint or any metallic trim was. Maybe you could make and bake new fingers separately and then glue them on after with some Krazy glue. The seed bead ring is a great idea! I bet that would work quite nicely! Good luck!

By: Peggy Barnes

Peggy Barnes — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:04:56 +0000

Hi Cindy,

I purchased a ceramic princess doll for a bank and when I was cleaning it very carefully I somehow broke off 2 fingers. One of them it was just the tip and the other finger the entire finger fell off. I decided to bake them in the kiln and glue on after. Glueing has not yet worked. I can put a bouquet of flowers in her hand to hide the fact of the missing fingers but the good hand is in the position that should be holding flowers not the broken one. What I am asking is if you think it would work to take some polymer clay to smooth the finger out after using liquid pc between the pieces I am attaching then bake in oven. I will have to use my oven in kitchen because of the size of doll. Thought I could buy 2 foil roasting pans and lay a piece of cloth in the bottom to set doll on then put the 2nd pan upside down over top of bottom pan and take foil to seam shut. Do you think the PC would stick to the ceramic. I can make a seed bead ring to help cover the seamed area if needed. I am in tears over this. The princess doll is beautiful and perfect for what my grandaughter would like. Any suggestions?

Kindest Thanks,
Peggy

By: Maria Alexandrou

Maria Alexandrou — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:06:26 +0000

As biochemist I work for the ministry of Education and Culture. I finish also an Art School in Athens. I´m teaching stained glass, mosaic and handicraft to the Adults Education Centers. I have for this year 150 students every week. Last July I started the Cyprus Polymer Clay Association. Now the association has 63 members and still growing. I teach Polymer clay for 4 years now and Silver Art Clay for 1 year only. My book will be ready next year in English and Greek. Thank you for your video library.

By: Cindy Lietz@Polymer Clay Guest List

Cindy Lietz@Polymer Clay Guest List — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:03:26 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Janine. It’s great to see that you are keeping up to date with your color recipe collection.

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