Polymer Clay Color Recipes | Blue Spruce Palette (Premo Sculpey)

Beautiful colors Cindy! Can't wait! I love winter whites and blues.

Hey Cindy,

Can you tell me how designers are getting the perfect look of a formed round bead? I have the tri bead roller, but I have not figured it out yet. I am rolling beads by hand and they are not coming out all the same size. Also, the translucent color seems to turn brown during curing. I had read an article on premo frost is this used to get the best look of flower petal beads?

Thanks for your help!

Denise Hanson

I saw one day how to get to the back-issue bonus recipes but I cannot find them anymore, or perhaps I am not entitled to see them and I only thought I saw a previous bonus recipe.

Once again you have blown me away Cindy. These colors are amazing!! Prettiest ones yet I think.

I'm really enjoying the videos and the blog, feel like I've signed up for a bit of info and instead have received a wealth of knowledge in return. With the ideas generated by the members (such a supportive bunch); of course everything you're offering from basic practical tips to beautiful, current techniques – I'm truly inspired and feel so fortunate to have come across your site.

My husband has been battling ALS for several years now so unfortunately creative projects have been slowly pushed aside. I find it's become difficult to start anything because of the time needed to invest in and complete projects. Our situation now doesn't allow a lot of time for that. So, I thought polymer clay, beading and jewelry making might be a good way to create (even if it's a little at a time). It's been a great outlet so far, and I haven't even played with clay yet. I've had a bit of experience a few years back and loved it. Recently it's been supply buying; reading and ideas galore…quickly written down and sketched out on paper so I won't forget. Soon I'll be able to try out the things I've learned and written down, that's when the real fun begins and I learn even more from my mistakes!

I also have a "burning" question for you about fine sandpaper. I've checked Home Depot; Canadian Tire and Rona – but in my immediate area, Richmond – they don't seem to have much beyond 600 grit. If you buy yours locally, could you let me know where you've managed to find the higher/finer papers?

Thanks again for the wonderful teaching tool you've created. You share your knowledge in such a professional, yet warm way – the care you take in what you offer your members is highlighted through your sense of detail and attention given to every inquiry. This has been just what I needed, what a great experience! Bye for now,

Danette

Cindy – How can we get the recipe cards for the back B colors? I've searched all over and can't find any active links for the B colors. Since I'm starting at square 1 with you, I thought I'd print out all the cards and start making the little color chips. Is this a good idea? Has it been beneficial to you others? Anyway, if I am going to do this I want to be as complete as possible, so I'm trying to figure out how the locate the Bs.

Yes Cindy, I did a major ooops, myself… I tried to "clean up" my e-mails and managed to delete several weeks of the "B" recipes, not realizing that they only come out in the e-mail and are not accessible anywhere else. Is there any way we can get a second chance at these?

@Cindy Lietz from Polymer Clay Spotlights: It looks to me like the only way to retain the B-Series is to save the weekly newsletters in an email file. They don't seem to be attached to the Weekly Video Newsletter link – all we get there is the video, not the newsletter. Perhaps that title (in the right column of links) should just say 'Weekly Video' since it really isn't the full 'newsletter'. I do see at the top of the video page that there is a link to the A series, but not to the B. Maybe if you could start attaching the B series also, then it might not be quite such a task when you want to go back and recover all of them for us loyal members. I kind of think the back Bs should be just a member benefit. Anyway, those are my thoughts. I do realize how busy you are … and how dedicated you are to doing a professional job with all you do … not just a slap-dash one … and this takes times. I just thought I'd throw out a couple ideas from your faithful student.

@carolyn: Hi Carolyn, I was just thinking (uh-oh….) lol. You don't actually have to save the emails — you can just save the recipes on your computer. If you're like me and not able to make your color samples right away, you can at least have a nicely organized color recipes "Folder" on your PC that is easy to refer to. If you like, I can explain how I did mine. Just let me know if you do and I'll explain in detail.

@Phaedrakat: Thanks for the offer. I've done a 'save as' and set up a file for them in my finder window. This seems to be working for me now.

@carolyn: That's cool. But I just wanted to say this: if you save the recipe, it doesn't show what the color looks like. To see what the color is, you'd have to go to the website or email to look at it. What I do, is save the image of the color palette, as well. I put it in the folder with my recipes, making sure all the names start the same way (for example, 019b, for the Vol-019 B series colors.) That way, everything stays together. You can scroll through the folder in thumbnail view, and choose your color from the palettes. Then, the recipe for it is right nearby.

Sorry, but I had to mention this tip, just in case someone else is like me and hasn't made their recipes yet. It's one way to choose a color and find the recipe for it in a computer folder.

Thanks, Cindy! That means alot coming from a "Smarty like you!"

Well, I think Cindy should write a recipe book. There are a lot of polymer clay books out there but no specific recipe books, (that I have seen anyway). And maybe she will give us members a discount when we purchase the book. How about it Cindy? ;)

@Laurel: What a fabulous idea!