To make your canes a little more flexible, you can add Sculpey Mold Maker in tiny amounts to your clay before making them into your canes. As far as only partially baking your canes, there can be some problems with uncured clay ‘breaking down’ the cured clay. I would not bake them for the extended time I usually bake my beads at though. So for timing you should really experiment with that.

Ever since Fimo has been producing softer clays, I’ve found cutting canes more than a bit problematic, especially since I am now making very small canes. I recently bought some pre-cooked canes which were kept their shape but were relatively easy to slice in very thin pieces. Do you have any idea how to produce these canes? They remained flexible. Do you know if baking at a very low temperature for a short period of time would achieve this condition?

Thank you for your consideration.

Thanks, Dianne

Thanks for your kind words. It is a pain with manufacturers discontinue certain colors. Even though it is theoretically possible to recreate the color, it will have different mixing properties than the original. So the best thing to do is just set aside any recipes that you come across which use discontinued colors.

As you probably have noticed, all of my latest color recipes are based on Premo clay colors that have been around ‘forever’… which means that they will probably continue to be available will into the future.

I have gone back and gotten all of the recipes that are free on your site, as well as the ones I pay for with my membership. My question is this: Some of your older recipes call for colors that have been discontinued. Do you have a secondary option to use for those? Do you know of another brands color that may be very close to the one no longer available?

Off hand I can think of only one of the discontinued colors, though I know there are more. The color I recall is coral, and I believe it was a sculpey III color. Any help would be appreciated, as I know you work your tail off doing the recipes and videos!!! Please know your work and help is very much appreciated and does not go un-noticed!!!

Have a blessed day,
Tiffany

Your Peonies sound pretty Carolyn. If they lasted longer I would fill my garden full of them.

Good idea Ken. Don’t have burlap, but maybe I’ll pile on some leaves or extra compost. That would protect them should we get any cold temperatures. Will be doing some gardening tomorrow so I’ll do it then.