Comments on: Polymer Clay Extruder Discs | Make Polymer Clay Hair + So Much More

By: Freda K

Freda K — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:20:44 +0000

I second that Phaedrakat. Just reading it over made me want to try it. Our guild is having demos of different techniques for m.g. this month. If I had gotten back to this sooner, I would have demo’d it (if it worked for me)

By: Phaedrakat

Phaedrakat — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:03:33 +0000

@Jocelyn: Hi Jocelyn, did you ever send in pics of this MG technique made from extruder hair and gold flakes? You did P.r.o.m.i.s.e. — LOL! I know it’s been a long time, though. I just happened upon this article and thought I’d ask. Now that Cindy & Doug post pics all the time within articles, I thought it’d give it a try at least!

By: Cindy Lietz@Makins Extruder

Cindy Lietz@Makins Extruder — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:24:07 +0000

You’re probably not doing anything wrong Mavis… those Sculpey extruders you push with your thumb are really hard to use. I recommend using the Makins Extruder. Click the link by my name to read an article about it.

By: Mavis

Mavis — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:53:12 +0000

Hi Cindy,

I am trying to make hair for a beautiful face cameo I made (clay), I have an extruder, but it doesn’t work or I’m doing something wrong.

I just can not get more than a few mm pushed out and then I have a real struggle to try to get a longer piece out.

Should I be using a certain technique? Mine is a Sculpey clay extruder.

I don’t want to ruin this beautiful cameo! Thank you for all your help and your time!

Mavis

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:11:35 +0000

@ Lisa and Freda

Bless you girls, I appreciate the inquiry. I feel I must clarify.

Cindy Lietz is an artist. Most of you are artists. I am NOT. I am a “how to do it better junkie,” LOL!

Don’t want to raise anyone’s expectations, plus with the MS now flaring in my hands, regular finishes are tough. It hurts to hold anything somedays.

So promise you all will be kind and gentle.

Things are moving right along here in the air conditioning. No trip, fine. No beach, K. Hit walmart.com on a quick fix and scored a Lexmark X5070 fax/copier/scanner/printer for less than $55.00, free shipping. There is a higher power and sometimes it is good.

Friend gave me the digital camera, just bought a neighbor’s extra cellie….just need to figure out the programs.

Bear with me, I will get it together and share. P-r-o-m-i-s-e!

By: Lisa Whitham

Lisa Whitham — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:55:52 +0000

I can’t wait to see Jocelyn’s pics too. I just got some metal leaf at Michaels today…

By: Freda

Freda — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:17:24 +0000

Can’t wait to see Jocelyn’s pics.

By: Cindy Lietz@Faux Raku Polymer Clay

Cindy Lietz@Faux Raku Polymer Clay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:31:51 +0000

Just email your bead pictures to me Jocelyn and then Doug will figure out where to post them. Your beads sound wonderful… can’t wait to see them!

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:45:43 +0000

I promise I will post some pics, though I am not sure I know what code to use to do it.

Girlfriend kindly extended the use of her digital camera to me for the summer, so I’ll have lots of pics of stuff I’ve tried to do as Cindy taught me, lol.

Just made another one of those mokume gane canes the other nite, using lots of translucent, and lots of random coordinating color slices to load the chamber. Then combined strands until I had a 2 inch diameter circle of strands. Once rolling that in flakes, added a wrap of translucent, more flakes, then put them together to form the base mokume gane cane as I described about.

Now I realize why I love the pattern so much, the slices remind me of Vincent Van Gogh’s work. Those sparkly spiral slices look very much like the techniques he used in many of his paintings. Check out posters of his work found at postercheckout.com.

Hmmm, I can see some fabric murals in my future…..

By: Cindy Lietz@Polymer Clay How To

Cindy Lietz@Polymer Clay How To — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:37:19 +0000

@Lianne&Paul: Thanks! Glad to see you here. Love your polymer clay ornaments. Really neat!

@Jocelyn: Sounds like a cool idea to add the gold leaf to the clay in the extruder. Bet that would look great! I loved playdoh hair thing too. More as a kid than a parent though since it’s a pain to clean up after!

@Freda: Pointillist is a style of painting done completely in dots. You can get a similar look in using clay logs since each log’s end view is a dot.

@Laurel: You deserved the compliment! I too would like to see pictures of the technique Jocelyn is talking about. Sounds cool!