‘Finishing’ Category

Rock Tumblers | Polymer Clay Beads | Cleanser Method vs River Rocks

Which Bead Sanding, Tumbler Technique Works Best for Your Clay Pieces? Recently, there has been some discussion about using Ajax, Comet or Bon… 52

Polymer Clay Tutorial | Polished Beads | Lortone Rock Tumbler

Vid #104: How To Get Your Beads To Shine with Less Effort and Less Sanding: If you have a pile of beads just… 63

Shiny Beads – 6 Tips for Getting a Polymer Clay Gloss Finish

How To Get Your Polymer Clay Beads To Sparkle Like Glass: One of the wonderful qualities about polymer clay is that it can… 40

Article Links | Instructions For Baking Polymer Clay Beads Properly

Do You Know How To Prevent Polymer Clay From Burning? Lately I’ve noticed a lot of mis-information on other sites, about how to… 19

Is Your Polymer Clay Oven Making Your Beads All Dirty & Discolored?

Now There Is Simple Solution. Martha Aleo of Ornamento Says To Use Bleach: This morning while surfing (blog’s that is, not waves), I… 22

How To Make Beads | No More Bubbles In Your Polymer Clay Pendants

Disappointed with How Your Flat Pendants Look After Coming Out of the Oven? It can be very frustrating to put a perfect looking… 7

Polymer Clay Tutorial | Sew Your Own Dremel Buffing Wheel and Save

Polishing Polymer Clay Beads With Homemade Sewn Fabric Wheels: The other day I talked about how a Dremel rotary buffing tool is a… 9

Polymer Clay Tutorial | A Dremel… The Perfect Bead Crafts Gift

Looking for a Christmas Present Idea For Someone Who Makes Sculpey or Fimo Jewelry Beads? If you or someone in your life makes… 6

Using A Rock Polisher To Get Shiny Polymer Clay Beads and Pendants

Update on Using the Lortone Rock Tumbler for Polishing Clay Jewelry Beads: On September 17 I wrote an article about tumblers that ended… 110

Dremel Tool Safety Tips for Polishing Polymer Clay Beads and Jewelry

Learn How To Use a Rotary Tool Safely with these 8 Tips: For many polymer clay jewelry artists, a Dremel Multipro or other… 9

Wet Sanding Polymer Clay Tutorial: Make Clay Jewelry and Beads Shine

8 Sanding Tips for Polishing Polymer Clay to a Beautiful Finish: If you have read any of the other articles here on my… 47

Lortone Rock Tumblers for Polishing Polymer Clay Jewelry Beads

Shiny Beads – Rock Polisher vs Sanding by Hand: Lately there has been lots of talk about how to use a tumbler to… 26

Large Round Beads for Jewelry Making Projects – Polymer Clay Tips

Best way to get large beads with an organic, natural and even exotic look… make them yourself with Fimo or Sculpey clay: This… 16

Sculpey Polymer Clay Tutorials – Baking Sculpey Clay Without Burning

Vid #73: How to avoid burnt clay projects by using ceramic tiles to bake polymer clay instead of cookie sheets:   Today’s article… 54

A ‘Shiny-Beads’ Polymer Clay Tutorial – Make Your Own Buffing Wheels

Vid #71: How to get that professional shine with Fimo clay jewelry beads by sewing up your own polishing wheels for the Dremel… 14

Make Polymer Clay Bathroom Knobs | Glass Beads | Clay Color Mixing

1) Clay covered decorative knobs and handles to use on bathroom closet and cupboard doors. 2) Embedding glass bead pieces into Fimo polymer… 24

Buffing Polymer Clay Beads with a Dremel Multipro Rotary Tool

Vid #67: Are you still polishing polymer clay by hand? Kick it up a notch and learn how to use the Dremel power… 49

How to Bake Sculpey, Premo and Fimo Polymer Clay in a Toaster Oven

The only time to use a full size kitchen oven for baking polymer clay, would be if you make enormous dinosaur beads :-)… 129

The Polymer Clay Dremel Tool Makes Buffing Beads Fun

Vid #66: Ladies, there’s a reason whey guys love power tools: A perfect polymer clay tool for buffing, drilling, carving and a variety… 33

How to Bake Polymer Clay so that Your Whites Stay White

Having Problems Keeping White Polymer Clay Beads from Getting Tarnished During the Baking Process? Has this ever happened to you? You put some… 68

Baking Flat Polymer Clay Sheets – Avoiding Common Problems

Photo shows baked polymer clay gingerbread cookies with unwanted texture caused by uneven heat: The other day a reader submitted this question: “Hey… 62

How to Make a Bead Baking Rack with Folded Card Stock

Need to bake some polymer clay beads but don’t have a professional bead rack yet? You can make a handy dandy rack for… 5

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