{"id":102,"date":"2008-05-29T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/a-bead-baking-trick-using-accordion-folded-card-stock\/102\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T23:45:34","slug":"a-bead-baking-trick-using-accordion-folded-card-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/a-bead-baking-trick-using-accordion-folded-card-stock\/102\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Bead Baking Rack with Folded Card Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-05\/29-bead-baking-accordian-rack-90038-03.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bead Baking Rack Made From Card Stock\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Need to bake some polymer clay beads but don&#8217;t have a professional bead rack yet?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can make a handy dandy rack for baking beads by accordion folding a piece of heavy card stock paper. And if you don&#8217;t have any card stock kicking around<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> the house, what works just as well is the thick manilla paper from an old office file folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Make the folds only about an inch or so deep, so you can get as many creases as possible out of your sheet of card stock. Make sure that the overall dimensions will fit into your oven. Place unbaked beads in the valleys of your makeshift bead rack, and then set the whole thing on a cookie sheet to bake as usual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Because you will bake your beads at a very low temperature according the clay manufacturers recommendations, there is no concern about the card stock burning or even getting brown. Just make sure the paper card stock doesn&#8217;t touch the elements in your oven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> This rack works really well for baking long tube beads or polymer clay covered pens. It won&#8217;t leave a flat spot on rounded surfaces and because it is paper, it won&#8217;t leave a shiny spot either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So fold up yourself a few bead racks and get baking beads! McGyver would be proud. Anyone remember that show?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to bake some polymer clay beads but don&#8217;t have a professional bead rack yet? You can make a handy dandy rack for&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">5<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[2633,2746,2740],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","category-tools","tag-baking-polymer-clay","tag-rolling-polymer-clay-beads","tag-polymer-clay-tools-supplies-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}