{"id":18341,"date":"2014-02-20T03:05:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18341"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T23:54:54","slug":"teardrop-blend-no-pasta-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/teardrop-blend-no-pasta-machine\/18341\/","title":{"rendered":"Teardrop Blend (Easy Skinner Blend) No Pasta Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18341#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"How to make a Teardrop Blend without using a Pasta Machine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2014-02\/20-90487-teardrop-blend-no-pasta-machine.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #487:<\/span> It takes a bit longer if you only have an acrylic roller, but the end result is the same.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Making beautiful and easy color blends.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No pasta machine? No problem. All you need is a roller of some sort.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Teardrop Blends or Skinner Blends are color gradients using more than one color of polymer clay, where the colors gradually shift from one to the next.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My Teardrop Blend is an easier and faster version of the Skinner Blend.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Choose 2 or more colors to that you want to work with.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Softer clay is definitely easier to blend when you are not using a pasta machine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Shape balls of clay into pointy teardrop shapes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lay teardrops next to each other in alternating directions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Flatten the teardrops into a thin sheet with your rolling tool.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Fold or roll the sheet, keeping colors aligned in one direction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Pushing in the ends of the rolled up blend will keep it from getting too wide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Flatten the folded\/rolled piece again, until it becomes a flat thin sheet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Repeat process until colors are fully blended.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iMcOME5rtEg?rel=0\" height=\"323\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18034\">Lietz Teardrop Blend &#8211; Color Gradients Made Easy<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18011\" target=\"_blank\">Polymer Clay Skinner Blend Instructions<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Related Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18009\">Stepped Graduated Color Blend &#8211; Old School Gradients<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Do you have any suggestions for videos on tips, techniques or products you would like to learn more about? Let me know in the comments section below!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My goal is to help you to learn quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iMcOME5rtEg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Make Easy Skinner (Teardrop) Blends with no Pasta Machine<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\">. The Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #487: It takes a bit longer if you only have an acrylic roller, but the end result is the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[2701,2740],"class_list":["post-18341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-mini-tutes","tag-pasta-machines","tag-polymer-clay-tools-supplies-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}