{"id":32,"date":"2008-03-21T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/sand-your-polymer-clay-beads-or-else\/32\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:28:18","slug":"sand-your-polymer-clay-beads-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/sand-your-polymer-clay-beads-or-else\/32\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Your Polymer Clay Beads – Or Else"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sanding<\/p>\n

Or Else…. <\/em>Your Beads Won’t Look Nearly As Brilliant and Stunning As They Should:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sanding your polymer clay beads<\/span><\/a> is one of the most important steps when it comes to making your bead jewelry look professional.<\/span><\/p>\n

I follow a lot of blogs, websites and forums and am amazed how many polymer clay artists and crafters skip this step. They\u00a0 often can’t-be-bothered<\/em> to sand their beads. I’m talking about smooth beads and pendants here more than anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Come on people! Not sanding is like a cabinet maker going to all the trouble of getting a raw timber, cutting it into boards, building a beautiful piece of furniture, attaching expensive hardware to it, and then leaving the wood all splintery, rough and full of blemish marks or glue stains. It just doesn’t happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why then would a polymer clay bead maker do this? Go to the effort of buying the clay, conditioning it, carefully mixing the colors, doing a bunch of techniques with it, making it into a bead or pendant, piercing it, baking it and then just leaving it unfinished! It would have only taken a little more effort to do the sanding and have your project go from just OK looking to becoming brilliant and stunning.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some ways I think this final finishing step is THE<\/em> most important step. I have taken pretty amateurish lookin’ beads, sanded and polished the heck out of them, and ended up with something pretty special.<\/span><\/p>\n

So stop being so lazy! Sand your beads (or find yourself a bead slave)<\/em> and get ready for the compliments to start rolling in.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Polymer<\/td>\n\n

Treasure Hunt Contest
\nClue #3 >> Polymer Clay Cane Designs
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\"Sanding<\/p>\n

The sanding techniques photo I used in this post is from a free <\/span>polymer clay image transfer tutorial<\/span><\/a> that I recently published.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you’re interested, here’s a link to a full video where I discuss several of the frustrating mistakes I made while learning <\/span>how to transfer images onto polymer clay beads<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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