{"id":898,"date":"2008-10-22T16:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T23:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2013-07-08T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T22:40:30","slug":"new-polymer-clay-tutorials-promise-to-solve-your-bead-making-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/new-polymer-clay-tutorials-promise-to-solve-your-bead-making-challenges\/898\/","title":{"rendered":"New Polymer Clay Tutorials Promise to Solve Bead Making Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having Problems With Making Beads? The Polymer Clay Tutor Can Help:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you didn’t already know, I published a post just a few days ago asking for all of you to let me know what your biggest challenges are with polymer clay and<\/span> bead making. Well there was a flood of responses… 126 so far as I write this. Thanks so much for all your fantastic comments!! The feedback really helps me to put together future videos and tutorials that I know are going to be most useful for YOU!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a link to that “survey post” if you have not read it yet: Polymer Clay Color Recipe Cards<\/a> [be sure to check out the free giveaway offer over there… everyone wins].<\/em><\/span>
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Since there were so many comments, I am not able to repond to everyone individually as I normally do in other posts. Instead, I’m going to create a series of follow up articles to address everything. I’ll start off by creating a list of bullets of the main problem areas that you all have identified:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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  • Time to experiment and learn<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Overwhelm… don’t know where to start<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Lack of confidence and fear of mistakes<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Organization and lack of workspace<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Color mixing… tons of you had this problem<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Coordinating colors<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Hands too warm and clay gets sticky<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Problems slicing canes thin and even<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Over mixing marbled clays<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Making muddy colors<\/span><\/li>\n
  • How to use liquid clay<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Sanding, buffing and polishing<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Reducing clay canes<\/span><\/li>\n
  • How to make jewelry with the beads<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Putting holes in beads that line up<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Minimizing distortion of the beads when piercing them<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Flower canes distorting, petals square up or twist<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Complex canes, losing details and colors visually blending<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Skinner blend problems
    \nMaking Skinner blends without a pasta machine<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Arthritis and wrist pain<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Uniformity, same sized beads<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Money for supplies<\/span><\/li>\n
  • End product not professional enough<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Books and info out there missing critical steps<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Cleaning a pasta machine<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Photo image transfer problems<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Baking Problems, burning, cracking, bubbles<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Wanting things to look perfect right away<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Products not available in every country<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Which adhesives to use for what<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Bead shapes that look good in jewelry<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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