{"id":994,"date":"2008-10-27T20:52:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T03:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2008-10-28T15:38:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:38:53","slug":"scrap-polymer-clay-projects-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/scrap-polymer-clay-projects-list\/994\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a &#8220;Never Throw That Clay Away&#8221; Polymer Clay Projects List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-10\/27-scrap-polymer-clay-90025.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Scrap Polymer Clay\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What To Do When Your Pile of Scrap Polymer Clay Goes From Mounds To Mountains:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In another blog comment earlier today, Sam wrote this&#8230; &#8220;Wow, so many amazing responses. I have been working with polymer clay for about 15 years now and<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> am still as addicted as I was the first time I laid eyes on it. I have tried so many techniques over the years. Your videos and tips are an inspiration to all. I check your blog daily for the latest tip,pearl of wisdom. I have sold many pieces of work lately to friends and coworkers and seem to have hit on a great design. Problems..how to keep the idea fresh? How to keep the color combinations current? How to fully mix and match professional colours? and the age old Do we just bite the bullet and eventually throw out some of that old scrap clay when the mounds turn into mountains?&#8221; ~Sam [Original comment posted here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/recipe-cards-for-mixing-polymer-clay-colors-collect-them-all\/840\/#comment-6059\">Recipe Cards for Mixing Polymer Clay Colors<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yikes Sam!! Don&#8217;t throw out that clay. I don&#8217;t have time right now to address all of the challenges you listed, but here&#8217;s some ideas of what you can do with your Scrap Polymer Clay&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Make molds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Make base beads that will get wrapped in cane slices or mokume gane slices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Chop up in food processor and make cool blends for faux stone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Make beautiful muds for wrapping canes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Make into marbled clay for backgrounds in canes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Bunch like colors and mix for a new shade. All blues and greens together for example.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Add mica powders for new metallic colors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Mix with black to create new softer warmer black.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Mix with white and get beautiful grays and taupes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Gather in a ball and take slices off it for backgrounds and beads.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Roll chunks of scrap clay into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/lentil-beads-from-scrap-polymer-clay\/53\/\">lentil beads<\/a>. Very cool results.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Cut balls of scraps in half and put cut sides next to each other to get mirror image.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Roll into a log and twist for neat candy cane striped beads.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Make into beads you want to paint.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Layer it into mokume gane.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Read this article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/ideas-and-instructions-polymer-clay-projects-using-scrap-clay\/430\/\">Polymer Clay Projects Using Scrap Clay<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Donate it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Send to ME! ;-)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All kidding aside, there is never a good reason to throw out your clay! It is very valuable and can be used right to the last crumble. Some of these techniques sound like they would be good videos to add to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/grand-opening-of-the-polymer-clay-tutor-library-is-finally-here\/974\/\">Polymer Clay Tutor Library<\/a>&#8230; What do you think guys? Would you like me to make some video tutorials on what to do with your scrap clay and add them to the membership site? Let me know below!<\/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\" 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\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What To Do When Your Pile of Scrap Polymer Clay Goes From Mounds To Mountains: In another blog comment earlier today, Sam wrote&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">13<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[2607,2742,743,2671,1161,2679,137],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supplies","category-techniques","tag-faux-rocks-metals","tag-lentil-swirly-bicone-beads","tag-marbling","tag-miniatures-foodies-sculpted-figures-dolls-fairies-trolls","tag-muds","tag-patterns-sheets-color-gradients-mokume-gane","tag-scrap-clay-using-waste-materials-trimmings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}