Leaf Clusters | Polymer Clay Cane Tutorial

Polymer Clay Multiple Leaves Caning Tutorial

Today's polymer clay caning tutorial showcase leaf clusters canes! This is a great cane for beginners. Some of the polymer clay techniques i'll be employing in this video are: bullseye gradient, cane reduction, cane packing and working with translucent clay. You'll see how you can take a simple shape like a leaf to turn it into a more complex design by assembling them into a larger component — the trick is to wrap extensions (like the stem of the leaf) with translucent before combining.

Tutorial on skinner blending:
In this video, I used a variation of the skinner blend called, the "Simmons" skinner blend. Instead of the Simmon's, you can use the regular Skinner Blend, which I go over step by step in this video:
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Tutorial on Bulls Eye Canes:
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List of Clay Ratios:

Simmon's Skinner Blend (actual amount of clay used in the cane)
• 4g dark green
• 4g medium green
• 5g light green
* NOTE: if doing the Simmon's Skinner Blend, multiply the amount times 3 so the shape you cut out will by about one-third of what you started with.

Packing Clay
• Roughly 36 grams of Sculpey Premo Translucent

Jennifoo's List of Recommended Tools:
MARCATO Atlas 150 Pasta Machine (this is the machine I use!):
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Sculpey Clay Blades 3 Set Pack (for general cutting):
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Tissue Blades (dedicated thin & sharp blade for cane slicing)
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Sculpey Satin Glaze (for sealing surface treatments):
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Acrylic Roller and Tiny Hole Cutter Set:
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Large Circle Cutters:
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Cute Earring Clay Cutters:
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Earring Ball Post with KC Gold (my favorite earring finding!):
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Contents of this video
0:00 - Introduction
0:14 - #1: Create Simmon's Skinner Blend
2:08 - #2: Create Bulls Eye Cane
3:18 - #3: Form Leaf Shape
3:53 - #4: Wrap Leaf with Translucent
4:32 - #5: Reduce Leaf Cane
4:48 - #6: Cut Leaf into Three Sections
5:22 - #7: Lengthen Stem
5:44 - #8: Assemble Leaves
6:03 - #9: Cane Packing
6:55 - #10: Cane Reduction

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