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Polymer clay kaleidoscope cane

Made by : La Perle Rouge
Published on the :27/04/2016
Time :2h
Level :Intermediate
Prices :27,28€
Polymer clay kaleidoscope cane

Have you always dreamed of making a kaleidoscopic cane without ever having dared to get started? This tutorial is for you! So let's go !

Step 1: Prepare 3 shades using 1 quarter apple green bread, 1 quarter tangerine and 1 quarter petrol blue, each associated with as much white. For a nice gradient, it is better to multiply the transition shades. To do this, make an intermediate color by mixing a little of the two colors of each gradient as in photo 2. Once your colors are ready, make your three gradient plates. (If you need help with this, follow the advice in this video
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Pass each plate one last time through the dough machine but this time in the other direction and in the penultimate notch to stretch the gradients. Cut lengthwise your green and orange plates into two equal strips and roll them in opposite directions to each other to obtain two opposite degraded canes.

Cane kaléidoscope en pâte polymère

Step 3 : Grasp your blue plate by the white side of the gradient and fold it into an accordion on a strip of about 1 cm.

Cane kaléidoscope en pâte polymère
Step 4: Put your 3 colored canes aside and now prepare a black and white striped block. Pass half a black loaf and half a white loaf on the widest setting of your dough machine and cut 3 squares from each plate using a cookie cutter. Superimpose the 6 squares neatly then cut the whole in half and reassemble everything to double the number of stripes. If your scratched block is too soft, place it in the fridge for half an hour, then you can cut it without crushing it.
Cane kaléidoscope en pâte polymère

Step 5: Rotate your striped block as in photo 14 and using a blade, cut it diagonally. Assemble the two pieces by joining the two bases as in photo 15.
Cane kaléidoscope en pâte polymère

Step 6: Place your striped ?diamond? on the side of your work surface and take back your colored degraded canes. Do not touch the green degraded cane with the white in the center, but cut the cane with an orange heart and the cane with an apple green heart in half lengthwise and roughly flatten the orange cane with a white heart.


Polymer clay kaleidoscope cane



Step 7: Your material is ready, you can now proceed to assemble the pattern. Start by associating the black and white striped block by wrapping it slightly around the degraded cane that you have not modified as in photo 17. Accentuate the general triangle shape of your blue degraded cane and place it other side as on photo 18. Perform the distribution of the different prepared pieces as on photos 19 and 20.


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Step 8: Once all your elements are grouped together, weld them well to each other using your worktop to form a cane with triangular section as in photo 21. Gently stretch your triangular cane, always helping you Table. (If necessary, consult the technical sheet about the cane: Learn how to make your canes out of polymer clay )


Cane kaléidoscope en pâte polymère
Step 9: Cut your stretched cane into two equal pieces and assemble them as in photo 23. Apply pressure to form a triangular cane again as in photo 24. Repeat the operation by stretching the cane again for cut in half and proceed to assemble photo 26.

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Step 10: This time, do not deform the whole into a triangular cane but on the contrary, gradually straighten the sides of your cane using your work plan in order to obtain a cane with a square section as in the photo 27. Stretch this new cane using the flat surface of your table or a roller. Remember to regularly rotate your cane on each of its faces in order to stretch it as regularly as possible. Once your cane is long enough, cut 4 sections and assemble them as in the photo.

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Cane kaléidoscope en pâte polymère

And here is a colorful kaleidoscope cane! You can have it for thirty minutes in the fridge on a small piece of parchment paper before cutting regular slices and let your creativity speak!

You can use it to cover a piece of jewelry or a decorative element.

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Schema  Polymer clay kaleidoscope cane
Schema  Polymer clay kaleidoscope cane
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