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Flame Cane Bottle Visit DIY's Craft Lab to learn how to create a polymer clay decorated bottle. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-103

Guest Anne Igou joins Jennifer Perkins, host of Craft Lab and demonstrates how to create a skinner blend cane using polymer clay, which is used to embellish an old glass bottle.

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	Guest Anne Igo leads you through the process of revitalizing an old jar with polymer clay canes. She starts by creating a skinner blend cane that's transformed into a flame cane, and then sliced, applied to the bottle and glazed to create this unique piece of art.
	Figure A
	Figure B

Project designed by Anne Igou.

Flame Cane Bottle

Materials:

Fimo Soft Polymer Clay in the following colors: copper, gold, Indian red, sunflower, dayglow, orange, lemon, raspberry, transparent orange, black and white
gold powder
Lisa Pavelka's Poly Glaze
poly bonder
clay blade
pasta machine
ceramic tile
apple juice bottle or similar vessel
soft paintbrush
stylus
clear nail polish

Creating Skinner Blend Cane

1. Condition all clays thoroughly before use by kneading and rolling through the pasta machine (figure A).

2. Roll black clay through pasta machine on the third thickest setting. Using Poly Bonder, apply black clay to the apple juice bottle at both the top and bottom. Using a stippling motion, create a bubbly, textured surface with a stylus. Set aside.

3. Roll each conditioned block of copper and gold clay separately on the thickest setting of the pasta machine. Place one color on top of the other and cut through both, creating a perfect square, approximately 5" x 5".

4. Using clay blade slice diagonally through the entire square, creating two triangles. Peel both colors apart and set each on top of the same color to make one copper and one gold triangle of double thickness. Fit the triangles together to form a perfect square. (figure B).

5. Roll the square through the thickest setting of the pasta machine.

6. Fold in half, matching copper to copper and gold to gold and pass through the thickest setting of the pasta machine.

7. Repeat passing clay through the pasta machine until a smooth gradient is achieved (about 20-25 passes).

8. Rotate the sheet a quarter turn and roll through on the second thickest setting of the pasta machine.

9. Roll the graduated color sheet through each thinner setting until you have rolled the sheet through the fifth thickest setting.

10. Place the stretched sheet on a ceramic tile starting at the gold end; roll the sheet into a cane, keeping the roll tight to prevent air bubbles from forming. Trim off the edges of the rolled skinner blended cane with a clay blade.

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