Fantastic tutorial, you have the perfect voice for it and you explain the reasons for using the right tools , Thankyou for sharing, I’ll be sure to be following you ❤
An excellent tutorial! Getting back to the clay again, and it's been a few years since i made tiny flowers, so this was a great refresher...thank you!👍✌️😊
Hello, I loved your channel, your advice, your explanations are very clear, thank you very much! I'm following you now and I'm leaving you a like, thank you!!🙏 ❤
That's one of the best tutorials I've ever seen on flower making ❤ I'm learning and the diagrams are very helpful. Soo good! Can you make a leaf tutorial by any chance?
Nice!! Would an excellent tutorial. Thank you so much for teaching this on flowers, I had no idea where to start. This is wonderful and fun, not to mention beautiful.
Thank you so much 🥺 I’m so glad it was helpful and enjoyable! Flowers are such a fun thing to make and there are so many different ways to create them - hope you have fun making ❤️
That’s so lovely of you to say 🥰 thank you! Rolling out clay for flowers is the same process you would use for earrings - you can roll out flat with a rolling pin on a tiled surface or you can use a pasta machine. We cover this in our tutorial ‘stop polymer clay sticking in your cutters’. I generally roll out thinner though for flowers to about 1.5mm before cutting out my petal shapes. Baking instructions are on the clay packet in terms of temperature and timing. If you have a flower that is not able to be flat baked, you can sit it up in a small bowl of uncooked rice. I hope that helps 😊
Thanks so much for the tutorial, it was so helpful 😊. I noticed on the foam mat there was some colour left over from the petals, I was wondering how you clean that off so the colour doesn’t contaminate? I have just done some little red balls on my foam and now there is a slight red residue and I don't want that to contaminate lighter colours.
Hello and thanks so much for the tutorials! Quick question: At 14:55, how do you stand these up in the oven so that the petals don’t get crushed during baking??
Our pleasure! It depends on the flower shape but if you’re worrying about squishing petals you can bake them in uncooked rice, or if they’re studs you can stab the post into an old oven-safe silicone mould 😊
Our pleasure 😊 It depends on what I’m making. I mainly use sculpey Premo and sculpey Souffle, but also love the colour range and types of clay cernit has. For florals, sculpey Premo and cernit number one are great all rounders but my current favourite is cernit opaline for its ceramic like finish! Hope that helps 😊
Ugh I saw this video a few days ago & I FINALLY got all the right tools for it today & I've been at it for hours now & can't seem to get the ball tool to glide smoothly around the clay like yours does. My clay keeps sticking to the tool & just dragging. So I used a bit of cornstarch on the ball which worked PERFECTLY, but then the clay was too dried out to stick inside each petal & when I used the dotting tool, it won't let go of the petal🤦🏻♀️
@@myclayco well it's actually just like a regular kind I got off Amazon & it has been very hot & humid outside but when I work with clay, I always have my air conditioner on in my work space
@@myclayco I have been watching ALL of your videos & learning so much...I've recently started a small business & your channel has been incredibly helpful for me🥰
@@mackenziegeyer2467 Ahhh the clay is probably why then. Some polymer clays are better for certain applications than others. If you are able too, I highly recommend getting your hands on some Sculpey Premo or Sculpey Souffle, or Cernit clay. I have heard the Amazon ones are quite soft and sometimes sticky. There is also a chance that it will be brittle once baked. Have you had a chance to test if it cures ok?
Thank you 😊 You can place your standalone pieces in a small bowl of uncooked rice. It will not mess up your shape and you can keep it to reuse next time you need it 😊 I have also used silicone molds (ensure they are oven safe silicone first) to help prop up my pieces. Hope that helps!
What can I do to get rid of unwanted texture on the backside of my petals? Get a smoother foam? I just tried with some leftover flooring insulation foam sheets here but nope. Not working. Too much texture on the outside, need to think of something else.
If you’re after a smooth petal, you’ll definitely need your foam mat to be smooth too. You’ve stumbled upon the trick to get texture on to petals (rolling or pressing on textured surfaces) but if that’s not desired, flat is best 😊
Another optiom for a foam mst is buying craft foam and glueing pieces together. I do that and i like it becausr after awhile it gets too dirty so i can make several for cheap
If you have an old ovensafe silicone mould you can flip it over and stab the posts into there to hold them upright, otherwise you can bake them in uncooked rice ☺️
