This detailed master class will teach you a special technique for working with polymer clay – extruder technology, and will also tell you how to make a bracelet from polymer clay with your own hands.
To create a bracelet with your own hands frompolymer clay in the extruder technique you will need: – Unnecessary (trash) plastic – Base for making a bracelet (aluminum/glass jar/bottle) – Extruder – Plastic of white, light green, pink and purple colors – Rolling pin – Liquid plastic (fimo-gel) – BladeWe roll out the kneaded trash (dirty, dry - it doesn't matter) polymer clay into a long narrow layer. We will make the base for the bracelet from it.We wrap this layer around a bottle or jar.(the diameter of the bottle or jar should be equal to the desired inner diameter of the bracelet). Place the edges of the plastic on top of each other and cut both layers with a blade.We remove excess plastic and connect the edges of the polymer clay layer so that they fit very tightly, but do not overlap each other.We cut off the edges of the layer with a blade so that only a smooth base remains on the bottle.We send the base to bake. See the baking conditions on the plastic packaging. After baking, take it out and cool it. While the base is baking, work with the extruder and colored plastic.Roll out the multi-colored and white plastic into layers 5-7 mm thick.Using an extruder, we cut out circles or something similar from all colors of polymer clay. You need as many pieces as you can get, there is no specific number, but there should be more white ones.We put the pieces in a random order, but the colored ones should be separated by white pieces. We roll all the pieces into a sausage, it should be slightly narrower than the diameter of the extruder.Place the sausage into the extruder and use the hexagonal disk.If all the colored pieces do not fit in at once, use the extruder several times. I got all the pieces "squeezed out" in three passes. Cut the hexagonal sausages into equal parts. Each part is at least 7 cm.We apply edge to edge, forming a semblance of a cane.We roll out the remains of the plastic waste into a thin layer.Cut the cane into thin slices.Place the slices tightly next to each other on the rolled out layer.We roll out the plastic with a rolling pin, the joints betweenThe cuts should smooth out and disappear. The patch will become uniform, its length should be greater than the perimeter of the workpiece, and the width should cover both the outer and inner parts of the bracelet.We thoroughly lubricate the cooled base for the bracelet with liquid plastic.We cover the bracelet with the layer and press it tightly against it.Carefully place it on the work surface and cut off the excess plastic so that the edges fit together without clearly damaging the pattern.We connect the edges of the plastic on the inner surface of the bracelet, cut off the excess. Roll with a rolling pin on the end on both sides so that the edges of the bracelet are even.Bake again. I used plastic in my work"neon" effect. In certain lighting, the bracelet will literally glow! And on a hot summer day, it will also look good on tanned skin. If desired, you can polish and varnish it. Author: Anastasia Balakina