I've made my first shy steps in the polymer clay world. With a little help from my daughter.
And I have some urgent questions:
1. I can make the beads round between my hands, but when I start making holes they deform (pressure of hands and needle). How do you get nice round beads?
2. How do you avoid/remove finger tip prints? Polish with what?
3. When covering a bead with gloss, on what do you dry them? I imagine you cannot lay them on a piece of paper without them sticking to it.
I'd appreciate all the help out there for it is quite enchanting craft and I'd like to continue.
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To avoid fingerprints, you can wear gloves. Or to remove the fingerprints after baking, you can wet sand the beads.
For glazing the beads, you can thread them onto a skewer or wire of some sort (I suppose even thread?), then brace the wire across a pan or something. This should hold the beads up off the paper.
And if you're getting a lot of distortion while piercing the beads, you might try letting the clay cool a little -- sometimes they're softer & more likely to distort right after you've finished rolling them. I've heard some of the bead racks on the market have some nice bead-piercing tools, but I haven't tried them.
Good luck with your beads -- I just love polymer clay!
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