Get Creative with Polymer Clay: 17 Step-by-Step Projects - Simple to Make, Stunning Results (Quick and Easy Crafts)

Not a natural substance, polymer clay is made up of pigments, plasticizers, and PVC particles, a perfect combination for experimenting by beginners and professionals alike. Add to its properties a resistance to air drying, and that's reason enough to attract bona fide artists to the medium. British practitioner and author Ralph instructs readers in unusual techniques--for instance, Skinner blend, mokume gane--as well as in 17 increasingly more difficult projects, ranging from a Wedgwood-look-alike barrette to a Gustav Klimt-inspired bottle. Other unique attributes are items that incorporate more than polymer clay (stamping and scrapbooking are two); an insistence on teaching through color photographs first, accompanied by the right words; and devotion to a high caliber of design that is, quite frankly, not often found in crafts books of this ilk. Barbara Jacobs
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