Sculpting from polymer clay: a master class for beginners. Do-it-yourself mosaic made of soft plastic. Master class Doll from a plastic bottle

Elizabeth Rumyantseva

For diligence and art there is nothing impossible.

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Recently, handmade products are in great demand. Sculpting from polymer clay and cold porcelain is very popular, such crafts with the help of master classes and even without tools can be obtained by any novice needlewoman. In order for the finished product to turn out to be of high quality, it is necessary to follow a certain technique and sequence of actions.

What is polymer clay

This substance was artificially created by a German woman, Fifi Rebinder, to create heads for handmade dolls. Polymer clay for modeling has a specific herbal smell, contains plasticizers, which give it plasticity. When baked, they are absorbed, the mass hardens and can no longer change its shape. Polymer clay (or plastic) is of two types: self-hardening and thermoplastic.

The latter requires heat treatment, but anything can be molded from it - from small details to large figures. Self-hardening material dries naturally in the sun, it will take at least a day. If you have not heard about the properties of clay before, then you should know that after drying, the finished product is slightly reduced in size, the surface is uneven, but it can be drilled and processed with a saw. This type of material is more suitable for sculpting dolls and other large crafts. Keep the mass in a closed container.

What can be molded from polymer clay

Sculpting from polymer clay opens up great scope for imagination. You can make anything from fine jewelry to handmade dolls and figurines. Due to the unique properties of plastic, working with it is easy and simple. Some types of thermoplastics are able to imitate the properties of various natural materials: stone, wood, metal, fabric. It is better for beginners in modeling to start with simple techniques, techniques, gradually moving on to more complex ones.

Products

Jewelry, jewelry, key chains, pendants, souvenirs, fridge magnets are often molded from plastic clay. Plastic is non-toxic, so it can be used in games with children. It is easy to teach a kid to make vegetables, fruits, simple flowers. More experienced needlewomen sculpt complex polymer clay items such as doll heads, arms and legs. The properties of the mass make it possible to make crafts as similar and realistic as possible.

Ideas for sculpting from polymer clay

Inspiration for creating polymer clay masterpieces can be drawn from various sources. There are special printed publications on sale that teach such modeling. There you can find a lot of useful information, step-by-step instructions and many options for crafts. Modern needlewomen find ideas for sculpting on the Internet, where there are photo / video instructions with a detailed description of the actions.

How to sculpt with polymer clay

For creativity from polymer clay, special skills are not needed, because the mass is similar to plasticine. In the hands it becomes soft and pliable, ready to create any crafts. To make the product beautiful, have strength, choose high-quality material for creativity. There are many types of polymer clay: Sculpey, Cernit, Viva Pardo, Deco (Japanese), Kato Policlay, Sonnet, Profi, Flower (sold in sets) and others. Most of the decorations are made from Decoclay and Fimo clay.

Tools

Polymer clay tools can be purchased at any art and craft store. Some items can be replaced with improvised materials, but some special tools are indispensable. Before starting work, you need to prepare for the process. You will need:

1. Large glass or plastic worktop.
2. PVA glue. It is useful for joining thermoplastic parts together.
3. Sharp knives, you can clerical.
4. Sandpaper to eliminate roughness.
5. A piece of suede fabric that adds shine to the finished product.
6. Toothpicks, rolling pin.
7. Cutters are special molds for cutting figures.
8. Extruder, rolling pin.

Sculpting techniques

There are several popular techniques that are used in creating crafts from different types of plastic:

1. Smooth transition. The method is to mix two different colors.
2. Sausage (sape, cane, millefiori). Several layers of different polymer clay are combined, and then the mass rolls into a roll.
3. "Kaleidoscope". Multi-layered, using the kaleidoscope technique, the pattern turns out to be symmetrical, multi-colored.
4. Watercolor. Technique for a smooth transition of color when sculpting.
5. Filigree. Complex, requires professional skills, patience.
6. Salt technology. Salt is used in modeling to give texture to the creation.
7. Mika-shift. Creates a 3D effect.
8. Mokume Gane. It consists in layering several layers of plastic clay of different colors.

Some parts need to be glued together after firing, in order to avoid damage during baking. Use liquid or gel glue for this purpose, it is better if it is fast-acting and grabs in 15-20 seconds. So you will have the opportunity to fit the parts as best as possible to each other. Do not apply glue in strips so that there are no smudges, do it in the form of separate droplets.

baking

This process requires certain conditions to be met. The most important thing is to adhere to the baking temperature, which is indicated on the packaging by the manufacturer. If this indicator is violated, the product may not bake or change color. It is better to bake the mass in the oven on a ceramic tile or a regular baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Small parts need to be pricked on a toothpick, placed on a foil ball, so they are better baked. Flat parts are laid on a flat surface.

Complex crafts can be baked in several stages, for example, if they are made using the filigree technique. Each stage lasts a certain amount of time (from 1 to 15 minutes), and the total duration of the process can take up to half an hour. It must also be remembered that in its raw form the material is not toxic, but during heat treatment it exudes an unpleasant, harmful odor. Observe safety precautions: ensure the ventilation of the room, remove food from the kitchen, wash the oven after firing.

Varnishing

Finished products are covered with a special varnish, which gives them a finished look. There are matte and glossy varnishes, you need to choose them based on the desired effect of your craft. Many plastic manufacturers also make varnishes, so you can buy products of the same brand. It has a composition that will not fade over time and will not start to stick to your hands. Some needlewomen varnish their creations with water-based varnishes for wooden floors. The main thing is that they do not contain latex, which is incompatible with thermoplastics.

You can apply varnish with a brush, but it is better to “put on” the product on a toothpick and dip it into the liquid as a whole, scrolling it around its axis. So the substance is distributed evenly, its excess amount will drain. Next, a toothpick with a craft is inserted into a piece of foam (or other material), left to dry. If after a while a drop of varnish forms below, it must be carefully removed. It is necessary to cover crafts in several layers, drying each of them for a certain amount of time (indicated on the package), sometimes this time is several hours.

Safety

Working with any material, even food, has its own safety rules. If you decide to sculpt from plastic, observe the following precautions:

1. After sculpting, be sure to wash your hands with soap and water, and it is better to work with rubber gloves.
2. Do not burn the mass in the oven where you cook. If there is no other, and you are forced to do this, wash the oven thoroughly and ventilate well.
3. Observe the temperature regime of baking, and if the material is burnt, be sure to ventilate the room and wash the oven.

Having prepared all the necessary materials, tools, you can begin to create various masterpieces. Check out a few simple sculpting lessons and start from the basics, moving on to complex crafts with the acquisition of certain skills. Over time, this exciting hobby can grow into a small business that brings a good regular income.

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Polymer clay crafts for beginners

For those who have basic knowledge and start working with plastic for the first time, a simple master class on modeling a fridge magnet from polymer clay will help:

1. Stock up: self-hardening polymer clay of pink, yellow, white, green, lime colors, soft magnet, acrylic paints, glue, scissors, toothpick, beads.
2. Roll up small balls from yellow, white, pink polymer clay, form a drop out of them, cut the thick edge with scissors into 4-5 parts.
3. Flatten them, give relief with a toothpick. You will get flowers.
4. Form droplets from a material of green shades, flatten them, make veins with a toothpick. These will be the leaves.
5. We make buds: on a drop of white we squeeze strips, imitating unblown petals. We wrap the bottom of the workpiece with a piece of green mass.
6. Paint the magnet with paint of a suitable shade and glue the resulting blanks on it, creating a composition. Complete it with decorative beads. Leave until completely dry.

New Year crafts

An excellent gift for the New Year will be a magic ball made at home from polymer clay:

1. Prepare: a small transparent jar of spices with a screw cap, plastic (white, black, red, pink, beige), glitter, glitter, glycerin, vodka, pin, glue.
2. Roll up 2 white balls of different sizes, put them on a pin (thin wire) to make a snowman.
3. Make indentations for the eyes, insert 2 black balls there. Insert a carrot made of red plastic into the recess for the nose. Draw a smile.
4. Roll 4 white balls, flatten 2 on one side - these are the legs. From the rest, make elongated droplets - these are hands. Assemble the snowman.
5. From beige, pink polymer clay, roll out 2 thin long sausages. Twist them with a rope. Form a scarf and a snowman hat out of them. In the same way, we make a candy in the form of a hook (we use a red, white mass), insert it into the hand. We bake.
6. Lubricate the lid of the jar from the inside with waterproof glue, put a snowman in the center, sprinkle sparkles around.
7. Pour different medium-sized glitters into the jar, pour 1 tbsp. l. glycerin and vodka, add water, given that the snowman should still fit.
8. Coat the thread of the lid with cream, screw it on, let it dry. Shake, flip.

Decorations

As a decoration, try to make a simple “knitted” wrist bracelet that imitates real yarn:

1. You will need: a base for a bracelet, plastic of the desired color, liquid gel plastic, an extruder, a knife.
2. Put the plastic mass in the extruder, squeeze out. Take 2 strips, twist with a tourniquet. Do the same with the other two strips, twisting them in the other direction.
3. Lubricate the surface of the base with gel, attach the first tourniquet, cut off the required length. Then attach the second tourniquet as tightly as possible to the first, cut off.
4. You will get an imitation of knitting. Repeat the steps until you "knit" the entire bracelet. Do the same on the inside (optional). Bake.

Toys

Modeling toys with thermoplastics is a great pastime with children. Try this turtle:

1. Stock up on a baked polymer mass (blue, light green, pink), a brush and 2 small black beads.
2. From the blue color, make 4 large drops - this is the preparation of the legs.
3. From a piece of light green plastic, form a blank in the form of a bell with a recess inside - this is the future shell.
4. Place the legs next to the wide part down, put on the shell on top. With the brush handle, holding it vertically, make a recess in front of the future turtle - a place for the head.
5. We form the head blank: roll a ball and a cylinder out of blue plastic, connect them. You should get a head on the neck. Attach it to the body.
6. Roll up pink balls, flatten, stick to the shell - these are spots. Blind your eyes from beads. Bake the turtle.

Among needleworkers, such material as plastic is gaining popularity. For modeling dolls, flowers, jewelry, crafts with children and so on - you can use this material everywhere. We invite you to take a closer look at it.

What is molding plastic?

With your own hands, you can make crafts from different materials: wood, fabric, clay, salt dough, wire, beads, and so on. For modeling today are the most popular plasticine, salt dough and plastic.

Plastic is, in other words, a very convenient material for modeling. The plastic dries up and becomes as strong as plastic. When first used, it resembles a very elastic dough or plasticine. You can make toys, crafts, jewelry, decor elements and much more from it. Dry the finished craft in the air or in the oven.

The advantages of plastic:

• dries quickly;
• easy to work with;
• does not stain hands;
• does not soften during long work;
• the finished product does not lose shape over time;
• rich color variety;
• product can be dyed.

Where to get plastic?

There are many places where you can buy plastic for sculpting:

• departments for creativity in ordinary stores;
• children's shops;
• online shopping for creativity;
• specialized shops for creativity.

Do-it-yourself plastic for modeling is sold in different shades, but it is not cheap.

We do plastic surgery ourselves

If you do not want to go to the store, then we offer you an alternative option.

Plastic at home is made as follows:

1. To get about 350 grams of material at the output, you need to take 250 grams (1 cup) of PVA glue, 250 grams of corn starch (if you don’t need a snow-white color, you can use ordinary starch), one tablespoon of petroleum jelly and hand cream (the most regular low-fat and silicone-free), two tablespoons of lemon juice.
2. From the dishes and tools, take a bowl in which the ingredients will be kneaded, a stirring spoon, a substrate, a piece of cling film or a bag, a piece of cloth that absorbs moisture well, a plastic spatula.
3. Pour all the starch into a bowl and pour in the glue with petroleum jelly.
4. When the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, add lemon juice.
5. Set the microwave to maximum power and put a bowl in it for 30 seconds. Then move everything and turn on the stove again for half a minute. You can use a gas stove. Then stir the mass until thickened over low heat.
6. Lubricate the substrate with hand cream and put the mass on it, after removing the upper frozen ball. It needs to be thrown away.
7. Knead the mass as if you were working with dough. Knead for five minutes until the piece becomes elastic. Help yourself with a spatula. With its help, pieces are easily scraped off the substrate.
8. Roll a piece of plastic into a sausage and place it on a cloth to remove excess moisture. Put everything in the refrigerator, as the material will harden in the air.
9. After a while, remove the fabric and wrap it in a film or bag.

Do-it-yourself plastic for modeling is ready!

If you want to make the material multi-colored, then divide the dough into portions and add the desired shade of oil paints, fabric or food coloring to each.

simple plastic flowers

There are many types of flowers that a beginner in plastic modeling can make. For example, violets, cornflowers, peonies, daisies, roses and so on.

Basically, sculpting flowers from plastic is as follows:

1. Very small balls are rolled.
2. Petals are made from them.
3. Then the petals are shaped.
4. The petals are folded together.
5. The product is baked.

You can add leaves and stems if you like.

Making dolls

Plastic for sculpting dolls should have a snow-white color or a slightly pinkish tint.

Work features:

1. To make a doll, first form all the components from pieces of foil: legs, arms, body, head.
2. Then roll out the plastic and stick around the foil parts with cakes.
3. You can stick around the foil completely, bake the doll, and then leave it like that. And you can divide the parts in half, pull out the foil, and then glue the parts.
4. Then all the parts are connected to each other and the doll is painted.

The second way to make a plastic doll:

1. Make a frame for the doll out of wire.
2. Make a foil ball on top.
3. Cover the foil with plastic and form the head.
4. Then make arms and legs.
5. At the end, fashion the body.
6. Sculpt all the details: face, fingers and so on.
7. Bake the doll.

• In order not to prepare a new portion of plastic every time, you can stock up. The material can be stored for a long time in a tightly closed glass jar or plastic container in the refrigerator. When you want to mold something, then cut off a small piece from a large supply, and send the rest back.
• It is best to use a plastic board or silicone mat as a substrate. Then the plastic for modeling with your own hands will not stick.
• At the end of sculpting, all tools and the substrate must be thoroughly cleaned so that the plastic remains do not dry out and migrate to a new product next time.
• If the craft consists of several parts that need to be connected together, then it is best to use ordinary PVA glue for this.
• As additional tools and materials, as your plastic products become more complex, you may need molds (plastic or silicone), sticks (ice cream, lollipop, and so on), pen caps, rulers, rolling pins and much more.

Plastic is like plasticine - you can sculpt anything from it. According to the curing method, polymer clay is divided into baked and self-hardening.
In the case of baked plastic, the finished product is baked in the most ordinary oven that every home has. The result is a hard, almost plastic figurine that holds its shape remarkably well and retains its color. Self-hardening hardens in air without special conditions.

1) Plastic called "Flower" - the cheapest solution and suitable for children's crafts, it happens in briquettes of 6, 10, 12 colors

2) Plastic called “Sonnet” is sold in 57g briquettes, one color per pack. It costs an order of magnitude more expensive than Tsvetik.

3) Fimo 57g briquettes at the same price as Tsvetik.

To make the craft even more beautiful and durable, you also need varnish.

The choice of varnish for plastic

Not every varnish is suitable for working with polymer clay. Because most varnishes (acrylic and acetone-based) react chemically with plastic. Some do not dry and always remain sticky, others dry, but after a while (about six months) they begin to stick. For plastic it is necessary to use a specialized varnish. Firms that produce plastic offer them a varnish of their own production.

In addition to specialized ones, which are difficult to buy, you can use a water-based polyurethane-acrylic wood coating.

Craftswomen praise the polyurethane-acrylic coating for water-based wood floors Varathane (Varatan) Crystal Clear Waterbone.

How to apply varnish?

Can be brushed evenly and gently to avoid bubbles. But the best result will be if you dip the product directly into the varnish, then rotate it so that the excess varnish stacks in a jar and hangs to dry. After about 5 minutes, blot the bottom of the product with a brush to remove a drop of varnish formed there.

Molds

Often when sculpting, the question arises about molds - how to cut the same figures? Molds can be from strips of plastic bottles, aluminum strips from cans, and anything else that you can get your hands on. So let's get started, we need a tin or aluminum can or a plastic bottle with smooth sides

Take a strip of material

and bend it according to our plan, leaving the edges bent to the side - we will seal them with tape. Adhesive tape, in addition to connecting both halves of the form, also protects the form from the fact that clay gets between the plates, so glue it with adhesive tape to the very joint.

And one more little trick. If you lay a plastic bag on top of the clay and squeeze the mold through the polyethylene, then the resulting piece of clay will have rounded edges.

In addition, the forms do not have to be closed!!!

In this case, you can make as many petals in a flower as you like. And with the same shape you can cut clover leaves.

hard plastic

If you got a dried-up baked polymer clay, then sculpting a real disaster from it - it does not warm up, but crumbles in your hands.
This means that there is not enough plasticizer in the clay.
To prevent this from happening, store your clay in tightly sealed plastic bags.
But even if this has already happened, sunflower oil saves the situation.
Knead a piece of clay with a couple of drops of sunflower oil.
About proportions: for one whole package of hard clay you need only 2 drops of oil. If the clay is very hard, then a little more, but it is better to add oil only as needed - when you have already kneaded the clay to a uniform state, but it is still hard.
At first, everything will look scary - lumps of clay and sunflower oil, hands get dirty. The main thing is not to be afraid, but to continue, then you will get homogeneous and soft clay, from which you can sculpt like new.
If your piece of clay is already so oaky that you can’t even break it into small pieces, then you can either cut it into thin slices with a knife (dreary and long), or grate it (for this you need to use a grater that will never be used for food), or crushed with a hammer (I have not tried this method).

For such clay as “Tsvetik”, sunflower oil can be used without even waiting until it dries - it is initially very hard and oil (or vaseline) improves its quality noticeably.
Clay diluted with oil does not lose its qualities (color, strength, ease of modeling).
I repeat that this method is for those types of plastic that require firing in the oven, it is not suitable for self-hardening.

Baking polymer clay

What to bake? You need an oven - at least gas, at least electric. A microwave oven is not suitable for baking.

What to bake? What will be convenient for you from what is available: on a wooden board, on ceramic tiles, on a piece of glass, on a metal baking sheet (with lined baking paper), on cardboard, and so on. There is a small nuance here - if you bake on a smooth surface, then your product at the point of contact with this surface will receive a gloss as a result of firing - a very smooth shiny surface. If you do not need it, then you need to lay something under the product. I put either a paper napkin or a piece of denim. The baking temperature of polymer clay is not critical for these materials.

Precautionary measures. During baking, toxic substances are released from polymer clay, so it is necessary to ventilate the room (open window or exhaust hood).
After the firing is completed and the oven has cooled down, it is required to wash it, because the released harmful substances settle on the walls of the oven.
Some craftswomen, in order to avoid this, bake their products in airtight containers, so all toxins remain inside the container.

Baking temperature. On the packaging of polymer clay, they always write the temperature regime that is suitable specifically for your polymer clay. Most often it is 130 degrees Celsius, although for some types of plastic surgery it may differ, for example, FIMO has 110 degrees Celsius.
Subtleties: if the baking temperature is lower than required, then your product will be fragile. Conversely, if you exceed the temperature, the product will become stronger, BUT when baking, a large amount of toxic substances will be released, and there is also a chance that your product will simply fry.

Temperature control in the oven. When the temperature rises to the desired temperature, slightly open the oven door and fix it in such a position that the temperature is kept in the desired range.

How long to bake? On this, the masters all hold different points of view.
If you have a small product (the thickness of the plastic is not more than 0.5 mm), then 15 minutes is enough, and the larger the craft, the longer you need to bake. The longer the plastic is baked, the stronger it becomes (the main thing is to observe the temperature regime).
I bake all polymer clay products, regardless of their size, for about 40 minutes.

Can the product be baked? Yes, of course you can, if it is not varnished. You can pre-bake individual parts. For example, complex figures, such as people, angels, devils, tiger cubs. Sometimes pre-firing is required in several passes, for example, separately bake the eyes, then stick them in the face and bake the whole head, then stick the hair on it and bake again, and only then combine the head with other details into a whole composition and bake completely.

imprints

Let's talk about prints on plastic that are formed during sculpting. Different types of plastic store prints in different ways and it is also better to remove them in different ways. For example, take Cernit plastic. Fingerprints on it are not very deep and clear, they can simply be smeared with slightly moistened fingers and this will be enough. However, plastics such as Sonnet and Fimo store them well and if you try to lubricate one, you will certainly put new ones. How to fight for the smoothness of the product?

Let's consider several ways.

1) Skinning.
We sculpt the product as it turns out, bake it, and then sand it with sandpaper.
There are a couple of nuances here. First, during the skinning, the top layer is removed, which gives the product a slightly glossy look. All the plasticizer released during baking settles on the surface of the product. Small grooves form (the size of the grooves depends on what kind of sandpaper you used). The finer the sandpaper, the better for sanding, but even the finest leaves micro-grooves into which dust and other dirt likes to clog. Therefore, if you skin your product, then it is desirable to varnish it after that.
Secondly, during the skinning, the product seems to fade - this is a small crumb formed during the procedure, settles on the product and in the resulting grooves. To return the color to the product, it is necessary to wash it thoroughly with soap and water after sanding. Especially all sorts of uneven and small parts, they are easier to wash with a brush (ideally with an old toothbrush). Some craftswomen sand right under running water, in which case the dust does not scatter in all directions, and the result is immediately visible on the product itself.
Pros and cons:
+ The method is good for large products, as well as for those that include the cane technique (no need to worry about the evenness of the product, the excess will be sanded after)
+ Hands feel plastic more subtly, the products are the thinnest and most accurate
+ During sculpting, hands do not sweat much.
- After such modeling, it is necessary to sand and varnish. If you do not have varnish, then this method is not suitable for you.
- The process of skinning is very tedious and lengthy.

2) Gloves.
The best way to deal with fingerprints is not to leave them at all!
Use simple rubber gloves or fingertips while sculpting, and your product will be free of prints in principle.
This method is ideal for thin and small work that cannot be sanded, such as flowers.
Pros and cons:
+ The product is ready as soon as it has cooled down after baking
- Hands sweat under gloves, which causes some inconvenience.

How to make a color transition manually.

For example, we take white and pink clay. We form two triangles of different colors from clay so that together they make a rectangle of approximately the same thickness.

We cut into a certain number of strips. The more strips you cut, the smoother the transition will be. In some cases, five pieces are enough, but more often about 10.

We thoroughly knead each strip in our hands until a uniform color is obtained - fold in half, stretch, in half again and so on, until the color becomes uniform.

Then we fold the homogeneous pieces in the same order in which they were cut.

Now we roll it with a rolling pin to force out the air bubbles between the pieces of clay. I have a glass bottle of nail polish remover as a rolling pin. And so that the clay does not stick to the rolling pin and the table, I cover it with polyethylene on both sides.

Now there is no such needlewoman who would not take up modeling from plastic or polymer clay. But for those who do not know, plastic is not plasticine at all, although it looks like it at first glance. This is a kind of mass for modeling, which eventually hardens to a state of plastic, or which needs to be baked or boiled for this.

Anything is made from this wonderful material - jewelry, toys, things and furniture are decorated ... Finding it now is not a problem - in any needlework store there is a huge selection of domestic or foreign plastics of various shades! And you can also buy all kinds of accessories for it - stacks (knives, for shaping), boards, paints, bases, varnishes ...

Have you already made up your mind and bought a couple of plastic records or sausages? Now the fun begins! Wet your hands with water (and wash them well first!) and knead one bar. Now you can sculpt whatever comes into your head. If you use self-hardening plastic, it means that over time it will harden and become too dense for you to continue working with! If you have ordinary plastic, then the finished work needs to be boiled (but keep in mind that the color will fade slightly), or baked. Both the first and second should be done no more than 10 minutes and at least 5! If you overbake the work, it may crumble; if you underbake, it will be rubbery. After baking, let the finished work cool and you can varnish it. This will add gloss to it and give completeness.

1. Free sculpting

You can sculpt whatever you want - earrings, necklaces, bracelets, beads, key chains ... But remember the mandatory heat treatment of the finished work, so if you want to decorate a flash drive, it's better to use self-hardening clay.

1. Mokume-gane

Very unusual and beautiful technique!

Needle bed in the technique of mokume-gane:

Take plastic in different colors. Let it be contrasting colors or several shades of one - it will still turn out beautifully. Roll out each piece separately. To do this, you can use a bottle or a new rolling pin. There are special rolling machines, but they are not cheap and can only be found in specialized stores.

When the layers are ready, lay them on top of each other and roll them out again. Now you need to arm yourself with various items with which you can squeeze out cute prints - knives, pens, caps from felt-tip pens, bottle caps, paper clips, buttons ... Make a couple of prints in a chaotic manner, but do not push through to the end! Then carefully cut off the top layer of plastic. This can be done with a utility knife or blade. Voila! A chic base for beads, brooches, pendants, solid bracelets is ready.

2. Filigree and granulation

Unusual and delicate technique. The result is delicate, exquisite things. And it's all about the small bundles that are laid out on the finished work and small dots - grains that complement the work.

3. Technique "canes"

This technique is also called "sausage", millefiori or canne. One of the most difficult techniques for which you need to cut the plastic into small pieces and put it in a roll. If this roll is cut, then there will be a beautiful pattern inside. Therefore, often such rolls are finely chopped and made into beads or pendants. The drawing can be very complex or simple - it all depends on your perseverance. Carefully follow the photo tutorial and you will have wonderful sunflowers or such a cute sheep!

4. Harnesses

The difficulty is to create many identical harnesses. There is a special tool for this - an extruder, but in everyday life, harnesses can be rolled up without it. It's just that they won't come out all the same and not too thin! Look carefully at the photo of the master class!

What is decoupage, and how this terrible and unfamiliar word turns into a work of art - we have already told in previous articles. So, you can also do decoupage on plastic! You just have to bake it first!

There are two options - either you glue a finished drawing on a baked base (a cut-out part of a postcard or a napkin), or draw your own author's drawing on paper! An example of the author's technique can be such an original "sausage cat".

6. Plastic and salt

The finished work is very reminiscent of pumice! Unusual and stylish! Plastic needs to be thoroughly carried over salt before baking. Then wash in water and bake.

7. Sculpting on glass

With the help of plastic, you can decorate any vase, jar or glass in an original way. In short, everything that is made of glass and fits into the oven to bake it!

Master class on how to decorate a vase with daisies:

8. Impressions

To do this, in addition to plastic surgery, take: a leaf of a living plant, the print of which you will make, vaseline, water. The plastic should be kneaded very well - the softer it is, the better. To do this, you need to add a little Vaseline! Roll the plastic into a thin cake and put it on a board, tile or just paper on which you will bake your product and try to make an impression. Moisten the cake with water and place a leaf on top. Roll over the leaf with a rolling pin. You can remove the sheet and enjoy the accuracy and beauty of the work!

Remember that the main thing is not to overbake!

9. Watercolor technique

Beautiful technique with smooth transitions and stains. Prepare the beads in advance (do not bake!). Now roll out three thin sheets from three pieces of plastic (be sure to take different colors!). When the plastic dries a little, tear it into pieces and stick around the beads prepared in advance. Remember them a little in your hand so that the surface becomes smooth, and you can bake!

10. Kaleidoscope technique

This technique is similar to canes, but with much less fuss! You roll "sausages" of various colors and patterns and mold them all into one pile. Sausages can be rectangular, square, round, triangular! The more varied the better! In this way, you can imitate various natural surfaces - wood or stone, for example!

That's all the techniques I know of today. You can come up with a completely new, your own technique, because plastic gives so many opportunities for creativity!