Title:Design Originals Clay Techniques with a Pasta Machine
Author:Maureen Carlson
Copyright: 2006
Publisher: Design Originals
Pages:19
Projects:18
Condition: Brand New

In this book, you’ll learn techniques for using a pasta machine with polymer clay that include Basic Skinner Blend, Skinner Cane, Skinner Loaf, several Stripes, Jelly Rolls, Checkerboards, Nine-Patch designs, Mokume Gane, Marbling, and Watercolor mixing. Exciting color and pattern variations of each technique are shown in order to stimulate your imagination and encourage experimentation.

Pasta machines are terrific tools for making more than just pasta! The pasta machine allows you to easily blend clay to create stripes and intricate patterns for making unique beads, embellishments and baubles.

This 19-page technique book from Design Originals and teacher/author Maureen Carlson explores the unlimited potential that the pasta machine offers for creating designs and patterns with polymer clay. Exciting techniques such as Skinner Blends, Skinner Loafs, Mokume Gane, Marbling, Watercolor mixing, and Jelly Rolls are all included in this book.

In addition to demonstrating each technique, Maureen Carlson uses the designs to create jewelry, decorator jar lids, light switch covers, and journal covers! But learning how to make the various patterns is only part of the fun. The projects in the book will stimulate your imagination with ideas for turning your clay into awesome art.