I recently bought myself a Makin’s Professional Ultimate Clay Extruder.  I got a chance to play with it today.  It is a lot easy to use them the old extruder I have.  I have had great fun today making snakes of color and then turning them into  wrapped beads.  Very easy to do and they are turning out way cool. 

 I am going to do some recycling to with the extruded snakes.  I brought home some cornstarch packing peanuts from work.  (They where just going to be thrown out so I might as well take some.  I did make sure that it was okay first just to be sure.)  Tomorrow I am going to wrap the clay snakes around the peanuts to make filigree beads.  (I might even get a chance to do some tonight.)  Once I bake the beads and let them cool, I will “soak” the cornstarch peanuts out of the middle.

I am thinking that I can also use the extruded snakes to decreate barrettes.  Make interesting designs with the snakes, then add embelishments and maybe even some preal-ex powders. 

I am having great fun!  Pictures will be coming as soon as things are done.

Posted by Helen in Reviews on May 10th, 2007 | No Comments