Sometimes I just want to have a barrette come out looking nice but with out a lot of work or time.  I recently found a faux burl wood recipe in one of my many books on polymer clay (Faux Surface Treatments by Irene Dean).  I had to try it.  It is simply mixing three different colors of clay and then chopping them into pieces in a food processor.  Then you press the clumps together and roll them out.  Very easy and also quick.  This is one of the barrettes that I made.

  This barrette is one that I made earlier this summer.  It is blue clay covered with foil and then textured.  I used foil that I got from www.coveredinclay.com  .  The people who run the website are very nice and knowledgable in polymer clay.  The texture is from a sheet that is used to texture candy but does really well with clay.

Posted by Helen in Tips and Techniques on September 20th, 2007 |