My new favorite thing to make is cuff bracelets! One place to purchase these is at https://www.etsy.com/listing/997931683/cuff-bracelet-with-edges-inlay-cuff I made a complete video about how to make this bracelets. It can be found at : https://youtu.be/pwB75JME1kU Did you know that if you bake clay face down on glass, every part that is touching the glass looks like glass!!! This is especially helpful for canes with translucent polymer clay. If you’ve ever experimented with translucent, you quickly realize that it’s no as see-through as you hoped. However, just like agates in a rock tumbler ..read more

Here is another green blend. I hope you can start to see how you can change the blend to fit your specific needs. Remember to adapt this to fit the whole width of your pasta machine. Click for the printable stencil here. cernit-green-blendDownload ..read more

I love this blend! You could just go from purple to turquoise, but I wanted just a little more contrast so I added white. Here is the printable stencil. Or you can make your own to fit the width of your pasta machine. cernit-purple-turquoise-pdfDownload ..read more

I’m excited to be adding to my new Cernit color blend directory! Many of you know that metallics effects are my favorite. The “copper” and “gold” are very similar. In my opinion “poppy red” in Cernit looks more like dark orange, but the extra red in it makes in look more copper to me when it goes in the blend. Here is the printable stencil. Be sure to adjust it to the width of your pasta machine. cernit-copper-and-gold-blend-templatesDownload ..read more

I’m back to making blend templates! Unfortunately, I can no longer find the Premo colors that I used to make all of my previous blend. Nevertheless, all of the only templates are still a very good guide for what is possible. For this blend, I wanted a green that would blend from very dark to very light without the dark completely overwhelming the light. No matter what brand you use, the important thing is to curve the darkest color. I also made the darkest color stretch across most of the blend so that there would not be an obvious line in the blend where the color stopped. Download the printa ..read more

I’ve continued my journey into making jewelry with my canes. I searched for bracelet blank, blank channel bracelet, and blank inlay bracelet. Here are two of the shops I found. KJewelry Metal, Yakutum, Natalie Parker Designs, and TDS Online store. These canes are from the October 2020 issue of Cane Builder on Patreon. Just looking at these tiles makes me think of adventure and travel.! My favorite thing is matching the different patterns and colors. I love the thin little solid bangles that break the complexity and tie the colors together. Possibility is my favorite word. At the time of writi ..read more

I’m so busy making and designing canes that I seldom take time to make anything with them! This month’s cane tutorial on Patreon makes beautiful slabs. I decided to try my hand at these shape earrings everyone has been making. There are endless shapes to choose from. I decided to try to find shapes that seem uniquely suited to these specific slabs. Here are some of my favorite shapes at the moment. I especially like the rectangles. There is no waste and no special cutters needed. The Blue Bottle Tree has some great information for making earrings, so there’s no need for me to repeat it. I tota ..read more

I’ve been making canes for years. It’s finally time to make them into something! I’ve open a new Esty shop, PolymerBeadWorkshop, where you can get inspiration for all the many ways to make canework beads. The tutorial for this pattern is on my Patreon page. Here I’ll show one way to make beads with a rectangular, geometric cane. If you had a square cane, like a kaleidoscope or tile, you could do this same thing by putting two side by side to make a rectangle. If rainbow isn’t your thing, try to imagine this with the most beautiful kaleidoscope canes you’ve seen. Cut a slice and wrap it around ..read more

There are many ways to make metallic looking blends. Here is one way to make bronze. Premo brand: the dark is 2 parts cadmium red : 1 part black the light is 3 parts white : 1 part orange Here I’ve used four solid shades for this blend to make the cane from the 3D Star cane on Patreon ..read more

  The snowflake and gold canes are on my Patron site. The following instructions are for the poinsettia cane. Step 1: Make a blend and stack it. Here is a video I made a long time ago about how I stack blends. I used Premo brand: half Pomegranate Red and half dark red which mixed from 1 part Pomegranate to 1 part black. Don’t blend directly to black. It’s already pretty dark. Add one more sheet of red, or even red mixed with a little white to the top of the stack if it looks too dark. Step 2: Reduce the blend so that it’s like a long rectangular cane. Cut it in half and stack it so that one d ..read more