Gift for yourself on New Year's Eve: snowflake from polymer clay, master class with photo

For work you need:

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  Polymer clay: white (you can take a transparent or translucent, light beige)


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  Toothpicks


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  Stationery knife or blade


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  Working surface (glass, sheet of paper or ceramic tiles)


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  Wet wipes


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  Lacquer Fimo (or any other special lacquer for polymer clay)


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  Adhesive (moment)


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  glitter (white, or take any other sparkles)


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  ribbon (preferably satin)


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  brush


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  paper


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  pen or pencil


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  scissors


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  rolling pin

Step-by-step instruction:

Before you go to manufacture our sweetheartlambs warn you: every time you move on to the next color, and before you start working, you must wipe your hands thoroughly with wet napkins or wash with soap. Since clay very easily gets dirty, it attaches to itself dust and all other foreign bodies.

1. 
   First we start with the shape of the future figure. To do this, you must draw a volumetric snowflake on your own using a pen on paper. You can also find one that you like on the Internet, print. The size depends on you, we painted a snowflake 10 * 10 cm. From its size will depend on how much clay is needed for manufacturing.


2. 
   Now carefully cut out the scissors with the scissors, leaving the circle in the middle of the previous one (it is not cut out). The width of each strip of snowflakes should not turn out to be too small.


3. 
   Take the clay. Remember that before you go to it, you must first wipe your hands with wet wipes, or wash with soap. This is done because the clay very well attaches to itself a variety of dust, dirt and other foreign bodies that we do not need when manufacturing. Do not forget to prepare and surface, you also treat and wash it.


4. 
   After the prepared hands and the surface of the clay, we begin to melt in the hands to the extent that it is soft and elastic, supple. We should end up with a big white ball.


5. 
   Using a rolling pin, we roll our ball on the surface to a thickness of about 1 cm. The clay should be rolled out so that all the previously cut snowflake we placed on its surface.


6. 
   After we have done the previous stage, nowWe finally establish our snowflake on the rolled surface. Use the rolling pin to walk along it, not pressing strongly. This should be done carefully and a couple of times, so that it would stay and not fall asleep during the cutting process. When doing this step, make sure that the clay does not get dirty in the handle or pencil (for this we attached the snow flake with the front side).


7. 
   We take a stationery knife or a blade. In this step, it is important that the device was not blunt, but sharp and cut well. It is good to try to do this. With the help of the device taken on all the edges of the snowflake, we cut out the clay. The paper base must not move so that the figure is even.


8. 
   That's what we should get.


9. 
   Carefully separate the paper base from the clay. Final touches - we will cut out the center of the snowflake, for which we will then hang the beautiful figure that has turned out. You can even out the irregularities that were made earlier.


10. 
    Now give the shine, you can leave a snowflakein the white version, and immediately proceed to roasting. We covered the surface of the snowflake with a liquid base so that the sparkles did not fall off during further action. They sprinkled them all over the figure.


11. 
    After you have finished applying the sparklesThe snowflake should be placed in the oven. In this case, it is necessary to follow the instructions on the polymer clay (there should be prescribed time and temperature in the oven). We took Fimo's firm, baked 25 minutes at 100 degrees.


12. 
    When you get the figure, you can leave it inThis option (on the one hand, it will be white, on the other - flickering). But we decided to give the second side a shine. To do this, repeat paragraph 10, 11 again. In this case, cover the opposite side with glitter or glitter.


13. 
    As the figure will cool it is necessary to cover it completely, from all sides and facets with varnish (preferably special for polymer clay).


14. 
    The last stroke remains - we pass in the middle a beautiful satin ribbon and fix it with a knot.

Our snowflake of polymer clay is ready! It shimmers and pleases the eye! You can hang it on a Christmas tree, give it to family and friends, decorate an interior or a table. Everywhere the figure will look bright, harmonious and beautiful! Good luck to you!