Polymer Clay Cane Pattern Compositions for Beginners
Butterfly Cane 1
A course by Kristin Vaughn , Polymer Clay Artist
About the video: Butterfly Cane 1
Overview
“I will now show you how to make a butterfly cane! For this exercise, you will need the color blend you made earlier, some background color, black, and a little white. Let's get started.”
In this video lesson Kristin Vaughn addresses the topic: Butterfly Cane 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Polymer Clay Cane Pattern Compositions for Beginners. Use polymer clay to create cohesive tubes filled with intricate patterns and colors that you can use to decorate different objects.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Butterfly Cane In this lesson, we'll make a butterfly cane. You'll need the blend that we made earlier, some of your background color, black and a bit white. To make our butterfly, we'll want to make a cube out of our blend. We want to make a long ribbon where one end is this color and the other end is this color. To do that, we'll fold this up into about the size that we want our ribbon's width to be. We'll do it accordion style because if you fold it back on to itself like this, you'll get air trapped, and we don't want that. I've got about three layers here and I'll trim off this bit o...”
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Course summary for: Polymer Clay Cane Pattern Compositions for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, DIY, Jewelry Design

Kristin Vaughn
A course by Kristin Vaughn
Kristin Vaughn is a self-taught polymer clay artist based in Iowa, USA. She loved arts and crafts growing up, but slowly lost touch as she began her professional career. In need of an artistic outlet, she rekindled her passion for clay and discovered the creative possibilities of canes. She later decided to transform her jewelry-making hobby into a business and set up Hillside Studio.
In 2021, Kristin left her corporate job and has since been fully devoted to her studio, handcrafting original pieces to sell online and in her boutique store. She’s passionate about teaching others this art form and shares her creations with more than 207K followers on Instagram. Her work has also been featured on media platforms like Buzzfeed, Bored Panda, and MyModernMet.
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