Polymer Clay Tutorial | Faux Turquoise Beads For A Unique Bracelet
An Old Food Processor Will Come In Very Handy For This Faux Stone Project:
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Right now, I am working on the next set of polymer clay tutorials to add to the video library. Due to popular demand, one of those videos is all about making faux turquoise beads. The technique is really fun… partly because it is so messy! You will need just a few chunks of clay, sand, paint and an old food processor.
Actually, if you don’t have a food processor, that will be OK. I’ll give you some alternative options for doing things manually as well. By the way, once you use a food processor for mixing polymer clay, you can’t go back to using it for food preparation.
Besides being useful for making faux stone beads like Turquoise, Coral, Lapis Lazuli and Granite, the food processor is also really handy for conditioning your polymer clay. You can pick up a used one very inexpensively at thrift shops or garage sales. Perhaps you even have one collecting dust in the back of one of your kitchen cupboards. Maybe it’s time to pull it out and move it to your craft room.
The specific titles in the Volume-003 are referenced as:
- Vol-003-4 Conditioning Clay with a Food Processor (A)
- Vol-003-5 Conditioning Clay with a Food Processor (B)
These Polymer Clay Food Processor Tutorials have 3 other related videos:
- Vol-003-1 Polymer Clay Spice Inclusion Technique
- Vol-003-2 Flower Petal Inclusion Keepsake Beads
- Vol-003-3 Plastic Fishing Tackle Boxes Clay Storage
- Vol-003-4 Conditioning Clay with a Food Processor (A)
- Vol-003-5 Conditioning Clay with a Food Processor (B)
If you would like to first see preview clips of the Vid-003-4 and Vid-003-4 polymer clay tutorial videos, follow these links:
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Hi Aylisha,
The Faux Turquoise Tutorial is the 3rd Video in the Vol-007 Back Issue.
When you go to the link above, you can purchase the whole volume on that page by clicking the Add to Cart Link. On our new site we will make the tutorials a lot easier to find and to buy, but for now, this is the system we’ve got.
Where do I see the video to make the faux turquoise .
Judith – I’ll be here waiting for you :) BTW… the faux turquoise bead making tutorial turned out great! I know you’ll have a lot of fun with this technique when you get some time to have a look. Best, Cindy.
Super…I keep thinking I have time and I really have to wait till college is on break! Thanks so much. J
Judith – I’m actually filming the faux turquoise tutorial today. It will be posted in the members library next week in Volume-007.
hi….so is there a tutorial yet on the turquoise??? Looks so cool. J
A food processor is also great for mixing colors! If you do decide to use one, make sure you dedicate your food processor to polymer clay use only. You don’t want food in your polymer clay or clay in your food!!