Make a Fun House Plant Leaf Cane - Polymer Clay Maranta

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11 ай бұрын

When a customer asked me to make a whole pile of fancy leaf canes for them I had some fun puzzles to figure out. One of my favourite leaves was definitely the maranta leuconeura or prayer plant leaf and it turns out it's not hard to make a stylized version that works great for polymer clay slabs, jewellery, and tiny miniatures too!
Materials wise I am using Premo polymer clay. The base green is Premo Forest Green. The scrap red is... I'm not sure but mostly pomegranate red with a lot of white, translucent, and gold mixed in. The highlight green is a variety of green scrap but mostly bright green pearl and spanish olive mixed with white and gold. Basically it's old leaf cane ends.
This is the second in a series of house plant leaf canes I'm working on which I will make into a playlist when it gets to a few more. You can find the first here: • Make a Snake Plant Suc...
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@jojobrew4798 11 ай бұрын

That turned out frikken awesome. Love it.

@Tooaquarius 10 ай бұрын

Yay, thank you!

@1212haro 10 ай бұрын

WOW, what a gorgeous leaf! Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️ 🇨🇦

@Tooaquarius 10 ай бұрын

Definitely one of my favourites!

@MominMesquite 10 ай бұрын

I am SO glad someone else's machine puts those roller marks on their sheets too! Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing! All your vids are great! On another note, how do you wrap your canes in plastic for shipping? TIA!

@Tooaquarius 10 ай бұрын

By this point in clay I have had... at least ? 7 or 8 pasta machines that I have used until they broke to pieces and another 10 that I use occasionally for classes. They all leave lines at least sometimes. If you're very careful about cleaning and keeping the rollers and bits aligned well you'll get fewer. For canes, for storage, I reduce most of each cane I make to sell and then wrap each piece in Glad plastic wrap. Then for shipping, I line the box I ship in with plastic wrap. I use jewellery boxes or very small folding shipping boxes so canes fit fairly snugly. I should probably do an order packing short at some point :)