😃Hey Steph, Thanks a bunch! Mel🤩🤩

Recycling the tape is so satisfying! Making something beautiful rather than wasting it! HANDY TIP: You can store any Washi tape you have by wrapping it around a plastic ruler. There are so many possibilities! You can wrap them around different polymer clay things like larger coils and extruded shapes and more 3D shapes too. So glad you enjoyed it. If you get a chance, please share with anyone you think maybe interested and you will rock! 😃🎸

Dana, Thank you so much for sharing such an amazing technique with everyone watching this tutorial! What an amazing idea and I will be sure to try that one out myself! Thanks so much! 🤩

Thanks Sally! Glad you got inspired!💖

Delighted you appreciate the concept. Enjoy exploring it! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.💖

Muchas gracias por el elogio. ¡Te lo agradezco y tu apoyo! English translation: thank you so much for the compliment. I appreciate it and your support!💖

😀Amazing! Have fun with this Joyce and let me know how you go? With kindness Mel

💖Hi Sheryl, Love the feedback thank you!

Amazing to get such lovely feedback! Glad you enjoyed it. 😃 Thank you so much for your support. It means so much to me!

Hi Jane, So amazing to connect with someone like me and inspiring to hear you also find art to be therapeutic. Please don't hesitate if you have any questions about working with different materials and working with them to make it easier on the hands and body, etc. Especially in regards to Polymer Clay. So amazing you look after animals. I love them too and find our cat really helps me cope and manage. I'm also a huge fan of watercolour and so many mediums and try to use whatever is easiest on my body depending how it feels each day. Having a variety of mediums makes it much easier for me to choose one that is least flaring for that particular day with whatever symptoms are doing. Sounds like you've discovered this and adopted it really well and so glad to hear! Wishing you the best too and sending blessing your way. With kindness

Thanks so much! 🥰🥰🥰

Hello Pamelar! 😃 Yes, polymer clay requires baking in a conventional or toaster oven, following the recommended directions since each brand varies in baking temperature. Thank you so much for the compliment, and it's wonderful that you're exploring creative endeavors too. Please feel free to ask if you have any other questions, and welcome to this lovely KZfaq community!

I'm amazed the washi tape doesn't burn or catch fire

I recommend buying your clay from specialist polymer clay supplier to make sure it is fresh and workable. You can use your hands and whatever modelling tools you like and all of them can be found on amazon or ebay. Was there something in particular you were having trouble finding? Happy to help. 🥰Hopefully I will have an amazon store on the next 3-6 months, however it might take me a little while as it's a lot of work for me to do and requirements I need to meet as a small content creator with limited resources (I'm still working on it), however I will do the best I can. Thanks so much for supporting me. :) Also if anyone else is wondering this same question please let me know here in the comments.

Intentaré hacer esto lo antes posible para usted. No sé mucho al respecto, pero estoy dispuesto a aprender. ¡Gracias por tu apoyo! English: I will try to do this as soon as possible for you. I don't know a lot about it however willing to learn. Thank you for your support!😀

Good question! I haven't tried it with glitter Washi tape and how superb it would look! I don't see why not if the tape isn't too thick. As I haven't used it personally I am not sure, however will try and get a look at some and get back to you. You can always experiment with some scrap clay and see how you go. A resin finish would help to protect it. 😀

Definitely not a silly question Jacqueline. Firstly I would ensure that the clay you're using is well conditioned by performing the crack test. This means that when you fold a sheet of clay in half that it doesn't crack - meaning is well conditioned. If the clay isn't warmed up and the plasticizers are not activated, there could be issues with it gripping onto the Washi tape. Also the thickness of the washi tape could be a factor. The tape that I used was 15 mm thick which has a large surface area than the 5 mm versions of Washi tape that are available which would have a less surface area to stick onto the clay. In the tutorial I have added the tape directly onto the wet clay and then put it straight into the oven. You could definitely try adding a thin layer of clear Bake N' bond, on the underside of the tape and then bake it, and you could also experiment with adding the clear Bake N' bond over the top of the tape and the rest of the earing to get a nice satin glaze, that would incase the tape onto the polymer clay together quite well. However you won't know until you test it. To remedy the earrings with the tape that you've already made, you could also glue the ends or the entire piece of tape down, with some super glue or glue of your choice. I recommend gorilla superglue, as I've heard good things about it, however experimentation is always the better way to go. Please note I don't recommend re-baking the earing after applying any type of foreign glue for health and safety reasons! The other option is you could cover the top of the earring in a clear UV resin or similar (however the tape would need to be firmly stuck down before adding the resin). Another option is you can bake the slabs first, then simply stick the Washi tape on after they are baked. The reason why I suggest this is because perhaps the glue on that particular Washi tape may have dried out in the baking process affecting its stickiness. I had lots of earrings that I kept raw with the tape just stuck on the clay which are still stuck now no problems. Different Washi tapes have different glues and levels of stickiness as well. So it could be that the brand that you are using has a very weak bonding ability for this type of project, and it may not be anything that you are doing wrong, just the fact that the tape has been manufactured differently and is simply not sticky enough. Having said that though I think it would also be worth trying baking your existing tape again in the oven, however checking that you are baking for the absolute minimum time according to the brands baking instructions. Reason why am saying this is because the longer the tape is in the oven, the greater the chance the glue may be drying out and then peeling off your earrings. Hope this helps!

@@twofeathersgalleryart thank you so much for your very helpful reply 🥰 I really appreciate you taking the time to answer me so thoroughly. I'll definitely try again using your suggestions because the tapes were so pretty & it's a shame not to use them. Much love from Australia 🦘❤️

@UCw1Zn8RJIVfttv-9Y%F0%9F%92%96%F0%9F%92%96H1cwkA Jacqueline let me know if you have any other questions and I am happy to help in anyway I can. With kindness Mel 💛

This is where I bought my Washi Tape for this Tutorial: www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B091HRCHCN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1